Toriko, Vol. 24

Wow, talk about speeding through the plot! Things start getting very noticeably different from the anime. After the celebrations of the victory over the Four Beasts, we enter the Olympics of this Gourmet World - the 50th Cooking Fest! Due to his exploits, Komatsu gets recognised with a rank and gains eligibility into the competition. In the anime, there were a couple of interludes where the Four Heavenly Kings are shown appreciating the results of their training and fight. There was only a very short moment with Toriko here in the manga, before the Cooking Fest arc begins proper. Lots of chefs were introduced, some not even named in the anime. After a similar opening and the introduction of Buranchi, the actual preliminaries were over in just a single page. The anime actually devoted some time to each preliminary round. That was better than just, “oh, there were these rounds that took place and Komatsu successfully passed them”. Maybe the author was on some sort of deadline so the pacing went up.