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Oh yeah, btw I grew up (and currently live in) Thailand, which Thailand has a huge Buddhism influence. And children (since the age which they first attend school or earlier unless it's a specific religion school other than Buddhism) are taught a chant that they say before every meal and a prayer after 8 am (aka Thailand time to respect the flag, sing/listen to our country song and pray) but the specific prayer is very particular.

*The Pali prayer* "the meaning in thai" +the meaning in English+ [unsaid words/ implications] (context)

We only say the Pali prayer and the thai meaning of it.

Mornings (after the flag respecting ceremony):

*สัพเพ สัตตา* "สัตว์ทั้งหลายทั้งปวง ที่เป็นเพื่อนทุกข์ เกิด แก่ เจ็บ ตาย ด้วยกันทั้งหมดทั้งสิ้น" +all lives that share our cycle of karma, born, age, hurt and die just like us (from this point on, the word 'each other' means this sentence specifically)+

*อะเวรา โหนตุ* "จงเป็นสุขเป็นสุขเถิด อย่าได้มีเวรซึ่งกันและกันเลย" +Be at peace, don't be angry [and inflict bad karma] at each other+

*อัพยาปัชฌา โหนตุ* "จงเป็นสุขเป็นสุขเถิด อย่าได้เบียดเบียนซึ่งกันและกันเลย" +Be at peace, don't bother (in Thailand this word specifically can mean kill, harm, plot against, bully, ect ect) each other+

*อะนีฆา โหนตุ* "จงเป็นสุขเป็นสุขเถิด อย่าได้มีความทุกข์กายทุกข์ใจเลย" +Be at peace, [hopefully you] don't feel hurt physically or emotionally+

Before meal time: (we only have the Thai one for this)

ข้าวทุกจาน

อาหารทุกอย่าง

อย่ากินทิ้งขว้าง

เป็นของมีค่า

ผู้คนอดอยาก

มีมากหนักหนา

สงสารบรรดา

เด็กตาดำๆ

^(this part is said together as a rhyme)

+every plate of rice,

every bit of food,

when eating don't waste,

All of It is precious,

There are people starving,

Everywhere in the world,

We feel sorry for,

The black eyed children, (children have smaller eyelids so the pupils seem bigger and therefore cuter and since most of us have very dark/ almost black eyes we associate big black eyes with cute and small children)+

ขอขอบพระคุณชาวนาทุกคน ที่ลำบากยากล้น ปลูกข้าวให้เรากิน เราจะกินไม่ให้เหลือ แม้แต่เม็ดเดียว

This is read normally.

+We thank every farmer, who are working hard (and subsequently are doing something overwhelmingly difficult), for planting rice for us to eat, we will not waste a single grain+

For extra context on why farming a lot of rice is considered overwhelmingly difficult, the rice farmers back then have to work like this

Planting:

Harvesting:

Aka they're literally and figuratively doing back breaking work for us to eat.

(Of course now it's much easier with many machines and innovations but there are still rice farmers who do it the traditional way.)

One of the many things I love about Toriko is that the biggest thing that sets apart the good guys and the bad guys are their views on death, which is reflected in both how they act and how they treat food.

When Rin “dies”, whenever Komatsu is in mortal danger, any time anyone on Toriko’s side is in that position, the statement is that they all knew it was a possibility. The good side as it were are aware of the risks, they accept that death is a possibility, and should any of them die of natural causes while in the pursuit of an ingredient (killed by an animal, poisoned by improperly prepared food, what have you) they would accept that as tragic but not a cause for ire or vengeance.

In a similar vein they show respect to the food they eat. They kill it, and they see it the same as if it had killed them. It wasn't done from malice, and they wouldn't disrespect the animal that died by wasting any of it. They thank it. Death is part of a cycle; it need not be feared or hated, but it must be respected.

On the other hand, the bad guys fear and disrespect death.

They fear their own--hence the use of gt robots. Toriko says as much in his fight with Starjun in the Regal Mammoth: Rin came and "died" nobly knowing that was a possibility. Meanwhile Starjun cowered behind a robot, separating himself from the world in order to avoid his own peril.

They disrespect the sacrifice of the animals they eat by killing more than they intend to eat, and not using all of what they do kill. They don't see death as a noble sacrifice but as a pathetic loss; losers die, and they deserve it if they do.

In essence: The difference is that our protags see death as a part of a universal cycle and those who it befalls to be respected; the antagonists see death as an end to be feared and those who suffer it mocked.

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It's fine lol.

ANNOUNCMENT‼️

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I like to imagine that this is what their dynamic is like ten years later.

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This ended at 21:10 btw

I WANT TO CURL UP AND THROW UP AND DIE.

(Context: I have been studying from 16:20-20:40 and still continuing because it’s not done yet. AFTER A FULL DAY AT SCHOOL)

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I WANT TO CURL UP AND THROW UP AND DIE.

(Context: I have been studying from 16:20-20:40 and still continuing because it’s not done yet. AFTER A FULL DAY AT SCHOOL)

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IWHEVWISYWMSBSLSHWUWIWGEIWUWG8272Y38361KWBS8EGKEGW91HWUE3UEHE727QBW THANK YOU!!!!!

Getting back into drawing because school is stressful as shit

I do not allow for ai to use my art to train or program of any kind, fuck ai “art”

Title: the beauty of an everlasting night sky.

Inspiration: my imagination plus the fact that the north and south poll spend half a year in constant daylight and the other half in constant darkness, and the fact that it’s only being able to witness and see the aurora lights in these places or places with very similar conditions.

People who are allowed to use my art without needing to ask for permission: @oddarat @flib1-yibi @flowerboy4eva @nintendoneko64 @theninjabozo @genderlessjacky @fillthedarkvoid @waytoorambles @pridemoth1 @normalsproutanon :)

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Getting back into drawing because school is stressful as shit

I do not allow for ai to use my art to train or program of any kind, fuck ai “art”

Title: the beauty of an everlasting night sky.

Inspiration: my imagination plus the fact that the north and south poll spend half a year in constant daylight and the other half in constant darkness, and the fact that it’s only being able to witness and see the aurora lights in these places or places with very similar conditions.

People who are allowed to use my art without needing to ask for permission: @oddarat @flib1-yibi @flowerboy4eva @nintendoneko64 @theninjabozo @genderlessjacky @fillthedarkvoid @waytoorambles @pridemoth1 @normalsproutanon :)

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Melk II: Am I a boy? Am I a girl? It doesn't matter. I'll burn your house down.

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This gotta be one of the funniest pages in Toriko ever bro 😭😭😭😭 “Okay boy make it something”

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Bagel Manga Review: Toriko

If I had a nickel for every manga I've read focused on food and the hunt for it where your desire to eat can be physically removed from you and be the equivalent of a death sentence, I would have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

Toriko is a shounen battle manga about big beefy men in the vein of Fist of the North Star and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. But what sets this manga apart is the central focus on food. Instead of having some new bad guy every few chapters (though there are a fair share of antagonists) most of the battles are focused around battling newer and bigger monsters in hopes of acquiring an especially rare ingredient.

The story is headed by Toriko, a gourmet hunter who tracks down and discovers new and dangerous gourmet foods, and Komatsu, a 5-star chef who follows around Toriko to learn more about the ingredients he prepares. There are plenty of other characters that make up a fairly large cast that have a simple but fun dynamic with each other.

The highlight of this manga is the ridiculous over-the-top foods that the characters eat and experiencing the gourmet-centric society that Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro imagines. There is a good amount of thought put into the world-building with the amount of build-up and payoff reminding me of Hunter x Hunter, but don't expect something as advanced as Dungeon Meshi. The foods and environments are primarily dictated by Rule of Cool.

One thing that I appreciate is that even though the power levels of the characters continually rise to ridiculous levels (a la Dragon Ball), there is a well-established upper limit of where that power can be. Characters introduced early on in the manga such as Knocking Master Jiro provide good targets to make sure that the power scaling doesn't get too far ahead of itself.

Overall I really enjoyed it. The story gets pretty out there, but it always stays rooted in the simple pleasure of enjoying a good meal with friends. If you enjoy shounen battle manga like I do and want a meal with a lot of substance it's definitely worth giving a shot.

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Look all I’m saying is Toriko walked so Dungeon Meshi could run

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Back on the Toriko shitpost grind since the exams are kicking my ass :,)

WELP enjoy the Ice-Hell reenactment with the bois, ALSO HAPPY DESSERT FROM TORİKO'S FULL COURSE MONTH :D

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The world building in Toriko is legitimately so good, and the power crawl is I kid you not probably the best I have ever seen in a shonen and these are SO related guys

Like Toriko shows up and you know he and the others are the Four Heavenly Kings and you THINK this means they're the Most Powerful Dudes Ever right but turns out that, no, they're literally just the IGO darlings because they're a bunch of orphans raised in the public eye and they ARE powerful, regular people understand that, but people don't get that they're STILL the IGO darlings -- at the beginning of the show none of them would stand a chance against Ichiryu or any of the other higher ups.

They're still very much seen as Babies and this is driven in when they reveal OHOHO there's a whole gourmet world out there that most people can't survive five seconds in--and guess what the 4 heavenly kings are NOT among the number who can. Gives them a goal, something to work towards.

ALSO usually the worst thing to do in a fantasy world is start throwing arbitrary power levels on things (7 deadly sins, DBZ I am looking at YOU) but Toriko does it and it works because they give a basic, easy meaning for each unit (capture level 1 means it would take 10 normal people to get it or something) and then it sticks to that (I think the highest we ever see is the Final Boss of the manga with a capture level of 30,000 which is a ton but sure is evocative)

And this isn't just done with the fighter people either! Komatsu gets this just as much, and it's probably one of my favorite world building things because they use our knowledge of the real world against us as readers to achieve it. Komatsu is introduced as a cook in a five star restaurant and obviously we're like "aha so he's a very good chef" only to reveal several arcs in that, in this food-focused world, the cap is actually ten stars and Komatsu is actually a solidly mid ranked chef at the start.

There are so many more things because the worldbuilding of Toriko is in turns mind-blowingly brilliant and absolutely unhinged and I love that but basically they do an amazing job managing the audience's expectations by leveraging our knowledge of the real world and tropes commonly used in similar media to set up and then pulling the rug out from under us and I love it.