Coco/Abilities

Coco
	After Timeskip; Before Timeskip;
Name
Japanese	ココ
Romanized	Coco
English	Coco
Profile
Race	Human
Gender	Male
Birthday	October 29th
Age	27 (start of the series);; 31 (Post-Time Skip)
Status	Alive
Height	200cm
Weight	100kg
Blood Type	A
Professional Status
Affiliation	Gourmet Fortune;; Four Heavenly Kings
Occupation	Gourmet Hunter;; Fortune Teller
Partner	Toriko;; Sunny;; Zebra;; Dinner‡;; Tylan
Personal Status
Relatives	Ichiryu (adoptive father)
Pets
Debut Appearance
Manga	Chapter 7
Anime	Episode 3
Voices
Japanese	Sakurai Takahiro
English	Jarrod Greene
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Introduction

Relationships

Abilities

History

Hunting Method

Poison

Due to being exposed to so many poisons, Coco's body became capable of synthesizing its own powerful poisons, making him a Poisonous Human (毒人間, Doku Ningen). Coco's poison can be secreted from any part of his body, and he can control its concentration and effects. His poison is composed of his own bodily fluids, meaning he becomes dehydrated the more poison he produces, with his limit being 15 liters. The poison tends to become darker when he increases its lethality. Producing different types of poison and applying them in different ways gives Coco a variety of abilities. Coco's body contains over 500 different types of poison antibodies, and can adapt nearly instantly to new ones with the exception of Gourmet World poisons like the Green Rain. It should be noted that some of Coco's poisons act more like acid, and in some cases, they are actually composed of acid, giving his poison highly corrosive properties. He can also absorb his poison back into his body.

Like the rest of the Four Heavenly Kings, Coco's Gourmet Cells seems to be quite compatible with Acacia's Full Course. Here is a list of the changes depending on the course eaten:

AIR: The first course to be eaten. Coco's Gourmet Cells started to awake and he seems to have more control over them than before. He can even morph his left arm into the arm of his Appetite Demon (white skin, black spots).

Intimidation

Most wild beasts can sense the danger of Coco's poison, frightening them off instantly. Coco's actual Intimidation takes the form of his Appetite Demon, an emaciated traditional Japanese ghost with stringy black hair and an empty, void-like mouth and eyes. The color of his intimidation aura is purple.

Superhuman Vision

Coco's enhanced sense as one of the Four Heavenly Kings is vision. He has the ability to see non-visible spectra of light due to the high amount of cone cells in his eyes and can read electromagnetic auras in order to predict an animal's (or person's) next action. This serves as the basis of his fortunetelling abilities. Coco's visual processing abilities are similarly enhanced to keep up with this visual prowess; Toriko notes that the symbols on Gourmet Casino's enormous and unpredictable 100-wheel slot machine are essentially 'standing still' for Coco.

Fortune Telling

Coco earns most of his living by working as a fortune teller, and his fortunes have a 97% accuracy rating. His visual powers can even see the "Shadow of Death" over people and animals who soon will die. While these predictions of death are generally accurate, they can sometimes be subverted in various ways, such as when Komatsu temporarily died as Coco predicted, only to be revived by Knocking Master Jiro. With his fortune telling, he was able to win a trillion yens in one day, and defeat Livebearer despite his opponent cheating.

Synesthesia

A phenomenon which causes one to not just perceive the natural reception from a stimulus like hearing a sound or seeing a color, but perceive completely other kinds of sensations. Using this sense Coco grasped the slight difference in electromagnetic waves seething out of the Gourmet Tasting Cards during the game of Food Concentration against Livebearer. Using his synesthesia Coco could easily discern the cards electromagnetic waves and by forming them into images he searched out cards having the same 'color' and 'shape' allowing him to predict which cards were hits and which were not.

Knocking

Coco is skilled enough to knock a Puffer Whale, using a Delicate-Type Knocking Gun. He was also able to use his poison to knock Livebearer.

Tactical Genius

Coco has demonstrated excellent tactical ability, as shown during his battle against a GT Robo, where he uses his poisons to bypass the robots poison defenses, infiltrate its body and melt the Robo's Core antenna, as well as during the Food Concentration game. He correctly predicted that his opponent, being the owner of the entire casino, would have rigged the entire game set-up to be in his favor as much as possible, and successfully used Livebearer's arrogance and complacency against him, through Coco's own prior knowledge of poison and the properties of the various ingredients in the game.

Life Erase

Life Erase (消命, Shōmei) is a technique that Coco used it while hunting Puffer Whale. By lowering his killing intent Coco erases his presence allowing him to get close to an animal without it being aware.

Cooking

While not a Chef, Coco has displayed some knowledge and ability to prepare specially-prepared Ingredients, particularly those involving poison, such that he is one of the few people capable of successfully removing the poison sack of a Puffer Whale (though he admits that his success rate is very low compared to others and is incapable of performing the task if tired in any way). He also provided advice to Komatsu during the process on how to prepare some of the ingredients during Food Concentration, demonstrating advanced knowledge on preparing ingredients for their nutritional value and which ones complement each other the best.

Weapons Specialist

In battles he has different weapons. There are bullets where he can increase the power and speed by spinning them upon release, swords created from his blood and poison, which create blades that are stronger than steel, and armor that is made of the same substance as his swords. Recently he created a bow and arrows that he can use without missing his target and a spear with the throwing speed of mold spore discharge (the fastest speed of any living being).

Food Honor

With the teaching of Food Honor he learns how to reduce his useless movements, be more delicate, faster, stronger, and create new types of poison. In the latest battle with Grinpatch in the Cooking Fest Arc he hinted about a dangerous poison that could shorten his life or even kill him.

Food Immersion (食没, Shokubotsu): Coco has mastered Food Honor to the extent of learning the secret technique of Food Immersion with this ability he can store and produce enough poison to create a copy of himself and Kiss for his Poison Doll, flood the area where he is fighting and still be able to produce more to battle with. His limit of poison released increased from 15 liters to well over 100 liters since he can produce more than enough to make a perfect copy of him and Kiss and still have enough to fight. In the anime he was able to store the poison from Invaideath that flooded the area.

Appetite Energy

Coco learns to use the Appetite Energy alongside the other Heavenly Kings during his fight against the Four Beast, by performing the combination attack Dinner of Kings. After that, the Appetite Demon of his Gourmet Cells (which he claims to be a manifestation of Appetite Energy) awakened. Thanks to this, he can use this demon to produce his Devil Poison.

Enbu

After being defeated by Bambina, Coco learned Enbu from Kaka and several masters. This allows all 60 trillion of his cells to transfer energy through and out of his body like a sieve, such as the force of attacks and the gravity of 100G Mountain.

Poison Techniques

Part 1: Human World Saga

Offensive Techniques

Poison Cannon (毒砲, Doku Hō): Coco gathers a ball of lethal poison around his fist and fires it as his opponent.

Poison Rifle (ポイズンライフル, Poizun Raifuru): Coco fires minuscule amounts of poison from his fingertips, sometimes adding spin to increase his accuracy.

Poison Sword (ポイズンソード, Poizun Sōdo): Using Poison Solidification, Coco creates a blade of solidified poison. The sword is stated to be stronger than steel.

Aqua Regia (王水, Ōsui): A liquid poison Coco creates using concentrated hydrochloric acid and nitric acid at a ratio of 3 to 1. With it he can melt even gold and other normally non-corrosive materials. Aqua Regia is the (outdated) Italian word for "Water of the King".

Poison Bow (毒弓, Doku Yumi): Using Poison Solidification, Coco can create a solid bow and arrow made of poison to fire it as a long-range attack. He has incredible aim with it as he was able to hit targets despite the long distance between them.

Mold Spear (モールドスピア, Mōrudo Supia): A spear made with poison similar to mold spores, the speed of which is the fastest speed reached by any living creature in the world (close to the speed of light), making it impossible to dodge when thrown. Currently, Coco can only manage to create one spear at a time.

Hell Poison (毒地獄（ヘルポイズン）, Heru Poizun): A powerful poison Coco uses when he wishes to destroy his foe entirely. He only uses it when no other lifeforms who might be harmed are around. The poison itself is a chemical made by Coco rapidly vaporizing his body's waste products and has a similar composition to volcanic gas. As well as being deadly when inhaled the poison is highly corrosive, even flammable and explosive.

Poison Virus (ポイズンウイルス, Poizun Uirusu): A special virus that adapts itself to a poison that the target has no antibodies for, it is used on creatures with antibodies that counteract all of Coco's other poisons.

Machine Gun Poison (劇毒機関銃（マシンガンポイズン）, Mashin Gan Poizun): Coco fires small bullets of highly corrosive poison at a very rapid rate from the fingertips of his left arm. It is strong enough to vaporize even bones.

Double Scatter Shot (2丁乱れ撃ち, Ni Chō Midare Uchi): Coco uses both arms to increase the quantity of shots and the range of attack of his Machine Gun Poison. He used this technique to find an opening to attack Grinpatch while he was sucking in all the shots.

Devil Poison (デビルポイズン, Debiru Poizun): A worst-case-scenario poison that Coco uses as an absolute last resort; due to his Gourmet Cells taking a considerable amount of energy from him, his hair loses pigmentation after its use and it leaves him near death. Coco's Appetite Devil seemingly drips the Devil Poison directly from its mouth into the victim's mouth. After eating AIR, he no longer loses his hair pigmentation when using it. When he used it on Gorilla Taurus, he claimed that it was an "addiction" with guaranteed dependency. This type of poison was strong enough to force Grinpatch to go berserk doing random attacks, and much later got him sick despite the multiple filters that the Sous Chef's body possesses.

Defensive Techniques

Poison Dressing (ポイズンドレッシング, Poizun Doresshingu): Coco's skin becomes flush with poison. This serves as a sort of armor for him, as wild beasts can detect this poison from afar and become wary of approaching or attacking him.

Poison Membrane (毒膜, Doku Maku, Poison Skin in the English dub): It is when Coco 'sweats' a large amount of poison, forming a layer of liquid poison over his entire body. This poison forms a protective barrier against other poisons or corrosive chemicals.

Poison Armor (ポイズンアーマー, Poizun Āmā): Using Poison Solidification, Coco creates solidified poison armor in the shape of a Samurai's armor.
Poison Decoding (Unnamed): Coco, with his wide knowledge in poisons, their effects, chemicals and his bodily functions, can decode any poison that affects him. This ability was first shown in the Puffer Whale Arc, where he gets injected by the Devil Serpent, and he decodes the poison as a he assumes it as a challenge from the Devil Serpent. Later, after learning Food honor it is shown that he can do this in the blink of an eye, effortlessly, a midst battle, with the Four Beast Arc.

Supplementary Techniques

Poison Solidification (毒液凝固化, Dokueki Gyōko-ka): By combining his poison with clotting agents from his blood, Coco can solidify his poison into the shape of various weapons.

Poison Jamming (妨害毒(ポイズンジャミング), Poizun Jamingu): Coco coats the antenna of a GT Robot to disturb the electromagnetic waves.

Poison Knocking (ポイズンノッキング, Poizun Nokkingu): Coco induces knocking on the target by coating their body in poison.
Heat Poison (熱毒, Netsu Doku, Hot Poison in the English versions): A special heat-generating poison (possibly acidic) which can melt through thick ice.
Poison Doll (毒人形(ポイズンドール), Poizun Dōru): After his training in Food Honor, Coco can create a perfect duplicate of himself or someone else made with poison. The duplicates are so flawless that the duplicate of Kiss could fly independently and revealed bones when destroyed. Post timeskip, when Coco was in Yuto Island, he showed his improved Poison Doll ability as he was able create 2 dolls in a short period of time.

Joint Attacks

Poison Knocking Nail Punch (Unnamed): A combo attack done by Coco and Toriko. Coco shoots paralyzing poison and waits for it to take effect while Toriko charges up his Nail Punch. Once the poison paralyzes the target, Toriko hits the the target with his attack. This was used on a Devil Serpent during the Puffer Whale Arc. The only time Toriko and Coco used this technique Toriko attacked with 5-Fold Nail Punch.

Poison-coated Thunder Cannon Fork (Unnamed): An attack only seen on the anime that combines powerful techniques of all Heavenly Kings. Toriko first projects several Flying Forks to create a Cannon Fork, then Sunny drives it with his Hair Lead which gives it momentum and a direction to strike; Coco adds a Poison Coating by firing a large amount of poison at the Fork, and finally Zebra electrifies it with his Thunder Noise. Even though it was a mighty movement done against the Four Beast it had minor damage on the monster as it was quickly broken.

Dinner of Kings (王食晩餐, Ō Shoku Bansan, Meal Fit for a King in the English versions): A joint attack using the effort and Appetite Energy of all Four Heavenly Kings. The Kings concentrate their all their energy into a ball of pure appetite, which, when launched, turns into a giant all-consuming maw. The attack will then proceed to consume the prey, regardless of the opponents actions, until it is completely eaten, and form into a ball, which harmlessly bursts after some time. One of the greatest advantages of this technique is that it will only aim for the intended prey, and nothing else, leaving anything unnecessary in a separate sphere. The greatest disadvantage of this technique is that the process of making this move requires a great deal of concentration and energy, leaving the users vulnerable to attack. Furthermore, for this technique to work, the users "appetite" and "spirits" need to sync.

Poison Sound Armor (ポイズンサウンドアーマー, Poizun Saundo Āmā): A combo attack done with Zebra. Coco covers the target with poison to infect enemies who touch the target while Zebra protects the target by using Sound Armor. This was used to protect Komatsu from Starjun during the Cooking Festival Arc.
Machine Gun Sound Poison (マシンガンサウンドポイズン, Mashin Gan Saundo Poizun): Zebra launches his Machine Gun Voice in conjunction with Coco's Machine Gun Poison. The sound bullets and poison bullets then merge together to create powerful poisonous sound bullets.
Poison Fork (ポイズンフォーク, Poizun Fōku): Coco uses his Drip Poison to coat Toriko's rapid-fire Flying Fork in poison to increase it's power. The forks also home in on the individual targets.