User blog comment:Petiyou14/Did anyone notice?/@comment-4783583-20130730140840

uhm he had that idea before hxh came out, he however had difficulty finding a proper story to go with and he asked his friend (One Piece's Oda) Oda for help, and after much ado he finally got started on his series, which was heavily and still is too heavily backed by Oda. Don't get me wrong Toriko is fun and all, but that is all it is, how much it may try it will never reach real depths since the premise doesn't allow it too.