| Zebra | |
|---|---|
| Name | |
| Japanese | ゼブラ |
| Romanized | Zebura |
| English | Zebra |
| Profile | |
| Race | Human |
| Gender |  Male
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| Birthday | February 9th, 475 GA |
| Age | 25 (start of the series); 29 (Post-Timeskip) |
| Status | Alive |
| Height | 255 cm |
| Weight | 310 Kg |
| Blood Type | B |
| Professional Status | |
| Affiliation | Four Heavenly Kings |
| Occupation | Gourmet Hunter |
| Partner | Dharma Horse‡; Toriko; Coco; Sunny; Brunch |
| Personal Status | |
| Relatives | Ichiryu (adoptive father) |
| Debut Appearance | |
| Manga | Chapter 123 |
| Anime | Episode 56 |
| Voices | |
| Japanese | Kenji Matsuda |
| [v · t · e] | |
Abilities and Powers
Hunting Method:
Zebra hunts using his ability to create and manipulate sound waves through his superhumanly powerful voice, resulting in very powerful mid and long-range attacks and other sound-related abilities. His exceptional control over these techniques allows him to project his voice over dozens of kilometers both above and below ground, and to generate everything from massive shockwaves to precise 'blades' of sound. The physical destructiveness of the sound can be augmented using tones which are inherently painful for humans or wild beasts to hear, and the fact that his abilities move at the speed of sound makes them nearly unavoidable. Zebra can strain his throat if he uses his sound abilities too much, resulting in him losing his voice for a period of time. He can still communicate with non-verbal guestures that he made up himself. Out of all the Four Heavenly Kings, Zebra's sound abilites give him the greatest destructive power. His attacks also take up the most calories seen in the series; ranging from the hundreds of millions even up to the billions. Zebra can store about up to 4,500,000,000 calores of energy inside his body. When fighting at very close range or in the abscence of his voice powers, Zebra will resort to his monstrous physical strength, much like Toriko; even tearing apart opponents with his teeth if necessary.
Basic Abilities
Intimidation:
Zebra's Intimidation appears as a humanoid bat-like creature with black, heavily scarred skin. It's small, domelike head sits utop a heavily muscled body, and is dominated by a wide, toothy maw.
Physical Prowess:
Zebra has extreme physical strength. During his time at Honey Prison, Zebra 'trained' by repeatedly surviving execution attempts made at his own request. His strength was enough to stop the four enormous, dinosaur-like execution beasts assigned to to tear him apart limb by limb. When preparing to use his sound attacks Zebra inhales and bulks up, nearly doubling his body mass while remaining at the same height. It is unclear if his physical strength increase along with his size, however.
Superhuman Hearing:
Zebra's enhanced sense as on the Four Heavenly Kings is hearing, dubbed his 'Hell Ears' by Toriko. Toriko claims that Zebra could hear a coin fall from "tens of kilometers away". Due to having gained considerable experience from killing countless beasts, Zebra can actually hear when an enemy is going to die, or as Zebra puts it, he can hear the steps of the Grim Reaper.
Sound Techniques
Offensive Techniques
- Sound Bazooka: Zebra lets out an unbelievably loud scream with enough force to destroy his cell in Honey Prison and his enormous chains, and make the giant beasts around him pass out. He has to charge this technique for a while beforehand. This attack seems to be one of the reasons why Warden Love feels so attracted to Zebra. It takes Zebra 400,000,000 calories to use this attack.
- Thunder Noise: Zebra shouts upward into the air, where a "cloud" of sound forms. The sound echoes within the cloud, becoming louder and more intense, before falling from the sky as thunderbolt like blasts of sound. It takes Zebra 200,000,000 calories to use this attack.
- Voice Missile: Zebra screams out a large burst of sound as strong as a missile. It takes Zebra 350,000,000 calories to use this attack. Zebra can fire several of these attacks in quick succession.
- Voice Cutter: Zebra uses his voice to cut his enemy (possibly through high-frequency vibrations). He is able to do this with his back turned to the enemy. Rather than a shockwave, the vibrations produce thin 'blades' of sound. This is most likely the attack he used to cause all the scars on Match's body. It takes Zebra 250,000,000 calories to use this attack.
- Machine Gun Voice: Zebra shoots a lot of small voice "bullets" using a staccato shout. It takes Zebra 100,000,000 calories to use this attack.
- Single Slash Voice Cutter: Zebra uses a stronger, more focused version of Voice Cutter which can move as fast as the speed of sound, fast enough to land a hit on the highly agile Salamander Sphinx. It forms a single, powerful sound blade.
- Meteor Noise: A more powerful version of Thunder Noise in which the intensity and area of effect are amplified several times, but also requires a longer charge time.
- Death Sound: By expending 2,000,000,000 calories, Zebra can use his voice to emulate the footsteps of the Grim Reaper. The resulting sound is undoubtedly fatal to any who hear it.
Defensive Technique
- Roar Bullet: Zebra sends out an "intimidation" sound that scare off wild animals. He first use this to protect Komatsu from afar.
- Strange Voice: Zebra makes a strange sound that drives away creatures. It works by continually changing the sound until he finds a frequency that the animal is agitated by.
- Sound Wall: Zebra makes a wall of sound to block incoming attacks. It takes Zebra 50,000,000 calories to use this technique.
- Weak Point Voice: Zebra uses this to identify an enemy's weak point.
- Sound Armor: Derived from the Sound Bullet, Zebra can create a armor of sound to encase a individual from attack. He use this on Komatsu to deflect an attack from a wild animal. If the armor is struck with a signifigant amount of force, it will disappate. It takes Zebra 100,000,000 calories to use this attack. After drinking the Mellow Cola Zebra can create a Sound Armor with the carbonation of the cola that can protect the person it is directed at from heat and dehydration.
Other Techniques
- Echo Map: Zebra sends out continuous sound waves that let him map out the surrounding area. This is also known as echolocation. He cannot attack while doing this because it requires great concentation. The range of the map is about 70 km around Zebra who can hold this for up to 5 hours without any rest. To maintain this technique it takes up about 200,000 calories per second, 60,000,000 calories per every 10 minute and 3,600,000,000 calories for five hours .He uses this to locate Komatsu and "see" through the mirages of the labyrinth.
- Voice Sonar: A technique use in Conjuction to Echo Map that can detect underwater objects. It was first use to find the Madam Fish in the Pot Pond when it froze over. It's shown to be affect by ultra sonic waves, which make it hard for Zebra to find animals or objects in the water.
- Sound Bullet: Zebra is able to concentrate and direct his voice over a long distance, roughly 10 km, with great accuracy. He used this skill in to call Toriko a "dumbass" from afar, which Komatsu standing beside him could not hear because of the sound bullet's precision.
Anger
Zebra, possibly through his body producing massive amounts of adrenaline, is able temporarily regain his stamina by turning his raw anger into bodily energy. This can only be done if Zebra is incredibly enraged; he will sometimes even allow opponents to strike him in order to force himself to become angry. Although the process behind it is unknown, the effect is similar to Toriko's use of Autophagy to regain energy, and has a similarly limited duration.