quote from youtube page by DeskFlyer: "The clip was from comedy show. The fact that the fish lived after it was initially cut was real, but it was dead minutes later. Yes, it was cruel, but it was only one fish. They don't do that for real in Japan on a regular basis. Anyone who believe otherwise is a tool."

However, there is one method of serving sashimi which features a sliced up fish which is still quite alive when it's served.

That's horrifying!

Translation please?

LOL that fish got served! i wud prefer it if the fish was killed right away. would apear that a fish can sustain life without its hart for fairly long time. i guess in the same was as u can cut a chikins head of and it will run around. thats pritty mad

1. Poor fish.
2. Proof that Japanese RPGs are producing real life androgynous looking young people.

O M F G

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I was going to submit this, but I couldn't because it was so ummm sad (fish).

no no...
it is delicious ant..

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This particular method is sometimes used as a benchmark to judge how fast you are as a sushi chef, mostly the showy ones.

If you weren't precise and took too much time filleting the fish, it would just sink to the bottom of the water tank.

It's similar to Spanish bull fights or American rodeo. The faster you kill the bull / faster you tie up the calf, the better.

I don't particularly enjoy watching half filleted fish swimming about right in front of my eyes, but for sushi chefs, they cut up fish for a living and this practice doesn't seem as cruel to them as rest of us feel.