Those videos are fucking intense. While, certainly, it displays an unbelievable amount of skill to be able to do that to a fish and have it keep swimming, it does strike me as unnecessarily cruel. I loves me some meat, but I don't really see any point to torture the animal you're eating when you could just as easily kill it quickly and then eat it, to the same effect.
While there does seem to be some sort of "performance art" to the latter two videos, I haven't the slightest idea why the dude is preparing fugu the way he does in the first video, since that is definitely not meant to be watched by someone about to eat the fish.
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