basically it's a hot pot of meat and vegetables. chicken, pork, beef, fish bowls keep getting fed into the pot. usually alongside much beer and rice. adding that much needed bulk up factor so important for sumo wrestlers and cable tv hosts. so appealing to the hidden desires of a manga-buying audience, men want filthier, dirtier, more violent? >> in japan, you can't be rude in public. >> right. >> but you need to just, you know, i can say that letting off steam. so for me, the manga is one way to do that. >> what do women want? generally speaking, what do women want in manga? >> yaui. boy's love. you know? because they don't have enough experience to do that with real men. >> but nobody's going to the fish market and asking for live octopus.