“A heart came to dwell inside of a pot that was used at a ramen shop for many years turning it into a yokai. In order to fill both the heart and the pot, which were left empty after the shop closed down, a body that is quite full was created."
Yo-kai Medallium biography
“This is the Shadowside of the ramen loving Yo-kai, Hot Pot. When he sees a half-eaten bowl of ramen, he eats it without even batting an eye."
In his Lightside form, Hot Pot has a humanoid appearance, with a muscular build and reddish skin. His head has the shape of the cylindrical container he came into being from, and his face is reminiscent of a masked wrestler. He also sports a teapot-like spandex with the beak protruding right.
In his Shadowside form, his body has the form of the container he's based on sporting a ghastly visage. He has two muscular arms and eight legs around his body, all pinkish in color. Occasionally he can shed his container body, in which he has a mostly humanoid form with long brown hair and a white t-shirt which sports the Kanji of the restaurant he was used in previously.
Hot Pot has a manly personality, though he has a weakness for women, as seen when he served Summer more quantity of pork belly in her ramen bowl and allowed Matsu to subdue him without resistance. His Mottainai-otoko persona was born out of jealousy for seeing people satisfied enough to leave ramen behind and the pain of being an empty pot.
Hot Pot is automatically befriended through Mystery 7 in Chapter 6. He appears in Ark doors in the future. He can be freed from the future Crank-a-kai with a Five-Star Coin, One-Star Coin, or Y Coin as a third prize. He can also be found in the Gutsy Bones battles in Enma Tournament - Oni Arena, as well as in the Dameboy, Ogralus, Bushinyan (Shadowside), Shien, and McKraken missions in PuraPura Blasters (appearing most frequently in the Shien mission).
Hot Pot appears in episode 4, in which he is the subject of some posts on Usuranura for haunting people who don't finish eating their bowl of ramen while chanting the phrase "What a waste," earning his nickname of "Mottainai-otoko." Bruno and his group plus Tate go to a ramen shop to research the manner, each ordering a large bowl in order to not to finish it and see the phenomena in question personally. When Tate is the only one who leaves behind some ramen, Hot Pot, in the variation of his Shadowside form known as his alias, begins to haunt him.
The situation escalates to serious levels, which Tate thoroughly desiring to have a meal, but ultimately eating none due to Hot Pot robbing him of his appetite, to which Summer decides to take matters in hers and her group's hands. Bruno researches the Kanji of Hot Pot's t-shirt and finds a ramen shop which was closed long ago; nevertheless, they decide to investigate. Upon their arrival, Hot Pot mysteriously serves them ramen, while Summer ponders curiously about her serving. Upon seeing them not eating ramen, Hot Pot ambushes them in his Shadowside form and calls them useless, sealing the door to impede their escape. Cole decides to transform into Benkei to fight him, but their strength is evenly matched. Recalling her ramen serving and deducting a personality fact about Hot Pot, Summer tells Cole to change into Matsu, which proves effective as Hot Pot shows a large deal of courtesy to the female Progenitor and is unable to harm her, which Matsu takes to her advantage to subdue him and forcing him to cease fighting.
Summer reveals that Hot Pot has a weakness for women as he served a larger quantity of pork belly to her than the others. Hot Pot states that ladies that come to their restaurant should be treated preciously, and he assumes his Lightside form, much to the surprise and the group. Sly enters the ramen shop and confronts Hot Pot over his rude acts in front of Summer, engaging him into a bulk-up contest which ends into a stalemate and with both Yo-kai bonding over their muscle. Hot Pot, upon being asked to his acts as Mottainai-otoko, reveals his backstory.
In the past, he was a cylindrical pot in a ramen restaurant which was very famous for its high-quality ramen, but the owner eventually grew old and cooking ramen became harder, to the point he closed the restaurant upon reaching his limit. Hot Pot eventually became a Yo-kai after feeling the aching pain of being an empty pot. He became jealous of people satisfied enough to leave ramen behind and his Mottainai-otoko persona was born as a result. Suddenly, the owner and his son arrive to the ramen shop in order to have his son take over the business and entrusts Hot Pot's pot self to his son. Hot Pot sheds tears of joy and gives his Yo-kai Keystone to the group.
He is summoned (unwillingly) in episode 10 to fight Mushbarber (as Kirisaki Joker). He blocks Kiriskaki Joker's knives with his teapot spout and proceeds to pour water on his enemy, allowing Lord Acala to finish him.
He reappears in episode 20 as one of the Yo-kai crowd watching Filmlin's movie, presumably running away off-screen as it was too scary.
In the Korean dub of Yo-kai Watch Shadowside, his design has been omitted, leaving episodes and scenes with him removed, with exception of his appearance in Oyasumi Sanka.
He debuts in the 18th volume of the Yo-kai Watch manga, however his chapter was cut from western releases. This is also the case with Leggly's chapter in volume 7 and Shirokuma's chapter in volume 20.
In the Chinese version of Yo-kai Watch 4, his spout has been removed. [1]
However, strangely, it was not censored in the Chinese version of the anime.
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