I was wondering if there was something trashing it, since it also shaked in koreimu's case.
Plus It looks like it suddenly bursted, at least the last panel with that long splurt of filling and the hat rolling away looks like it. Maybe this is like the ultimate form of yukkuritis? Instead of just making them throw up, it makes them feel horrible pain, trash around and self burst.
It's mold. That thing eats yukkuri's internals. The long spurt, I guess is caused by the weakening skin cracking open (like Reimu) added with the muscle (?) spasm that pushed some paste out. About Marisa's hat... could be a dramatic effect like broken flower to imply rape scene. ^^;;;
... brings back memory of reading The Hot Zone where a victim died after vomitting and excreting blackened porridge of his pulped organs and bloods in the hospital (might be wrong on details, junior high is a lot of years ago)
JusticeItEasy said: I was wondering if there was something trashing it, since it also shaked in koreimu's case.
In KoReimu's case it seem more likely that having mold around their feet prevent them from moving very much and in a desperate attempt to reunited with her big sis cause great damage to her frail skin. You theory make more sense though since KoMarisa was thrashing about for no apparent reason.
I know she has mold, but, Mold is usually portrayed as peaceful, even if painful, like having a high fever combined with the lethality and corruption style of cancer. Trashing around the way this 2 ko's did, felt like some sort of effect derived from all the accumulated suffering and stress.
But usually yukkuri physiology is described as trying to remove stress by rapid discharge of those memories through vomitting. The trashing is usually reaction to physical pain more than mental stress, such as getting a flick or kick.
Diarrhea in the other hand... I forgot the reference about yukkuri diarrhea in other stories, so can't say much.
I think the mold grow rather quick in this story, so the first page is already night of December 31st. And because of the speed, the effect is more violent than cancer-like death by organ failure.
the psycological aspect was just one of the many sufferings for the marisa, what I meant was that the trashing was like an accumulation of all her sufferings, physicals and psychicals, like the big balloon up before the explosion.
Kinda like a breakdown taking place while your body is in extreme pain, and as you may know not every mental breakdown is calm or peaceful.
It's still weird, that trashing disregarding the reason come out of nowhere, so we have only room for theories but nothing definitive.
I think "why was I/were we born?" is a fairly powerful line, but I kind of disapprove given that he already used it in true happiness (as far as I can recall)
But yeah, it was a good story. A tragedy that occurs unbeknownst to the rest of the world as it celebrates.
you know considering most of the works he does, this ones kind of different sure they still died in the end but they died together and not in complete sarrow, a buetiful death the kind you would see in a war movie where one best friend refuses to abondon his other best friend on the battle field even though he's injured and dieing, even though he knows if he stays around he'll be killed by the enemy soldiers, even though he knows he could survive if he'd run away. these are the first yukkuri that he's ever maid that i really wanted to see have a happy ending.
Err, yuking, sorry for popping your bubble, but they didn't "die togheter", Reimu died first, after seeing her precious sister "abandoning" her, then Marisa returned after Reimu was long dead and remained alongside the corpse.
I think that a better paralel, would be one of those sad war endings on which the guy remains next to his friend's corpse thinking about everything that happened as he sighs his last breath of life. Equally sad, but without that bitterweet aspect of "dying togheter".
JusticeItEasy said: Err, yuking, sorry for popping your bubble, but they didn't "die togheter", Reimu died first, after seeing her precious sister "abandoning" her, then Marisa returned after Reimu was long dead and remained alongside the corpse.
I think that a better paralel, would be one of those sad war endings on which the guy remains next to his friend's corpse thinking about everything that happened as he sighs his last breath of life. Equally sad, but without that bitterweet aspect of "dying togheter".
um you don't know that, did you wright this did you draw this no, for all you know she could still be alive and was just left in a comotose state after being exposed to the mold, alot of yukkuri inter a state such as this before actualy dieing.
Well that means they still didn't die together because Reimu was the first infected with mold so she must be already dead while Marisa is still in comatose state after she exploded. Time gap, very simple logic.
Doesn't seem that far, really. Marisa has a panic attack following the flashback lesson where she abandons her sister. Reimu panics because her sister is leaving her, ruptures her mold-compromised skin in a crying fit, and dies. Marisa comes back moments later (remember, Marisa is a baby and couldn't have gotten far in this span of time) and runs back to find her dead. In a loving gesture defiant of the common sense she displayed earlier, Marisa attempts to lick her sister better then refuses to leave, which in turn leaves her more moldy and sets up her own death when the has a freakout at the countdown noise and also ruptures.
Like I mention here, if I had to guess I would say that their deaths are due to tears. The mold wears away at their skin and this leaves them susceptible to tearing when they each have their freakouts. It also explains Reimu's condition upon Marisa's return.
In any case I'd consider it a touching story, whether they technically die at the exact same time or not. Either way they die the same day, and they basically die together regardless.
Trololo said: I think "why was I/were we born?" is a fairly powerful line, but I kind of disapprove given that he already used it in true happiness (as far as I can recall)
But yeah, it was a good story. A tragedy that occurs unbeknownst to the rest of the world as it celebrates.
Overall very nicely done.
Yeah, the fact he's already used that line kind of kills the emotional impact it might otherwise have had. But as you say, aside from that, well done.
She's dead jim, remember that she pretty much bursted spilling her filling, that is mortal for a yu, specially a baby one. And considering how clean their easy place was before her bursting, one can tell how MUCH filling she lost if the place became such a bloody mess.
JusticeItEasy said: She's dead jim, remember that she pretty much bursted spilling her filling, that is mortal for a yu, specially a baby one. And considering how clean their easy place was before her bursting, one can tell how MUCH filling she lost if the place became such a bloody mess.
yeah and did you know the human brain stays alive for 3 hours after the body dies
yukkuriking said: yeah and did you know the human brain stays alive for 3 hours after the body dies
Kinda old but what the hell... That doesn't apply to yukkuris, Koreimu is dead, you can tell by her being motionless and with her tongue hanging out like that, kiri only make dead yu's have their tongues hanging out like that.
duke_tanas said: I like how the koreimu caused her own death. She pee pee herself even knowing what will ocurre.
That and she probably threw a tantrum when her sister understandably ran away, which caused the rupture and bean paste splattered everywhere. She was practically sprinting towards her demise.
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