What the fuck is wrong with this restaurant owner. Seriously. The inside of his restaurant apparently smells worse than the garbage in the alley outside, and he's pissed off at yukkuris knocking over a few trash bins?
How the hell does he get customers? Where's this restaurant located? Who the hell would come to eat here when his restaurant is in such a state?
"Yuyu... it stinks... can't take it easy... ugggluuu..." With no choices, Mother Reimu could only use her own body as a cleaning tool. The filth on the floor covered her hair and ribbon, and broken bits of fish bone cut her face. The smell of the fresh garbage she ate was nowhere near as foul as the the filth here. Mother Reimu cried as she worked.
zidana123 said: What the fuck is wrong with this restaurant owner. Seriously. The inside of his restaurant apparently smells worse than the garbage in the alley outside, and he's pissed off at yukkuris knocking over a few trash bins?
How the hell does he get customers? Where's this restaurant located? Who the hell would come to eat here when his restaurant is in such a state?
Nothing makes sense goddamnit
Its a world where garbage raiding yukkuris exist. Do you honestly expect high sanitation standards? That doesn't make sense at all.
zidana123 said: What the fuck is wrong with this restaurant owner. Seriously. The inside of his restaurant apparently smells worse than the garbage in the alley outside, and he's pissed off at yukkuris knocking over a few trash bins?
How the hell does he get customers? Where's this restaurant located? Who the hell would come to eat here when his restaurant is in such a state?
Nothing makes sense goddamnit
I take it you've never been to a third world country. Or believe that these sort of conditions don't exist in your world.
People just don't like animals messing with their trash cans, even those who are dirty and disorganized doesn't like some racoon or bear messing with their trash cans and spreading crap all around the streets.
It's, a common thing in real life, but being honest I think Hy maybe jumping the shark here, it feels like he went "I NEED TO MAKE THEM SUFFER BUT I'M OUT OF IDEAS! OH WAIT! I'LL MAKE THE PLACE DIRTY AS FUCK AS HAVE REIMU FORCED TO CLEAN IT UP!" it feels like Hy couldn't come out with a better scenario for this ever suffering family to get more misfortunes.
Skribulous said: I take it you've never been to a third world country. Or believe that these sort of conditions don't exist in your world.
I was born in China. Even in third world countries, people have standards. There might be a puddle of vomit outside the restaurant, in the street. There might even be a pile of human poo. But there wouldn't be vomit INSIDE the restaurant, because any restaurant owner worth their salt anywhere would INSTANTLY clean that up.
zidana123 said: I was born in China. Even in third world countries, people have standards. There might be a puddle of vomit outside the restaurant, in the street. There might even be a pile of human poo. But there wouldn't be vomit INSIDE the restaurant, because any restaurant owner worth their salt anywhere would INSTANTLY clean that up.
You mistook me for poweryoga. I never referred to china at all.
And yes, these terrible, terrible places DO exist. Maybe not for long, but they are around, if you know where to look. Not that anyone in their right mind would WANT to, mind you...
From the beginning when a kind miss healed Marisa with orange juice I've thought of these comics as being a series of contrived coincidences for keeping these yukkuris alive and suffering. In a normal kind of story these yukkuris would be dead many times over, but the mysterious hand of the author saves them then slaps them around before sending them on their way.
I don't think it makes these comics bad. Just different.
zidana123 said: I was born in China. Even in third world countries, people have standards. There might be a puddle of vomit outside the restaurant, in the street. There might even be a pile of human poo. But there wouldn't be vomit INSIDE the restaurant, because any restaurant owner worth their salt anywhere would INSTANTLY clean that up.
Perhaps that is why the owner spared reimu. Perhaps someone had JUST puked and he wanted someone to clean it up.
Skribulous said: You mistook me for poweryoga. I never referred to china at all.
And yes, these terrible, terrible places DO exist. Maybe not for long, but they are around, if you know where to look. Not that anyone in their right mind would WANT to, mind you...
I didn't mistake you for poweryoga. You speculated that I had never been to a third world country. So I told you that I was born in one.
As for these places existing... okay, I'll conceded that they do, but usually only in the most wretched and backwater areas of said third world countries. But within the scope of this comic, this restaurant is within a yukkuri's walking distance of a well-maintained park where unsupervised badged yukkuris are allowed to roam. Every human character we've seen thus far appears to be well-fed and well-dressed. There are well-intentioned old ladies in the neighborhood that take in stray yukkuris.
The 'maybe this is a third world country' thing doesn't hold any water with the already-established state of the neighborhood. If it -is- a third world country then it's obviously an affluent and well-to-do portion of the country.
The 'maybe this is a third world country' thing doesn't hold any water with the already-established state of the neighborhood. If it -is- a third world country then it's obviously an affluent and well-to-do portion of the country.
You'd be surprised on the places you can find even in the most "affluent and well-to-do portions" of any given country, third world or otherwise.
amicustribusyu said: Perhaps that is why the owner spared reimu. Perhaps someone had JUST puked and he wanted someone to clean it up.
That doesn't make any sense either. Consider it from the perspective of another customer within the restaurant.
You're eating your meal when some loud drunk over in the corner falls onto the table, knocking all his fish bones onto the floor. He then collapses and pukes all over the floor. Instead of IMMEDIATELY cleaning that up with a mop, the restaurant owner TAKES A STROLL OUTSIDE and returns after several minutes (remember, he was beating on Reimu for a good while) with a bunch of filthy wild yukkuris. He then sets the filthy wild yukkuri to cleaning the floor after screaming and cursing at it.
How would you, as a customer, feel about these ridiculous actions by the restaurant owner? Would you want to eat in a place where the sanitation was performed by filthy wild yukkuris? Again, there is no way any restaurant owner worth his salt would pull something like this while he had customers in the store.
Yeah, but it didn't feel out of place or anything, there was some connection and sense in the incidents before this, this part, feels very off and cheap, like Hy couldn't come out with something creative like he did before, I can't help but feel a sense of missed potential, but can't explain properly why I feel like that.
amicustribusyu
Yeah, it's not unheard of such low tier restaurants to have moments on which the drunkard pig clients make a mess and the place is a disaster needing a cleaning, for all we know, Reimu was unlucky enough that the mister found her in that very moment.
Skribulous said: You'd be surprised on the places you can find even in the most "affluent and well-to-do portions" of any given country, third world or otherwise.
I doubt that very much. There's a difference between say, a restaurant with a severe rat infestation and a restaurant where the owner just leaves puddles of vomit lying on the floor.
Again the puddles could be recent and reimu being unlucky enough to be the one cleaning them up. And you would be surprised the condition of some places and the people that don't have any problem eating or drinking on them.
Some people are THAT dirty. If anything I would be more angry at how exagerated the smell thing is, no matter what Hy says, trash from dumpsters and such, shouldn't smell "better" than freshly thrown stuff and puke, they usually are as disgusting and as smelly, a yukkuri that trash dives shouldn't be THIS bothered by the smell.
China's not exactly 3rd world. But it is very poorly regulated and I wouldn't be surprised to find a slum like this in the countryside.
"Yuyu... it stinks... can't take it easy... ugggluuu..." With no choices, Mother Reimu could only use her own body as a cleaning tool. The filth on the floor covered her hair and ribbon, and broken bits of fish bone cut her face. The smell of the fresh garbage she ate was nowhere near as foul as the the filth here. Mother Reimu cried as she worked.