it works in "nature". Differnet types of fish, lizards, birds have defensive mechanisms that makes them look "bigger" to discourage predators. In nature bigger usually means harder to take down and smaller predators tend to give up or get frightened if they see something puffing up.
So if a bird is trying to peck at a yukkuri, puffing up actually might scare it away. Although in the world of yukkuris, nature might see it fit to make birds immune just to a yukkuri's puffing up just to fuck with them...
danogoat said: actually puff puff used to do a lot of damage to newborn yus in older stories like the spicy reimu one
Makes me what to re-read that story again, but there seldom any story that goes into details about how a puff puff is perceived from a Yukkuri's point of view. With their delusional mind they're no telling what things are like from their eyes.
Gothic_Togekiss said: Makes me what to re-read that story again, but there seldom any story that goes into details about how a puff puff is perceived from a Yukkuri's point of view. With their delusional mind they're no telling what things are like from their eyes.
I'm guessing it is as it is with most animals, they only perceive a general increase in size.
It's why cats raise their hair and birds ruffle their feathers, y'know?
It's also possible that yukkuri interpret it as a sign of imminent violence, which can convince the smaller party to back down under the right circumstances. Kind of like how you're probably not going to approach a dog with lips curled and barking loudly in between snarls even if you can take it in a fight.
I wonder if Marisa not having her hat on somehow made her seem more terrifying. To the others' perception she's just regular food, so a meal suddenly attacking you and puffing up might be more horrifying.
Also a tad surprised Marisa's not gushing bean-paste out of her wounds from doing puff-puff, but that can probably be chalked-up to slightly different takes on yukkuri physiology between artists.
poweryoga said: it works in "nature". Differnet types of fish, lizards, birds have defensive mechanisms that makes them look "bigger" to discourage predators. In nature bigger usually means harder to take down and smaller predators tend to give up or get frightened if they see something puffing up.
So if a bird is trying to peck at a yukkuri, puffing up actually might scare it away. Although in the world of yukkuris, nature might see it fit to make birds immune just to a yukkuri's puffing up just to fuck with them...
Nah their not immune, they just see a bigger tastier target
--- 1st Cut --- Marisa : Hey!!!! Shitty Braaaaaaaaat!!! (You) can’t walk all over to the eldest(sister?) zeee! Marisa is pissed of zeeeee!!! (I’m) gonna kill you all zeeee!
--- 2nd Cut --- Marisa : Ges(Yukkuri) that munch-munch Marisa has no value to live! Punish right now zeeee!
--- 3st Cut --- Marisa : Yu Fun! (It is)Impertinent thing for Ges to be alive ze! (The fact) that (you tried to) run from this feathered feet marisa shows (inteligence) level of (your) Mr.Bean Paste ze!
--- 4th Cut --- Yu? (Are you) Threatening Marisa? (It can be)Black humor if (you) act foolish this far ze lol.[*1] (I’ll Show you) the ‘Real One(Threatening)’ ze!
--- 5th Cut --- Nothing to Do
--- 6th Cut --- Marisa : (What a)Ugly scene, spouting out Mr.Poo poo ze lol. (You’d) better regret (that you) pick up fight with Marisa in (your) afterlife ze! So, who’s next ze! Yu! (I’ll) take care of you all at once, (because) it’s much more fast![*2]
------------------------------------------------------------- *1 : I can' express it in english properly... I hope you guys can understand it.
Tweak said: Also a tad surprised Marisa's not gushing bean-paste out of her wounds from doing puff-puff, but that can probably be chalked-up to slightly different takes on yukkuri physiology between artists.
You have to consider you're just seeing the front of her when she's puffing up, chances are she maybe gushing out the filling, we just can't see it from that angle.
In a previous panel we saw her oozing filling like bleeding, so she may or may not be gushing out filling while puffing up.
What makes these baby yukkuri so spectacularly stupid is not just that they cannot distinguish a hatless Marisa from a pastry -- that is within the normal bounds of yukkuri stupidity -- but their inability to recognize threatening behavior before they are personally attacked.
A yukkuri bites the pastry, and the pastry reacts with rage: how shocking. Then without any caution they do the same thing, and are just as surprised when the same thing happens.
Even mindless animals will become startled when a presumed-inanimate object springs into violent motion. Can these things even be considered alive?
TakeItSlow said: What makes these baby yukkuri so spectacularly stupid is not just that they cannot distinguish a hatless Marisa from a pastry -- that is within the normal bounds of yukkuri stupidity -- but their inability to recognize threatening behavior before they are personally attacked.
A yukkuri bites the pastry, and the pastry reacts with rage: how shocking. Then without any caution they do the same thing, and are just as surprised when the same thing happens.
Even mindless animals will become startled when a presumed-inanimate object springs into violent motion. Can these things even be considered alive?
They meet all the basic requirements to be considered alive (eat, reproduce, grow, etc.), they just tend to be spectacularly stupid. Shitheads especially.
TakeItSlow said: Even mindless animals will become startled when a presumed-inanimate object springs into violent motion. Can these things even be considered alive?
It's a work of collaborative fiction, their intelligence and behavior is defined and limited by the specific writer/artist. I don't care for some of the Yukkuri tropes because they don't make much sense but I accept it for the specific work and try not to generalize it to other works.
Obviously I was talking about yukkuri as they appear in this story.
This is reminiscent of the mother Reimu's failure to perceive the human that attacked her child until he also kicked the box she was inside. (I still wonder if that will have a special explanation, or if it's just chalked up to extreme lack of perception. Perhaps it is a hereditary defect?)
That page wasn't completely translated so we don't know, but in some stories, just saying "slowly slowly" (even by humans) is enough to make you invisible in the yukkuri eyes...yeah I don't get it either, but it works.
TakeItSlow said: Yeah, but before that he was yelling and trying to get her attention.
Ah you're right, I didn't see the translation being posted on the comments
Kinda weird, but considering how Mother Reimu speaks about killing human babies (which while capacity wise is possible, but I doublt Reimu even had the chance to be close to a baby to do that, after all she's still alive.) she maybe extremely delusional and supremacist.
This might as well be the most effective reaction against a PUFF I ever seen
(What a)Ugly scene, spouting out Mr.Poo poo ze lol.
(You'll) regret (that you) picked a fight with Marisa in (the) afterlife ze!
So, who’s next ze!
Yu! (I’ll) take care of you all at once, (because) it’s much quicker![*2]Yu?
(Are you) Threatening Marisa? (It can be)Black humor if (you) act foolish like this ze lol.[*1]
(I’ll Show you) the "Real (Threatening) One" ze!(Yukkuri) that munch-munch Marisa
have no right to live! Punish right now zeeee!Yu Fun!
(It is) important that you stay alive ze!
(The fact) that (you think you can) run from Me, Marisa the feathered foot
shows the (intelligence) level of (your) Mr.Bean Paste ze!Marisa is pissed off zeeeeee!!!
(I'm gonna)kill (you) all zeeee!Hey!!!! Shitty Braaaaaaat!!!!!
Don't get too cocky zeeeee!!!