AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!! This is one of the most moving and heart-warming yukkuri stories I have ever seen. There are nowhere near enough stories like this one out there.
pgraphics said: More than Yukkuri Family of the City or Orphan Alichu?
All right, I'll take that back, and agree with Koakuma: this a very touching story. I like it because it has a happy ending after a lot of hardships and an almost certain dath.
Good thing I read it full, I was about adding Awishe to the Altar of the Dead of this year.
pgraphics said: More than Yukkuri Family of the City or Orphan Alichu?
Well, Yukkuri Family was like Mass Effect 3: the impression of the good story was ruined by a "WHAT" ending. Suddenly, the babies are dead for no reason at all and without anything killing them. That's all, folks!
Koakuma said: Well, Yukkuri Family was like Mass Effect 3: the impression of the good story was ruined by a "WHAT" ending. Suddenly, the babies are dead for no reason at all and without anything killing them. That's all, folks!
Koakuma had you ever payed attention to the story of Yukkuri Family? The babies got run over by a bike, A BIKE! I think it is even mentioned in the narration, there is even a frigging wheel mark on the place!
It wasn't a "suddenly they are all dead for no reason" it was a sudden and shocking tragedy in the middle of a happy reunion all because the yukkuris and the bike driver weren't paying attention.
Even though it's sad and touching, it still ends happily for everyone. Trial and overcoming adversity, and the reward for having a strong spirit. Even though the Alice never knew her parents, she still pressed on. It's not often a koyukkuri can last on it's own, but she did it.
As for Yukkuri Family, no, that was a terrible plot twist.
BOOMSUDDENLYCHILDRENAREDEAD. Yeah, that was horrible. There was no redemption, there was no second chance. She died and saw her family just as she was dying. Just because she died with a smile on her face doesn't make it better.
Even though it's sad and touching, it still ends happily for everyone. Trial and overcoming adversity, and the reward for having a strong spirit. Even though the Alice never knew her parents, she still pressed on. It's not often a koyukkuri can last on it's own, but she did it.
As for Yukkuri Family, no, that was a terrible plot twist.
BOOMSUDDENLYCHILDRENAREDEAD. Yeah, that was horrible. There was no redemption, there was no second chance. She died and saw her family just as she was dying. Just because she died with a smile on her face doesn't make it better.
I still want to adopt this Alice.
Both stories are fine, they tell different themes. Yukkuri family was all about the unfairness of life, the unpredictability of hardship, the family was saved by luck many many times, and finally lucked out in the end. Also, the mother Reimu brought everything upon herself by falling in love with a stray, so its also a lesson about treasuring what you have, and not throwing it all away.
This story is very different, the Alice is guiltless since she has the innocence of birth, her mother can't be blamed for being raped. All alice ever did was treasuring what she had (the doll), and in the end rewarded for it.
I maybe late to the party but I actually think that the Yukkuri Family's ending is actually very fitting. Yeah sure there were a lot of hardships and obstacles for the Reimu and her children, but remember, Reimu CHOSE that life, she could still be a pet if she had pruned her kos (which in yukkuri standard doesn't count as killing a yukkuri), no sooner or later had she obedient, she would had a chance to actually have a permission to have a child from her owner, buuuuut she ended up losing to her temptation, which she shouldn't be considered the fact that she was a silver-badged. If anything, I still think that the punishment is entirely justice, because if she actually love her children, she wouldn't let them suffer all of the hardship from being a stray.
And the Alice in this story is different. Why you ask? Cuz she didn't choose to become a stray, it's her (former) owner/mother that force her to. She had no choice but abided to that, and she didn't show any signs of being a shithead.