They always were kinda cute, if anything rough because of Suiso's simplistic style. The thing with suiso is that he can mix cute with extreme scum and shithead antics, like shitting around, pissing around, making exagerated smug faces like some wannabe japanese school punk, etc.
@JIE He's quite an interesting artist. His work sometimes looks very detailed with obvious time and effort being taken, other times it looks like something he drew with crayons during a 5 minute break at work.
very strange. it show symptoms of scummy behavior yet it seems to posses a sense of curiosity it see it self as cute but it wonders why it so cute like it shouldn't be as cute as it is. in other words it thinks its cute but it thinks it should be slightly ugly
Pretty much, it's just a new level of arrogance, kinda how they purple prose their own descriptions and all that.
Plus the follow up pic, confirmed that if you don't tell her she's cute, she flips out, even though she ironically find herself ugly while watching herself on a mirror thinking it's another yukkuri.
JusticeItEasy said: even though she ironically find herself ugly while watching herself on a mirror thinking it's another yukkuri.
Does she really understand what pretty and ugly is anyway ?
As far as yukkuri's sense of beauty, those with injury or without accessories are ugly. But average yukkuri with well cared condition is pretty. That's about it. Her reflection in the mirror should still be able to pass as pretty in yukkuri standard.
It's possible this Reimu think the yukkuri in the mirror is ugly because it's not her.
Maybe her own mental image was highly distorted and idealized, like picturing herself like those extremely cute yukkuris from FF pics or those highly cared pets, and the mirror just showed her as a simple manjuu not beffiting of her mental image.
Remember She only thought she was cute because "her mother told her so" not because she really saw herself in the mirror and found herself cute.
It's that, or mirror have a tendency to make yukkuris find themselves ugly and lowly, I mean, all the times I see a yukkuri watching itself in the mirror is for it to sneer and look down on "that uneasy yukkuri form the other side".
my point is that unlike other yukkuri she show symptoms of sapientsy meaning that she is not only self aware but is also curiouse about her own exsistance.
Nah, it's just typical manjuu trash ego stroking, one can talk flowery, but that doesn't mean one is smart or elegant like the speech. I know other yu's maybe capable of it, but not this one.
Specially when in the next page she, ironically, find herself ugly while thinking that the mirror image was another yu, only to find out the reality of her "lack of cuteness" and tantruming about it.
She's far from being someone self aware and curious about her existence, she only wanted an ego stroke by talking fancy and reality made it backfire on her.
yukkuriking said: my point is that unlike other yukkuri she show symptoms of sapientsy meaning that she is not only self aware but is also curiouse about her own exsistance.
Not really, I went with a more literal translation but the sentiment is more like, "Look at my mysterious beauty!"