Kinda cunty considering Reimu was pretty polite. I guess the bored expression is what really bugs me- I'd figure if she was indifferent she'd just ignore the pleas, but if she enjoyed abusing it would show on her face.
Imagine to be at the park: an annoying mosquito is bothering you, so you wait for it to land on your arm and then smash it. What kind of expression would you have on your face?
Like Reimu, the moquito doesn't hate you or anything. It just wants to eat, or it's simply flying around. But its mere presence is enough for you to strike, even if you aren't necesssarly enjoying the kill.
Meh, usually these kinds of stories involve yukkuri garbage disposal, or at least some sort of statement about the exterminations that go on. Not saying that it couldn't be possible, I don't know the artist's true intentions, but at the very least the way I'm seeing it it's an isolated incident.
Trololo said: Meh, usually these kinds of stories involve yukkuri garbage disposal, or at least some sort of statement about the exterminations that go on. Not saying that it couldn't be possible, I don't know the artist's true intentions, but at the very least the way I'm seeing it it's an isolated incident.
In some stories, it is a form of civic duty to get rid of the yukkuris you meet to help the clean up efforts in long term.
Like in nooraki stories, to the point that even people that may not like it, do it because they know how troublesome yukkuris can be in the city and how many they can become if you leave them alone.
Is that a good thing? we don't know honestly, we can see how troublesome yu's can be, but we don't live in that world, so we can't say how necessary a "kill the yu on sight" policy really is.
I think its just that yukkuris in this world are being treated on the level of pests. Some people go out of their way to kill pets, some people ignore it and move on. Everyone meets the pest with an air of indifference.
Explosion said: The lack of emotion says to me that this was an extermination, like swatting a mosquito.
Doesn't matter how polite it was if its kind is seen as a pest enough to be killed on sight regardless of how it acts. What comes to mind is all the stories/comics of cities that have regular purges or kill on sight ordinances for yukkuri.
That. Polite or not, still seen as pests = still exterminated. And as said countless times before, from the way the majority of yukkuri behave, it's not far fetched they'd be judged as a pest for the most part. And getting rid of a pest isn't really fun (although with yukkuris, they can be anything depending on the situation and person, a pest or a source of entertainment).