I think it just depends on the artist. I think Yukkuris melting in water is lame, anyhow. It's not like the antikkuri folk don't have a million other vectors.
Yukkuris are manjus. Manjus are not ambulatory, do not talk, and are nonsentient. Only desperate nitpickers use real-world pastry to try to argue that their preferences in a species of fantasy creatures are immutable law.