Actually I don't get why anon here claims that keeping a pet yukkuri is that expensive ; I mean , what expenses could he possibly have? Food? Yukkuri eat what humans eat and can in fact survive on garbage. And I doubt a grown yukkuri would eat more than an adult human , possibly a lot less. And beyond that? Probably a bit of one-time expenses for yukkuri stuff. Also I don't get why he throws out his yukkuri. Just kick out the pregnant feral. Anon's are pretty stupid that way. I mean , what would you expect to happen if you let male and female pets like cats , dogs , various rodents etc. ? They'd produce just as many litters of unwanted offspring as yukkuri do. Then again of course , yukkuri are basically hermaphrodites , so ... Makes you wonder why they don't castrate them more often or keep them as solitary pets.
It's the so called trash tendencies. once you realize the yukkuri isn't going to listen to you, the specialness of getting a yukkuri goes away. Why get a yukkuri when it won't listen to you? Then the guy wonders about its other traits, like the willingness to learn etc... and it all goes downhill.
There's also the cost. pets might need special food, regular check ups, registration fees (or special yukkuri taxes for possible dosuification), etc. if the author says its expensive, one should take it as such. There are many ways to make a yukkuri expensive to keep if you want to.
There is such a thing as acceptable breaks from reality - this is not one of them. If a story requires bullshit reasoning to work , then it's the authors fault and not mine for noticing it.
I have to agree somewhat with FSB. In instances of the gold badge yukkuri's falling into shitheadedness... Any trained animal cannot just be trained and then left to whatever. The training must be repeated and reinforced. Often training new things so that they will keep learning their entire lives. A gold badge is meaningless unless the owner is willing to spend the time to maintain it. In this case, did the owner ever tell the yukkuri that he forbid her from seeing other yukkuri? We are often told that gold training also enforces the idea that pet yukkuris do not mix with strays. It is said even in this work with the Alice later. It seems he failed to train this yukkuri properly in the first place. He mentioned social standing, maybe he got the badge through clout alone?
The only thing he claims that is expensive is the Gold Badge, it may be half truth, since usually Gold Badges are hinted to be expensive but he claims he may had ways to get it easier since she's already a stablished Gold Pet, probably with the papers and al ltaht stuff.
Before he only say "How much money, care do you think i spend on one manjuu!" he doesn't necessarily say it's highly expensive but it's a call out on all the hard work and expenses the mister did for Marisa, and now she "expects" him to do it for a family he never allowed her to have to begin with, she didn't even ask him way before trying it, just did it and them dumped the mon him expecting him to just "accept it", maybe not with a malicious intent but clearly egoistical and naive forgetting her position as pet and technically "freeloader".
Why did he throw out his pet yukkuri? lose of trust, Marisa pretty much became a lost case for her owner the moment she did such a thing as refreshing with a wild yukkuri and then expect anon to adopt them without even consulting him way before. The only times that pets seems to not be kicked out along their stray partners is when they are rape victims, if they willingly tried to have a family with a stray or wild yukkuri it all reduces to "so be it, have your family but you are no pet of mine and this isn't your house anymore, so GTFO!" (at least if anon won't go full blown abuser mode)
Finally, castration has been a troublesome topic, some do it, some don't, some say that the present castration methods are shady and lethal to yukkuris.
Plus this is a darn old story, older than many concepts we may take for granted now.
@MrGrey You have to consider MrGrey that the problem of this gold badge was Marisa's wrong assumptions about her "rights" with it and how it seems that in the time of the comic, as i said before this one is a darn old comic, gold badge seemed to focus way too much in skills over attitude and true understanding.
A good and true gold badge while having some developed skill, it's training should focus more on attitude and comprehension. This is basically the failure of the early gold badge test systems "Skills" over "Understanding the owner".
I think he got it legal, but again, tester focusing too much on skills than in more important stuff considering we are talking about yukkuris. After all what would you care more? for a yukkuri able to count beyond 4? or for a yukkuri that understands how mister humans think and why many of the bad attitudes of the yukkuris are despised by them even if it can't count beyond 4, etc.?
In the end, i think that all reduces more to Marisa's mistaken ideas than Anon being really in fault since he seemed to had worked quite hard with her on her training, as much pampering her a bit with the doughnuts, but it wasn't like he left her on her own.
We also didn't have any hint if this could be happening barely a few days after getting the golden badge, At least if we recall the flashback on which her intention was to get the badge so she could maker her relationship with Reimu Official.
In the end it all reduces to this, don't waste your time training from 0 unless you are a good breeder or have a good yukkuri role model around, it's way better to save your money and buy a proper gold badge yukkuri or platinum one, training from 0 may lead to this kind of scenarios way too easily.
No JIE , it's not that simple. Even set aside that calling your PET a freeloader is pretty stupid for obvious reasons , expecting yukkuri to not refresh AT ALL is a losing move from the beginning and not just because they are yukkuri. Sexual urges are very strong in humans and animals for evolutionary reasons and yukkuri are shown to be the same. You can't just tell someone "never have sex" and blame them for doing it anyway. You also cannot expect them to just abandon their offspring because their owner said so - in fact , you should be glad Marisa is so attached to her kids , as many deibuish yukkuri just do the 'anger inducing thing' and abandon their pregnant partner , stray or not. Why do you think human societies have had so many rules and regulations concerning sexuality and partnership? If you don't want your pet yukkuri to make babies you'd have to either a) never let them have unsupervised contact with other yukkuri of age (like many of the more restrictive societies do) or b) instill certain morals in them and allow them to follow their nature under specific circumstances (get 'married' to one yukkuri and have some kids).
Also , the whole thing about 'throwing out yukkuri for refreshing' is just reminding me a little too much of how our own kind handled unwanted pregnancies in the past - and in some parts of the world still does.
He doesn't say it's expensive, he just complains about the cost. I'd say it has far more to do with Marisa losing value in anon's eyes by taking a stray wife, and Marisa's presumption that anon will take in the new stray family.
He clearly didn't want a Marisa that would go and take a stray as it's mate, or the family that comes with, so a single penny spent n them is too much.
As far as the gold badge training, the story doesn't go all the way through it, but a couple of panels seem to include resisting the urge to eat tempting food, and eating cleanly. It would HIGHLY doubt it didn't have an extensive inclusion about strays and wild yukkuri.
I made this comparison on the Japanese version of the comic, but Marisa's getting a gold badge to pair up with Reimu is comparable to a guy joining the air force to mess around with a jet. In the process the responsibilities and expectations would inevitably come to light, and still hitching up with Reimu is akin to running off with a Jet anyways.
@ FSB Don't forget this was after he ALREADY ordered an Alice as a companion for it, and presumably a VERY short time after Marisa earned a badge. Because of Marisa's deception, as far as Anon knew, it was fresh out of training, having learned the importance of not associating with strays, and not having had any real contact with other yukkuri yet.
From Anon's POV, Marisa ran out and found a stray no sooner than it earned it's badge. If anon knew about Marisa's relationship with Reimu, He would have cut it off by keeping Marisa in a cage at night or something. A key point in this is also that Marisa understood the relationship wasn't allowed.
You fail to notice that anon just troll with marisa. So top strip is also a lie. It didn't just about cause but he use a lot of time and trust for marisa. This comic fail to translate a ton of books that anon read. It is about training gold badge. Anon also work extra hour. And what marisa repayment is shitheads. Castration can only stop mammal type birth but can't stop stalk type birth. Yukkuri can always rub rub to make koyukkuri. Yukkuri is a world of multiple creator. An Ideal , concept or behavior of yukkuri change everyday. Old idea is rarely repeat for reader. If you are newer to yukkuri world and not read by order. It is easy to get confuse. But most of us are not.
It became freeloader the first moment she abused of anon's hospitality by trying to pin him with the care of the family she made without him allowing her or even consulting him.
And Alice proved that pet yukkuris CAN avoid getting themselves involved by stray yukkuris and such and not even developing some sort of "arrogant and classist" mindest just a "sorry i'm not allowed, understand easy."
Marisa was having an affair behind Anon's back since way before becoming a gold, and expected the gold status to let her make the affair offiical and anon adopt her stray partner, Marisa never considered if Anon would agree, if anon liked her partner, if anon wanted her to have little ones as well (one thing is a partner another is 2 big yukkuris + 5 or 4 koyukkuris as well.)
You can't blame anon on this one, he tried his best to teach her, but she was stubborn in having her hidden affair become official and her owner to take them under his wing no matter what, without even caring for a second if Mister would actually like it.
And Fanon shouldn't drop dead easy, your if alternate intepretations missing many key aspects of the story should be the one dropping dead easy.
Why didn't anon keep Marisa in room like house house-cats or house-dogs? Simple. Author of this story wanted Marisa to get pregnant. And anons are always right.
Let's be fair. For something that can understand you and argue with you, you would have much higher levels of expectation. Especially from something you trained. It takes VERY little for humans to turn on one another, why is the owner turning and calling its pet worthless so out of scope?
And the cost is not necessarily bullshit. It can be expensive to buy the yukkuri, the paperwork can be a hassle, and like I said, there can be other very reasonable costs associated with a yukkuri like taxes or fees.
This is provided that you overlook the fact anon is trolling Marisa. Obviously he's a snob and he's just trying to drive Marisa up a wall. But there is a sense of betrayal that you get from a being of sentience. For lack of better terms, Marisa cheated on anon and lied to him.
I suspect the trolling is just his way of cutting ties with her, basically this: "you are no pet of mine so don't expect any help or any new badge from me! what? you still insist? well too bad because it takes way too much time to get a new badge anyway and hell i'm not taking care of you when you aren't my pet anymore (the time of the badge being the lie.)"
plus anon may not feel like giving her a new badge when he may think she stopped being pet tier the moment she "cheated" on him.
It's basically trolling out of being angry and clearly not wanting anything to do with her anymore. Maybe in other circunstances he would be more than willing to remplace the badge using his contacts and all that, but in this case? why shoudl he? honestly why should he?