TL: Reimu-Types Rank 8th in Popularity, Even Golds Aren't Selling...... Sales Figure Ranking
Up until 5 years ago, Reimu-types maintained the #1 spot in yukkuri sales figures, but this year, they've been overtaken by Myon-types and Flan-types and now have the lowest sales numbers of the eight main types. The number of Reimus sold was about 75,000, the lowest in the 30 years since market tracking began, making pet-shop owners hold their heads--"I never dreamed they could fall this low."
Last year, the Yun-Yah Corporation halved its order of Reimus for its shops, but Reimu-types have proved even less popular than predicted, and 30 percent still remain unsold. "Even gold-badge Reimus are selling poorly. Even if we drop them below 10,000 yen, they don't sell."
Professor Onii of Factory University points to the rise in popularity of keeping parent-child sets as pets as the cause of the drop in Reimu sales. "After Reimu-types have children, their maternal insticts become stronger and they turn into shitheads. In families, they're difficult to keep as pets."
The Yukkuri Sales Figure Ranking is published annually by the Factory Research Company based on pet shop sales figures from December to January.
Now that's weird, maternal instinct shouldn't trigger shithead change to any good yukkuri.
Usually a shithead mother will be shithead BEFORE being mother and as much become 100 worse after becoming one, since it gives her room for using the "kids" as a excuse to demmand stuff and demmand servitude from others.
JusticeItEasy said: Now that's weird, maternal instinct shouldn't trigger shithead change to any good yukkuri.
Usually a shithead mother will be shithead BEFORE being mother and as much become 100 worse after becoming one, since it gives her room for using the "kids" as a excuse to demmand stuff and demmand servitude from others.
I'm calling shenanigans on that study.
It could just be the way things work in that artists 'yukkuri-verse'. It could also be that this artist judges 'shithead-ness' on how the yukkuri treats humans, and not on how it treats everything.
So, one possible explanation. In the yukkuris mind 'being Cute = being very easy = being superior to others'. So the process goes: 'little ones can really take it easy' becomes 'little ones are very easy', becomes 'Little ones are so cute', the mother then thinks 'Since little ones look like me, I must be so cute' which becomes 'Since I'm so cute, I must be very easy' which leads to 'Since I'm so easy, I'm superior to the human trash!' which ends up with "Shitty slave, fork over the sweet-sweets!" which causes *SPLAT*/abandoned/returned to shop
Maximus, that would make sense if the story said that it was a general trait about yukkuris and the pic being more a "anti pairing or pets having babies" story.
But this is a story about Reimus loosing popularity because of that, yet what you described Maximus could be applied to every yukkuri ever, since in the eyes of the yukkuris "all the little ones are very easy" and could later use the same logic to call themselves easy and by their standars "Superior".
That's why i call shenanigans, since if parenthood really made Reimus go shithead, then Marisas, Alices and Patchoulis would fall in the same, since they share the same, well, "obession" about their little ones, maybe Patchoulis would be less prone of the "easy = superior" mistaken standar, but don't expect the same from Alices and Marisas.
Usually a shithead is a shithead before being parent and it only gets even more shithead after becoming a parent, like the influx of highly stupid and impressionable minds as audience (the babies) enchances it's shitheadness and their need to show it to this new "easy audience". Aside of probably moetardismn hitting hard on them because of "how cute and easy the little ones are!"
It could be a Flanderization of Reimus - the shitheaded minority of pets becomes a widespread story, spoiling it for the Reimus that do behave very well when their breed becomes a lot less popular because of the actions of a few.