Kiritara doesn't really do shitheads, not in the traditional way we think about them, though. There's the microwave story, but kiritara seems to prefer keeping his yukkuri very naive. Not that I'd say no to a kiritara shithead story, but previous trends seem to indicate it's unlikely :(
I'm really curious about this "pest" type yukkuri. More along traditional pests, like rats or cockroaches where they're small and actually try to keep out of sight, but spread their filth everywhere.
I find it amusing that this anon seems so mad about a bit of poop and pee (beanpaste and sugar water) when he already lives in filth and squalor. Just saying.
Trololo said: I find it amusing that this anon seems so mad about a bit of poop and pee (beanpaste and sugar water) when he already lives in filth and squalor. Just saying.
Trololo said: I find it amusing that this anon seems so mad about a bit of poop and pee (beanpaste and sugar water) when he already lives in filth and squalor. Just saying.
I don't think that the anon lives in filth, this 2 pages show that his room is quite tidy regardless of having 2 coke cans, a chips pack and a bottle of water, but they aren't scattered or anything.
Plus paste and sugary water is still something bothersome to have smeared in your floor and furniture, specially if somebody else smear it.
No , I think they are even smaller. Look at anons' feet and compare them to the yukkuri family - the entire family would fit under his foot. Unless this anon has freakishly huge feet the adult reimu isn't even fist sized.
Now i'm starting to think that the "egg" method will become the third official reproduction method of yukkuris, heh, like the little buggers didn't have enough ways to multiply their already enormous numbers. . .I swear, taking aside yukkuris and magic, is biologically possible for a creature to have many ways of reproduction?
Definitely possible to have more than one way of reproduction. Starfish and some species of plants reproduce both in a sexual and asexual manner.
Of course, the reason this is seldom seen is if there's a way to reproduce and it works, there's no reason for alternative ways. Also, the complexity of the offspring factors in. I guess that's funny: the fact yukkuri reproduce this many ways suggest extraordinarily simple biology.
TexasEasy said: Justice, with our luck the little bastards will also reproduce by spores too. Squash a dozen? Congrats, you just made a thousand.
Burning them now sounds even more attractive than before.
Anyway since we are about crazy reproduction, i think i'll shoot an alernative.
Those aren't eggs, they are featureless manjuus laid by the mother, the thing is that they in a way work like eggs, but maybe with a touch of amphibian egg, but when the times come, the features suddenly start to grow out of the clean manjuu determining their type and stuff.
Just to note. If you're not going to translate it all, leave the "translation_request" or put "partial_translation." Please don't put "translation_available" if you're not going to finish it or if it's not complete.
Yay, finally translated. Whats with the people that can't even wait a day for it, damn... The anon, he mad. I wonder how the eggs will add to the abuse
So it seems "House-Yu" is not just a title, but a term to label this minikurris that evolved to be cockroach like and live in human's houses. . .
I swear, it's like yukkuris evolve for the worse instead of trying to evolve with features that won't just bother more people and make their already strained relationship with humans worse and worse.
Unyu said: Just to note. If you're not going to translate it all, leave the "translation_request" or put "partial_translation." Please don't put "translation_available" if you're not going to finish it or if it's not complete.
Sorry, was just copying over tags and forgot to remove the translation_available tag
JusticeItEasy said: I swear, it's like yukkuris evolve for the worse instead of trying to evolve with features that won't just bother more people and make their already strained relationship with humans worse and worse.
Evolution favors traits that enhance survivalbility.
Unfortunately, the traits that would make them less bothersome to humans (i.e. nicehead, bodied, things like that) actually hinder their survivability in the wild.
After all, niceheads tend to get taken advantage of by the scum, then killed, and Bodied yukkuri are usually outcasts and are unable to mate.
The only way we'd get yukkuris with traits WE like is through selective breeding. Which we already do with them to produce the gold and above badge pets.
Thats the pseudo-scientific answer, now for the 'real' answer: Probably 80 - 90% of yukkuri artists prefer to draw abuse, therefore, if they're going to alter the yukkuri, they are more likely to alter them in a way that makes them more annoying/more deserving of abuse/things like that, so that they can then draw abuse stuff with them. And I'll be honest, while I'd prefer there not be so much unjustified abuse of yukkuris, even I have to admit that pure FF stuff tends to get boring without conflict, and if theres conflict, it usually ends up being the kind that removes the FF attribute from the story/art.
JusticeItEasy said: Now i'm starting to think that the "egg" method will become the third official reproduction method of yukkuris, heh, like the little buggers didn't have enough ways to multiply their already enormous numbers. . .I swear, taking aside yukkuris and magic, is biologically possible for a creature to have many ways of reproduction?
Egg-laying has been around as long as yukkuri were. I think it was even older than the pregnancy method, with variants either growing out of the stalk or pooped out.
These yukkuri are the mice equivalent, while urban strays would correspond to rats (I've seen sewer rats bigger than small dogs, and full grown mice still smaller than my thumb).
And with that note, I think I now have an idea what the Chen's role is in this story, if it ever appears.
Hmm survivality maybe a case but in all honesty, the only ability i think that truly helped them in survival as species was how they evolved their birth rate and reproduction methods, everything else is more likely to jeopardize their survivavilty by putting them in odds with other creatures and since the odds are always against them, making such trait quite against their survival capacity.
Of course, that may not defy the intention of evolution > survival, but as we know, evolution isn't perfect, many "evolutionary changes" can be flukes that actually makes things worse even if they may have a reasonable logic behind them, leading to the evolution actually generating a counterproductive ability.
I believe that, smaller yukkuris able to get into houses would just make them even more easier preys, maybe you would have to look harder, but then, they are yukkuris, unlike cockroaches and mices, they won't run a way, and their attacks are plainly weak, they can't even give the creeps to people and their shapes aren't as crevice friendly as other creatures, so having them getting inside someone's house leads to 90% of probability of dying.
As i said it before, the only truly positive evolution yukkuris have for survival was the birth rate, everything else seems to come to bite them back or just increase even more their death tolls.
Some of the features that annoy us humans (I.E. Shitheadedness, aggressiveness towards humans and others, extreme selfishness, things like that) are actually a GOOD thing to have when IN THE WILD. And remember, the VAST Majority of the yukkuri population live IN THE WILD.
After all, in the wild, if an animal is stronger then then another, the stronger one can pretty much do whatever it wants to the other, and theres not a damn thing the weaker one can do about it, because if it fights back, it has a pretty good chance of dying. (High aggressiveness will tend to make the yukkuri stronger then its less aggressive peers, because if it doesn't become strong enough to back up its aggression, it will die.)
The extreme selfishness? Well, if a yukkuri has more food/a better nest/a better mate then its neighbor, chances are that it will live longer then the neighbor will, which translates into having more chances to successfully produce and raise offspring.
The shitheadedness? well, aren't shitheads usually depicted as being more aggressive and selfish then others? They're just far more annoying and arrogant about it then others, which only becomes a problem for them when they have to deal with humans. Thus, they probably have a decent survival rate, as long they avoid clans that may kill them for their more 'evil' actions.
So, because the vast majority of yukkuris will probably never encounter a human in their life due to living in the wilds, the traits of theirs that annoy us will probably never be stamped out.
Now, would smaller yukkuri that lack the need to confront and 'steal' the house from a human have an increased survival rate in cities? yes. After all, small animals can sometimes live in a house unnoticed for months, or even years! That, combined with the fact that smaller creatures eat a smaller absolute amount of food then larger ones, will probably lead to them being able to go unnoticed for significant lengths of time, like in this series. How do I know they've been there for a while? Just look at the amount of excrement in the toilet area. Judging by the amount, they've probably been there at least a few days, if not a week or so, and were completely unnoticed until the start of this comic.
Now imagine if those yukkuri were living in the basement or attic of someones house, rather then in this guys apartment/bedroom; They may have been able to go months without being noticed in that case.
On yukkuris being at odds with other creatures. The majority of animals they would 'be at odds' with are small enough that a yukkuris 'puff' may be able to scare them off, since most wild animals realize that if an animal is bigger then them, chances are it can kill them. The animals that the yukkuris puff won't work on are significantly less in number then the ones it will work on. Not to mention that, while predators may kill yukkuri for tresspassing/bothering or attacking them/things like that, they won't actually hunt yukkuri, for reasons that should be obvious. (Predators = Carnivores, Carnivores eat meat, all but 2 yukkuri types have ZERO meat in them.)
Thus, in the wild, yukkuri don't face threats from very many animals, unless the yukkuri actively seeks to antagonize said animal, which usually only occurs with shitheads.
The only real animal that will actively 'hunt' yukkuri, for various reasons, is us humans.
tl;dr Some of the traits that annoy us may actually be good for survival in the wild, hence why they appeared and are so prevalent.
Would being smaller and less likely to confront humans while in the humans house increase survivability? Most likely, Yes.
Yukkuri are not 'at odds' with as many creatures as you might think, and the ones that won't be chased off by puffing are much less in number then those that might be.
Good points, except I can't help but notice this part:
maximusfive said:
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Thus, in the wild, yukkuri don't face threats from very many animals, unless the yukkuri actively seeks to antagonize said animal, which usually only occurs with shitheads.
First, shitheads have to actually encounter an animal that won't be scared off by their puff. Then they have to do something that makes the animal decide to kill them. In probably 40 - 50% of encounters, the animal probably just ignores the yukkuri, since the animal doesn't understand human speech, and theres no food or dens/nests involved.
It's probably only when the yukkuri approaches animals that are eating, or near their den/nest, that animals will consider the yukkuri a 'threat' and try to deal with it.
Obviously, any yukkuri that actually tries to attack an animal is most likely gonna get killed.
Some examples using a wolf: Shitheads meet a wolf at a random place in the forest = wolf ignores them and their insults/whatever, unless they attack.
Shitheads meet wolf at shitheads nest = wolf ignores them.
Shitheads declare <area x> as their 'easy place' and order wolf to get out = if <area x> isn't the wolfs den, wolf will likely ignore them, unless attacked. If <area x> IS the wolfs den, yukkuri go splat.
Shitheads attempt to claim a wolfs 'kill' as their food(not that yukuri would eat raw meat) = Wolf kills them.
Shitheads get close to wolfs den while wolf has young there = Do I really need to tell you?
So, a lot of the time, animals large enough to not be intimidated by a 'puff' will probably just ignore the yukkuri unless they attack said animal.
Also, I consider shitheads to be a minority, just like intelligent/nicehead yukkuri, albeit more common/populous then the latter. I actually consider scum and trash yukkuri to be the vast majority of yukkuri, with neutral yukkuri taking second place. Note: On my scale of behavior, Scum is just above being a shithead, while trash is above scum and just below neutral.
The story could end FASTER if the Anon lifted and pushed the closet over these plagues, and released the whole thing, crushing them mercilessly.
Yuu...Yupi...dragYoo...TWITCHof even greater anger...hm?they lay eggs to produce more trash manjuuShit...
on the carpetMoving about the house with their filthy bodiesTWITCHof angerGEHHH..
The back is used as the toilet!?It's because I never clean behind the damned bookshelf huh...Managing to survive due to their size, they break into houses and claim it their own, creating nests. So dirty...When compared to the strays that live all over town, their special feature is how small they are. House Yu are yukkuri that have evolved (?) in order to live in humans' houses. Dustballs