Either you see this as a way to represent how much "danger" the "smallest" things are for yukkuris.
Or consider it how Yukkuris overdramatize or exagerate everything, same way how on some pics of the past yukkuris would consider bounce tackle the equivalent of SuperSaiyan Ki Flight Slam thingy.
The story actually goes on a bit after this with a human showing up, observing and talking to the yukkuri. I can't really make out anything more specific than that.
Though, the guy might have broken their minds by letting them know their child died in what was only a puddle and not a lake/pond.
Explosion said: The story actually goes on a bit after this with a human showing up, observing and talking to the yukkuri. I can't really make out anything more specific than that.
Though, the guy might have broken their minds by letting them know their child died in what was only a puddle and not a lake/pond.
ThatOneGuy said: Ahaha they failed in saving her? Simply amazing.
The author explains that for yukkuris, rain is a terrible calamity. If they get soaked, they're immobilized and can only sit there until they die, and particularly heavy raindrops can break their skin.
On a sunny morning after a rainy day and night, a family of stray yukkuris in the park boast about how strong they are, defeating the uneasy rain that must be jealous of them.
Father Marisa declares that she'll take the day off from hunting and stay home to play with the children. Actually, even though the family is all out of food, she wants to take it easy because she was frightened and uneasy while it was raining the previous day.
The family goes outside to happily play in the sunshine. They believe it will never rain again because they're such easy yukkuris. Little Reimu looks up at the beautiful clear blue sky and decides she wants to claim the whole sky as her own. She's thinking so hard about how to do that, she absent-mindedly wanders into a puddle and doesn't realize it until her family starts screaming at her in a panic.
Panicking, Reimu starts to "drown" in the water that barely covers her bottom when she's standing upright. She rolls over and starts splashing water on her face. Father Marisa also loses any semblance of good sense, crushing her hat under her as she jumps into the shallow puddle and trying to "paddle" with a stick when she's not even floating.
Father Marisa isn't moving forward. Mother Reimu and little Marisa are just flailing and shouting. As little Reimu begins to fall apart, she hurls abuse at her family, calling them trash for not rescuing her. She dies wishing she could live, take it easy more, and punish her family.
Her family cries and cries, wallowing in self-pity. Instead of blaming themselves, they tell each other that they all tried their best.
While they're crying, a human comes up and asks what's going on. They sob and wail, playing the role of tragic heroine. The human clarifies, "What are you doing in that puddle?" They look around--they're all in the shallow puddle, too. Little Reimu's remains are close enough that Father Marisa could have reached her in a single hop.
A drop of water strikes the human's face. The sky has clouded over and it's beginning to rain again. Taking out his umbrella, the human looks at the yukkuri family panicking as they realize their situation, decides he's not really interested, and leaves.
It starts to rain heavily. It pours and pours, setting a new record and killing most of the yukkuris in the region, almost as if in response to something certain yukkuris said.
platina said: Father Marisa isn't moving forward. Mother Reimu and little Marisa are just flailing and shouting. As little Reimu begins to fall apart, she hurls abuse at her family, calling them trash for not rescuing her. She dies wishing she could live, take it easy more, and punish her family.
She can try in the afterlife, but she'll probably be too stupid to even know where to begin.
After reading the story, I feel a kind of disconnect. In the comic, the yukkuri family is monumentally stupid but otherwise seem kind of appealing. In the story, they seem like pretty selfish hateful shitheads.
Has Kiriraitaa ever drawn real rage-inducing trash yukkuris?
Whatever Plat. Anything Kiri draws has been ingrained as rage-inducing at this point. They're all so dumb and annoyingly cute. He's like the Z-aki of moe.
But seriously though, there was the shithead Reimu ko that corrupted the Alice/Patchy family. That one always got to me.
platina said: Has Kiriraitaa ever drawn real rage-inducing trash yukkuris?
- The Reimu in the micorwave story, but that was based on an existing story. - Lemon candy Koyukkuris, the only instance where the trash Yus don't get any comeuppance from him.* - Perhaps the older sister Marisa in the Shell Marisa story? - A few one shots at the very most.
*I keep putting that unofficial followup off, but maybe someone that can understand Japanese from here can convince Kiri to do a followup on that.
I can't believe i missed the summary and the translation notes.
That story is really cool a mixture of fitting consequences and vindicating a bit the joke of "the world hates the yukkuris" by having the rain suspiciously starting again and killing nearly all the yukkuris in the region, like if that was it's answer to the yukkuri's trashtalk.
bluhbluhbluh said: You know, if I didn't know any better I'd say these are almost aespon/cautionary tales meant to teach man-kind about their own foolishness.
At this point the general aesop is probably "You see them Humanity? You have your problems, but you never must be like the Yukkuris! or else. . ."
I sometimes wonder if an alternative to justify the yukkuris non FF existence is that a wizard did it, not for trolling, but to teach humanity aesops by having a 100% flanderized example of every bad aspect of humanity, and have them bounce around doing their shit, so humanity would learn to be better through avoiding to be like the yukkuris. How effective that is remains debatable.
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