Translated the non-yukkuri part of the pool. Gotta say while this is indeed quite a moving happy story, I can't help but wonder how desperate an idol manager would have to be to recruit seemingly random yukkuri off the streets.
atelieryuuma said:
I wonder Mohawk gonna kill her or turn her into bodie yukkuri idol
Nah, it's either dead, or wish it was the case instead.
The plant appears to be fish mint, which has a distinct fishy and "spicy" (more similar to wasabi than pepper) taste. In traditional herbal medicine, it is also a diuretic i.e. medicine that induces pee production, which might be why Maricha here is peeing uncontrollably.
Isn't it a bit too fast? I noticed that some artists did use the same trick as this, but they always give them about 3 hours for more until the paste stops flowing, like this or this. If they can only get 10 minutes before the paste ceases to flow, how can they sleep?
Also, thanks for translating this, mister Reno.
Anon actually questioned that as well, stating that not moving for 10 minutes is a pretty common occurrence for yukkuri. The work itself does not seem to offer additional information or possible explanation, though personally I think it might be either due to yukkuri's ability to make their thought concerning themselves reality (placebo effect or, in this context, nocebo effect) effectively freezing them to death due to fear of any movement causing them pain, or that the stick prevents normal paste circulation, either due to physical obstructions or that the pain causes minute unconscious movement (akin to human heartbeat) stopping as well.
They are dead, but I don't know why the adults die, the kid maybe because of the crash from falling.
The kids died because anon yeeted them too high and thus killed them when they landed. As for the adults, basically anon shoved a stick inside them in a way that while their core paste did not get penetrated (not killing them instantly), most movements they do (basically posture other than what they are in) will cause them pain due to it. As such, in an attempt to avoid pain, they stopped moving drastically or doing stretch-stretch, which resulted in them dying due to lack of paste circulation within 10 minutes.
"Gỏi cuốn". Holy shiet, no wonder I find it familiar, it's my country's famous appetizer/snack, didn't expect the author to know that.
More information about the dish, the sauce is salty while the dish is not sweet, so yeah, this dish is not very fitting for a yukkuri (still good though).
If you ever travel to my country, I suggest you should taste this dish once, it's ubiquitous and the taste is amazing.
To be fair, this Reimu in particular seems to be able to eat most things (as she used to be compost, according to her), just that she happens to be picky about very particular things like cilantro (which I concur), pineapple (only when in sweet-and-sour pork), apple and lemon juice (on fried chicken).
Also, can confirm that Vietnamese spring roll is real delicious (except the cilantro), especially if you dip it with nước chấm.
It's a bag of food-grade yukkuri ($5 USD a bag with ~30 yukkuri) preserved with silica gel-like ramune substance that keep them pacified for later use, as shown by the previous pictures.
Are there any particular issues with placing lemon over karaage?
It's pretty much a preference thing. I for one really don't like people squeezing lemon juice on my fried chicken, and my mind is pretty much the same as Reimu here if someone decided to do so on my food without asking.
It's easy to understand why yukkuri is a big threat to forest, they consume large food a day, kill bugs and destroy various plants.
At the same time, their poop is also literally food, and it doesn't seem to be something non-yukkuri found repulsive, so they can also serve as living (?) fertilising agents in the ecosystem too. Not to mention more often than not, they're located at the barrel bottom of any food chains they're in.
I tried my best to decipher the writing, but there're probably errors, especially the slurred yukkuri speech. Please excuse me for only transcribing them without translating.
These are my two cents but aren't the existence of wild yukkuri a biological interaction, namely both predation and amensalism? For those of you who don't know, amensalism is an interaction where an organism inflicts harm to another organism without any costs or benefits received by itself, in layman's term, amensalism is an organism whose normal life affects other species without it's knowing it. Yukkuris are both predators (to insects and plants) and prey (to other predator species), but in their average life, giving birth and taking it easy are their sole purpose, and how can they achieve that? Eating, of course. Throughout their lives, they are constantly and relentlessly pumping out their little anko bag, but it's their raison d'être, they didn't mean it, they cannot do anything else, like some other creatures, like ocean sunfish, who is very slow and prone to death, so in order to preserve their genes, they will lay up to 300,000,000 eggs per times, which is the highest number in the animal kingdom. But most of the time those eggs just... get eaten or die due to other factors. Yukkuri is very much identical to this fish, in that they are weak, so weak that they have no choice but to give birth as many times as possible to not let the yukkuri species extinct. However, yukkuris are much more greedy than other things, as most of the time they aren't eating to sate the hunger, they eat just for fun and to "take it easy", thus leading to this scenario when an average clan of wild yukkuri, no, no need to go that far, a couple of two yukkuri can annihilate any forest if you give them enough time to do so, and guess what, roughly about 3 or 4 months that you can say goodbye to the forest. One more quirk that makes them dangerous is that yukkuri are almost not suffering from inbreeding, so they can go incest with little to no drawbacks, and if there is a downside, which usually is retard, then this is much much more dangerous, yeah sure retard are usually not be able to produce, but their desire to eat is much bigger than a normal yukkuri (which is already high and almost endless), so they can keep eating, eating and eating, till there is nothing left for them to eat, after that, they will go cannibalism, and just like this pool, leave a party for insects like flies. Yeah, they do not mean it, but they are living catastrophes.
To be honest, it isn't that much different from some of the more (in)famous invasive species that exists in real life, like cane toad and rabbit in Australia, imported fire ants in US and several other places, and cat in... well, everywhere, really.
For established ecosystems, though, usually, species within the system has achieved some sort of equilibrium with others, with the explosive breeders tend to be eaten by predators as fast as they breed to maintain a more-or-less stable population. In the case of yukkuri, they used to be depicted as something magical and only appeared in our world relatively recently, so that might contribute to their depiction as an ecological disaster - of course, it also makes them less sympathetic and more satisfying to abyuse.
If we apply logic and time to them as another part of the ecosystem, though, eventually they would cease to be such (if they didn't destroy the system first), as their number get culled by predators and natural death to a more sustainable level. In fact, considering how often yukkuri is shown to be at the barrel bottom of and food chain they're in, it's surprising that there aren't many works showing how they get eaten by non-human animals.
On a similar vein, in some canon, yukkuri also serve as some form of super-decomposer, being able to turn many things (even those wholly inorganic in extreme cases) into paste that, while not necessarily salivating, can still be utilised as nutrition by other beings. In that case, they would still contribute to the environment they live in, by fertilising plants and feeding animals with themselves (usually unwillingly, but poo-poo is usually shown to be no different from paste for non-yukkuri).
The thing is that since nobody translated what the human says, we really don't know if he didn't know anything about pet yukkuris, was just a good samaritan (but not some freako yu lover) that tried to help her, saw her being a shithead, threw her out for a bit and decided later to test if it's possible to teach her out of that state with tough love.
Would be really nice to have anon's lines translated but we have to do with what we have.
Done, from the look of it, he doesn't realise that he got a squatting yu problem in his place, and the squatters know better than to make their presence known, either by surviving long enough (which might also explain their smaller and more sustainable number) or have witnessed something traumatising when other home invaders present themselves.
Woah, thank you for translating this mister Yuno, so basically because she's so shithead and delusional that even her parents are fed up with her, they abandoned it. Don't really get what anon & mohawk saying, but I bet that anon is angry because she's entitled and mohawk just wants to mess with her.
Translated the non-yukkuri lines. Basically, she was a shithead who want to get hydrated and succeed in getting its mother to go out at night (and implied to have died because of that). Without any surviving parents to take care of it, it has to go around in the park under summer sun for water, only to find an anon who pokes its eye in and fed it sand, and a mohawk, being summoned by the god of abuse (abyuser sense?) to torment it by drinking a (crappy) coke before its eyes, leading to her to die in dehydration, heat and despair at the end.
this doesn't look like the end right? I'm hoping she survives, someone finds her and takes care of her.
He's dropping her with the box from a bridge overlooking a river, so given how yukkuri durability is usually depicted, if the fall doesn't kill her, the river probably will. The artist's other works also tend not to have a happy ending for yukkuri either, unfortunately.
boom said:
Ooof. I'd suggest a Komachi, but I'm guessing those are rare enough to be outside of this guy's price range, too. Paring Reimu with a demure partner (a silver-badged Alice, maybe?) would have probably kept her preoccupied.
In all honesty, a guy who sees having pets as a means to an end probably shouldn't have any.
Yes, but as established, that guy has zero interest in yukkuri outside using it as a common topic with an affluent client who's really into them, so odds are he simply googled "yukkuri pet" and pick the first search result. Unfortunately, I don't think having a rare type or even a gold-badged would change much apart from the expense, given that yukkuri in general need social needs where he will provide exactly zero.
It would be pretty funny if his client ever knows how he treats his yukkuri, though.
Of course, but the point is: why did konpo specifically placed those words accompanied by music notes in the panels where Reimu is sent flying? My guess is that it's a reference to a popular (in Japan and/or to konpo's generation) song.
Gotta say his granny must've accumulated some really bad karma to be reincarnated into a yukkuri, even if the artist stated that the setting is "mostly FF".
Don't get the whole pool but based on some of Maricha's dialogues and the pics, I believe that her father and mother are all dead, leaving behind her and her younger sister. Maricha has no choice but to go and beg humans for food/be a pet. Humans, of course, have no intention to help her, saying that they might do it if she eats her hat (that's why she said "Hat is not food"). After she finishes eating the hat, she's shouting "Be sure to keep your promise" (or something like that), but she realizes that no one was there. Now she fucked up, not only can't help her family, but also her hat is no longer here but becoming a shit she just excretes out.
She got run over 5 minutes later, so at least she doesn't last long as a yukkuri without accessory. I guess her little shish is also screwed by extension.