When I joined the Yukkuri fandom, one thing I noticed was that there wasn't really a well established or widely agreed upon list of really good works. Sure, everybody says "Read everything by Kiriraitaa and Takumi", but what comes after that? Sorting by score/favcount is absolutely useless for finding stories thanks to the low usercount of this place (it's kinda useful for finding individual pictures though). The closest thing I've come to a "sort by quality" option on this website is sorting the pools by post count, which don't get me wrong, almost every high post pool on this site is decent to great. But it misses out on a lot of great smaller stories. And don't get me fucking started on trying to find the best text-only fanfics. With that in mind, and to help newbies to this place (cause god knows the Yukkuri fanbase is on life support), I've thought about starting a list of what's considered the best/most recommended Yukkuri works.
I've found two websites (blog.livedoor.jp/yukkuriplace_anko blog.livedoor.jp/yukkuri_anko) that has a list of its 20 most favorite Yukkuri stories. I mostly agree with them, and think they would be great starting points for this list of our own. Here's what they have in no particular order, other than the same artists being grouped together:
[Kiriraitaa] True Happiness
http://yukkuri.shii.org/pools/440
[Kiriraitaa] How to Increase Yukkuri's Happiness
http://yukkuri.shii.org/pools/926
[Kiriraitaa] Shell
http://yukkuri.shii.org/pools/868
[Kiriraitaa] Common Crying Yukkuri
http://yukkuri.shii.org/pools/693
[Kiriraitaa] House Yu
http://yukkuri.shii.org/pools/604
[Kiriraitaa] Between Studies
http://yukkuri.shii.org/pools/124
[Yuudoro] High Grade Pet Shop Reimu
http://yukkuri.shii.org/pools/112
[Yuudoro] Stalk Amputation
http://yukkuri.shii.org/pools/183
[No.36] Yun Donuts
http://yukkuri.shii.org/pools/176
[No.36] Crispy and Tender Maricha
http://yukkuri.shii.org/pools/973
[Machiyu Aki] Back Alley Beating
http://yukkuri.shii.org/pools/125
[Machiyu Aki] Yugyaku Education
http://yukkuri.shii.org/pools/184
[Oppai] Room Filled with Happiness for the Little Ones
http://yukkuri.shii.org/pools/1142
[Ame Aki] Yukkuri's House
http://yukkuri.shii.org/pools/138
[Yukkuri Jenga] Kotatsu Invasion
http://yukkuri.shii.org/pools/1121
[Mecha Aki] A Marisa Diary
http://yukkuri.shii.org/pools/97
[Tenpura Aki] Argue it Easy
http://yukkuri.shii.org/pools/333
[Stake Guy] I don't even know what pool this one is
http://blog.livedoor.jp/yukkuriplace_anko/archives/6939908.html
[avr-18g] Finding a New Home
http://yukkuri.shii.org/pools/307
[36dc] Factory Field Trip
http://yukkuri.shii.org/pools/237
[Suzume Aki] Human Extermination
http://yukkuri.shii.org/pools/424
[Ea Aki] Reimu and Mommy's Clothes
http://yukkuri.shii.org/pools/259
[Aquarium Guy] Yukkurarium Family
http://yukkuri.shii.org/pools/158
Sim Yukkuri
http://yukkuri.shii.org/forum_topics/6286
https://mega.nz/#!ZYIgTQgA!kEIWmtXyxBHmpG8hhWynreKZzMroaQdtuWFpLilvpeU
[D.O] Anko 0467 (Domesticated Yukkuri Reimu)
http://yukkuri.shii.org/pools/1141
[Zenra Aki] Anko 1160
http://yukkuri.shii.org/pools/568
[Gesu Aki] Yukkuris in Town
http://yukkuri.shii.org/pools/313
[Yohaku Aki] Forest of Death
http://yukkuri.shii.org/pools/189
[Kimo Aki] Little Stray Marisa
http://yukkuri.shii.org/pools/182
Of course, if you like one artist's work or artstyle, feel free to explore the rest of their library.
This certainly isn't the be-all-end-all of good Yukkuri stories; there's a handful of stories on this list that in my opinion aren't great, it's excluding a few of of the better works from certain artists in lieu of not-as-great works (for example, I think [Kiriraitaa] The Baby Marisa and the Shelled Marisa (http://yukkuri.shii.org/pools/294) is one of the best works from Kiriraitaa), and it's missing Takumi and Big.g entirely, who are pretty much the only artists with good artstyles still active in 2017. Like I said though, it's just a starting point, made to be amended and added to.
Personally I would add:
[Kuyagiyu] Yugyakuri
http://yukkuri.shii.org/pools/1449
[Machiyu Aki] Abyuse Counselling
http://yukkuri.shii.org/pools/226
[000] Removal of Marisa's Accessory
http://yukkuri.shii.org/pools/1
[Ammo] Yukkuri Family from the City
http://yukkuri.shii.org/pools/155
[Conjoh] Yu
http://yukkuri.shii.org/pools/1104
And if we're including games like that one list with SimYukkuri:
Eight Views of Yukkuri
http://yukkuri.shii.org/forum_topics/8629
https://ux.getuploader.com/ennji/
Yukkuri Diary
http://yukkuri.shii.org/forum_topics/10096
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.gr.java_conf.sakatasnow.YukkuriDiary
If you're looking for more stuff, looking at anything under the "Translated" tag is pretty reliable, since it means it was so good somebody took the effort to hard-translate it. This usually skews far more towards older works though since the new method to translate is soft-translating via notes.
As a side note: a lot of these pool names don't even begin to resemble the actual Japanese names of the stories. We should probably fix this.
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