Because the amount of words a yukkuri can understand is limited, there's a lot of incidents where the owners pets are lost in transit. On top of the reparations for losing the pets and then losing the customers as well, the movers have come up with a "substitute yukkuri" program.
Because it is difficult to tell the difference between the yukkuris and the expressions they make, and the amount of reactions they (yukkuris) have is very limited, so there are no worries.
... This stretches credibility, for me. Owners usually get to know their pets. She may not figure it out immediately, but I find it hard to believe she wouldn't eventually notice that it wasn't quite the same as her Reimu; although if it was due to differences in behavior -- rather than the slight differences in appearance yukkuris of the same type are sometimes shown to have -- she might initially write it off as stress... but after a while, she'd have to get suspicious.
It doesn't help much for the missing Reimu right now, but in the long run, it's going to be bad for the movers -- they're trading in reparations for missing yukkuris for a lawsuit over fraud.
The translation for the explanation is a bit rough, but they mentioned that the difference in yukkuri behavior and features are so hard to differentiate that the movers don't worry about owners noticing.
...from all that I've seen, I'd think it'd be INCREDIBLY obvious for an owner to realize that their pet has been replaced.
with all the trouble and effort owners go through to discipline their yukkuris, it would be pretty obvious and easy for the owner to tell their original trusting pet from a replacement.
Replacement yukkuri is not a stretch of the imagination. What is though are the government yukkuri cleaners. I mean really, how hard is it to catch a yukkrui? How much tax payer money is wasted is something I don't want to think about.
Given all the images where they're pretty easily found and disposed of? Not hard. It's more like trash disposal. There's gonna be hordes of gutter trash and wild yukkuris around the city, and you don't want those there. They look disgusting, create hygiene hazards and damage human properties. Tax dollars well hard at work.
If they are really the pests you make them out to be, the smart thing to do is to make yukkuri capturing a community service. Also water soluble creatures would never become a nuisance as the planet is 3/4 covered with water.
In the first place, it's impossible to pin down behavioral models for something that doesn't exist in the first place. The author explains her reasoning and explains why it works in her setting. If you're going to say it won't work, you need to offer a good reason why it won't work in the author's universe instead of "no it wouldn't".
Seeing how the people in the comic seem to LOVE their job, I'd imagine you wouldn't have to pay them much (if at all) to get them to go around and clean up yukkuris. Not to mention with how easy it is to catch yukkuris, I imagine this could very easily just be a part time job. This could also just be animal control doing their jobs, who knows.
Secondly, it's the movers that are at fault. The cleaners call the number on the badge to confirm whether or not the owner's missing a Reimu, the owner says no, so the cleaners will assume this Reimu's lying. Plus, just because the planet is 3/4 covered with water doesn't mean yukkuris don't have a place to hide when it rains. I will also say that even if not all yukkuris are pests, they are still strays in the city, and that's always a problem with them rummaging through trash and dirtying up the place.
Part of it is that because I am a faggot who likes cute things, I wanted a happy ending where the yukkuri finds her master again so I'm just raging at that.
I know logic and Yukkuri do not keep good company, but it stretches my disbelief related to yukkuris/human pets to say they can be easily replaced like that.
Okay, I like yukkuri abuse and bad ends as much as the next anon, but I truly wanted this to be a happy end, and this is not happy end as much as the artist wants to pass it off as one. I mean, the Marisa didn't get to become a dosu, the Reimu didn't get reunited with her owner, and the owner got fooled by a replacement yukkuri that doesn't even realize what's going on and is now lucky enough to be treated like the original Reimu. In my imagination, it's going to get abandoned real soon when Miss realizes that it's not her Reimu.
NECRO! This story is inherently flawed! IF they go through all of the trouble to find and kill little Reimu, why not just find her and bring her back? So now they have to find the yukkuri and replace it? Its unnecessary waste!
Fragtagonal, the guys in black weren't with the movers apparently. they worked for the the gov/factory(whatever) as pest control for stray yukkuri. they called the owner but by then the miss had already gotten her replacement from the movers and the pest control guys probably thought that reimu must have found the badge laying around somewhere.
Frankly I don't see why the movers send a replacement yukkuri. The Reimu was not there, they should not feel liable to buy a new well trained yukkuri for a fault that was not their own, but instead miss's for leaving the door open.
hellopie said: Frankly I don't see why the movers send a replacement yukkuri. The Reimu was not there, they should not feel liable to buy a new well trained yukkuri for a fault that was not their own, but instead miss's for leaving the door open.
The miss probably told them, you know, so they would take care of it during the move and to prevent a misunderstanding and the movers going "damn a little shit got inside, kill it!".
Also the fault is mainly of the Reimu for not listening, the door open was probably for the movers to get inside and take the stuff, maybe it was meant to be unlocked but the wind opened it, and believe me, considering all the weird things that happens in the yukkuri world just to screw with them wind opening a unlocked door is believeable. If Reimu had listened, nothing would had happened, and she was aware of that, it wasn't a case of "poor yukkuri it can't understand!" she actually was intelligent enough to realize how she screwed up when she was left behind.
JusticeItEasy said: The miss probably told them, you know, so they would take care of it during the move and to prevent a misunderstanding and the movers going "damn a little shit got inside, kill it!".
Also the fault is mainly of the Reimu for not listening, the door open was probably for the movers to get inside and take the stuff, maybe it was meant to be unlocked but the wind opened it, and believe me, considering all the weird things that happens in the yukkuri world just to screw with them wind opening a unlocked door is believeable. If Reimu had listened, nothing would had happened, and she was aware of that, it wasn't a case of "poor yukkuri it can't understand!" she actually was intelligent enough to realize how she screwed up when she was left behind.
she was a little kid, maybe a bit stupid, but altogether pretty nice. sad end all the same.
dexter said: Ishe was a little kid, maybe a bit stupid, but altogether pretty nice. sad end all the same.
Of course, nobody said she was a bad kid, but that doesn't mean she wasn't in fault for not listening, this is like those stories about the kids not listening to the parents and then being eaten by the big bad wolf or something for going to the place the parents said they shouldn't because it's dangerous. Pretty Sad, but one can't take away the blame of the kids for not listening, it's even part of the aesop usually.
JusticeItEasy said: The miss probably told them, you know, so they would take care of it during the move and to prevent a misunderstanding and the movers going "damn a little shit got inside, kill it!".
Here I am not arguing for little Reimu in any case, but wondering as to why the movers pay for replacements for faults not of their own. Be it Reimu's curiosity or Miss's mishaps(if it was her fault), the yukkuri was simply not in the house. Now if the movers had accidentally killed it, or had neglected to assure that they had her (I am assuming it's not their fault as when Reimu was leaving, she didn't notice anything missing from the house and the Moving truck was not outside the complex.) then I could see the want for a replacement.
hellopie said: Here I am not arguing for little Reimu in any case, but wondering as to why the movers pay for replacements for faults not of their own. Be it Reimu's curiosity or Miss's mishaps(if it was her fault), the yukkuri was simply not in the house. Now if the movers had accidentally killed it, or had neglected to assure that they had her (I am assuming it's not their fault as when Reimu was leaving, she didn't notice anything missing from the house and the Moving truck was not outside the complex.) then I could see the want for a replacement.
Because the customer could easily assume that the movers didn't take care of their pets and any "there was no yu when we got there" or "it ran away" could be seen as excuses by the movers.
So as a way to avoid losing the customer or even being sue'd the company remplaces the yukkuri with a new one, considering the prices of moving and stuff, it may not be such a big loss, specially for such a typical yukkuri like a koreimu.
In a way, it happens in real life, if some item is missing from the moving, and you were sure such item was prepared to be moved, you may blame the movers, even if something else happened, you will first asume the movers screwed up, and so the movers get many problems.
So to avoid aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall the problems, the movers remplace the missing yu with a similar one, this way, there won't be any wrong accusation against their company, lost od credibility and commercial prestige, and avoiding any lawsuit against them for mishanding someone's pet/posession.
I don't think it's so much as a 'perfect' replacement; The owner knows that his yukkuri is missing, but he gets a new one, free. And really, there's not that much of a difference between one Reimu or another; As long as Miss gets a pet, and a well-behaved one, she's not particularly worried or concerned.
*sorry for the late reply but better late than never, right?* post #15251
She was killed, It was pretty much implied that as a stray she would be killed (the only saving grace being that she proves she's a pet, which she failed.), but that page pretty much confirms it with that "Die Easy".
I don't think it's so much as a 'perfect' replacement; The owner knows that his yukkuri is missing, but he gets a new one, free. And really, there's not that much of a difference between one Reimu or another; As long as Miss gets a pet, and a well-behaved one, she's not particularly worried or concerned.
You've never had a pet you really love.
Sorry, but like Nezumi said: This stretches the credibility. The movers forget to take the koyukkuri with them, along with the miss anon, who leaves her pet behind. You know, lovers can tell when their other is cheating on them. That slight change in personality is enough to alert them. You can notice when something is wrong with your pet -- they act differently. It's part of the canon I'll never be able to accept: when a gutter trash steals a badge, sneaks into anon's home and replaces their pet. You're telling me anon is not going to notice their pet suddenly acting VERY differently? I've always thought that that was a -terrible- plot mechanic.
Anyway, poor Reimu. The dear did nothing wrong, and poor Marisa, who tried her best to get her to her miss human. It's a shame it didn't work out (though almost nothing ever does in the yuniverse for yukkuri).