Role reversal is right. Until I looked at the whole sequence, I assumed it was just an asshole Marisa, as has become the trend lately (which I'm far from pleased about), and I felt sorry for the Yuka-type. Then I looked back, and the Reimu looks to be uncharacteristically mean as well. Clearly the author is just playing favorites here, writing propaganda designed to draw sympathies to the Yuka-type.
Most if not all Yuka type yukkuris are passive though. The only thing you ever seeing them doing is caring for flowers, except for that one bodied one who plays awesome guitar.
^This. And by "role reversal" I meant "compared to their human versions". Nothing changes here, really. Yukkurisa is usually a selfish asshole, Yukkureimu is a retarded breeder, while YukkuYuka only wants to take care of her flowers. See post #2102 or post #2607.
Come to think of it, you're right, I can't actually recall any time when a Yukakkuri was mean. I must have just been thinking of her as bad by proxy due to her association with the real Yuka.
Reimu and Marisa's bad qualities are still being grossly exaggerated here, though.
I don't see reimu as being mean since she heard only from marisa, and being the bean brain they are she sided with marisa and said things other reimus would have said. Marisa though selfish and lazy would get the food herself.
Is this Marisa a really bad Marisa? It had forgotten about the race it was holding and re-focused its efforts on the children. Unable to remember there was a race going-on, it was also unable to comprehend why the Yuka was hording the grass away from the babies (probably really uncommon social behavior for yukkuri). Then, of course, the Yuka also got it mad. However, after that, everything it did was the stereotypical, and exactly what we hold against yukkuri-kind. When she runs out of ignorance excuses, she is the most at fault.
The Reimu was kept in the dark for the most part. Known as terrible situational learners, it heard an explanation of the Yuka from the Marisa and could only conclude what the Marisa said. At that time, the Marisa was angry and they pegged the Yuka as a yukkuri who couldn't take it easy. As far as I've seen, there's no defense against that and it is hard to convince otherwise. As far as the ending went, while I question the distance in that section of the yard inhibiting sight or sound, I doubt the Reimu even knew what the Marisa had done or had fed her.
The Yuka was acting selfish. That is the typical act by which many yukkuri internal conflicts begin - one yukkuri demands something that the other will not do or give and does not cite an "easier cause" (like feeding babies). Some times, even that doesn't work. If anything, you do have to admit that the Yuka yukkuri is a very non-yukkuri creature in its behavior. Remember the credo: "All yukkuri are selfish jerks because all the nice ones were killed [by the selfish jerks]."
The humanoid protagonist is not entirely without fault either. It is unknown whether we can attribute her attempt at challenging the yukkuri because of a lack of knowledge or naivete, or perhaps this is all fourth-wall knowledge, but she should have seen even just an inkling of the failure that was coming. if not from the very beginning, then from the part where she was shooed-off by the Marisa.
^^^^ You speak of Reimu believing Marisa's words about Yuka... Did I miss that part or something?
The Reimu-Marisa pair breeds. Reimu needs more food. Marisa goes to get more food... from Yuka. >BTW, they seem to have gotten some food from cat-ears miss, and Reimu-Marisa used it too fast because of the babies. I'm not quite sure why doesn't the Marisa demand a share of Yuka's food instead of her plants. Yuka doesn't yield. They fight to the death.
There's no part with Marisa telling Reimu about Yuka. We don't even see Reimu's reaction to Marisa bringing "the food". As far as we know she may panic at the sight of murderer-cannibal Marisa. Or something more ballanced like "I guess there's no point wasting good bean paste, but in the future, don't go and brutally murder our neighbours, dear."
Reimu not noticing the fight that happened just a couple meters away, can be explained, in a way... she was watching her children, and Yukkuri are single-minded like that. And Yukkuri senses don't seem to be very good anyways.
It seemed to me that the cat-ears miss that arranged the contest, was planning to watch the Yukkuri and would pressumably stop it the moment the failure become evident (eg. right after the Reimu and Marisa eat the plants they were supposed to watch), but she was unexpectedly called to her real job post #3258
I was just wondering, has the community as a whole just become some hate-filled entity that refuses to post anything other than yukkuri abuse, or is this just some dry spot for normal yukkuri pics?
>>You speak of Reimu believing Marisa's words about Yuka... Did I miss that part or something? It happens off-screen, but is referenced in parts of the first and the second comic.
post #3254, end Marisa: Can't yukkuri! Reimu: What's happened? Narrator: Yukkuri is explaining. post #3255, start Marisa: So Yuka is not an easy yukkuri! Reimu: Oh~