I never mentioned this before but I find it slightly disturbing that the Komarisa or any koyukkuri are able to speech despite no being born yet. It's like if a pregnant woman's unborn child started talking all of a sudden.
BTW, Is anyone able to speak Japanese and ask if who's the artist of this and several other similar drawn pictures?
Doesn't seem that weird or creepy to me. Think of it more like how marsupials do it; the actual birth part is when the ko appears on the stalk and reaches a certain size. Any time spent on the stalk after that is similar to time spent in the pouch for marsupials, giving them time to grow and develop and learn a bit about the world while they're (relatively) safe and fed on the stalk.
Well if you put it that way it appears less weird/creepy now.
starshine said: while they're (relatively) safe and fed on the stalk.
Discounting Yukkuri's intelligent and proneness towards danger, stalk based pregnancy isn't safe. The offspring is not protect from any or all outside forces (i.e the elements, predators, accidents). Mammalian based pregnancy at least provides some protections for them, sadly Yukkuri inherited soft bodies mean it's only a tiny step up compared to stalk based reproducing.
Gothic_Togekiss said: Discounting Yukkuri's intelligent and proneness towards danger, stalk based pregnancy isn't safe. The offspring is not protect from any or all outside forces (i.e the elements, predators, accidents).
Its safer from the perspective of providing a koyukkuri with experience with the outside world. Stalk-kos get that time where they can see/hear the outside world and learn about it before actually falling off the stalk and having to handle their own movement and feeding (even if its just "crawl to/from nest and get food into mouth").
Even if stalk-kos only open their eyes and are actually conscious a day or two at most before dropping, that's still quite the head start.
Mammalian-birth kos just get plopped into the world. They've seen nothing and anything they've heard is garbled, muffled and 90% their mother. Who being a yukkuri isn't going to be playing "Baby Patchouli" tapes or giving a commentary of Things Little Ones Need To Know.
And sure there's paste-inherited memories (if you go for those), but that's probably just a dim feeling; nothing compared to personal experience.
The whole interpretation's based on my personal yukkuri fanon, though.
FunkSoulBrother said: I hate it when these Stalk-babies excrete.
It doesn't really make much sense, does it? The stalk system should mean that the mother is sending them direct nutrients while the waste product stays in her body.
Trololo said: It doesn't really make much sense, does it? The stalk system should mean that the mother is sending them direct nutrients while the waste product stays in her body.
It also makes me imagine them pooing/peeing in their mothers' face (like it should have in the center panel in this case).
Mister caterpillar, become little one's nourishment easy!
Munch-munch, happiness!
Marisa, thank [you]...Such a gallant face, just like Marisa's. Reimu will protect little one, no matter what!Mwommie'j bean pashte can chake it eajy--nishe and warm, je..."Connected Mawicha"