Why was she such a bitch in HM?

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>>16712468

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch?

used spats

Who gives the more slippery paizuri? Nitori or Wocka Flocka?

I am a Jew but I wouldn't even get close to Nitori. I'd rather hang out with a cool 2hu like Yuukarin.

Why was she such a bitch in SA?

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>>16712551
Nitori

>>16713009
That looks like some kind of snafu to steal my shirikodama and crush my testes

She seems to be kind of a bitch in all written works, son.

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>>16713042
Nitori is a shy kappa by nature, and if she is alone and sees a human, she'll run away, like in Mountain of Faith. She considers herself to be superior to humans and even other youkai, and when she's by herself it's easy to see. However, when among her own circle of friends, she is quite cheerful. As a kappa, she is easily persuaded to leave you alone by a cucumber or two. However, she has a greedy side when it comes to running a stand and is quick to come up with plots to maximize profit.

Is she /ourjew/?

ZUN intended for her to be someone who was nice and shy at first impressions but more aggressive and mean when you get to know her true side.

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Kappatalism ho!

>>16712468
Nitori is a jerk, but she's still shy. And cautious. She only screws with people if she knows them well enough to think she can get away with it.

In MoF she wasn't too familiar with humans, and was wary about making enemies of Reimu and Marisa. So instead she tried to butter them up (poorly) and get them to fight Moriya Shrine for her. When Reimu gets distracted, Nitori says that humans are worthless and she should have just asked the tengu instead.
At the time, most of the fanbase thought Nitori was just shy, but the jerkishness behind her actions is a lot easier to see in retrospect. Someone from Tasofro even commented to this effect in an interview on HM.

In SA she's constantly getting Marisa into fights and calling her an idiot. Then when she realizes Yuugi can hear her, she starts falling over herself trying to be polite and suck up to her (because Yuugi is a scary ex-boss who could theoretically come out of retirement at any time).

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>>16713182
So just like girls in real life

>>16713009
BAPS

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Kappaboob

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>>16712468
I always found it amusing that ZUN decided to throw out:
-Water Dish head / hairless region
-Actual shell/ Beak
-Webbed digits or any aquatic features
-Crazily Polite

But kept:
-Can kill you by stealing your soul-holding anus orb

>>16712468
ZUN decided destroy her character by using the SUPER SECRETLY SHE WAS EVIL ALL ALONG

>>16716335
You may as well throw out everything bout Youkai then.

>>16716335
I don't think he threw those traits out so much as reinterpreted them
They're never really seen without their hats on, so you wouldn't be able to tell what's under them anyway.
Their backpacks are clearly meant to evoke the image of a shell on their backs, and could easily be used to conceal them. Alternatively, they could be explained as what the kappa have always had, and humans just interpreted them as shells.
As for the beaks and webbed digits, no other 2hu besides Waggysaggy go quite that far in terms of non-human features beyond their ears or the presence of wings, so it's silly to single the kappa out for lacking them.

>>16716380
She was always an asshole behind a "nice" facade, which is like an actual Kappa

>>16712468
>>16716380
See, I could understand people being upset that she acts like one of the kappa from "Kappa" by Ryuunosuke Akutagawa, and acts candid with her friends.

Except that 'Ryuunosuke Akutagawa's "Kappa" ~ Candid Friend' are THE FIRST WORDS ON THE SCREEN when you fight her.

>Synopsis of "Kappa"
>A psychiatric patient has lost his way and arrives at the country of Kappa. He is treated as a special guest and talks with Kappas of many occupations. Geeru, a radical capitalist, states that the unemployed labourers are killed by gas and their flesh is provided for food. The patient is astonished, but Geeru argues that because the poorest women survive by prostitution, the patient's opposition is sentimental. Kappa's national characteristics are materialism and nihilistic realism. The babies of Kappa control their destiny. While in the womb, the fetus can refuse life as a Kappa and be aborted. The Maggu, a philosopher writes aphorism, "The words of fool" one of which says that "a fool always considers others fools". The Tokku, the sceptical poet Kappa committed suicide and appears as a ghost by necromancy through the person of Madan Hobbu. Tokku is concerned about his fame after his death, although he admires the writers and philosophers who died by suicide, such as Heinrich von Kleist and Otto Weininger also esteems Michel de Montaigne who justified voluntary death but dislikes Arthur Schopenhauer, pessimist who had not committed suicide. As the patient returns to the real world, he muses that Kappa was clean and superior to human society and becomes a misanthrope.

>>16718413
>Revealingly, the bulk of Kappa’s satire was reserved for diverse themes related to capitalism and the predicament of the proletariat. The most important representative of the capitalist class was the Kappa Gael, called “the capitalist to end all capitalists.” (81) In not very flattering terms, the narrator says of him that “not even in this land of fat paunches was there one that sagged and bellied out quite as disgustingly as Gael’s.” (81) He lives in the utmost luxury, using golden spoons, and dwelling in a residence where every room, and even the furniture, is gold-rimmed. (86-87) Ironically described as a cordial fellow at first, it soon will become clear that this Kappa is a businessman of the most ruthless sort.
>Gael gives the narrator introductions to various factories. In those he is faced with the rapidly proceeding automation that is taking place in Kappaland. Each month, for example, as much as seven or eight hundred new kinds of machines are being invented. (82-83) This clearly is an allusion to the booming mass production and consumption that characterized 1920s Japan. An interesting and thought-provoking case of mass production in Kappaland is the way books are manufactured. All that is needed, it is said, is paper, ink and a grey-looking powder, which is soon revealed to be shirikodama. These ingredients are poured into a funnel-mouthed machine, to be, in only a few seconds, “ejected as octavos, duodecimos, royal octavos and so on.” (82) It is left to the reader’s imagination what the quality and intellectual level of these books made up of ‘ass-brain’ must have been.
>The political world does not escape Akutagawa’s satire either. Not only are politicians in Kappaland not honest, but they are not even expected to be. The narrator points to the untruthfulness of a “distinguished statesman’s” public utterances, but is silenced by the dubious rhetoric of Gael the capitalist: “[E]veryone realizes that they are lies, so, in the end, it no doubt boils down to the same thing as the truth.” (87) The politicians, however, are not at the core of the problem, as they appear to be mere puppets whose strings are ultimately pulled by capitalists, or, more precisely, the wives of capitalists. The power hierarchy in Kappaland is most unusual. The Cabinet, we learn, is controlled by a “socialist” newspaper. However – and this is the purest irony – this “socialist” newspaper is itself also under the control of Gael, the biggest capitalist in the country. (87-88) In short, political parties and the press are just marionettes in the hands of capitalists, used to exert power over the working class. To emphasize their instrumentality, the names of political parties and newspapers consist of mere interjections with no meaning.

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>>16716208
>>16716313
>>16713009
>>16712551
More Nititties.

>>16718413
>>16719147
Anon, you're implying we actually read Akutagawa.

We barely read, period.

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Spooky. Right after I opened this thread a Kappa episode came on The History Channel. Gotta love the Kappa warning signs at lakes.