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Look at Wriggle!

>> No.3407691

Honey I Shrunk the Touhou®

>> No.3407715
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>>3407691

More like Wriggle summoned forth a great god of the umdergrowth to protect her from larger predatory arthropods.

>> No.3407721

>>3407715
Hum. I'm kind of glad there aren't more frightening touhou hybrids like scorpions and wasps and stuff. A praying mantis one might be cute, though.

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>>3407721

There's a frightening lack of insect youkai. Not even sure if Wriggle has any traditional counterpart.

Plenty of variations of spider youkai, though.

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>>3407743
If I recall, there's this one youkai that is pretty much a woman with scorpion claws for hands, and some sort of beaked lobster that cuts mosquito nets. Arachnid and decapod, though, not insect.

But then there's Okiku, ghost of a maid who is said to sometimes manifest as a swarm of beetles.

The worst is that fuckhuge spider Raiko killed, though, and we already have Yamame.

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>>3407743
She looks like a Hunter.

Also, any of these will do. But really, there are certain creatures I will never look at with moefied eyes.

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>>3407715
Isn't it sad, not being on the top of the food chain?

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>>3407761

This one?
Amikiri, mosquito net cutter.

>> No.3407801

>>>/c/1132685

>> No.3407808

>>3407801
I should hang out in /c/ more. They look GoodGirl® image dumps instead of the slutty ones of /jp/

>> No.3407824

>>3407800
Yeah. There were also a pair of ants, one red and one black, which was a bad omen I think but I need to go find the full story since it's been a while before I took a look at that one.

Gathering information on youkai is a bitch when you don't know Japanese. Guess I'll have to bite the bullet and learn eventually.

>> No.3407838

>>3407824
Or we could go on a Japanese island expedition and find out first hand.

>> No.3407849

>>3407808
And janitors don't delete your picture on /c/ if there is a tiny nipple in it.

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>>3407824
Seems like this is it, can't find an English resource though.

>> No.3407900

The only way Wriggles makes it out of the bottom of the food chain is if ZUN creates a plankton-chan.

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>>3407900
Not unlike ladybugs and starfish, fireflies can be surprisingly violent predators. Wish I had the picture of one of them entering a snail's shell to rip the animal out, though that might've been a related insect and not a firefly larva.

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>>3407873

There's a similar theme running with two crabs, likewise one red and one black, bringing an omen of bad weather.

>> No.3407934

>>3407801
Goddamnit, I hate moralfags in every fucking thread there.

>> No.3407936

>>3407924
What sort of evolutionary degenerate is this.

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>>3407936
Guess it wants to be the little trilobite.

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>>3407936

That looks to be a glowworm, a female firefly.

>> No.3407975

>>3407953
A larval one actually, but then in many insect groups the females are overfed fat fucks that you can't really tell them apart from the larvae.

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>>3407943

Wonder how on earth those guys ended up extinct - can't have been much evolutionary pressure on them. Can't imagine any predator that'd want to eat something looking like that.

Of course, unless the predator in question looks a whole lot worse.

>> No.3408007

>>3407987
Of course there was selective pressure on them both via predation and by niche competition.

By the way, Anomalocaris never hunted that trilobite species. Anomalocaris went extinct in the early Cambrian period and that trilobite is from the Devonian period (around 150 million years later).

>> No.3408011

>>3407987
Late Devonian extinction event. Most likely with land plants growing huge the nutrient balance of water went apeshit and anything that couldn't keep up (pretty much all corals and trilobites plus many ammonites and fish) died off. Trilobites took a hit so bad that they couldn't recover.

>> No.3408035

>>3408011
Poor placoderms. ;_;

>> No.3408049

>>3407687
A kamen rider??

>> No.3408051

>>3408035
Are we talking about the same swimming tank engine with eyeballs made of bone and spiny armor all over?

Though I guess a placoderm loli would be great against rapists. No entry is possible.

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>>3408007
>>3408011

Going to take your word for that since I've never been clear on that period in time. Mostly just fascinated with all the bizarre animals from that era.
It would seem nature went crazy for a bit. But then again it usually is.

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>>3408051
Not all of them were like that. Dunkleosteus was a 10 m long superpredator for example.

>> No.3408087

>>3408056
Nature didn't really go crazy. It's just that the animals from that time period are dissimilar to modern ones.

If you are interested on the topic you could always read popular science books on the topic.

>> No.3408085

>>3408079
That's a swimming tank engine alright. One with a snapping turtle head.

>> No.3408094

>>3408087
Modern life - isn't it sad?

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>>3408094
Not at all. Modern life has a hydrozoan that can reverse its life cycle. That is, it goes from adult to infant and back at will.

While not as cool as the chainsaw shark, that's pretty awesome.

>> No.3408116

>>3408103
Well, ignoring interesting abilities, I think what I like about pre-historic creatures are there size compared to modern ones. Not to say that today can't provide such interest either (/blog/ On a walk in the woods in the netherlands today I randomly came across a pretty massive 14 satellite array in the middle of the forest. How inspiring~)

>> No.3408163

I just wanted a Wriggle thread...

>> No.3408238

>>3408116
The blue whale is the biggest animal that ever lived and it's alive today. The reason we don't have many large land animals is that humans drove most of them extinct around 10000 years ago.

>> No.3408245

>>3408238
I'm aware, but that is one, and it's...in the ocean. I'm sure some sleeping enormous sea based / flight capable monster is inside Mariana's Trench and is awaiting awakening.

>> No.3408249

>>3408245
Read Koontz's the Phantoms, huh?

>> No.3408254

>>3408245
Elephants are pretty big and they're still around.

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>>3408249
No, what's that about?

>>3408254
Not big enough!

>> No.3408278

>>3408261
It's about a hypothetical lifeform that could have ended the dinosaurs, that lives in deep ocean where its metabolism slows. It only comes out in long intervals to take its next meal, which results in mass disappearances. A mass as large as a lake that doesn't leave noticeable fossils due to its liquid nature, it has a bizarre cellular structure (essentially sparse cells with a lot of flexible connective tissue within) that allows it to enter tight spaces and generally be a lake-sized amoeba.

Oh, it also shapeshifts, is intelligent, and thinks it is Satan.

>> No.3408288

>>3408278
I was interested until you mentioned the liquid and amoeba-ness of it.

I just want to live in the world of Shadow of the Colossus. Is it so much to ask?

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I love bugs!

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The gym leader's a boy, right?

>> No.3408325

>>3408320
Yes.

>> No.3408339

>>3408320
And I see his metapod is using harden.

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>>3408320
Bugsy is kind of a trap, I guess

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>> No.3408393

>>3408300
>>3408320
>>3408365
My shotacon increased by +3

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>>3408386

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>>3408325
Stop that! Bugsy is a girl! She is the cutest girl in the Pokemon world. ;_;

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/r/ing doujin with Bugsy "studying" Wriggle

>> No.3408428

>>3408419
Does it exist?

>> No.3408439

>>3408428
We wish.

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