(L+CR) Centaur no Nayami (A Centaur's Life)

[SeaDoor]

This is an interesting series so far. The main stories are mostly benign but around the edges are some pretty dark things. Beginning to appear that this society's achievement of equality was made through adopting totalitarian control over it's population.

[Wandering Soul]

Originally Posted by Random Wanderer

Actually, did you see that sign at the top of the steps as the students were heading towards the school? The anime didn't translate it, but the official release of the manga did, and it's relevant here.

Spoiler:

WARNING. Littering is against the law. Violators will be shot on sight.

Spoiler for response:

That along with the law about instantly arresting anyone caught riding a centaur hints that this series has a really authoritarian government. The world surrounding those girls seems darker than you would expect from a series like this.

[chaos_animagic]

Originally Posted by Wandering Soul

Spoiler for response:

That along with the law about instantly arresting anyone caught riding a centaur hints that this series has a really authoritarian government. The world surrounding those girls seems darker than you would expect from a series like this.

yea, this series' world have a lot of issues.

Spoiler:

I read the manga, and this series pretty much is a realization of all the issues our world have but is still there in this series' world. (this series' world's history is almost parallel of our world's history)

this series started out as light and comedic, but as the series continues, it gets darker and darker.

IE: This is not a "chill anime" but rather "educational/historic anime"

also one of the reason this series' title is called "Centaur's Worries"

Also, is it weird to be having centaur fantasies after seeing Hime in her cute model dresses and magazine pics?

[Gan_HOPE326]

Originally Posted by Random Wanderer

Actually, did you see that sign at the top of the steps as the students were heading towards the school? The anime didn't translate it, but the official release of the manga did, and it's relevant here.

Spoiler:

WARNING. Littering is against the law. Violators will be shot on sight.

Wait, isn't it that way already in Japan ?

[ScrewySquirrel]

Originally Posted by chaos_animagic

yea, this series' world have a lot of issues.

Spoiler:

I read the manga, and this series pretty much is a realization of all the issues our world have but is still there in this series' world. (this series' world's history is almost parallel of our world's history)

this series started out as light and comedic, but as the series continues, it gets darker and darker.

IE: This is not a "chill anime" but rather "educational/historic anime"

also one of the reason this series' title is called "Centaur's Worries"

Also, is it weird to be having centaur fantasies after seeing Hime in her cute model dresses and magazine pics?

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[Stark700]

Episode 3:

This show is adorable especially this episode. Kids these days just say the darnest things. I mean, those triplets teasing about "kissing" and not understanding what it really means.

The way this episode also showed how kids can behave at home is also charming to see as they aren't humans yet possesses very human-like behavior. (I'm referring to the triplets again)

[Proto]

It's pretty depressing that the life-work balance ideal is enough of a contentious topic to make it into a social critique series. Gogo USA/Japan

[James Rye]

I liked the head-glasses the dad had due his ears being on his head and not on its sides like it usually is with humans. Same with the car of the auntie which had centaur seats. Also looks like the education or "brain-washing" to belief in equality and democracy over everything starts with a young age already, a fable about a knight turning a kingdom into a democracy, a magical girl show about democracy and how even that can be "warped" if it means suppressing the minority, which would have made more sense if they had shown the mermaid girl in glass who simply can't play dodgeball which is why they came up with water dodgeball as resolution for that episode. Bet that show is financial supported by the government.

Tama-chan's a real mommy already for her little siblings, it's adorable to watch. Reminds me of the many times I had to take care of my littlest brother, it was the same headache with cooking and playing and worrying why it got so quiet while you were doing your homework.^^

I wish they would make the city a bit more lively with background characters, but I guess they made a call and cut with their budget. Well, what they made so far is fine and captures the essence of Centaur no Nayami very well.

[HandofFate]

is the dark haired centaur the sister on the father's side of nayami?

[DracoS]

There some intresting stuff going off with the genetic in this show, it seem at least some of the races can breed with each other and create children, who take off after one parent or the other.

So in this episode what we got was:

Dad = cat, orange hair
Mum = angel, presumed white haired

Older daughter = angel, white hair
Triplets = cat, orange hair
Younger daughter = angel, white hair

While we have a fairly limited sample to work with, there doesn't seem to be any womb or gender bias in which race comes out. More weirdly there isn't any bleed of traits or true hybrids going off, which is way diffrent to how it happans with diffrent human ethnicities. Instead it seems a gene, lets call it the "angel gene" gets switched on and that switches all the other genes like wings and even hair colour.

I wonder if there any throwback kids who turn a diffrent race to both mum and dad or other unexpected traits poping up? I also suspect there might be birh complications with little centaur girls born to none centaur mothers, due to general weight issues.

[Random Wanderer]

Originally Posted by DracoS

There some intresting stuff going off with the genetic in this show, it seem at least some of the races can breed with each other and create children, who take off after one parent or the other.

So in this episode what we got was:

Dad = cat, orange hair
Mum = angel, presumed white haired

Older daughter = angel, white hair
Triplets = cat, orange hair
Younger daughter = angel, white hair

While we have a fairly limited sample to work with, there doesn't seem to be any womb or gender bias in which race comes out. More weirdly there isn't any bleed of traits or true hybrids going off, which is way diffrent to how it happans with diffrent human ethnicities. Instead it seems a gene, lets call it the "angel gene" gets switched on and that switches all the other genes like wings and even hair colour.

I wonder if there any throwback kids who turn a diffrent race to both mum and dad or other unexpected traits poping up? I also suspect there might be birh complications with little centaur girls born to none centaur mothers, due to general weight issues.

Um, actually Sue-chan is an Angel-catgirl, so that answers just about everything you were talking about right there.

In regards to genetics there were some post-chapter extras in the mid 30s that talked about how stuff like that worked.

Spoiler for not really a spoiler, since I'm sure the anime won't discuss it, just... talky:

The basic explanation was that there are genes that determine traits (wings, horns, tail, hooves, etc.) and there are completely different genes that determine race. The race genes override the trait genes, so if someone has the angelfolk race gene, for example, then the only trait genes that will be active will be the ones for angelfolk: wings and halo. Even if they have genes for horns or or cat ears or tails or whatever else, those will not be active and the child won't be born with them.

This leads to the question of what about Sue-chan, or others like her that we might see? In their case their race-determining genes did not activate properly, so all of the trait genes they had manifested. And yes, it is entirely possible for children to manifest traits from neither parent due to dormant traits carried in the bloodline. There is a special note that DNA testing is easily available to all parents and that they should avail themselves of it before making charges of infidelity in such cases. There have even been cases of children manifesting traits from three or more races, apparently.

[DracoS]

I feel a newbie for not noticing the ears now

That neatly explains why she got a senstive system through.

[Blueknight78]

wow i really liked the second part of this episode, about "family" and how is more important to put family over "business" which goes against "japanese drone mindset" where work is above all and parents are supposed to leave they kids alone to grow in loners with almost no love due to missing connection with family, this for me is really big issue, i really liked how the angel easy declined the concol atempts to make her "ignore her sisters responsability" because this is what society was expectating from then since it they "real world"(a really crap real world honestly speaking based on the lack of freedom they have with all that political correctness and others craps so far), i really like some of the themes of this serie and how it's play with that things showing some of the "ugly sides" of society.

[Master_Yoma]

Finely the 3 Chi's and Shino Manami really knows how to handle her sisters grabing all 3 at once even using her toes

That some magic steam there

[BWTraveller]

I liked the fairy story. And then the prince returned to his homeland, wrote up a constitution and lived a democratic lifestyle with the former princess. Don't think I ever read that one... But then, I was twice that kid's age before I even had an inkling of what a constitution was or why one would want a democracy over a monarchy, or what difference existed between a president's daughter and a princess. Sadly, there are indeed people who try to force kids to learn things long before they could possibly understand them.

[Darthtabby]

Originally Posted by Random Wanderer

Um, actually Sue-chan is an Angel-catgirl, so that answers just about everything you were talking about right there.

I hadn't noticed Sue had animal ears until someone pointed it out. I'd just assumed that Class Rep was adopted/had step siblings or something like that.

[alex_drian]

mmm centaur lolis, just just where my life went wrong?

[chaos_animagic]

Originally Posted by alex_drian

mmm centaur lolis, just just where my life went wrong?

Anything as a Loli is Awesome.

Also... adding more to my fantasies I guess...

[James Rye]

Originally Posted by alex_drian

mmm centaur lolis, just just where my life went wrong?

Isn't it more like
centaur = negative
loli = negative
=> centaur x loli = positive? So you basically went wrong twice and got a correct turn in life anyway.

[BWTraveller]

New episode was rather interesting. Started with the manga prologue, which really didn't seem all that interesting to me but oh well. I noticed that a major government leader was completely axed because of a "verbal slip". Yet another thing that at first sounds far-fetched but sadly doesn't seem all that impossible these days.