Audience reviews
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vinnzm
After watching Centaur no Nayami, I had mixed feelings about it.
On one hand, the characters are very lovable, and the artwork is impressive. The show's focus on racism and discrimination was a refreshing take on the anime genre, as I haven't seen this topic brought up before. Additionally, the opening and closing songs of Centaur no Nayami were great. On the other hand, the story felt disjointed and lacked a coherent narrative thread. While I understand that the Slice of Life genre doesn't necessarily require a significant plot or lack thereof, it still felt a bit empty and it was mostly just full of fan service and sexual assault.
Overall, if you're looking for an anime with a meaningful and immersive storyline, this particular anime may not be the best option. However, if you're in th…
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A Centaur's Life is the first Anime I watched in my A-Z Journey, and it's appalling. There is no plot for the entire show, just random spurts of information and lore that nobody could really care for. There were some parts where it was humorous, but then there were parts where the show was humorous because of how horrible it was. It's impossible to relate or care for the characters, or in general, understand the concept of this show. Not even the fan service made it interesting, and that must say something. Personally, it missed the mark by a long shot and I cannot recommend this anime to anyone. I would only make my friend Mulberry watch this to torture him. This anime is torture. I will find whoever made this anime and ask for my time back.
“Talking to Highschool Girls Isn’t Really…
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Centaur no Nayami, also known as A Centaur's Life, is a charming anime that beautifully blends the genres of fantasy and slice of life. Set in a world where supernatural creatures are the norm.
From the very beginning, I was captivated by the unique premise of this anime. The world-building is impressive, presenting a society where extraordinary beings coexist, each with their own distinctive features. The attention to detail in creating these diverse characters is commendable, and it adds a sense of enchantment to the overall narrative.
What truly sets Centaur no Nayami apart is its ability to create a tranquil and light-hearted atmosphere. As a fan of anime, I sometimes crave a break from intense conflicts and action-packed sequences. This anime satisfies that desire perfectly.
I must…
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The essential concept of the show is that instead of evolving into traditional humans, fish evolved into forms of humans that have various animalistic characteristics, whether that be to the effect of having a horse body, goat horns, or even looking like an angel. These people would clearly be different, so the show is set up to explore the whacky hijinks of accommodating for a 1500 pound horse girl AND a 4'11" small demon girl. The unfortunate turn here is that within the first 10 minutes the established cannon goes into detail about how slavery is an engrained part of their history and how there are ultra sensitive anti discrimination laws in place that are HEAVILY enforced to the effect of having to be taken away from your home and sent to a rehabilitation camp for violations. This is n…
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Overall, Centaur is a pretty good Anime to just sit through and enjoy. It did bring more slice of life (and a bit of humor) to the table more than anything else, but I totally don't mind that since I'm a fan of it. But if you don't like slice of life, or if you expected/wanted something entirely else from Centaur no Nayami then I can understand it might not be your thing.
Anyway, the slice of life that is there is pretty entertaining. Not absolutely great or incredibly noteworthy, but definitely fun at the very least. For me, it didn't feel like a chore to sit through at all: it gave me a few laughs and interesting concepts to keep myself busy with. The quality of the art and the sound was decent as well.
The biggest drawback to Centaur no Nayami, at least in my opinion, is that it feels…
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This anime was overall okay. There were things I liked, as well as disliked when it came to this anime. As for the likes, I think the characters were extremely adorable and the art was great. I judge anime on art a lot of the times, and if the art doesn't look good, I won't attempt watching it most of the time. (I understand I miss out on some good anime doing this, I'm trying to get myself out of this habit.) I also liked the opening and ending songs. I found myself listening to them even after I'd already finished the anime, so that's a plus. As for the things I disliked, it was really only one thing, but one of the most important things; the story. I didn't like how it was all over the place, not really carrying on a story at all honestly. It felt like a whole series that was completely…
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Story:
When I found this anime, my first thought was that it would be full of fillers and fan service. To my surprise, only the last episode is a mix of filler and fan service. I just can't imagine why they chose the last episode for that. What a weird way to end!
The story was a very pleasent surprise as well. Evolution is diferente from what we know. Snakes, frogs, cats were the winners of the gennetic lottery on their world. This scenery is used for social criticism. On the background, the anime hints about world politics (antartics, americans, amphibians and oceanoids politics), but, as the story never develops, it stay as a slice of life with social criticism notes.
Art:
I didn't realy like the art. As the artist wanted to have many students, they all become generic and even the main…
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(This review has been adapted from my blog/reddit thread. Spoilers ahead!)
Centaur no Nayami features, coincidentally enough, a centaur as its leading character. Thinking about centaurs got me thinking about horses, and thinking about horses got me thinking about how I’ve never gone horseback riding.
It’s interesting to think about how traveling by that animal hundreds of years ago was the norm. People still do so for fun of course, and horse-drawn carriages are still a thing in bustling cities for those that desire a romantic escape. But riding a horse is no longer a necessity to go out and see the world.
In Centaur no Nayami’s world, if a person there were to ride a centaur, let alone talk about doing so, they could potentially be arrested for disrupting the peace. But, thankfully, no…
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Although the story does focus on racism and equality, there's a lot of sexual harassment and assault depicted in the show between the characters. If you're uncomfortable with gratuitous amounts of fan service, depictions of sexual harassment and assault, I would stay away.
It would be a great anime if those things were not in it. I haven't seen a lot of anime's that tackle social issues like this. Also the different races and how their society is depicted is unique. The art is good and I like the voice actors. I can be very cutesy and slice of life.
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Upon seeing this anime when it was announced in my anime news feed, I immediately think that this anime will be roughly similar to Interviews with Monster Girls or any relaxing plotless show... Well, yeah after watching first few episodes, it does somehow reaches my expectations... but...
Story:
I like the whole idea of the story, but for some reason, It didn't grab my attention after watching the first few episodes... I tried to at least follow the whole episode story but hell, my mind just can't take it. In other words, BORING.
I realised this anime was based on manga, so I can't say for sure the whole anime is shit since I haven't read the manga. Producer's fault I guess huh?
Art:
Not really good... with boring scenes and cheap looking drawings, I just wanted to end every episode as…
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Centaur no Nayami, otherwise known as Centaur's Worries, is a Slice of Life episodic series that follows the everyday activities of Kimihara Himeno and her classmates, exploring topics we deal with on a day-to-day basis such as sexuality, racism, and taking care of a family. These topics are shrouded by a moe art style, allowing viewers to take in a message along with the classic animation they desire.
Story: 6/10
Centaur's Worries takes place in an alternate universe where humans have been some hybrid of supernatural beings such as angels, demons, satyrs, mermaids, and of course, centaurs. Centaur's Worries doesn't have much of a story to follow since it is an episodic series. There are references to past episodes as you follow along, however. Anyways, each episode is split into a Part A…
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In a world saturated with slice of life anime, there has to be something special to make a show stand out. For this one, it’s the fact that everyone is a descendent of the four legged animals instead of our world that descended from the two legged one. Don’t ask me how this all works out, they don’t fully explain how and why most of them look very humanoid with just animal things tacked onto them, it just works out that way in the show.
There are a LOT of characters in this anime and although I would consider three (or four) of them as main characters, they are not always main in the stories that are played out. That’s why going through the characters personalities is really hard to do. There really wasn’t any character I actually did not like which is extremely rare; normally there is a…
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I picked up this anime because I haven't seen a monster girl anime in a while and this was relatively new by the time I started watching. I did not read spoilers and chose it based solely on the picture...a Centaur MC was something I have never seen before.
The first thing that strike me as odd was the amount of Yuri baiting there was in this series. Almost everyone can be paired up with another girl but there is no clear cut answer except for one couple.
I started this series because of the Centaur girl but by episode 2 I was already fed up with her character, it only got worst as the series progress as almost every other character, including one off characters were more interesting than our MC.
Half way through her role diminishes and focus is placed on other characters, I must say I…
Read at the sourceTyrannicswine117
Warning possible Spoilers
After seeing Monster Musume and Interviews with Monster Girls, I was really wondering what this anime would bring to the table, at first I thought it was going to be pretty boring, yet by the end I actually enjoyed it.
Story (8/10)
The story is set in a world where normal humans don't exist, instead evolution has produced many different types of supernatural humans who all have an equal life, we focus on Himeno, a centaur girl along her friends as they live out their school life.
Now the story focuses a lot on the Slice of life genre, we see Himeno, Nozomi and Kyouko doing normal things, like going to school or talking about personal questions so if you're looking for something incredibly interesting to happen then you're in the wrong place, however despite sho…
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I felt like this series was not sure what it wanted to be. I went in expecting just another monstergirl-anime but got a strangely fanserviced social commentary-anime. This show would have, in my opinion, been great if they'd just left the useless fanservice out. There are a lot of great things about this show such as talking about racism and the clashing of cultures, as well as the group psychology of humans and how they tend to form ingroups and outgroups. It also has a nice artstyle and interesting character designs. Some characters are personalitywise more excisting then others though.
However I still couldn't give this show a high rating because it just felt wrong. The oddest scene in this show by far is when three of the main girls talk about what their vagina…
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To be blunt I don't understand what this anime is trying to be or do. An alternate reality with supernatural looking creatures that mostly turn out to be more or less humans with completely non functional random attachments like wings that can't fly, stupidly giant ears on top of their heads, horns that don't even make sense, pointless tails attached halfway up their backs instead of anywhere near the human tailbone which is incidentally also equivalent of where normal real world animals have their tails.
The core element seems to be the "slice of life" snapshot of an alternate reality school, this is also where the few strong points can be found. Some conversations are a bit stiff but mostly it has a good flow going, whenever it doesn't run off with side characters leaving the main cast…
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I read the manga before watching this anime and they took all the most boring parts of the manga and made it into an anime. In the manga the history and racism plays a big part and they did a little bit of that with the world war two stuff, but there was so much more they could have done that I would have loved to see animated. In my opinion the most interesting part they didn't animated and My favorite was the part of the manga when hime gets teleported to the regular world with regular humans, but its in the medieval times and they think shes some kind of demon. I was hoping the whole time watching this that it would show up but never did. Disappointed overall but it showed some good stuff, was a whole lot more slice of life than I expected. if what I explained seems interesting please r…
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Centaur no Nayami is over
It was fine at best
Its one of the many "Monster Girl" anime that came out this year
Along with Interviews with Monster girls, Dragon Maid, ect
This one was more similar to Interviews with its slice of life at school aspect
But Centaur no Nayami has more well thought out lore, history, and evolution in comparision to the real world
The characters are mainly just a vessal in which the world can proceed with
Where there are different hot topic issues with racism between the species
Its just an interesting alligory to what this anime is trying to convey
I give this show a 5 out of 10
its not that good but some of the concepts introducted are very interesting
I would recommend to those whom liked the monster girl anime from earlier this year
This has been your spoiler…
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Do you ever wonder what the hardest thing in this world might be? The answer is to live in it. A title like “Centaur no Nayami” (A Centaur’s Life) sounds intriguing as we take a look at the life of a centaur. For a show like this, it really brings out some unique dynamics. It succeeds at crafting a show that captures the elements of slice of life while adding touches of fantasy and also some other unexpected surprises.
Before we get to the what, who, how, or why, it’s important to understand that the anime isn’t a full adaptation of the manga. The manga is actually ongoing and this anime only has 12 episodes. What does that mean? It basically means that the anime has the kit of delivering its ideas but not covering everything. However, it doesn’t need to either because this series has en…
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Centaur's Worries is one of the most unique shows to come out in a while. It's a CGDCT show that has just as much focus on social commentary as it does on cute girls. It can go from calm and peaceful, to scenes that hint at the more dark underpinnings of the world. It's uniquely itself and that's something that I can appreciate.
In a medium that seems more and more focused on being polished and pretty, Centaur's Worries is exceedingly minimalistic. The production values are weak and there is very little that is added in sound or animation that really makes it shine. In fact, the only sound quality that they really have is budget sound samples that feel massively outdated. They frequently forgo background music and just have the characters speaking. When they do include background music i…
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