Back to Gas's Profile Gas's Profile

These are just my thoughts on the manga, so please take them with a grain of salt. Also the things that seem spoiler-ish in this review are things that you find out at the very beginning of the manga anyway.

I just got up to chapter 67 of this manga, and I have to say, that it is a fun ride. You will find that the main character of this manga, Sotomura Natsuki, to be very kind-hearted, pure, girlish, and naive, and even with all of these traits no one is willing to be her friend until she meets her first friend, Haruno.

What I ... love about this manga is seeing Haruno stick with Sotomura-san. The friendship of these two really touches you, and you find yourself cheering the two of them on. That kind of friendship is very rare and hard to find, especially for Sotomura-san.

Besides that touching friendship, the gags are funny and entertaining. The gags basically all about the same few things, but the twists that are always being thrown into the mix makes the gags fresh and funny most of the time.

The one type of gag that I don't really like, even if it is funny most of the time, is how the people around her, besides Haruno, are constantly misunderstand Sotomura-san even with all of the evidence pointing to the fact that she is basically an angel. It is depressing that very few people are actually willing to try to understand her.

Even if it would be the end of the manga, I just want people to understand Sotomura-san, because it all just makes me start hating everyone in the manga besides Sotomura-san, Haruno, and the very few people who have come around and accept Sotomura-san for who she is and not for who she appears to be.

In short, this is a very entertaining manga and I do encourage you to give it a try. However, if you do then please be wary of the fact that if you pay too much attention to the fact that people are constantly unwilling to understand Sotomura-san, the gags that rely on the premise will loose their funniness very quickly. Even without the funniness, the content just makes you root for Sotomura-san and makes you wish the very best for her.

To the characters:
Don't lose hope Sotomura-san!! Please stay friends with her, Haruno!! Please, everyone, wake up!!!

I just finished reading up to chapter 52 of Centaur no Nayami, and I have to say that I enjoyed this manga very much. It is a slice-of-life, with lots of cuteness, a little mild drama, and just a few political undertones. This all makes the manga very "life-like", even with all of the characters being various species of monsters (the characters themselves consider all of the monster species to be "human"). Like most slice-of-life series, there is no big, cohesive story, but the characters are where the manga really shines.

Like I said, all of the characters make this manga stand out from the ... crowd in both the slice-of-life and monster-girl genres. The vast majority of the characters have had their chances to stand in the spotlight and get their stories told. There is a large number of back-stories told and it really fleshes out this manga and really helps you understand the characters. Cute kindergartners to crusty, old guys and even people's ancestors all have something to contribute and it fleshes out the world that the characters live in. Besides, all of the little kids in this series are so cute and adorable!!! I just want to give the little kids lots of hugs and pet their heads!!!

For those political undertones I mentioned at the beginning, it mostly has to deal with the issue of discrimination. The characters themselves are very aware of this problem and they even remind each other about various laws concerning discrimination. Some kids wonder at the issue, and some adults reminisce about their own struggles and fights to make the world a better place. For the characters the issue is very serious and the questions and problems they talk about are real.

There are some parts of this series that would normally be considered ecchi, such as girls comparing themselves to each other, exposed breasts and other such things, but when taken in context it is not actually lewd or perverted. It is just the way people normally behave.

To wrap things up, I would highly recommend this manga to anyone wanting to read a cute, entertaining read. The world the characters live in is amazingly fleshed out and the characters are fairly easy to sympathize with in one way or another. It is a bit off of the beaten path, but well worth the time and you will not think you have wasted it at all. Have fun and cheers!