I recently picked up the first four volumes of the lovely Flying Witch manga by Chihiro Ishizuka, and that’s given me a bit of a reference point to muse on anime adaptations.
I was really looking forward to the adaptation of A Centaur’s Life only to be disappointed by how… pedestrian it was. With essentially one exception[1] it was a straight up case of next chapter, next half episode. Given how… scattered the manga for A Centaur’s Life can be sometimes this essentially replicated and magnified the faults of the series. Continue reading