Himeno is a sweet, shy little centaur girl. In her world, everyone seems to be a supernatural creature, and all her classmates have some kind of horns, wings, tails, halos, or other visible supernatural body part. Despite their supernatural elements, Himeno and her best friends, Nozomi and Kyoko, have a fun and mostly normal daily school life!
Kimihara Himeno, called Hime by her friends and family, is just a normal high-school girl… who also happens to be a centaur! With best friends like dragon-winged Nozomi, goat-horned Kyoko, a class president with angel wings, not to mention schoolmates of various different speices, things are bound to get interesting… Love is in the air, as Hime’s younger cousin, Shino-chan, receieves a lesson in kissing etiquitte. Meanwhile, during a class trip to a merfolk high school, it’s Kyoko and Nozomi who get some unexpected romantic attention!
Himeno is a sweet, shy girl, who like many teens her age, struggles with the trials and tribulations of attending high school. The difference is she’s a centaur; but she’s not alone. In fact, all of her classmates are supernatural creatures, sporting either horns, wings, tails, halos, or some other unearthly body appendage. Yet despite their fantastical natures, Himeno and her best friends―the dragon-winged Nozomi, and Kyoko with her spiraled horns―are down-to-earth, fun-loving teenagers who grapple with issues of life and love in a mostly normal daily school setting.
Hime and her classmates receive the shock of their lives when they meet the new slithery transfer student! Hime is forced to face an old phobia, while the new snake girl tries her best to fit in. Later, a visit with Hime’s grandparents reveals some interesting family history. Welcome to A Centaur’s Life!
Even though Hime and her friends live in an enlightened era where equality among all sentient creatures rules the day, there are harsh reminders that things weren’t always this way. As the girls struggle with their plans for the future, Shino-chan learns important lesson about empathy for a creature smaller than herself. A Centaur’s Life continues!
Hime and her friends meet an amphibian figure from the world of business. Meanwhile, they try to solve the mystery of a paranormal peeper! False gods interrupt a festival ceremony. Later, a shared dream only leads to more questions.
Centaur girl Hime and her adorable cousin Shino, along with their catfolk, angelfolk, and other friends, pose the following question: are the legendary weretigers truly extinct? In the meantime, a battle of the home-makers ensues, while some serious father-daughter time is in order. Plus: mysterious aliens have arrived!
Hime, Kyoko, and Nozomi shadow Suu while she is out on a date, and happen to run into some other classmates out on a date as well. We learn more tales of Hime’s ancestors, and the class prez frets about child-rearing, all in Volume 8!
Everybody’s favorite frilly-aproned and curly-horned magical girl is back–“Magical Girl Pretty Horn”! Meanwhile, Hime’s adoring young admirer Ayaka-chan returns, and is more pondered about the armpit feathers of dinosaur-folk. Then, Hime and Shino-chan are summoned into an alternate dimension! All this and more in volume nine of A Centaur’s Life!
It’s Double Antarctican Trouble when Suu-chan’s younger sister makes her debut appearnce among the snakefolk. Meanwhile, the merfolk girls ponder the merits of modern fashion, and Hime looks for a way to get herself and Shino-chan home in volume 10 of A Centaur’s Life!
It’s the start of a new year at Shin Kanata High School! Himeno and her friends are returning to familiar territory, but for their adorable underlings, it’s completely new ground. The president is followed around by a draconid named Karasuba-san and one of the catfolk, Inuki-san, while Ayaka the centaur continues her long-standing admiration of Hime. Both old friends and new unite in the latest installment of A Centaur’s Life!
The members of the Occult Club have their hands full of supernatural mysteries and new recruits! While Mitama scrambles to balance her many responsibilities, Shino-chan learns that even grown-ups don’t have all the answers. And what’s this about Nil-chan’s big debut…as an idol?!!
Things get complicated in the Mitama household, while the Amphibianfolk war rages on elsewhere. Suu and Hime take an unusual trip together, and Karasuba takes an interest in someone other than Manami… What happens when you take a world populate by centaurs and other mythical creatures, and add a healthy helping of intrigue and drama?
The girls take a lighthearted field trip to an onsen, but elsewhere in the world, things are getting complicated! The Amphibianfolk’s war is taking on some surprising turns, and while business may be booming at the Mitama shrine, it’s all due to the looming threat of a kaiju. Global events are starting to hit closer to home in Volume 14 of A Centaur’s Life!
Himeno’s world is full of all kinds of creatures, from angelfolk to dog people to centaurs like herself. But the various races don’t always get along, as proven when a terrorist group takes over Shin Kanata High School! If Himeno and her classmates are to escape, they will have to put aside their differences and work together…
The war is over and there is finally peace between the mammalian humans and the Amphibianfolk. But now the two very different cultures must learn to live together. Back in Japan, Himeno and the other girls enjoy a bit of a break and explore the mysterious Mitama Shrine.
When Kanoko asked Akemi to keep an eye out for a special mushroom—it’s said to make a person kind if they drink from a bowl containing it—Akemi didn’t think anything more of it. But these are no ordinary fungi. A mysterious conspiracy begins to unfold in the charming, everyday world of A Centaur’s Life.
Sports Day comes to Shin Kanata High School! Himeno’s centaur body offers both advantages and challenges, but Himeno is determined to succeed…even if it means wearing a boy’s uniform! The other students show off their own abilities as well. Meanwhile, the Tutulitele Universal Alliance Central Committee takes up a petition from the Meameateles for political rights—a move that could dramatically transform this entire society.
Sports Day comes to Shin Kanata High School! Himeno’s centaur body offers both advantages and challenges, but Himeno is determined to succeed…even if it means wearing a boy’s uniform! The other students show off their own abilities as well. Meanwhile, the Tutulitele Universal Alliance Central Committee takes up a petition from the Meameateles for political rights—a move that could dramatically transform this entire society.
Life is full of journeys for Himeno and her friends. A trip to Science City leads to a mysterious train ride through the mountains. Then there’s the class trip to the ancient floating city of Kyoto. Meanwhile, it’s time to start thinking about what to do after high school—a journey none of them are quite ready to take!
Himeno and her classmates return from their class trip and learn what their families were doing while they were gone. Meanwhile, a gang war heats up between the Amphibianfolk and the mammalian races, and the Chi-chans transform themselves into cats. Enjoy Volume 20 of this charming manga celebrating the daily lives of a host of non-human characters!
As graduation and life after high school creeps ever closer, Himeno and her friends discuss such heady topics as consciousness and identity, artificial intelligence, and whether to choose a career out of practicality or pleasure. This volume also takes a deep dive into the history and culture of Amphibianfolk. A Centaur’s Life, now with an anime adaptation, is a long-running, hugely popular exploration of non-human society!