English Dub Review: A Centaur’s Life “There Are As Many Names of Flowers… As There Are People, But That’s Totally a Lie! | There Are As Many Types of Beauty As There Are People, Which Is Probably True If Used in a Broad Sense?”

Kid adventures.

Overview (Spoilers Below):

Both segments this time featured the younger kids and their perceptions of the world. On a walk, Shino learns about flowers and their names from Himeno, passes that information along to her kouhai at her kindergarten. A lot of that knowledge isn’t taught in schools and is rather passed down through word of mouth.

On the other hand is the Mitama family, where the triplets have to take care of Sue. Sue is still young, and still weak, so she has a lot to learn from her older siblings. They discuss how clothing works with their animalistic features in an effort to help Sue with learning how to put on clothes by herself. The triplets, after a tiny argument with Mitama, try to find out who could be prettier than their sister. In the end, they can’t find any faults with Sue’s argument, and reluctantly accept their sister as being the most beautiful in their eyes.

Our Take:

As Shino tells the younger children, when they grow up, it’s their job to pass the information down to their siblings and kouhai. Even if it’s a small thing, it can bring people some happiness in the day today. It was also a good episode in showing how kids learn things. They’re too young to understand scientific concepts, but they try to break it down into images that they can understand. It’s impossible to understand species names that young, but the kids reason how flowers can all be different by comparing them to blocks. Their fascination makes it easy to remember all this new information, and they steel themselves to pass it on one day.

The triplets act like know-it-alls, but they’re not as knowledgeable as they think. They try to show Sue how to better use her tail by twisting it into shapes, but they don’t realize that Sue can’t-do what they can because of her shorter tail. They find their sister to be pretty, but don’t want to admit it and give her a big head. They’re stubborn and spend most of the episode looking at the older girls that they know and comparing them to their sister. Compared to Shino, who recalls and recites things, the triplets take a more direct approach and go seek out the information themselves. Both are different and valid ways that children learn, and this episode managed to highlight both without invalidating the other.