History Manga / ACentaursLife

* AncientConspiracy: Antarcticans are suspected of secretly running world governments from the shadows because of their mysterious nature and long history that possibly predates humanity. However according to Sassassul, all these conspiracies are groundless since Antarcticans have only recently been able to establish contact with humanity thanks to the invention of airplanes. While the authorities have been doing their best to ban literature that supports these theories and help Antarcticans adapt into human society, most people still remain be suspicious towards them.
** [[spoiler:The real conspiracy is that the Antarcticans are waging a SecretWar against a parasitic alien invasion.]]

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However, Himeno ''also'' happens to be a centaur. This in itself isn't much of a big deal though, when literally ''everyone else'' on the planet display characteristics that ''might'' mark them as strange if they lived on our world -- like wings, tails, and animal ears.

* PromotionToParent: Manami has pretty much been forced to stand in for her mom in taking care of her younger sisters and looking after the house. [[spoiler:Possibly meant as a [[DeconstructedTrope deconstruction]]; this leads to her literally seeing herself as their mother and presumably contributes to her developing an ElectraComplex on her father.]]

* MissingMom: The absence of Manami's mother is ''very'' noticeable, especially when one considers the size of the family (five girls all told).

However, Himeno ''also'' happens to be a centaur. This in itself isn't much of a big deal though, when literally ''everyone else'' on the planet display characteristics that ''might'' mark them strange if they lived on our world -- like wings, tails, and animal ears.

* BreastExpansion: Probably not intentional and almost certainly not in-universe, but checking out early and latter chapters it's hard not to notice that Hime went from being merely "pretty buxom for a middle-schoolar" to having gag boobs that sometimes appear to be individually larger than her ''head''.

* BuxomIsBetter:

** Amusingly, the merfolk seem to have it inverted. Most merfolk girls have big breasts -- a fact that some of Hime's male classmates were ''very'' interested in during the field trip to the merfolk school -- and they go topless in public unless they have non-merfolk visitors. In chapter 35, two mer-boys are appreciating a gravure magazine featuring swimsuit pics of girls from other races, and get asked by two female classmates why they'd need to look at boobs in a magazine when they see boobs all the time. The boys pretty much imply that they like smaller boobs better, and think that boobs are more special when they're covered. A third girl named Eri appears partway through, and just like that the boys are ignoring the two big-breasted girls to oggle Eri's small chest instead. The boys add the observation that the sense of embarrassment about nudity which Eri learned from growing up in the mountains is more erotic to them than how most of the girls they know who treat toplessness as no big deal.

* GirlishPigtails: How Himeno styles her hair when she goes to school. Turns into MegaTwintails at one point due to how long her hair had become.

* PromotionToParent: Manami has pretty much been forced to stand in for her mom in taking care of her younger sisters and looking after the house. [[spoiler:Possibly meant as a [[DeconstructedTrope deconstruction]]; this leads to her literally seeing herself as their mother and presumably contributes to her developing an [[OedipusComplex Electra complex]] on her father.]]

* PromotionToParent: Manami has pretty much been forced to stand in for her mom in taking care of her younger sisters and looking after the house. [[spoiler:Possibly meant as a [[DeconstructedTrope deconstruction]]; this leads to her literally seeing herself as their mother and presumably contributes to her developing an ElectraComplex on her father.]]

* CallingTheOldManOut: After performing a cleansing ritual on a box and having to (very uncomfortably) ask for a donation, Manami returned home to her father. Out of guilt for having to beg for donations despite feeling like she hadn't actually done anything, she lashed out at her father's work ethic and painting hobby. She laid down an ultimatum and told him to either to quit his day job and be full-time real painter, even if it means her resenting him for it, or quit his painting and work full time to support the family of himself and five children (including Manami herself and the youngest, IllGirl Suetsumu).

* IllGirl: The Class Rep's youngest sister Suetsumu gets tired easily, and sometimes gets a fever if she over-exerts herself. Current medicine has yet to determine [[SoapOperaDisease what's causing it]]. May actually be a DisabilitySuperpower or CursedWithAwesome property because the House Familiar said only Suetsumu can sense her existence.

* SpaceJews: While actual Jews exist in the setting (and have even suffered their own equivalent Holocaust in Europe during WWII at the hands of an [[UnfortunateImplications angelic Hitler]]), the merpeople in Japan incidentally occupy a cultural niche not dissimilar to that of the European Jews in our own world. Their water-dwelling nature made them particularly suitable to trading along rivers and sea-routes in older times, resulting in them becoming stereotyped as rich merchants while simultaneously being reviled as greedy thieves or mistrusted as outsider in land-dweller communities. Furthermore, their very different habitation needs (e.g. the entire town needing to be flooded) mean that even in modern times they're always living apart in their own communities - which are even gated and guarded by the government, much like Jewish communities in some countries, in order to defend the occupants from hate crimes.

* {{Meganekko}}: Hime's mom during her high-school years. Later on Miura, the mermaid class rep during their class' summer trip.

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[[caption-width-right:250:Being a teenaged centaur can be rough sometimes.]]

* RapunzelHair: Himeno's impressive fall of hair.