While perhaps the most competent animation to come out of this studio yet, that's really not saying much.
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The thing with Centaur's Worries is that its' narrative is a bit odd in how its doled out, in that it isn't always a perfectly straightforward A to B sort of affair, but one that bounces from vaginas to aliens to medieval warfare to social commentary and so on. This is hardly anything that would be impossible to adapt to anime, but it would require some basic competence to pull off. Most in the industry could do that. But unfortunately, as previous Chinese co-productions involving Haoliners Animation League have demonstrated, "basic competence" isn't quite their forte. And while they may have upped their animation efforts for this outing (likely due to having more time/better freelancers on staff) from poor to mediocre, direction and composition didn't enjoy the same upgrades. Tonal shifts that are pulled off with debatable success in the manga become a mess of wild emotional inconsistencies in the anime that left viewers utterly puzzled as to how any of it all fit together, as online feedback indicated. The lackluster direction lead to viewers simply feeling that events unfolded without meaning or any real purpose, merely odd slices of narratives whose only connection was typically featuring the same cast. There was no sense of cohesion.

I'd argue that the same isn't true of the manga, even if it's certainly not perfect, which renders this a poor adaptation. But worse than that, this also makes Centaur's Worries just not a good show regardless of the source material. Were it not adapting a manga I've read I don't know I would have bothered sticking with it.

There's a problem in the Japanese anime industry that's received some coverage, but really deserves more attention: There are only so many animators in Japan and thus they can only make so much anime at once. Chinese co-productions like this are perhaps in part a response to that issue, as you could presumably make more anime if you no longer limit yourself to the animators in just Japan. But the results we've seen thus far don't make that a particularly inspiring solution. (This, of course, is certainly not the only reason for these Chinese co-productions, but that's a bigger matter for another time.)