Centaur no Nayami - Vol. 7 Ch. 42

[MangaDex]

 

[BlackIrelia]

What the fuck is going on? Where are the cute horse kids lol

 

[Pachka84]

Lol. So obsessed with blonde hair that when she creates a black female character she gives her straight blonde hair.

 

[Dunslax]

wtf...

 

[evergreen_oak]

suddenly, an alien invasion story? lol
I mean it isn't bad, just came outta nowhere

 

[Glomoro]

You've heard of My Neighbor Totoro, now get ready for My Neighbor Terminator

 

[orochijes]

Centaur Obama murdered the bankers.

 

[qwcan]

What the fuck. I want whatever the mangaka was on when they wrote this chapter.

 

[gronkle]

I'm desperately trying to understand the meaning behind this but I am out of ideas. Is this satire? If so, of what exactly?

 

[flannan]

I'm desperately trying to understand the meaning behind this but I am out of ideas. Is this satire? If so, of what exactly?

wtf...

What the fuck is going on? Where are the cute horse kids lol

I am pretty sure this chapter is a reference to some Western sci-fi movie, but I am not familiar enough with them to tell you which exact movie it references.
The plot is that an ordinary rural american village is being taken over by fungus aliens, who are either replacing or infecting the populace. Fortunately, mysterious robot guy comes to the rescue. The movie ends with surviving kid and the robot guy riding off into the sunset, presumably to keep fighting aliens for longer.
Also, everybody who isn't a fungal alien turns out to be nicer than they seemed. Both the salesman and the smiley big guy.

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On the whole, there seem to be two shadowy forces operating behind the scene in this setting:

One, antarctians, share the general personality and flaws of Sassasul. In particular, they have a hard time telling fiction from reality, and often attempt to influence humans by bringing myths to life, as if it was cheap sci-fi, and humans were primitives. They aren't particularly malevolent, and tend to ally with the weak and oppressed.

The other is fungus aliens. We don't know much about them, but they certainly seem to be much less friendly than antarctians.

It is not clear what is their relationship, but Sassasul's flashbacks show Antarctians either dissecting or assembling a fungal alien.

It is also not clear if the shadowy forces are real, or just their universe's sci-fi, conspiracy theories and so on. As the volumes progress (and I get more worried about the author's mental health), they seem to intersect more with slice-of-life characters.

 

[DjAlexDubCheck]

I am pretty sure this chapter is a reference to some Western sci-fi movie, but I am not familiar enough with them to tell you which exact movie it references.
The plot is that an ordinary rural american village is being taken over by fungus aliens, who are either replacing or infecting the populace.

This sounds like Don Siegel's Body Snatchers and its remakes; there was no robot guy in there tho,
so it might be some kind of 80s rip-off