What resonated with you in the finale? Any moments you’d rewrite if you could?
The Centaur—half-man, half-horse—is often read as a symbol of wild nature tamed by human reason. But in Shimizuan’s reinterpretation, the Centaur is the saddle’s nightmare made flesh . The Centaur cannot dismount. He is permanently imprisoned in the riding position, his human torso fused to equine body. Every centaur myth ends in tragedy (Chiron’s incurable wound, Nessus’s poisoned blood) precisely because fusion without release is a form of living death. The saddle aspires to create a centaur; the reality is two beings trapped in one motion.