And Yet The Town Moves
2010 • Shaft
- Format
- TV
- Aired
- 2010
- Episodes
- 12
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Shaft · Pony Canyon · TBS · Movic
- Genres
- Comedy · Slice of Life
Hotori Arashiyama loves mysteries, but there's one she just can't solve: why does the solution to one problem inevitably seem to lead to another? Like how when Hotori has to start working at the Seaside Maid Cafe after school to pay off a debt and her friend Toshiko fortunately knows exactly how a Maid Cafe should be run. Which is fortunate since Hotori has no clue. Except that, unfortunately, Toshiko has no interest in working at the cafe - until she discovers that Hotori's childhood friend Hiroyuki is a regular. Which SEEMS fortunate. Except that Hotori doesn't know that, while Toshiko likes Hiroyuki, Hiroyuki secretly likes Hotori, while Hotori secretly has a crush on... No, no more spoilers!
But if that's not enough drama, there's work, angst with a certain math teacher, table tennis between her classmates, her younger brother versus the school's bad girl... And yet, even though everything seems like it's going to crash at any moment, somehow Hotori's life keeps going hilariously forward.
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And Yet The Town Moves, known in Japan as Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru, was produced by the studio Shaft and directed by Akiyuki Shinbo. Released in 2010, the series adapts the long-running manga by Masakazu Ishiguro, focusing on the daily life of a clumsy high school girl working in a traditional maid cafe in a quiet neighborhood. The project emerged during a period when Shaft was heavily defining its distinct visual identity, characterized by surreal framing, vibrant color palettes, and experimental typography.
The animation reflects Ishiguro’s slice-of-life storytelling, which balances mundane charm with unexpected genre shifts ranging from comedy to light mystery. The creative team aimed to maintain the loose, expressive quality of the original panels while utilizing the studio’s signature stylistic flourishes. Upon its release, the series was well-regarded by critics for its unique atmosphere and offbeat humor, though it remained a niche entry within the studio's broader body of work, favored more by enthusiasts of experimental animation than mainstream audiences.
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