History Manga / SoredemoMachiWaMawatteiru

* NoEnding: The final serialized chapter Concerns Hotori's class practicing a play...and that's it. No real character arcs were solved (at least chronologically) and life goes on. The epilogue chapter included in the last volume, however, wraps up Hotori and Shizuka's arcs.

* AuthorAppeal: Mysteries. While we all know how crqzy Hotori and Takeru are over mystery works, in general the series is filled with mysteries to solve and riddles to crack.

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: It's nothing serious and romance isn't exactly the most important thing in the series but: Toshiko has a crush on Hiroyuki, who has a longstanding crush on his childhood friend Hotori, who seems to have a thing for their homeroom math teacher Mr. Moriaki, who frowns on the idea of a student/teacher relationship as immoral (and who would probably shoot himself if he had to deal with Hotori for the rest of his life). Takeru and Eri may be the only exception.

** MistakenForRomance: While Hotori does have a crush on MOriaki for a while, and sometimes does hings that would make anyone else think they're a couple, the one time it backfires on ''her'' specifically is when [[spoiler:Nanami Mizoguchi assumes they're having a TeacherStudentRomance, and attacks Hotori for "achieving" what she could not as a student.]]

* ExtraEyes: One chapter dealt with Hotori and Moriaki discovering the truth behind an unusual painting. The one Moriaki had on hand was of a man with three eyes, which was allegedly a self portrait of a gambling addict painter. When they figured out the man made multiple portraits and had them split among his three kids, they also learn that most of the portraits are of him with multiple eyes corresponding to the number of each face of a die. [[spoiler:putting the paintings under a black-light reveals that the paintings have even ''more'' eyes, as a means of being the numbers to open a safe.]]

* MistakenForIndex:

* AMillionIsAStatistic: Invoked during Chapter 136. [[spoiler:When the higher dimensional being informs her that 3000 people will die as a result of an incoming typhon, Hotori first asks it if anybody she knows (including she herself) will die. [[DefiedTrope It doesn't answer]], so she can make a judgement for herself. Ultimately, she decides to erase herself, due to her thinking about how her family would take a tragedy of such an epic scale.]]
* MistakenForDog: Josephine, the Arashiyama family pet, is actually a {{Tanuki}} they all think is a dog. It takes Kon laughing about the absurdity of putting her on a leash for Hotori to get the picture. Subverted when we see where she came from; she really ''is'' a dog, albeit one that has fur looking like a tanuki's. It's implied that she'll look more canine once she becomes fully mature, as can be seen by Hotori's aunt's similar looking dog.

* RetGone: [[spoiler:Hotori in Chapter 136, in order to save Kanto fro a nasty typhoon.]]

* SadisticChoice: Chapter 136 features one. [[spoiler:A higher dimensional being, completely out of random, selects Hotori as the choice aker for whether or not a typhoon will hit Kanto and destroy part of the region. It posits only two options--press a button to avert the disaster, but at the cost of your own existence; and don't press it, but be a part of a natural disaster to the tune of 3000 dead and over 10,000 involved. Hotori chooses to erase herself and press the button, which is implied to have created the "Fantasy Novel" universe.]] To be fair, it's not entirely self-motivated and the being wasn't trying to be malicious about it.

* DistantFinale: "Epilogue" presents itself as a look into the lives of the characters ten years after the current story, [[spoiler:but in reality was the result of Hotori adding a backstory to her "make a room you'd live in" assignment]]. The most obvious give away is [[spoiler:the fact that Hotori has a successful detective agency]], but other than that it's surprisingly plausible.

* TheFellowshipHasEnded: Chapter 136 marks the end of Cafe Seaside's teo year tenure as a maid cafe, since Toshiko spent the last of her third year preparing for exams.

* OnceMoreWithClarity: Takeru had once spotted Hotori with her nose in his jersey in middle school, causing him to think she had a crush on him. hen we see that same scene at the end of the chapter, Hotori turned out to have been sneezing on the jersey. She didn't know who it belonged to and went to the room on a whim.

** Takeru once has a fever dream about Eri and two of the store owners posing as a traditional ''Anime/TimeBokan'' TerribleTrio. It's more thsn likely a ''Anime/{{Yatterman}}'' reference, as Eri (much like Donronjo) professes her love for Takeru, the protagonist of the dream.

* SadisticChoice: Chapter 136 features one. [[spoiler:A higher dimensional being, completely out of random, slects Hotori as the choice aker for whether or not a typhoon will hit Kanto and destroy part of the region. It posits only two options--press a button to avert the disaster, but at the cost of your own existence; and don't press it, but be a part of a natural disaster to the tune of 3000 dead and over 10,000 involved. Hotori chooses to erase herself and press the button, which is implied to have created the "Fantasy Novel" universe.]] To be fair, it's not entirely self-motivated and the being wasn't trying to be malicious about it.

''Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru'', (''Yet the Town Keeps Going'' or ''And Yet the Town Moves''), is a {{Seinen}} {{manga}} written and illustrated by Masakazu Ishiguro. The comic was serialized in Shōnen Gahōsha's ''Young King [=OURs=]'' from 2005 to 2016, with sixteen bound volumes by the time of its completion. The anime adaption by Creator/StudioShaft aired during the Fall 2010 Anime season.

** Later on, Hotori investigates an old Film Club video that referenced the Seven Mysteries of her high school ome 26 years ago. One of the mysteries, a well a student died in, becomes the focus of the chapter due to the fact that there was no well on the modern campus.

* BigDamnHeroes: Sanada in Chalter 133. When Hotori is being manhandled by a teacher jealous at whst she thinks is a romance between thr former and Moriaki, Sanada jumps from a two story window just to protect her.

* IndirectKiss: Sanada anticipates this from Hotori when she gives him her lunch and used chopsticks to eat them. He never gets the chance to use the sticks, since Hotori bumps him into a mud puddle where the sticks dropped.
* InNameOnly: Seaside Maid Cafe is barely even that. Before Toshiko came along, the only things that identified it as one were that fact that Hotori and Uki wore maid outfits. They had no idea about the culture and archetypes associated with such a restaurant, and even when they got a comparative expert on the crew the cafe still feels more like a hometown hangout.
* InSeriesNickname: In their old middle school ping-pong club Toshiko, Haribara and Kon were known as the Faerie, the Reaper and the Sith Lord. {{Serious Business}}!

** ''Murder on Jelly Island'' is told in a picture book style,despite the story's supposed violent nature.

* ExtraEyes: One chapter dealt with Hotori and Moriaki discovering the truth behind an unusual painting. The one Moriaki had on hand was of a man with three eyes, which was allegedly a self portrait of a gambling addict painter. When they figured out the man made multiple portraits and had them split among his three kids, they also learn that most of the portraits are of him with multiple eyes corresponding to the number of each face of a die.

* AloneAmongTheCouples: Sawada, eventually. By the end of his second year of high school, to of his friends had gotten girlfriends while the third, despite being single, graduated and wouldn't be able to share Sawada's lonely bachelorhood.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Kon's old senpai, [[spoiler:Zanari]]. While she was very nice to Kon during her time in Ping-Pong club, [[spoiler:Kon being chosen for the club's lineup while she wasn't makes her attempt to injure Kon before the game. This incident closed Kon off from people for a while, until Hotori came along.]]

* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Takeru's class, at least the girls, have already noticed Eri's crush on him.

** And she hasn't even been the first one to crush on him. Alas, (Man + Woman) / Morality = 0. [[spoiler:She comes back in Chapter 133.]]

** And she hasn't even been the first one to crush on him. Alas, (Man + Woman) / Morality = 0.

* {{Irony}}: Sanada and Joshima end up hanging out with some girls from St. Helens Academy, and completely ignore Asai's offer to hang out by the pool; the result is their ending the night without any girls and general dissatisfaction. Meanwhile, Asai wasn't expecting anything out of the pool trip, but he walked away having a nice time, hung out with Sanada's crush, and [[spoiler:ended up bonding the girl who would eventually become his girlfriend later]].