History Manga / AndYetTheTownMoves

* TriangRelations: Type 5. Toshiko likes Sanada, who likes Hotori, who likes Moriaki-sensei.

* BattleAura: Probably a signature of ''Meidojutsu'' users.
%%* BeachEpisode:Episode 11.
%%* BeautifulDreamer:A reason to cut classes.
* BigDamnHeroes: Sanada in Chapter 133. When Hotori is being manhandled by a teacher jealous at what she thinks is a romance between the former and Moriaki, Sanada jumps from a two story window just to protect her.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Of course, since Hotori's the center of abuse. Her stupidity makes her even more hilariously deserving of it.

** "And the town still turns": Initially PlayedForLaughs but then PlayedForDrama and {{subverted}}. Hotori's uncle gifts her a Montblanc fountain pen, which she keeps calling a fountain pendant, upon entering high school. She decides to "decapitate" it to weld it to a fancy-looking magnifying glass. When her uncle asks her to visit him during the summer break, she freaks out, especially since she just learned how expensive the pen is. She submits an InUniverse Troperiffic detective story to a writing contest with a 5 million yen prize. She predictably doesn't pass the first round of examinations and, with how nice her uncle seems to be, it doesn't seem as if would mind her creating a magnifying pendant. However, in her despair over the news, she doesn't notice [[spoiler: an incoming truck and ends up in a coma due to a brain injury]]. When she recovers, she tells to her uncle that the pen got destroyed in the accident -- which it didn't.

* StormInATeacup: {{Zigzagged}} when TheDitz Hotori discovers AloofAlly Kon's birthday. They are celebrating Toshiko's birthday two days earlier at the Maid Cafe when an excited Hotori starts asking for everyone else's b-days. There's no problem until Kon just says that it's not a big deal and tries to change the topic. Hotori rummages through Kon's purse for her student ID in a careless (although ultimately well-intentioned) impulse. It turns out, Kon's birthday is the 8th of September, aka today. The mood plummets and Hotori tries to make up for it by sweeping back the confetti back into the cone and throwing it again. She then sings "Happy Birthday", offers Kon to buy her a gift from the candy store, and promises to throw her a party next year because she's memorized the date. Fed up, Kon yells at her to stop with the pity party. Some days later, when things have calmed down, it's implied that Kon does acknowledge Hotori's earnest efforts and they resume their usual dynamic.

%%* SternTeacher: Moriaki-sensei

* SempaiKohai: Subverted. Kon's rank doesn't seem to play a part on her relationship with Hotori except for making her sweat after her ''faux pas''. The other girls, specially Haribara, do treat her as a sempai.

* CosplayCafe: The series is set in a MaidCafe.

* AllMenArePerverts: Hotori's class is only able to get sign-ups for the Sports Festival when she places Tatsuno in the running for the bread-eating portion of the obstacle course. The boys recognized that she'd be [[{{Gainaxing}} jumping up and down multiple times]], and then started to pick events that wouldn't get in the way of their watching Tatsuno participate. [[AllForNothing Their efforts were in vain]], as Hotori running off to save what she thought was Kon getting blown away makes the class substitute Tatsuno for her, while Hotori takes her place in the bread race.

* {{Gainaxing}}: Toshiko in Chapter 21/Episode 8.
-->"They were like Water Balloons.."

* MsFanservice:
** Interestingly, Hotori, as she has had a lot of scenes nude and a lot of close-ups on her legs.
** Toshiko, [[{{Gainaxing}} if you like looking up higher]].

* {{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]].

* ImpossiblePickleJar: Exploited by Toshiko. Aft first she genuinely asks Sanada with help opening a jar, but she quickly realizes she can use the opportunity to flirt with him and flatter him about his masculine strength and searches for the hardest to open jar she can find in Seaside.

* [[FiveManBandConcert Four Meido Band Concert]]: The girls and Haribara form one for the SchoolFestival in Chapter 21. It's not a real rock band, more a mismash of different instruments.
** The ED also features this group. Part ImageSong, part HeavyMeta, all... ''enka'' rock???
** Also in Episode 8, with the B-Side of the ED song single, which has more of a Celtic Rock feel.
* FiveManBandConcert: The waitresses of the Maid Cafe and Haribara form a band for the SchoolFestival in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Lq3pNl7dLc chapter 21]]. Of course, all of them are in their FrenchMaid uniforms. All four girls are vocalists (three backing and a lead) but play different instruments: [[BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine Boke]] Hotori with the accordion, [[BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine Tsukkomi]] Toshiko with the violin, Haribara (a regular customer with LargeHam tendencies) with the drums, and their grumpy [[SenpaiKohai Senpai]] Kon with the guitar. PlayedForLaughs because the song's lyrics are nonsensical -- one line is literally "Come on, Mammoths!"

** Chapter 31 references the TreasureHunt through Hotori's mention of Shigasato Itoi, who she previously mistook for a military general. Sanada also comes to the same conclusion.

* TreasureHunt: Chapter 29 features the Arashiyamas and friends going off to find a hidden treasure based off of clues in a painting Hotori bought. [[spoiler:There was no treasure there; in reality, the gold they sought after was the golden view of Shikohone's lake during sunrise. The whole map was a gimmick to make tourists want to visit.]]

''And Yet the Town Moves'' (''Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru'') 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.

*** When she starts acting up after getting her clothes wet, she starts acting out references to the ''Akakabu Kenji'' mystery novel series.

%%* {{Meganekko}}: Toshiko.
* {{Meido}}: Obviously.

* NeoClassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: The ED. The insert song "Sou wa Ittemo Sekai wa Owaranai" also qualifies. See [[FiveManBandConcert Four Maido Band Concert]] above.

* PornStash: Turns out that Sanada's room has piles of books on this material... and even more on his hard drive. He deletes the digital ones so that Hotori could use it for design class, but [[ShaggyDogStory she only.wanted to scan a picture, meaning she never would have looked at his digital collection]], and then stumbles on his physical stash ''anyway'' when she knocks it over looking for a book she lent him.

* CoincidentialBroadcast: Hotori tries to take her mind off of a scary book she read, but reminders follow her wherever she went--from creepy sounds playing above the floor to flipping to television shows talking about ghost stories, to radio broadcasts of urban legends.

''And Yet the Town Moves'') (''Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru'') 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.

''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.

%%* GenkiGirl: Hotori

* LensFlareCensor: The TV broadcast version of the scene where Hotori's tripping towards the cafe's entrance door has turned her upside down results in this. In the DVD/BD version as well as the manga however, we see Hotori's undies in full display.

** In the TV broadcast version, upskirt shots are obscured by darkness or random happenstance, however in both the original manga as well as the DVD/BD version however, this is completely averted and there's panties galore.

* LensFlareCensor: Hotori's tripping towards the cafe's entrance door has turned her upside down. Whatever upskirt that's anticipated is blocked by afternoon sunlight lens flares.

** Surprisingly for such a [[{{Meido}} fanservice-heavy genre]], upskirt shots are obscured by darkness or random happenstance. The anime walks the very fine line of titillation, leaving anatomy lessons for other shows. Let's just say [[RuleOfFunny it's all about the laughs]].

** Completely averted in the manga and in episodes 8, 11, and 12, where panties are shown just fine.

* ConvenientBroadcast: Hotori tries to take her mind off of a scary book she read, but reminders follow her wherever she went--from creepy sounds playing above the floor to flipping to television shows talking about ghost stories, to radio broadcasts of urban legends.

* AMillionIsAStatistic: Invoked during Chapter 136. [[spoiler:When the higher dimensional being informs her that 3000 people will die as a result of an incoming typhoon, 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.]]

* SeriousBusiness