Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru

Synopsis

Hotori Arashiyama is an average high school girl; that is, if the definition of "average" includes having an obsession with detective novels and working at a maid cafe to pay off an enormous debt incurred from years of eating "free" curry. Whenever she is not working, she can be seen hanging out with her friends, taking care of her younger siblings, or annoying her math teacher. However, while she lives the fairly run-of-the-mill life of a teenager, she is no stranger to the paranormal and unexplained. Sprinkled in with Hotori's everyday antics are occasional run-ins with the supernatural—including taking an unexpected tour of Heaven, discovering a ray gun that creates giant holes, and accidentally interfering in a dispute between some aliens. In addition, she tends to spontaneously investigate cases that strike her fancy, like uncovering the true purpose of some paintings left in a will, identifying a strange man walking the hospital grounds, and going on a treasure hunt in a far-off village. Hotori manages to find herself in the middle of some strange circumstances, and yet the town moves on in spite of the oddity of it all. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Background

Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru won the Excellence Award in the Manga Division at the 17th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2013. In 2018, the manga was also awarded the Seiun Award for Best Comic, and ranked 20th in the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! for the Male Readers division. The series was published digitally in English as And Yet, The Town Moves by Crunchyroll. It was also published as SoreMachi: And Yet the Town Moves by Shonen Gahosha through Manga Planet from May 20, 2020, to May 26, 2021. The manga was published in Italian by GP Publishing from June 23, 2012, to October 20, 2012—with the company only publishing the first three volumes.

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