And Yet the Town Moves

25min

Animation

Comedy

Clumsy Hotori Arashiyama is a girl with a love for mysteries and a knack for getting into trouble. Hotori works as a waitress in an unsuccessful coffee shop when the manager comes up with a plan to increase its fortunes by changing into a maid cafe. Unfortunately, no one knows how to make a successful maid cafe other than dressing everyone in a maid outfit. What follows is a wacky series of incidents involving Hotori’s many friends, mismatched love stories… and ghosts and aliens.

Production Companies

SHAFT

TBS

movic

FlyingDog

Memory-Tech Holdings

Pony Canyon

Episodes

Cast

The Fortune Cafe

1. The Fortune Cafe

25min

8th Oct 2010

Hotori's and Toshiko's job at a maid café conflicts with school rules. They must convince their teacher to permit their job, but first the café has a lot of improvement to do…

The Sexual Harassment Lawsuit

2. The Sexual Harassment Lawsuit

25min

15th Oct 2010

An encounter with the local police officer leads Hotori to threaten sexual harassment suits. Hotori's plans to increase customers backfires.

The Cat Boy

3. The Cat Boy

25min

22nd Oct 2010

Moriaki begs Hotori to use her detective skills to discern the mystery surrounding two keepsake paintings. Hotori assists with recovering a pet cat.

The Cursed Equation

4. The Cursed Equation

25min

29th Oct 2010

After scoring a 0 on her math test, Hotori’s math teacher, Moriaki, sentences her to detention and divulges his murderous presumptions.

The Amazingly Strange Toshiko Tatsuno

5. The Amazingly Strange Toshiko Tatsuno

25min

5th Nov 2010

Tatsuno receives tickets to see a movie and wants to invite her love interest, Sanada. Takeru, Hotori’s younger brother, is asked to hang out by his classmate, Ebi-chan.

The Pandora Maid Service

6. The Pandora Maid Service

25min

12th Nov 2010

Hotori visits an antique shop in search of a birthday gift for Tatsuno. Later, she searches for a PC to scan an image for her site and finds a spreading pandemic.

The Lovers’ Midnight Dash

7. The Lovers’ Midnight Dash

25min

19th Nov 2010

Sanada devises a plan and uses his daily horoscope reading to win Hotori’s heart. The two decide to play hooky for the remaining school day.

The Fully Automated Orchestra

8. The Fully Automated Orchestra

25min

26th Nov 2010

The girls discover a vending machine with astonishingly good food. Hotori's class isn't planning anything for the Cultural Festival; Futaba suggests forming a band.

The Clash of the Buytans

9. The Clash of the Buytans

25min

3rd Dec 2010

Harue challenges Toshiko to a table tennis game. Both girls put up a furious fight, but in the end, who will be the victor of the tennis table?

The Finger Pointing Geriatric

10. The Finger Pointing Geriatric

25min

10th Dec 2010

The news reports mysterious holes that have appeared in the neighborhood. Futaba questions Hotori about the holes.

Kon’s Summer of Tears

11. Kon’s Summer of Tears

25min

17th Dec 2010

Mr. Moriaki tries to help Hotori with her remedial math class by comparing it to detective work with mixed results.

Sore Machi...

12. Sore Machi...

25min

24th Dec 2010

Futaba & Toshiko aren't on speaking terms because Toshiko refuses to join the table tennis club. Hotori ruins an expensive pen and dreams about being judged in the afterlife.

First air date

8th Oct 2010

Last air date

24th Dec 2010

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Original language

ja

Networks