And Yet the Town Moves

And Yet the Town Moves (Japanese: それでも町は廻っている, Hepburn: Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru), often abbreviated as Soremachi (それ町), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masakazu Ishiguro. It was serialized in the magazine Young King OURs from March 2005 to October 2016, and collected into 16 volumes. The series centers around the daily life of high school girl Hotori Arashiyama, along with her friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues at a local maid cafe. The slice-of-life format is interspersed with stories featuring aliens, ghosts, and the paranormal. The manga won the 49th Seiun Award for Best Comic and the Excellence Award at the 17th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2013. An anime television series adaptation produced by Shaft was broadcast from October to December 2010, consisting of 12 episodes.