![]() It’s true that part of the show’s humor is that the maid theme of the cafe is arbitrary, superficial, and not thought out at all, but there are still going to be twelve episodes where you’re looking at a lot of maid uniforms while Hotori bungles her math homework, acts out an inappropriate crush on her teacher, and fritters her days away. Even if it weren’t an anime that’s more concerned with the pitfalls of social interaction, deductive reasoning, magical thinking, and ennui, it would still be one in which the maids who staff the Maid Seaside Café where most of the plot takes place are an unsexy dunce, an old woman, and a seemingly normal girl who soon exhibits a creepy fixation on maids (note: the lattermost is different from moe). No, the problem that And Yet the Town Moves has is that it needs to sell you on maid moe. I haven’t decided where Natsu no Arashi, Arakawa Under the Bridge, or the more eccentric cours of Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei rank on my list of all-time favorites, but they aren’t at the bottom, that’s for sure. ![]() Really, to take my own bait, being a minor work by Shinbo Akiyuki is a plus in my book. You might guess that the problem is being a fairly obscure Shaft production, released in the year between Bakemonogatari hitting it big and Puella Magi Madoka Magica hitting it even bigger, but that would just mark you as a smartass who obsesses over studio filmographies as much as I do. ![]() I don’t want to say that this’ll be short and sweet, because it usually turns out to be neither, but here’s this week’s OP from And Yet the Town Moves, “Down Town” by Sakamoto Ma’aya!Īnd Yet the Town Moves has a problem. ![]()
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