Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru

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Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru
Original title そ れ で も 町 は 廻 っ て い る
transcription Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru
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genre comedy
Manga
country JapanJapan Japan
author Masakazu Ishiguro
publishing company Shōnen Gahōsha
magazine Young King OURs
First publication May 2005 - ...
expenditure 7+
Anime television series
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
year 2010
Studio Shaft
length 24 minutes
Episodes 5/12 (November 7, 2010)
Director Akiyuki Shimbo
First broadcast 2010-10-08 on TBS
synchronization

Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru ( Japanese. そ れ で も 町 は 廻 っ て い る , Eng. "The city is still turning") is a manga series written and drawn by the Japanese author Masakazu Ishiguro . Since 2005, the still ongoing manga has been published in Young King OURs magazine , edited by Shōnen Gahōsha . The focus of the plot is the very stupid-looking student Hotori Arashiyama, who tries to work as a maid in a cosplay restaurant , where she always makes life difficult for herself.

In 2010, the manga was adapted by the Shaft animation studio as an anime television series directed by Akiyuki Shimbō .

action

Hotori Arashiyama ( 嵐山 歩 鳥 , Arashiyama Hotori ) is an almost common student. However, she often acts very stupidly and is with her train of thought in a completely different world, which is why she lacks the motivation to learn the simplest things in school and is already labeled as an eternal student who never graduates. At home, meanwhile, she is under a lot of stress because her younger siblings always blame her as the culprit. So she secretly works on the side in a maid café , which actually doesn't live up to its name. The owner of the café is the old woman Uki Isohata ( 磯 端 ウ キ , Isohata Uki ), who like Arashiyama has absolutely no idea how to run such a café. The location alone on a deserted street is extremely unfavorable. The only real guest is the good and highly respected student Hiroyuki Sanada ( 真 田 広 章 , Sanada Hiroyuki ), who falls in love with Arashiyama at first sight.

When Arashiyama reveals this secret to her best friends Toshiko Tatsuno ( 辰 野 俊 子 , Tatsuno Toshiko ) and Harue Haribara ( 針 原 春江 , Haribara Harue ) at school, they absolutely want to visit her. In doing so, they realize that the café is in no way what they want. So both want to give it up. In conversation, however, Toshiko learns that Hiroyuki is a regular, with whom she is madly in love. This leads her to be hired as a maiden as well. But the secret hasn't been a secret for a long time, because the math teacher Natsuhiko Moriaki ( 森 秋 夏 彦 , Moriaki Natsuhiko ) has also found out about it and wants to stop the undeclared part-time job. He chases them and is confronted in particular with the illogical thinking Arashiyama, since for him logic is the only real thing in life. This automatically creates a conflict for him that repeatedly brings him to the edge of desperation, especially since Arashiyama also assumes that he has fallen in love with her.

Ultimately, everything ends in a chaos, in which the overbite Harue and the younger but normal student Futaba Kon ( 紺 双 葉 , Kon Futaba ) are also drawn into.

Origin and publications

The manga Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru , written by the artist Masakazu Ishiguro , has been published in May 2005 in the monthly magazine Young King OURs , which is published by Shōnen Gahōsha . Beginning on January 27, 2006, bound summaries of the chapters appeared as Tankōbon . So far (as of November 6, 2010) 7 issues have been published.

Anime

In 2010, the Japanese animation studio Shaft adapted the manga as a television series of the same name. Directed by doing Akiyuki Shinbo . Hisaharu Iijima was in charge of the animation , while Hiroki Yamamura created the character design based on the manga.

The series was first broadcast on the night of October 8, 2010 (and thus on the previous television day ) on TBS . A few days to weeks later, the broadcast also began on Sun TV , Kumamoto Broadcasting , Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting and BS-i .

synchronization

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū )
Hotori Arashiyama Chiaki Omigawa
Toshiko Tatsuno Aoi Yūki
Hiroyuki Sanada Miyu Irino
Uki Isohata Takahiro Sakurai
Futaba Kon Rieka Yazawa
Harue Haribara Ryōko Shiraishi
Natsuhiko Moriaki Tomokazu Sugita

music

In the opening credits of the series, the title DOWN TOWN by Maaya Sakamoto was used. The full version of the title was released on October 20, 2010 on the single Down Town / Yasashisa ni Tsutsumareta Nara ( DOWN TOWN ／ や さ し さ に 包 ま れ た な ら ), which also contained the OVA Tamayura theme song . In the week of October 18 to 24, 2010, she reached 5th place in the Japanese singles charts. This was mainly due to the fact that no singles from well-known groups were released this week. In addition to her, there were also three other “anime” singles in the Japanese top 10.

The credits were titled Maids Sanjō! ( メ イ ズ 参 上！ ) which was interpreted by maids. The seiyū of the four female, young main characters were referred to as maids. The title will be released on CD on November 24th 2010 as a single of the same name.

reception

In 2018 the work was nominated for the 22nd Osamu Tezuka Culture Prize.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ One Piece, SoreMachi, Oreimo, Zakuro Singles in Top 10 (Updated). Anime News Network, October 25, 2010, accessed November 7, 2010 .
  2. ↑ Rafael Antonio Pineda: 22nd Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Nominees Announced. In: Anime News Network. February 25, 2018, accessed July 2, 2019 .

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