After releasing it previously in single disc form back in 2011, Pony Canyon is just now releasing a new priced-down edition of Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru, aka And Yet the Town Moves. The series is getting a new encoding and compression from the original six discs down to two that’s hitting store shelves now in Japan. And now Pony Canyon has started to add the cover artwork for the release online. It’ll still be priced high at 19,440 yen for the set though.
Sentai Filmworks picked up the show and released it back in 2012 in subtitled-only DVD form.
Based on the manga of the same name by Masakazu Ishiguro which began in 2005 and has just under ten volumes to its name after still going six years later, And Yet The Town Moves is a twelve episode series aimed at the seinen market and animated by Shaft. The show is one that largely plays with the usual slice of life elements that we see in many series dealing with high school girls, though the school focus itself is kept fairly minimal, but it also brings in a few outlandish elements as well. When your final episode deals with the lead character going to purgatory to await her assignment in heaven after dying, well, it knows how to go into weird areas when you least expect it and generate some amusement.
Plot concept: Hotori has to start working at the Seaside Maid Cafe after school. However, she doesn’t understand how a Maid Cafe should be run. Even though everything seems like it’s going to crash at any moment, somehow Hotori’s life keeps going hilariously forward.
[Source: Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru]
