Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru Studio: Shaft Premiere Date: 10/7 First Impression: Wow, I didn’t know maids could be THIS boring. Hotori “works” in the Seaside Maid Cafe as a waitress that usually only serves one customer; a classmate named Sanada who has a secret crush on her. When her friends learn that she is working as a maid, they [...]
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"Irasshaimase yo!"
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Ukiukiukiukiukiukiukiuki~ (Time to get cheerful~) This is one of those titles that I have been looking forward to air but still was afraid for, because in case of SHAFT it’s either hit or miss. So, it was trepidation-me, who had no expectations whatsoever before watching this. The only thing I had going [...]
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Ahh, maid cafes - what a staple part of the anime diet they have become.  That said, SHAFT's Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru introduces us to a maid cafe that is barely worthy of the name, residing as it does in a small shopping district and with barely any customers to speak of. Still, the cafe's solitary young maid, Hotori Arashiyama, seems to be popular enough, if only with one boy and classmate
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Episode 01 – 「至福の店ビフォアアフター」(Shifuku no Mise Bifuo Afutaa) “The Cafe of Supreme Bliss’s Before and After” Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru (それでも町は廻っている, “Yet the Town Keeps Going”) is an adaption of a slice-of-life (or rather, slice-of-maid-cafe) manga series written and illustrated by Masakazu Ishiguro. Also, along with Arakawa Under the Bridge x Bridge, this show is [...]
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