History Manga / AndYetTheTownMoves

** Kon tricks Haribara into learning to play the drums by telling her is a good way to train leg-arm coordination -- Haribara needs to improve her footwork for ping pong.

* SantasExistenceClause: Chapter 23 deals with Hotori and her family trying to avoid making her sister Yukiko learn the truth about Santa Claus after Takeru picked up the pieces quickly the previous year. They were ultimately successful, if only for Takeru taking advantage of Hotori's slip-up and making it look like he'd chased Santa out of the house trying to catch him.

* AlternateUniverse: The "Fantasy Novel" two parter has Hotori dream about going into a universe where she was never born. [[ForWantOfANail As a result,]] Seaside never becomes a maid cafe and the sign isn't broken, Kon and Haribara grow closer even after middle school, Kon takes up a job at Seaside, Tatsuno and Sanada get together, Yukiko is named Hotori, and Shizuka never becomes the mystery writer Umekazu Kadoishi. [[spoiler:Going by the penultimate chapter, this universe may be a result of Hotori wishing herself out of existence.]]

*** When Hotori gets her clothes wet, she starts acting out references to the ''Akakabu Kenji'' mystery novel series.

** "Pandora Box": {{Zigzagged}} when TheDitz Hotori discovers AloofAlly Kon's birthday. They are celebrating Toshiko's birthday two days earlier at the Maid Cafe when an excited Hotori starts asking for everyone else's b-days. There's no problem until Kon just says that it's not a big deal and tries to change the topic. Hotori rummages through Kon's purse for her student ID in a careless (although ultimately well-intentioned) impulse. It turns out, Kon's birthday is the 8th of September, aka today. The mood plummets and Hotori tries to make up for it by sweeping back the confetti back into the cone and throwing it again. She then sings "Happy Birthday", offers Kon to buy her a gift from the candy store, and promises to throw her a party next year because she's memorized the date. Fed up, Kon yells at her to stop with the pity party. Some days later, when things have calmed down, it's implied that Kon does acknowledge Hotori's earnest efforts and they resume their usual dynamic.

** Kon, Haribara, and Tattsun all agree that Hotori's face, overprepardness, and huge backpack remind them all of Manga/{{Doraemon}} and his Fourth Dimensional Pocket. There's also the Magnifying Glass, one of Doraemon's more infamous toys.

* AMillionIsAStatistic: Invoked during Chapter 136. [[spoiler:When the higher dimensional being informs her that 3000 people will die as a result of an incoming typhoon, Hotori first asks it if anybody she knows (including she herself) will die. [[DefiedTrope It doesn't answer]], forcing Hotori to consider erasing herself without the bias of her loved ones to make her reconsider. Ultimately, she decides to take the risk, due to her thinking about how her family would take a tragedy of such an epic scale regardless of if they survived or not.]]

* FiveManBandConcert: The waitresses of the Maid Cafe and Haribara form a band for the SchoolFestival in chapter 8 (21 in the manga) with the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Lq3pNl7dLc "The Maids"]]. Of course, all of them are in their FrenchMaid uniforms. All four girls are vocalists (three backing and a lead) but play different instruments: [[BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine Boke]] Hotori with the accordion, [[BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine Tsukkomi]] Toshiko with the violin, Haribara (a regular customer with LargeHam tendencies) with the drums, and their grumpy [[SenpaiKohai Senpai]] Kon with the guitar. PlayedForLaughs because the song's lyrics are nonsensical -- one line is literally "Come on, Mammoths!". The makeshift band is featured in the ending theme, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JdTizjTXZY "Madis Sanjo!"]], and in the [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/71cy288ojcl_ss500.jpg cover art]] of the album.

* SenpaiKohai: Subverted. Kon's rank doesn't seem to play a part on her relationship with Hotori except for making her sweat after her ''faux pas''. The other girls, specially Haribara, do treat her as a sempai.

** Hotori attempts to replace "maido!" ([[KansaiDialect Osakan]] for "thank you!") with "{{meido}}". Toshiko and the Head Maid aren't amused.

* LadyLooksLikeADude: Kon, who Hotori first mistakes for a [[{{bishonen}} pretty boy]] in middle school.