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Tv Tropes states that [Soredemo Machi wa
Mawatteiru](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/SoredemoMachiWaMawatteiru)1
is a spiritual successor to [Natsu no
Arashi!](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/NatsuNoArashi)

Both female protagonists have the same surname "Arashiyama": Hotori Arashiyama
((嵐山 歩鳥) and Sayoko Arashiyama (嵐山 小夜子).

The series are written by different authors.

Is it just a coincidence or is there some relation or shoutout between the
two?

1 A copy of the page on
[archive.org](https://web.archive.org/web/20150102133255/http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/SoredemoMachiWaMawatteiru),
snapshot on 2015-01-02. Ctrl+F in your browser for "Spiritual Successor".


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What is the relation between the female protagonists of these two manga series?


There's no apparent relation between the Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru and
Natsu no Arashi manga series--they were published in different magazines and
have different authors (Natsu no Arashi is by Jin Kobayashi, the author of
School Rumble). From what I can tell, the stories are completely different
too. (I've only seen one episode of Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru, and never
anything of Natsu no Arashi.) But the anime versions of both shows are
produced by Shaft and directed by Akiyuki Shinbou, as their Wikipedia pages
point out. That's probably what the TVTropes page was referring to.

I'm not really sure how that makes Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru a spiritual
successor to Natsu no Arashi--look at [Shinbou's
filmography](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akiyuki_Shinbo#Director) and you
could claim that, say, The Soul Taker was the spiritual successor to Twilight
of the Dark Master, or Denpa Onna was the spiritual successor to Arakawa Under
the Bridge, on the basis that Shinbou directed one and then later directed the
other. On the other hand, the otherwise unrelated Pani Poni Dash and Negima?!
do share a lot of stylistic similarities, so perhaps it's something like that.


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