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[[#Ryū Yamada|Ryū Yamada]] is known as a delinquent in his high school; he has been bored of classes after one year of attending school. One day, he accidentally falls from a flight of stairs onto [[#Urara Shiraishi|Urara Shiraishi]], the ace student of the school. Yamada wakes up to find that he has [[body swap|swapped bodies]] with her. The two try to reverse the change and discover that kissing triggers the body swap. On the suggestion of student council vice-president [[#Toranosuke Miyamura|Toranosuke Miyamura]], they revive the Supernatural Studies Club. The supernatural phenomenon-obsessed [[#Miyabi Itō|Miyabi Itō]] soon joins the club. The club encounters other "witches" with different powers that are activated with a kiss. A transfer student, [[#Kentaro Tsubaki|Kentarō Tsubaki]], becomes a part of the club after nearly causing a fire to the old schoolhouse. Upon discovering the identity of the seventh witch, Yamada supposedly has his memories of the witches erased, but it instead affects the witches and the students involved. While the student council tries to impede his progress, Yamada restores the memories of the witches with a kiss, and gathers the seven witches for a ceremony where he wishes for the powers to go away. He confesses his love to Urara and they become a couple.
[[#Ryū Yamada|Ryū Yamada]] is known as a delinquent in his high school; he has been bored of classes after one year of attending school. One day, he accidentally falls from a flight of stairs onto [[#Urara Shiraishi|Urara Shiraishi]], the ace student of the school. Yamada wakes up to find that he has [[body swap|swapped bodies]] with her. The two try to reverse the change and discover that kissing triggers the body swap. On the suggestion of student council vice-president [[#Toranosuke Miyamura|Toranosuke Miyamura]], they revive the Supernatural Studies Club. The supernatural-phenomenon-obsessed [[#Miyabi Itō|Miyabi Itō]] soon joins the club. The club encounters other "witches" with different powers that are activated with a kiss. A transfer student, [[#Kentaro Tsubaki|Kentarō Tsubaki]], becomes a part of the club after nearly causing a fire to the old schoolhouse. Upon discovering the identity of the seventh witch, Yamada supposedly has his memories of the witches erased, but it instead affects the witches and the students involved. While the student council tries to impede his progress, Yamada restores the memories of the witches with a kiss, and gathers the seven witches for a ceremony where he wishes for the powers to go away. He confesses his love to Urara and they become a couple.


He is recruited to the new student council where he learns that he still has his witch copying power, that the witch powers have been allocated to other girls in the school, and there are multiple groups of witches. Although the student council tries to shield each other from the powers, they find themselves facing opposition from students controlled by the Japanese Chess Club, which has male students with new types of witch powers. The student council receives a vote of no confidence and must face a general election, however, in the process of infiltrating the chess club, Yamada learns of a witch who has connections to his past and a possible link to why he has the power in the first place.
He is recruited to the new student council where he learns that he still has his witch copying power, that the witch powers have been allocated to other girls in the school, and there are multiple groups of witches. Although the student council tries to shield each other from the powers, they find themselves facing opposition from students controlled by the Japanese Chess Club, which has male students with new types of witch powers. The student council receives a vote of no confidence and must face a general election, however, in the process of infiltrating the chess club, Yamada learns of a witch who has connections to his past and a possible link to why he has the power in the first place.
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====Ryū Yamada====
====Ryū Yamada====
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{{nihongo|Ryū Yamada|山田 竜|Yamada Ryū}} is an apathetic delinquent who finds high school boring and is failing in his school's academics. That is until he crashes into Shiraishi, the student academic ace of the school, at the stairs and ends up swapping bodies with her.{{gnr|ch|1}} They discover that a kiss activates the swap, and that Yamada can swap with others,{{gnr|ch|5|-|6}} although he later learns that it is actually a duplication power; that is, he can copy the power of the witch that he has kissed{{gnr|ch|18|-|20}} He later confesses his developed feelings for Shiraishi which she returns and the two began dating.{{gnr|ch|90}} Yamada's favorite food is [[yakisoba|yakisoba bread]], and even has a [[stuffed toy]] named {{nihongo|Sobasshimi|そばっし美}}.{{gnr|ch|105|,|131}} He is portrayed by [[Yusuke Yamamoto]] in the live-action adaptation,<ref name="caststaff">{{cite web |url=http://www.fujitv.co.jp/yamadamajo/caststaff/index.html|title=Fuji TV 「 山田くんと7人の魔女 」|language=Japanese| accessdate =August 22, 2013}}</ref> and by [[Ryōta Ōsaka]] in the anime.<ref name="jp cast">{{cite web | url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-12-08/yamada-kun-and-the-seven-witches-anime-casts-jun-fukuyama-kana-hanazawa/.81894 | date = 2014-12-08 | work = Anime News Network | title = Yamada-kun & the Seven Witches Anime Casts Jun Fukuyama, Kana Hanazawa }}</ref>


====Urara Shiraishi====
====Urara Shiraishi====

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Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches
File:Yamada-kun to 7-nin no Majo vol01 Cover.png
Cover of the first volume of Yamada-kun to 7-nin no Majo as published by Kodansha
山田くんと7人の魔女
(Yamada-kun to 7-nin no majo)
GenreRomantic comedy, Supernatural
Manga
Written byMiki Yoshikawa
Published byKodansha
English publisher
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Magazine
DemographicShōnen
Original runFebruary 22, 2012 – present
Volumes18 (List of volumes)
Television drama
Directed byMamoru Hoshi, Masataka Takamaru
Produced byYukiko Yanagawa
Written byShin Ogawa
Music byToshihiko Sahashi
Original networkFuji Television
Original run August 10, 2013 September 28, 2013
Episodes8 (List of episodes)
Original animation DVD
Directed byTomoki Takuno
Written byMichiko Yokote
Music byMasaru Yokoyama
StudioLiden Films
Released December 17, 2014 May 15, 2015
Runtime30 minutes
Episodes2
Anime television series
Directed byTomoki Takuno
Written byMichiko Yokote
Music byMasaru Yokoyama
StudioLiden Films
Original networkTokyo MX, ytv, TVA, TVQ, TVh, RNC, BS11
English network
Original run April 12, 2015 June 28, 2015
Episodes12

Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches (Japanese: 山田くんと7人の魔女, Hepburn: Yamada-kun to 7-nin no Majo) is an ongoing manga series written and illustrated by Miki Yoshikawa.[2] The series has been published by Kodansha in their Weekly Shonen Magazine since February 22, 2012. The series has been licensed in Chinese by the Taiwanese publishing company Tong Li.[3] It was adapted into a live-action television drama which aired on FujiTV from August–September 2013.[4] On October 26, 2013, Crunchyroll announced a partnership with Kodansha where it would distribute chapters digitally to 170 countries.[5] The series has been licensed for North American release by Kodansha Comics USA, who will begin releasing the series in 2015.[6] As of July 2015, the series has been compiled into 18 volumes in Japan.

Conception and development

Manga author Miki Yoshikawa's previous work, Flunk Punk Rumble ran in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 2006-2011, with a total of 211 chapters.[7] Her editor suggested for her next project that she write a one-shot for Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine. She developed two stories: a prototype story for Yamada-kun and The Demon's Classroom. The second story was initially chosen, but became difficult to run because the main character was a grade school girl. The prototype Yamada story eventually became the first chapter for Yamada-kun.[8]

In the Natalie interview, Yoshikawa said that she had thought of the body swapping idea in the Yankee-kun days, and had researched some medical books on the differences between men and women, both physically and emotionally, but generally went with it because she liked the idea. "It just kind of came to me, but I was wondering how a guy finding himself in a girl’s body would react, and the reverse".[8] She treats a body-swapped character as an entirely different character.[9] At Anime Expo 2015, she said that she initially thought about gender swapping first but later rejected that as a potential magic power.[10]

When it was noted that the main characters for both of her works were delinquents, Yoshikawa replied that those types of characters came easily for her, as she grew up in the lower end of Tokyo. The characters and their names are not based on her friends so that they can act crazy.[8] At Anime Expo 2015, she said that the characters reflect different aspects of herself. She also said that the Yamada-kun characters go to a different school from the ones in Yankee-kun but that they live in adjacent neighborhoods.[10]

With regards to drawing, she tries to vary each kiss, but mostly uses the side angle to make sure it comes through. With regards to kisses between members of the same gender, she replied that wasn't intended to target any specific demographic but just "an inevitable outcome."[8] At the time of Anime Expo, she said she had five assistants. She does her drawing by hand in black-and-white, and uses the computer for the filling in colors. She spends about half of her time on story, and the other half on actual drawing.[10]

Plot

Ryū Yamada is known as a delinquent in his high school; he has been bored of classes after one year of attending school. One day, he accidentally falls from a flight of stairs onto Urara Shiraishi, the ace student of the school. Yamada wakes up to find that he has swapped bodies with her. The two try to reverse the change and discover that kissing triggers the body swap. On the suggestion of student council vice-president Toranosuke Miyamura, they revive the Supernatural Studies Club. The supernatural-phenomenon-obsessed Miyabi Itō soon joins the club. The club encounters other "witches" with different powers that are activated with a kiss. A transfer student, Kentarō Tsubaki, becomes a part of the club after nearly causing a fire to the old schoolhouse. Upon discovering the identity of the seventh witch, Yamada supposedly has his memories of the witches erased, but it instead affects the witches and the students involved. While the student council tries to impede his progress, Yamada restores the memories of the witches with a kiss, and gathers the seven witches for a ceremony where he wishes for the powers to go away. He confesses his love to Urara and they become a couple.

He is recruited to the new student council where he learns that he still has his witch copying power, that the witch powers have been allocated to other girls in the school, and there are multiple groups of witches. Although the student council tries to shield each other from the powers, they find themselves facing opposition from students controlled by the Japanese Chess Club, which has male students with new types of witch powers. The student council receives a vote of no confidence and must face a general election, however, in the process of infiltrating the chess club, Yamada learns of a witch who has connections to his past and a possible link to why he has the power in the first place.

Characters

Ryū Yamada

Ryū Yamada (山田 竜, Yamada Ryū) is an apathetic delinquent who finds high school boring and is failing in his school's academics. That is until he crashes into Shiraishi, the student academic ace of the school, at the stairs and ends up swapping bodies with her.[ch. 1] They discover that a kiss activates the swap, and that Yamada can swap with others,[ch. 5-6] although he later learns that it is actually a duplication power; that is, he can copy the power of the witch that he has kissed[ch. 18-20] He later confesses his developed feelings for Shiraishi which she returns and the two began dating.[ch. 90] Yamada's favorite food is yakisoba bread, and even has a stuffed toy named Sobasshimi (そばっし美).[ch. 105,131] He is portrayed by Yusuke Yamamoto in the live-action adaptation,[11] and by Ryōta Ōsaka in the anime.[12]

Urara Shiraishi

Urara Shiraishi (白石 うらら, Shiraishi Urara) is introduced as the student ace; she holds the highest grades in her class, but is bullied by other students who are envious of her academic success. Her decision not to go to college worries the teachers and the student council. When she discovers her body-swapping powers with Yamada, the two resolve each other's problems in school; she begins to make friends and have a social life. Toranosuke Miyamura appoints her the president of the Supernatural Studies Club.[vol. 1] After numerous adventures with Yamada she eventually agrees to be his girlfriend.[ch. 90] She is portrayed by Mariya Nishiuchi in the drama series,[11] and is voiced by Saori Hayami in the anime.[12] At her panel at Anime Expo 2015, Yoshikawa said that Shiraishi was her favorite Yamada-kun character to draw, and that her favorite feature to draw was her hair.[10]

Supernatural Studies Club

Miyamura revives the Supernatural Studies Club when he learns of Yamada and Shiraishi's body swapping ability. He appoints Urara to be the president. Miyabi joins the club and Tsubaki later joins after some events. Following the encounter with the seventh witch, Yamada leaves the club.

The members of the Supernatural Studies Club include:

  • Toranosuke Miyamura (宮村 虎之介, Miyamura Toranosuke), the student council vice-president who convinces Yamada and Shiraishi to join the dying Supernatural Studies Club as a de facto meeting place for the two to swap bodies.[ch. 5] He has a jovial personality, often flirting with Yamada and other members to try out the kiss-activated witch powers. After becoming student council president and later facing a vote of no confidence, he reveals that he pursued the presidency in order to get his sister Leona to attend school once more. In the TV drama series, he is portrayed by Ide Takuya of the J-pop band Ships.[11] In the anime, he is voiced by Toshiki Masuda.[12]
  • Miyabi Itō (伊藤 雅, Itō Miyabi), a girl who is obsessed with supernatural phenomenon who one day decides to join the Supernatural Studies Club to the club's surprise. She can be naive at times, after purchasing evidence of "supernatural" phenomena in order to get people to like her.[ch. 7-9] Yoshikawa remarked in an Natalie intereview that Ito seems to be very popular among her male readers.[8] She also remarked that Miyabi is "not all there" so she is easy to make come alive.[9] Itou is played by Reina Triendl in the TV drama series.[11] In the anime, she is voiced by Maaya Uchida.[12]
  • Kentarō Tsubaki (椿 健太郎, Tsubaki Kentarō), a transfer student who has a crush on Shiraishi. He enjoys playing video games at the arcade, and frying tempura.[ch. 37] Yamada discovers that Tsubaki will be the accidental cause of the old schoolhouse's fire from frying tempura. In the anime, he is voiced by Toshiharu Sasaki.[12]

Witches

The witches are girls at Yamada's high school who have acquired special powers that are reflective of their desires. This power is applied when they kiss someone, with exceptions of other witches, the boys with special powers such as Yamada (who copies the ability) and Tamaki (who can cut and paste the ability), and people who are already under the influence of another witch. Some powers such as body swapping and charming are cancelled out with another kiss. The seventh witch's powers operate differently from the others.[ch. 73,74] Witch powers can be stolen by certain male witches or allocated to a new witch if he takes a second witch's power while holding the first, as demonstrated with a senior girl and Noa Takigawa.[ch. 77] When the seven witches for a group are gathered in a ceremony, they can fulfill someone's wish, activated by a kiss by the seventh witch.[ch. 75,157]

Besides Urara Shiraishi, there are the following witches:

  • Nene Odagiri (小田切 寧々, Odagiri Nene), the second vice-president of the student council, she competes with Toranosuke Miyamura as a candidate to be the next student council president. Her witch ability is to capture the hearts of people she has kissed,[ch. 19-20] including Yamada's friend Ushio, who follows her wherever she goes. However, when she kisses Yamada, she is hit with her own power, developing feelings for Yamada, which linger even after the powers are cancelled out. She is the first student to regain her memories after Yamada meets the seventh witch,[ch. 73,74] and it becomes apparent to the guys such as Tamaki and Haruma that she "carries a torch" for Yamada.[ch. 73-77] She later becomes the clerk of the new student council,[ch. 92] and continues to help Yamada out. When Yamada tries to reclaim part of his memories, Nene learns that part of her own memory was manipulated, and that she has liked Yamada since the time they were in the handicrafts club.[ch. 164] Nene is portrayed by Ito Ono (Haruna in High School Debut) in the drama series.[11] In the anime, she is voiced by Eri Kitamura.[12]
  • Meiko Ōtsuka (大塚 芽子, Ōtsuka Meiko), the president of the Manga Club and the third witch that Yamada and the others encounter. She uses telepathy to communicate with whomever she kisses. She grew to admire Yamada whose body was being occupied by Shiraishi at the time. She has a shy demeanor due to a lack of experience of being around other people, but can also be bossy and demanding, especially during her club's activities. Both she and Yamada are among the worst students academically in their year.[ch. 25-30]. In the drama series, she aspires to become a manga artist.[ep 3] She is portrayed by Karen Miyama.[11] She is voiced by Yui Makino in the anime series.[12]
  • Maria Sarushima (猿島 マリア, Sarushima Maria), a transfer student who is able to see a glimpse of the future from the perspective of the person she kisses. After learning that she would be responsible for a fire at the old school building, she stops attending school, but Yamada and his friends help her out.[ch. 33-41] She has a very friendly personality and is able to talk to anyone easily. Later in the series, she pursues a modeling job and often tries to get Yamada's opinion on her photos. In the drama series, she has a different vision, and is still attending school when she meets Yamada; she has lived in the United States.[ep 5] and is portrayed by Fujiko Kojima.[11] In the anime adaptation, she is voiced by Yuki Takao.[12]
  • Noa Takigawa (滝川 ノア, Takigawa Noa), a first-year student who has instigated trouble at school along with three other schoolmates.[ch. 43] Her witch ability allows her to see a traumatic memory of the person she kisses,[ch. 49] which allowed her to exploit her schoolmates. Yamada discovers she was a very lonely person, and helps set her straight, after which she develops a crush on him.[ch. 51] During the student council recall election storyline, she reveals that she was a victim of bullying by Kaori Yasojima.[ch. 142] When Yamada copies the seventh witch power, she inadvertently becomes his spotter, that is, the person who will not forget him when he uses his memory manipulation power.[ch. 166-167] In the drama series, she is a former child actor but suffers a traumatic event in junior high.[ep 4] She is portrayed by Airi Matsui (former member of Sakura Gakuin).[11] She is voiced by Aoi Yūki in the anime series.[12]
  • Mikoto Asuka (飛鳥 美琴, Asuka Mikoto), is introduced as the student council secretary and Haruma's personal bodyguard. While she appears kind and collected, Asuka reveals a sadistic side to herself when she captures Yamada. Although she is one of the witches, prior to the events of the series, she willingly allows Tamaki to take her powers. She later heads the Japanese Chess club which serves as an antagonist to Yamada and the newer student council. In the drama series, she is a witch who makes herself invisible to whomever she kisses. Her background shows a distrust of boys who would leer at her or want her to be something she is not. However, she has a crush on Yamazaki.[ep 6] She is portrayed by Ryoko Kobayashi in the live-action drama,[11] and voiced by Kana Hanazawa in the anime adaptation.[12]
  • Rika Saionji (西園寺 リカ, Saionji Rika), a mysterious "seventh witch" who can manipulate a person's memories regarding witches without having to kiss them, but it also makes the target forget about her. In her first appearance, she carries a parasol and wears gloves, and has gotten into a habit of not wearing underwear. However, when she tries to wipe Yamada's memory, the power ends up affecting his schoolmates, including the other witches (although those witches get their memories back with Yamada's kiss).[ch. 66-75] During the witch ceremony, she activates the wish by kissing the wish maker.[ch. 8] In the drama series, Rika and Leona become friends as they discover the notebooks and the witches, but Rika's kiss makes Leona forget her.[ep 7] She is portrayed by Yukie Kawamura.[11] In the anime series, she is voiced by Masumi Tazawa.[12]
More witches

After Yamada wishes for the witch powers from the first seven girls to go away, he learns that other students have witch powers. Some of the powers are slightly different, and even precede the set gathered by Yamada. They appear to be supervised by Nancy, the seventh witch, who speculates there may be other groups of seven witches as well.[ch. 98,107,110,111]

  • Tsubasa Konno (紺野 つばさ), a basketball player,[ch. 97] has a submission ability, but unlike Nene's charm ability, the people she kisses will obey her commands rather than try to please her out of love.[ch. 97-100]
  • Nancy (ナンシー), a punk-styled student who has the power to manipulate people's memories concerning witches,[ch. 102,103] and to identify when someone has a witch power.[ch. 158-159] She and Sid[note 1] monitor the witches and which students they affect under the guise of the light music club.[ch. 108] When Yamada recalls some of his memories, it is revealed that Nancy's real name is Haruko Nijino (虹野 晴子).[ch. 158] She surrenders her witch power to Igarashi, but lets Yamada copy it first.[ch. 166]
  • Kotogi Moegi (萌黄 ことり), a petite student who enjoys playing with her doll. Her ability is to read someone's thoughts,[ch. 105] specifically anyone that the doll has kissed.[ch. 106]
  • Aiko Chikushi (筑紫 愛子), a glasses-wearing girl with long dark hair who makes money by fortune telling.[ch. 108] After reading a person's future, she tries to change it by disguising herself as a superhero and intervening in the conflict.[ch. 109]
  • Momoko Seishuin (清集院 桃子), a portly class 2-1 student with body-swapping powers. She is a member of the judo club.[112. ,114] In the back story, when she was not obese, she was the first witch to kiss Yamada, in order to help Nancy show Yamada the witch powers.[ch. 159]
  • Akane Kikuchi (菊池 アカネ), a girl with short hair whose bangs covers one of her eyes. She can turn invisible to the folks she kisses.[ch. 134] She is very busy, so her appearances in the series are brief and quick.[ch. 134,156]
  • Sora Himekawa (姫川 そら), the president of the Handicrafts Club. She is quite clumsy and accident prone, and her creations are scary-looking.[ch. 147-150] She has the ability to see a special romantic memory of the person she kisses.[ch. 151] It is revealed that she and Yamada become friends during their first year prior to meeting Urara, and that she likes him.[ch. 161]
Male witches

Some of the witch powers are found on the male students, some of whom can activate their powers by a method other than a kiss.

  • Ushio Igarashi (五十嵐 潮, Igarashi Ushio), Yamada's schoolmate and friend from middle school, but they have gone their separate ways at the beginning of high school after a fallout in which Yamada gets in trouble for beating up students.[ch. 21] He befriends Nene Odagiri and falls in love with her,[ch. 161] remaining loyal to her even after Odagiri's charm power is canceled out.[ch. 74] After he and Odagiri part ways, he allies with Asuka in the Japanese chess club.[ch. 117] He acquires the witch power of stealing a witch ability, which he applies to Moegi of mind-reading.[ch. 134] He eventually returns it in a deal with the student council to allow Yamada to make his wish of regaining his memories[ch. 156-157] in exchange for Nancy's seventh witch power.[ch. 165-167] He is portrayed by Shōtarō Mamiya in the drama series,[11] and by Daisuke Ono in the anime series.[12]
  • Shinichi Tamaki (玉木真一, Tamaki Shinichi), a so-called Witch Killer who has the power to remove a witch of her power and use it as his own. He is introduced as having the sixth witch's "invisibility" power, which makes him unnoticeable to schoolmates. He usually keeps to himself and can be rather snide when approached[ch. 53] but over time begins to open up and is recognized by Yamada and the others as a reliable friend. After Yamada meets with the seventh witch, Tamaki teams up with Yamada to reverse the effect of her powers. He later discovers he has the ability to "paste" the power back to a witch. He becomes the treasurer of the new student council,[ch. 92] and runs for student council president in the recall election. In the anime series he is voiced by Shinnosuke Tachibana.[12]
  • Jin Kurosaki (黒崎 仁), a first-year student who is selected to be a vice-president along with Arisugawa. He wears a hoodie and has a rebellious-looking appearance.[ch. 92,94] He hopes to replace Yamada with himself as Miyamura's right-hand man by finding ways to appease him and gain his praise.[ch. 122] After he kisses Yamada, he discovers he does not body swap, and upon further investigation by kissing Arisugawa, he discovers he has a new witch ability that allows him to travel to someone's past.[ch. 123,124]
  • Rui Takuma (託摩 類), a witch who got his seventh-witch power of erasing people's memories after Rika lost her power. He has long white hair, and uses a walking stick. A top student along with Shiraishi, he easily outsmarts Yamada, but he is anemic and prone to fainting spells.[ch. 125,126] He finds school "uninteresting" but remains enrolled because of his genius intellect. Upon learning that he has witch powers, he starts attending school again, observes Yamada and his activities, and becomes very interested in his relationships with others.[ch. 126,129,132]
  • Masamune Ichijo (一条 政宗), a member of the Japanese chess club and the opposition to the student council.[ch. 135] He has the power of provocation that he activates by shaking hands with the target. This makes his targets discontent and jealous about their situation, and ready to find a scapegoat to blame their problems on.[ch. 136] He is shown to be quite arrogant and often antagonizes those around him with his words.
  • Yuri Miura (三浦 悠理), a member of the Japanese chess club who has short hair styled in a bowl cut. He has the power of manipulation which he can use on just one person at a time and is activated by giving the person a headbutt. The power allows him to tune into what the target is doing and control their actions as if he was playing a first-person video game.[ch. 136-139] Kaori reveals he has a crush on his neighbor Sora Himekawa,[ch. 147,161]

Supporting characters

Yoshikawa has mentioned that many of the characters in the storyline are school peers, and hardly any adults:[8]

  • Haruma Yamazaki (山崎 春馬, Yamazaki Haruma), the president of the student council. In contrast to his aloof and perverted exterior, he is actually extremely cunning. He accomplishes his goals by manipulating and blackmailing clubs, including the Supernatural Studies Club. Along with the president, the rest of the student council is aware of the existence of witches. Yamazaki manipulates Yamada to find the identities of the seven witches by indulging him with information regarding the witches. He uses the identity of the seven witch as a final test to determine his successor. He later tries to prevent the witches from gathering, but eventually relents in order to determine why he ended up becoming president and to bring back his erased memories. His memories reveal that he was a member of the Supernatural Studies Club where he was in a close relationship with Leona Miyamura whom he had protected when Rika Saionji appeared to erase their memories. In the drama series, Haruma discovers he has the "witch killing" ability, that is he can take a witch's power with a kiss, and give it back with another kiss.[ep 6] He is portrayed by Hidenori Tokuyama.[11] In the anime adaptation, he is voiced by Jun Fukuyama.[12]
  • Leona Miyamura (宮村 レオナ, Miyamura Reona), Toranosuke's older sister, Leona has been living at home, where she likes to use scissors like throwing knives at intruders. She and Haruma were close friends and the only members of the Supernatural Studies Club, but when Haruma discovered the identity of the seventh witch, he told her to flee the school and discovered that Haruma had lost his memories. In the drama series, she stops attending school because her memory was wiped by the seventh witch.[ep 7] In the anime adaptation, she is voiced by Miyuki Sawashiro.[13]
  • Midori Arisugawa (有栖川 翠) a first-year student who becomes one of the vice-presidents under Miyamura. She is described as an airhead with big breasts.[ch. 92,94] Yamada discovers that although Midori purposely acts flirty to advance her status,[ch. 107] she does not have friends and keeps to herself in class.[ch. 113]
  • Kaori Yasojima (八十島 かおり), the only other female member of the Japanese Chess Club besides Asuka.[ch. 136] She had been bullying Noa, causing the latter to develop witch powers, but later reveals that she herself has been bullied all her time at school but naively puts up with it. She tries to get along with the chess club despite the latter's treatment of her where they often use their powers on her. When her boyfriend cruelly dumps her and leaves her to be assaulted, Yamada saves her and uses the manipulation power to change her responses to bullying. Afterwards, she begins to stand up more for herself, and gains a friend in the process.[ch. 142-147]
  • Mutta Hagiwara (萩原 六太), a member of the Japanese Chess Club and the only male member confirmed not to be a witch. He likes to joke around with the other members of the club.
  • Sid (シド), Nancy's buddy in their "light music club". He helps Nancy monitor the other witches while providing Yamada with advice and sympathizing with his desire to make Shiraishi happy as he wishes to do the same for Nancy.[ch. 108]
  • Karen Kimishima (君島 カレン), the captain of the girls' archery team. She was initially suspected of being a witch by Yamada because she refused to allow the old Archery Club's room to be reconstructed. Eventually she admits it was simply because of all the club activities that have occurred throughout the room's history. She likes to throw and slam Yamada, whom she likes but refuses to admit, when she gets embarrassed.[ch. 12-14]
  • Tatsumi Yamada (山田 辰巳), Yamada's younger sister and one of the few people he seems genuinely intimidated by as she possesses an authoritative influence over him.[volume & issue needed] She enjoys watching male idol stars.[ch. 33]

Media

Manga

The manga is written and illustrated by Miki Yoshikawa and serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine. The first chapter was published in 2012's 12th issue, released on February 22, 2012.[14] The series is also released in tankōbon volumes, the first of which was published on June 15, 2012,[15] and the latest, volume 18, on July 17, 2015.[16] On October 26, 2013, Crunchyroll announced a partnership with Kodansha where it would distribute chapters digitally to 170 countries using a new service called Crunchyroll Manga. This includes an English translated version.[5] The series is licensed for a North American release by Kodansha Comics USA who will begin releasing the series in 2015.[6] On June 17, 2015, Crunchyroll announced that Yoshikawa would be appearing at Anime Expo.[17][18]

Television drama

A live-action drama began airing on August 10, 2013 on Saturdays on FujiTV at 11:10pm.[19] It stars Yusuke Yamamoto as the title character Ryū Yamada, and Mariya Nishiuchi as Urara Shiraishi.[4] Its theme song is "Time Machine Nante Iranai" by former AKB48 headliner Atsuko Maeda. She described the song as "cheerful and fun" and hopes it will liven up the show.[20] Sponsors include Samsung, which included the show's characters in their related commercials broadcast at the time.

Episode list

The average rating for the series was 6.3%.[21]

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Anime

An animated promotional video (PV) was released by Liden Films on August 26, 2013.[22] The video was directed by Seiki Takuno. Ryu Yamada was voiced by Ryōta Ōsaka, and Urara Shiraishi was voiced by Saori Hayami.[ch. 76] In June 2014, Liden Films launched a website with news that it would be producing an original anime DVD (OAD).[23] The OAD has two installments: the first was released on December 17, 2014 bundled with the manga volume 15, and the second is bundled with volume 17 for May 15, 2015. They were advertised as featuring all seven witches as well as hot springs scenes.[24]

In November 2014, Liden films announced plans to produce a TV series with the voice characters to reprise their roles from the OAD project. The director is Tomoki Takuno, who did IDOLM@STER: XENOGLOSSIA, Love Live! School Idol Project, and the assistant director is Fumiaki Usui. The series writer is Michiko Yokote, and the chief animation director and character designer is Eriko Iida. Sound is being directed by Yota Tsuruoka and music composed by Masaru Yokoyama.[24]

A 12-episode anime adaptation produced by Liden Films and directed by Tomoki Takuno aired in Japan between April 12 and June 28, 2015. The opening theme song is "Kuchizuke Diamond" (くちづけDiamond) by WEAVER and the ending theme song is "CANDY MAGIC" by みみめめMIMI.

OAD (2014-2015)

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Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches (2015)

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Notes

  1. ^ Delinquent student Nancy is introduced with another delinquent student named Sid, a reference to Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen.

References

Manga references

Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches manga volumes by Miki Yoshikawa. Original Japanese version published by Kodansha. English version published by Crunchyroll Manga.

  1. Vol. 1 (ch. 1–7):  山田くんと7人の魔女(1) (in Japanese). June 2012. ISBN 978-4-06-384696-6. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
  2. Vol. 2 (ch. 8–16):  山田くんと7人の魔女(2) (in Japanese). August 2012. ISBN 978-4-06-384727-7. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
  3. Vol. 3 (ch. 17–25):  山田くんと7人の魔女(3) (in Japanese). October 2012. ISBN 978-4-06-384754-3. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
  4. Vol. 4 (ch. 26–34):  山田くんと7人の魔女(4) (in Japanese). December 2012. ISBN 978-4-06-384789-5. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
  5. Vol. 5 (ch. 35–43):  山田くんと7人の魔女(5) (in Japanese). February 2013. ISBN 978-4-06-384819-9. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
  6. Vol. 6 (ch. 44–51):  山田くんと7人の魔女(6) (in Japanese). April 2013. ISBN 978-4-06-384857-1. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
  7. Vol. 7 (ch. 52–60):  山田くんと7人の魔女(7) (in Japanese). June 2013. ISBN 978-4-06-384882-3. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
  8. Vol. 8 (ch. 61–69):  山田くんと7人の魔女(8) (in Japanese). August 2013. ISBN 978-4-06-394916-2. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
  9. Vol. 9 (ch. 70–76):  山田くんと7人の魔女(9) (in Japanese). September 2013. ISBN 978-4-06-394928-5. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
  10. Vol. 10 (ch. 77–85):  山田くんと7人の魔女(10) (in Japanese). December 2013. ISBN 978-4-06-394986-5. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
  11. Vol. 11 (ch. 86–94):  山田くんと7人の魔女(11) (in Japanese). March 2014. ISBN 978-4-06-395011-3. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
  12. Vol. 12 (ch. 95–102):  山田くんと7人の魔女(12) (in Japanese). May 2014. ISBN 978-4-06-395080-9. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
  13. Vol. 13 (ch. 103–110):  山田くんと7人の魔女(13) (in Japanese). July 2014. ISBN 978-4-06-395126-4. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
  14. Vol. 14 (ch. 111–119):  山田くんと7人の魔女(14) (in Japanese). September 2014. ISBN 978-4-06-395190-5. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
  15. Vol. 15 (ch. 120–128):  山田くんと7人の魔女(15) (in Japanese). December 2014. ISBN 978-4-06-395264-3. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
  16. Vol. 16 (ch. 129–137):  山田くんと7人の魔女(16) (in Japanese). March 2015. ISBN 978-4-06-395347-3. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
  17. Vol. 17 (ch. 138–146):  山田くんと7人の魔女(17) (in Japanese). May 2015. ISBN 978-4-06-395396-1. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
  18. Vol. 18 (ch. 147–): (future volumes not yet in tankobon format).

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