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* TheCameo: Daichi Shinagawa and Seiya Chiba, of Yoshikawa's previous manga, ''Manga/FlunkPunkRumble'', make a brief appearance in the first chapter.
** They also appear in the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=1_n_k5nNA3A#t=46 manga PV]] along with Hana and Rinka.
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* TheCameo: Daichi Shinagawa and Seiya Chiba, of Yoshikawa's previous manga, ''Manga/FlunkPunkRumble'', make a brief appearance as adult teachers in the first chapter.
** They also appear in the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=1_n_k5nNA3A#t=46 manga PV]] along with Hana andRinka.Rinka, but still high school-aged.
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* ChekhovsGunman: Asuka Mikoto debuts before most of the characters and appears from time to time [[spoiler:as part of the Student Council]], but she's not revealed to be a witch or even ''named'' until much later.
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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Ryu(u) and Ito(u) in the scanlations and the official Crunchyroll translation. Also, the "7-nin" in the title is alternately rendered in full Japanese as "nananin" in the series logo.
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** Sarushima just likes kissing. She doesn't really care who she does it with.
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* EveryoneIsBi: Most characters have no qualms kissing someone of the same sex. Miyamura likes Yamada to begin with, which is kicked into overdrive when he is under the influence of Nene's powers. Yamada is fine with kissing himself, or random guys at the cultural festival. A few characters are explicitly straight or at least prefer the opposite sex more, but they are the exception and not the rule.
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* ItOnlyWorksOnce: [[spoiler:Rika Saionji's amnesia power only works on a person once. No one, not even Rika, knew this until she failed to alter Nene's memories a second time.]]
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* ItOnlyWorksOnce: [[spoiler:Rika Saionji's amnesia power only works on a person witch once. No one, not even Rika, knew this until she failed to alter Nene's memories a second time.]]
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* PantyShot: These tend to happen when Yamada is in a female body and pulls off a kick. Kimishima does one when she flips Yamada. The narration helpfully advises girls not to flip people while wearing skirts to avoid this.
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* PantyShot: These tend to happen when Yamada is in a female body and pulls off a kick. Kimishima does one when she flips Yamada. The narration helpfully advises girls not to flip people while wearing skirts to avoid this. [[spoiler:Saionji willingly does the other witches and Tamaki during the time stop portion of the ceremony.]]
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** Chapter 75: [[spoiler:Saionji attempts to use her memory-wiping power again... but she discovers ItOnlyWorksOnce. Yamada now gets the attention of the Student Council President.]]
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** Chapter 75: [[spoiler:Saionji attempts to use her memory-wiping power again... but she discovers ItOnlyWorksOnce.ItOnlyWorksOnce on witches. Yamada now gets the attention of the Student Council President.]]
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* WillTheyOrWontThey: Yamada and Shiraishi. [[spoiler:TheyDo]]
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* TerribleArtist: Yamada
* TriangRelations: Two of them, both type 4: [[spoiler: Shiraishi, Yamada and Nene; Leona, Yamazaki and Rika, with Rika and Nene as the HopelessSuitor. Nene realized quite soon her love would remain unrequited and decided to back off, going for the IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy route. Rika, [[GreenEyedMonster not so much...]]]]
* TriangRelations: Two of them, both type 4: [[spoiler: Shiraishi, Yamada and Nene; Leona, Yamazaki and Rika, with Rika and Nene as the HopelessSuitor. Nene realized quite soon her love would remain unrequited and decided to back off, going for the IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy route. Rika, [[GreenEyedMonster not so much...]]]]
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* GreenEyedMonster: [[spoiler: The seventh witch was in love with Yamazaki, but himself was in love with Leona, to the point he became President to protect her club. Unable to woo him, she decided (in a sense) to MurderTheHypotenuse by wiping all memories of her, making him forget why he became President, snowballing in the whole fiasco we know of.]] It's likely nothing would have happened if it wasn't for her jealousy.
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** NotSoStoic: [[spoiler: Tamaki first appears as a male Shiraishi, with the same aloof personality and love for study books. But once he opens up to Yamada, he reveals a much goofier personality. Turns out he was aloof only because he was alone. And those books he's always seen with? They actually hide [[{{Ecchi}} erotic light novels.]]]]
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* HeelRealization: [[spoiler:Upon seeing Lenora, Yamazaki felt a surge of emotions he couldn't understand and realized his memories were erased and so wanted Yamada to perform the ceremony to recover all the memories]].
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* HeelRealization: [[spoiler:Upon seeing Lenora, Leona, Yamazaki felt a surge of emotions he couldn't understand and realized his memories were erased and so wanted Yamada to perform the ceremony to recover all the memories]].
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* [[spoiler:BroughtDownToNormal]]: When Yamada [[spoiler:completes the Witch Ceremony]] this was his desire. [[spoiler:He wished not for the memories to be turned but the Witch Powers to be gone from the school]].
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** [[spoiler:Noa gives a surprisingly casual one to Yamada.]]
** [[spoiler:Yamada gives one to Shiraishi but due to the LaserGuidedAmnesia. She turns him down.]]
** [[spoiler:Yamada gives one to Shiraishi but due to the LaserGuidedAmnesia. She turns him down.]]
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** [[spoiler:Noa gives a surprisingly casual one to Yamada.]]
Yamada]].
** [[spoiler:Yamada gives one to Shiraishi but due to the LaserGuidedAmnesia. She turns himdown.]]down]].
* LoveTriangle: [[spoiler:Yamazaki, Lenora, and Rika once the memories come back]]. Miyamura is disturbed.
** [[spoiler:Yamada gives one to Shiraishi but due to the LaserGuidedAmnesia. She turns him
* LoveTriangle: [[spoiler:Yamazaki, Lenora, and Rika once the memories come back]]. Miyamura is disturbed.
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* GeometricMagic: [[spoiler:The ceremony with the seven witches involves them standing in a circle equidistant from each other and the castor in the center]].
* HeelRealization: [[spoiler:Upon seeing Lenora, Yamazaki felt a surge of emotions he couldn't understand and realized his memories were erased and so wanted Yamada to perform the ceremony to recover all the memories]].
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* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Or at least a [[spoiler:embarrassed Tamaki]] is implied to be this when Yamada offers him a chance to join the Supernatural Club [[spoiler:after they find a way to restore everyone's memories]].
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* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Or at least a [[spoiler:embarrassed [[spoiler:an embarrassed Tamaki]] is implied to be this when Yamada offers him a chance to join the Supernatural Club [[spoiler:after they find a way to restore everyone's memories]].
** Later revealed [[spoiler:that while the physical memories can be erased and altered by Rika's power, she cannot affect a person's genuine emotions]].
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** Miyakura [[spoiler:after his memories are wiped of Yamada being his friend, sees his now HairTriggerTemer HairTriggerTemper sister asks Yamada in, doesn't object when Nene and Tamaki barge in, and hears his sister laugh for the first time in a long time]]. He finds it disturbing but enough of a reason to trust Yamada.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Meiko]] is a very timid, shy girl on the outside. But once she communicates her thoughts through telepathy, you get a more clear view at her SergeantRock personality.
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Ryu Yamada is a second-year student at Suzaku High. [[{{Delinquent}} Ryu is always late for school, naps in class and gets abysmal grades.]] The beautiful Urara Shiraishi, on the other hand, is Suzaku High's brightest student. One day, without explanation, their bodies are swapped! Ryu ends up in Urara's body, and Urara in Ryuu's. Thus begins Yamada's journey into the world of Witches and Suzaku High's mysteries.
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Ryuu Yamada is a second-year student at Suzaku High. [[{{Delinquent}} Ryuu is always late for school, naps in class and gets abysmal grades.]] The beautiful Urara Shiraishi, on the other hand, is Suzaku High's brightest student. One day, without explanation, their bodies are swapped! Ryuu ends up in Urara's body, and Urara in Ryuu's. Thus begins Yamada's journey into the world of Witches and Suzaku High's mysteries.
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* MuggleBestFriend: Miyamura and Itou (and later Tsubaki) have no powers, regardless the club members grow very close.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Nene: purple, Meiko: purple, Noa: light blue.
** RoseHairedGirl: Maria.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Based on the color pages and the animated promo -- Yamada: dark blue, Itou: dark red/maroon, Miyamura: silver, Tsubaki: green, Nene: purple, Meiko: purple, green, Noa: light blue.
blue, Maria: light pink ([[RoseHairedGirl the only one to fit a trope]])
**RoseHairedGirl: Maria.In contrast, Shiraishi is blonde [[spoiler:as is Rika Saionji]].
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* WardrobeMalfunction: Sometimes done with [[ModestyTowel towels]] or [[SlipperySwimsuits swimsuits]], when body swapping is active.
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* ClingyJealousGirl: Subverted often with Shirashi. Whenever she seems like she's a bit upset about Yamada's interaction with other girls, it's actually her being concerned about other things, such as people finding out about his secret power. Or at least that's what she wants him to think.
** Played straight in Chapter 60, when she pouts over him choosing to partner with Itou instead of her.
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* ClingyJealousGirl: ChickMagnet: Miyamura is a "straight" example, even if he's not in the slightest interested by the girls who squee over him, preferring to sexually harass Yamada instead. He certainly doesn't mind a shot of panties though.
* ClingyJealousGirl:
** Subverted often with Shirashi. Whenever she seems like she's a bit upset about Yamada's interaction with other girls, it's actually her being concerned about other things, such as people finding out about his secret power. Or at least that's what she wants him tothink.
** Playedthink. It is played straight in Chapter 60, when she pouts over him choosing to partner with Itou instead of her.her.
** [[spoiler:Rika the seventh witch,]] was revealed to be this towards [[spoiler:Yamazaki when he was just a normal student but close to Leona, Miyamura's sister]]. So she set him up [[spoiler:by telling him she was the seventh witch to ensure he would forget about Leona with her memory wiping powers]].
* ClingyJealousGirl:
** Subverted often with Shirashi. Whenever she seems like she's a bit upset about Yamada's interaction with other girls, it's actually her being concerned about other things, such as people finding out about his secret power. Or at least that's what she wants him to
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** [[spoiler:Rika the seventh witch,]] was revealed to be this towards [[spoiler:Yamazaki when he was just a normal student but close to Leona, Miyamura's sister]]. So she set him up [[spoiler:by telling him she was the seventh witch to ensure he would forget about Leona with her memory wiping powers]].
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: The power of [[spoiler:Rika Saionji]], which removes the memories of anything connected to the Witches from the targets mind if they know the last Witch's name. [[spoiler:Even her own memories of her own life.]]
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: LaserGuidedAmnesia:
** The power of [[spoiler:Rika Saionji]], which removes the memories of anything connected to the Witches from the targets mind if they know the last Witch's name. [[spoiler:Even her own memories of her own life.]]]]
** Later revealed [[spoiler:Yamazaki, the student Council President, suffered from this as well. He was Leona's friend who lost all memories of her]].
** The power of [[spoiler:Rika Saionji]], which removes the memories of anything connected to the Witches from the targets mind if they know the last Witch's name. [[spoiler:Even her own memories of her own life.
** Later revealed [[spoiler:Yamazaki, the student Council President, suffered from this as well. He was Leona's friend who lost all memories of her]].
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* TheReveal: Miyamura's sister realizes [[spoiler:Tamaki just doesn't strip the power from a witch, he could give it back to a witch or new person]].
* RivalsTeamUp: Miyamura, Nene, and Tamaki in order to be chosen as a candidate for School President.
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* TheReveal: TheReveal:
** Leona, Miyamura'ssister sister, realizes [[spoiler:Tamaki just doesn't strip the power from a witch, he could give it back to a witch or new person]].
** Leona also reveals [[spoiler:not only was she in the original Supernatural Studies Club, Yamazaki was in it too and his original goal to be Student Council President was to keep the club alive. And then Rika joined, and out of jealousy, set Yamazaki up to erase his memories so she would have him]].
*RivalsTeamUp: Miyamura, RivalsTeamUp:
**Miyamura, Nene, and Tamaki in order to be chosen as a candidate for SchoolPresident.President.
** Nene organizes the [[spoiler:other three witches to capture Asuka]].
** Leona, Miyamura's
** Leona also reveals [[spoiler:not only was she in the original Supernatural Studies Club, Yamazaki was in it too and his original goal to be Student Council President was to keep the club alive. And then Rika joined, and out of jealousy, set Yamazaki up to erase his memories so she would have him]].
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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Yamada asks [[spoiler:Rika the Seventh Witch why did the President order Asuka to switch bodies with Urara if he had absolute faith in Rika and her abilities? Why didn't he even tell her about this plot? Could he not trust her?]] The normally controlled questioned gets flustered.
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** All the students started freaking out immediately when they noticed Yamada was studying seriously.
** Miyakura [[spoiler:after his memories are wiped of Yamada being his friend, sees his now HairTriggerTemer sister asks Yamada in, doesn't object when Nene and Tamaki barge in, and hears his sister laugh for the first time in a long time]]. He finds it disturbing but enough of a reason to trust Yamada.
* OppositesAttract: Yamada and Urara are as opposite as they canget, get as one is a BookDumb emotion-driven fighter and the other is a stoic and brilliant student, but they both love each other.
** All the students started freaking out immediately when they noticed Yamada was studying seriously.
** Miyakura [[spoiler:after his memories are wiped of Yamada being his friend, sees his now HairTriggerTemer sister asks Yamada in, doesn't object when Nene and Tamaki barge in, and hears his sister laugh for the first time in a long time]]. He finds it disturbing but enough of a reason to trust Yamada.
* OppositesAttract: Yamada and Urara are as opposite as they can
* TheReveal: Miyamura's sister realizes [[spoiler:Tamaki just doesn't strip the power from a witch, he could give it back to a witch or new person]].
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* YouAreNotAlone: Yamada tells [[spoiler:Rika Saionji]] this. [[spoiler:She confesses that when her power activated, people ignored her. She was truly invisible to anyone and everyone, save the Student Council President. He could speak with her, could be friends with her. It was the foundation of her trust for him]]. But when Yamada shakes that, he further counters [[spoiler:Nene, Tamaki, and he now know about her, can be friends with her. She doesn't have to rely on the President to no longer be alone]].
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* AbortedDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler:Nene]], believing she's going to get her memory wiped out again, tries to give one to Yamada. At the same moment, he obliviously decides he's too cool to let her finish.
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: The power of [[spoiler:Rika Saionji]], which removes the memories of anything connected to the Witches from the targets mind if they know the last Witch name.
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: The power of [[spoiler:Rika Saionji]], which removes the memories of anything connected to the Witches from the targets mind if they know the last Witch name.Witch's name. [[spoiler:Even her own memories of her own life.]]
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* RedHerring: Before all seven witches were accounted for, other female characters could be considered this - like Karen Kimishima, the archery team captain who appears occasionally.
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** [[spoiler:Rika's is NOT happy to have her power as no one will be able to remember anything about her at all.]]
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[[caption-width-right:250:Yamada and friends.]]
-> ''"Long ago - well, not really, but shush - there lived a boy named Yamada. Yamada was what you would call a problem child. All the students at his school were afraid of him. Then one day... Something happened and Yamada was never the same."''
''Yamada-kun to 7-nin no Majo'' (山田くんと7人の魔女), or ''Yamada and the 7 Witches'' is a shounen supernatural romantic comedy manga, with elements of ecchi and Gender Bending by Miki Yoshikawa (who has been an assistant to Hiro Mashima, explaining why the artstyle bears some resemblance to ''Manga/FairyTail''), currently being serialised in Weekly Shōnen Magazine.
Ryuu Yamada is a second-year student at Suzaku High. [[{{Delinquent}} Ryuu is always late for school, naps in class and gets abysmal grades.]] The beautiful Urara Shiraishi, on the other hand, is Suzaku High's brightest student. One day, without explanation, their bodies are swapped! Ryuu ends up in Urara's body, and Urara in Ryuu's. Thus begins Yamada's journey into the world of Witches and Suzaku High's mysteries.
A Live-Action TV show began airing on August 10th.
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!! This manga provides examples of:
* AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil: [[spoiler:The council president is actually aware of the Witches in the school and keeps them in line]]. Moreover, according to Tamaki, the power it holds is absolute. If you're nominated for a place inside this Council, you can't refuse. [[spoiler:And Rika the Seventh Witch serves as their enforcer, erasing memories as needed.]]
* AccidentalKiss: Actually important in the first few chapters for puzzling out the mechanics of swapping bodies.
* AllMenArePerverts: While most are, Yamada is never shown using the swap or charm powers in perverted means.
* AProtagonistIsRyu: Ryuu Yamada.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Despite her cold demeanor, Shiraishi really does care about Yamada and truly trust him, to the point when she does not even bother to ask him why he wants to swap into her body. This is further demonstrated when she demanded to include him in her camping group or said that she enjoyed school now because of him. Yamada himself admits later that he is in love with her.
* BeachEpisode: Chapter 25 and 26.
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Yamazaki, the student council president]] is shaping up to be this.
** TheDragon: [[spoiler:Asuka who, by chapter 81, has swapped body with Urara in order to held her as a hostage.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Meiko]] is a very timid, shy girl on the outside. But once she communicates her thoughts through telepathy, you get a more clear view at her SergeantRock personality.
* BiTheWay: Miyamura has no problem flirting with Yamada or hitting on all the girls. ''Especially'' when under Yamada's love power, which Nene points out doesn't change people that much when it's used on them.
** Furthermore, during this 7th Witch arc, Miyamura had no problems [[HoYay "experimenting with Yamada"]] after the latter kissed him.
* BlatantLies: Itou trying to convince the Supernatural Club of her psychic abilities (by physically bending a spoon) or her possessions (a photo of a UFO fake on a string and a rock).
* [[spoiler:BlessedWithSuck]]:[[spoiler:Rika's is NOT happy to have her power as no one will be able to remember anything about her at all.]]
* BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine: When Yamada plays tsukkomi some of the boke behaviours he is up against are sometimes enough to make his eyes bulge. Occasionally Yamada's apparent idiocy makes him the boke.
* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:Yamada gets hit by this hard after meeting the 7th Witch. Instead of losing his memories, everyone's memories of him gets replaced. He's alienated by his former friends as he is nothing but a stranger to them now. He asked Shiraishi out, only for her to reject him because she claimed she loves someone else. Itou claimed that she was in love with some other club member because they committed acts that Yamada actually did (like accidentally kissing Shiraishi while falling down the stairs or catching bathroom peepers). And after all those months of cultivating a loving relationship with her too. Then again, this is [[TheDitz Itou]] we're talking about who also claimed she might be in love with Itou.]]
** Even before that, there is his backstory with Ushio. [[spoiler:Your best friend jumps into a fight, making you feel obliged to do the same only for him to turn around and lie that you were the only one fighting, resulting in a suspension from school and turning you into the school's outcast?]]
* ButtMonkey: Yamada. The other characters act as comic relief as well, but Yamada seems to get most of the slapstick, the harshest jokes and the blame directed at him.
* BuxomIsBetter: Shiraishi is very beautiful, perfect, and as Miyamura's noted, has E-Cup breast.
** If the latest beach picture can be used as a reference then this applies to Nene, Maria and [[spoiler:Rika]] as well.
* TheCameo: Daichi Shinagawa and Seiya Chiba, of Yoshikawa's previous manga, ''Manga/FlunkPunkRumble'', make a brief appearance in the first chapter.
** They also appear in the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=1_n_k5nNA3A#t=46 manga PV]] along with Hana and Rinka.
* CharacterDevelopment: Not just a tool for characterization but actually a plot important point. [[spoiler:Yamada's influence and help encouraged the Witches to change for the better. With their memories of him gone, all the Character Development made has been lost, with the Witches going back to their old, and, for four of them, wicked ways.]]. It does a toll on Tamaki when he realizes that, helping him to grow too.
* CharmPerson: The power of Nene Odagiri, who makes anyone she kisses fall in love with her. She then uses them to her advantage. [[spoiler:Turns against her when Yamada uses the same power on her.]]
* ClingyJealousGirl: Subverted often with Shirashi. Whenever she seems like she's a bit upset about Yamada's interaction with other girls, it's actually her being concerned about other things, such as people finding out about his secret power. Or at least that's what she wants him to think.
** Played straight in Chapter 60, when she pouts over him choosing to partner with Itou instead of her.
* CluelessChickMagnet: Yamada has no idea when chicks are into him. Isn't that right Odagiri? This is lampshaded by Tamaki.
** ChickMagnet: Miyamura is a "straight" example, even if he's not in the slightest interested by the girls who squee over him, prefering to sexually harass Yamada instead. He certainly doesn't mind a shot of panties though.
* ContrivedCoincidence: Honestly, what are the chances of Yamada and Shiraishi accidentally kissing each other in that way?
** Also, what are the chances that the person Shiraishi has an AccidentalKiss with is the guy with PowerCopying?
* CoolBigSis: Miyamura's older sister Leona. [[spoiler:When she drops her shields, she shows she has a great depth of feeling but is also scared of the 7th Witch. When she realizes her brother was victim to her, she agrees to help Yamada fix everything.]]
** Yamada's sister thinks Nene is this.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Ushio does NOT like it when Nene kisses other people. Even if she's just doing it to cast her spell.
* CursedWithAwesome: Some of the Witches are unhappy with their abilities. The most obvious example is Maria who wants to get rid of her ability. The reasoning being is that her power takes the fun out of her life and it's impractical to have a relationship with someone if her power activates every time she kisses.
* CuteAndPsycho: [[spoiler:Asuka Mikoto]] after Yamada uses Nene's power on her. She wasn't exactly sane before but the trope was played UpToEleven during that time.
-->'''Yamada:''' Sh-She's not just crazy... she belong in an asylum!
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Or at least a shaky, reluctant one at that.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Shiraishi. Nene as well.
* {{Delinquents}}: Yamada and Ushio.
* DoWellButNotPerfect: The first time Yamada asked Shiraishi to take some exams in his place, she scored just one point below perfect just to show off.
* EmotionlessGirl: Shiraishi seems to be this on the outside, but she's more emotional than most people would think.
* FlashbackNightmare: The power [[spoiler:of Noa]], which lets people see the traumatic events in someone's past after they fall asleep.
* TheFourGods: The school is named after Suzaku, the Vermillion Bird. The narration in the first few chapters reveals there are also Seiryu, Byakko, and Genbu high schools. In fact, [[spoiler:Miyamura transferred from Seiryu high]].
* FreakyFridayFlip: What kicked off the plot. It was thought to be Yamada's power, but turned out to be Shiraishi's instead.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:Miyamura easily [[SpottingTheThread spots the thread]] and makes Yamada reveal his and Shiraishi's secret. Much later it's revealed that the whole reason why he transfered himself to Suzaku High in the first place is because he knew about the Witch powers.]]
* GenderBender: The first switch is with Shirashi, Yamada's female classmate who sits next to him. As they are joined by more students they all start trying out the body swapping.
** FirstLawOfGenderBending: Averted. GenderBending, or more precisely FreakyFridayFlip, is mostly a mean to an end and it gets the most usage only because it's the Witch power most readily available to the main cast[[spoiler: and a relatively harmless way to protect them from other Witch powers as two of them can't affect the same target at once.]]
** SecondLawOfGenderBending: Also averted. Characters don't markedly enjoy GenderBending more than they want to take another's place or vice versa. E.g. Yamada asking Shirashi to take an exam for him or him using her body to outwit someone else.
** ThirdLawOfGenderBending: The hat trick. Personalities remain unaffected and the characters have troubles to behave in a "gender appropriate" manner, Yamada being the [[HotBlooded most shining]] example.
* GoingCommando: [[spoiler:Rika Saionji]] states that she wear any since the day she forgot to put some on.
* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: Nene's plans fall apart when her power is used against her.
** [[spoiler:The President having everyone's memory erased of Yamada ends up coming back to bite him as the Witches abuse their power and go back to their old ways.]]
* HowDoIShotWeb: It took the characters a lot of time, creativity, experimentation and plain luck to learn how the Witch/Witch Hunter powers work. For example, only after Yamada [[PowerCopying copies]] another Witch power, him and Shirashi figured out that ''she'' was a Witch the whole time. [[spoiler:Not even the Student Council seems to know every quirk about the Witch powers.]]
* HypocriticalHumor: Frequent and lampshaded accordingly.
* IDidntMeanToTurnYouOn: Yamada unintentionally does this to [[spoiler:Noa when he asks her about the Witch Killer.]]
* IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:Once her memories are restored by kissing Yamada, Nene realizes she's in love with him. Yamazaki realizes this as well and makes her an offer to be with Yamada if she stops helping him gather the witches. She confesses to Tamaki that she told Yamazaki to stuff it because she knows that Yamada is in love with Shiraishi and she'd rather enjoy what time they have together than be a nuisance to him.]]
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Or at least a [[spoiler:embarrassed Tamaki]] is implied to be this when Yamada offers him a chance to join the Supernatural Club [[spoiler:after they find a way to restore everyone's memories]].
* ImagineSpot: Itou, [[RunningGag frequently]].
* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: Shirashi was a loner and bullied by other girls before she met Yamada.
** Part of it might have had to do with her academic excellence or it could have also been her stoic personality. It's never clearly established why she was being bullied.
* ItOnlyWorksOnce: [[spoiler:Rika Saionji's amnesia power only works on a person once. No one, not even Rika, knew this until she failed to alter Nene's memories a second time.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Nene Odagiri started out as this, but she starts changing. Noa and her friends aren't the nicest of people, but they do [[HiddenHeartOfGold care about each other]].
** Same can be said for Ushio, but all of those actions were out of his love for Nene.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Yamada may be a delinquent, but he'll go out of his way to help people in trouble. Even if said people antagonized him.
* KarmaHoudini:
** Nene never really faces any punishment for hypnotizing several people into being her obedient love slaves. Most likely because she never demanded ''too'' much from them and, as herself discovered when Yamada accidentally uses her own power on her, life is a lot more interesting for people in love.
** Ushio doesn't really face much punishment for framing Yamada as the sole perpetrator of the street fight in their backstory. He refuses to apologize for it as well. Although the reasons as to why he did it are implied to be more complicated than he lets on.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: The power of [[spoiler:Rika Saionji]], which removes the memories of anything connected to the Witches from the targets mind if they know the last Witch name.
* LastNameBasis: Everyone.
* LegacyCharacter: According to Noa, the Witch powers are this. There is always a person who will have one of the Witch powers. If one Witch leaves the school, the powers will be passed onto another person. [[spoiler:Noa herself got the power because the president ordered Tamaki to steal the power from her predecessor at the start of the year before the story begin.]]
* LemonyNarrator: The margin notes look informative at first glance, but they are fond of dishing out superfluous information. And making fun of Yamada.
* LoveConfession:
** [[spoiler:Noa gives a surprisingly casual one to Yamada.]]
** [[spoiler:Yamada gives one to Shiraishi but due to the LaserGuidedAmnesia. She turns him down.]]
* MagicKiss: How the Witches are able to use their powers.
* ManIFeelLikeAWoman: Averted with Yamada, played somewhat straight with [[TheGadfly Miyamura]].
* MsFanservice: Nene, although it's always unintentional.
* MeaningfulName:
** Shiraishi Urara means ''Lovely White Stone''.
** Yamada's given name means ''Dragon''. Miyamura's given name has the kanji of ''Tiger''. Dragon and Tiger. TheHero and TheLancer?
** Inverted in case of Miyabi however. Miyabi means graceful but she's TomBoy to Urara's girly girl.
** ''Takigawa'' means ''Waterfall River''. Noa has [[CurtainsMatchTheWindow blue hair and blue eyes]]. Her power [[spoiler:to see the past is like water, an irreversible flow.]] The name Noa is homophone with ''Noah''.
** The pinyin used in Rika's name means ''flower of truth''.
* NoSell: Witches' powers don't work on Yamada. However if a Witch kisses him, the power he just copied from them will instead be used on them.
* NotBrainwashed: Played with. Yamada's old friend Ushio Igarashi is under the influence of Nene's Witch power, but he knows that he's under her power and accepts it.
* NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught: Yamada sometimes switches with Shirashi so she can do his tests and homework. He uses the telepathy power in order for him, Meiko, and her friends to finish their schoolwork early in summer school.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: All the students started freaking out immediately when they noticed Yamada was studying seriously.
* OppositesAttract: Yamada and Urara are as opposite as they can get, but they both love each other.
* OutOfCharacterAlert: An inversion. Seeing Shirashi doing a RoundhouseKick made Miyamura realize it was actually Yamada in Shiraishi's body.
* PantyShot: These tend to happen when Yamada is in a female body and pulls off a kick. Kimishima does one when she flips Yamada. The narration helpfully advises girls not to flip people while wearing skirts to avoid this.
* PerceptionFilter: The power of [[spoiler:Asuka Mikoto until Tamaki took it from her,]] which makes anyone that gets kissed be incapable of seeing that person. [[spoiler:This enable her to swap body with Shiraishi and kidnap her per president's command.]]
* PowerCopying: What Yamada's power turns out to be. Effectively this makes him the only person who can use their powers on a Witch. All the other rules of powers still apply.
* PowerParasite: The power of Tamaki, which steals the power of any Witch he kisses. It lasts until another girl is kissed, then the power is replaced and returns to the one the power belonged to. [[spoiler:Leona suggested Tamaki to return his current power to Asuka and take away Rika's power.]]
* PowersAsPrograms: Magic is apparently very easily copied, but on the other hand there doesn't appear to be any way of storing it. Unfortunately for Yamada he doesn't think this through and ends up [[spoiler:overwriting the love power, leaving him unable to reverse the love effect on Miyamura and Miyabi until he can get to Nene and copy her power again.]] He is not pleased when he realises this.
* PowerPerversionPotential: Yamada is usually surprisingly responsible. However, this doesn't stop the other characters imagining what Yamada could do with the power, nor does it stop Itou and Miyamura from acting like complete perverts when under certain powers. It's safe to say that Yoshikawa, as the author, has considered the implications of the powers.
* PsychicPowers: What the powers of the Witches are. In order of appearance: FreakyFridayFlip, CharmPerson, {{Telepathy}}, {{Seers}}, FlashbackNightmare, PerceptionFilter, and LaserGuidedAmnesia.
* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler:Miyamura's a transfer student who went to Suzaku to hunt down the Seventh Witch who messed with his sister.]]
* [[spoiler:ResetButton]]: [[spoiler:The Seventh Witch hits it by deleting everyone's memories of Yamada from Chapter 1 until now, reversing the Witches' character development and resulting in them blatantly misusing their powers again.]]
* RivalsTeamUp: Miyamura, Nene, and Tamaki in order to be chosen as a candidate for School President.
* RoundhouseKick: Yamada likes pulling these off. Possibly they're useful for him when in a girls' bodies, but they're so distinctive they can give away his identity.
* SacredFirstKiss: Interestingly averted. Both Shirashi and Yamada say that the event that starts off the manga was their first kiss for both of them... But perhaps inevitably most characters in the manga take a more flexible view to kissing. As Miyamura points out, it's a small price to pay for being able to use Witch powers.
** Played straight in Chapter 65. [[spoiler:Shiraishi clearly treasured the fact that she was Yamada's first kiss. She wanted to stay close to him because she didn't want to risk handing that position to anybody else after he was supposed to lose his memories about it.]]
* ScrewDestiny: This is basically Yamada's aim at one point. [[spoiler:It's possible to change Saurshima's visions by using the power of another Witch. They attempt to use Shirashi's to change the future where the old school building is burning down.]]
* {{Seers}}: The Witch Maria Sarushima can see the future. Unfortunately her power only allows her to see what's [[YouCantFightFate destined to come to pass]], [[spoiler:unless another Witch's power is used]].
* ShipTease: Most of the time Shiraishi smiles, it's when she's around Yamada.
** Shiraishi refuses to kiss Miyamura, but has no problem kissing Yamada (and Itou). But it should be noted that she doesn't have any problem with him kissing other people.
** Shiraishi also seems irked that Yamada chose Itou instead of her during a school investigation.
** A lot in Chapter 65. Shiraishi was resolute to sticking close to Yamada despite the danger, because [[spoiler:she was determined to kiss him right after he lost his memory because she wanted to be his first kiss again. She was determined that nobody would "swipe her spot."]]
* SlidingScaleOfProactiveness: Pretty much ''every'' character [[BrokenMasquerade in-the-know]] is almost ridiculously proactive and much of the plot happens because one's actions quickly ends crossing with another's plans.
* SickeninglySweethearts: The whole Supernatural Club gets this vibe from Yamada and [[spoiler:Takigawa Noa]] after the latter decides to stick a bit too close to him for a while. Mind you, Yamada constantly complains to her about it and he never once flirted back ([[IDidntMeanToTurnYouOn knowingly, that's it]]), but it's just that his friends can tell he's being a lot nicer than they know he ''could'' be. [[spoiler:Shiraishi correctly deduced that Yamada became very sympathetic of Noa after [[FlashbackNightmare her power]] let him see a traumatic event from her past.]]
* SpannerInTheWorks: Yamada has played this a few times by being immune to the Witch's powers. He reversed Nene's love kiss on her without knowing it would affect her, and it prompted character development in her. [[spoiler:With his quest to undo the massive erasing of memories of the student population because he learned the seventh Witch's name. Then by helping Nene get her memories back, and the discovery the seventh Witch's power only works once, the Student Council President will put all of his attention on Yamada.]]
* SpeakOfTheDevil: Anyone who finds out the Seventh Witch's name (with the exception of the President) will find themselves being forgotten by everyone else. [[spoiler:Happens to Yamada and Tamaki.]]
* StaircaseTumble: In the very first chapter, which results in Shirashi and Yamada switching bodies. [[spoiler:Happens later on during Sarushima's arc, but thanks to it Yamada figured out other Witch powers can change the future.]]
* StepfordSmiler: Several of the characters in the story are actually pretty broken inside, despite their outward appearance. Prominent examples are [[spoiler:Noa and Miyamura.]]
* {{Telepathy}}: The power of [[spoiler:Meiko Otsuka]] who creates a PsychicLink similar to a cell phone call and requires one to picture that person in their head to send messages to them.
* TheStoic: Shirashi's facial expression rarely changes. Even when she body swaps for the first time, she isn't alarmed about it at all.
* TheTease: Noa to Yamada. [[spoiler:She dials this up when she starts to fall for him.]]
* TortureTechnician: [[spoiler:Asuka Mikoto]] is one. You better don't mess with the President.
* TheSevenMysteries: Suzaku High has their own set, and one of them is the mystery of the Witches.
* {{Unperson}}: [[spoiler:The "Witch Killers", Yamada and Tamaki, now suffers from this, courtesy of the 7th Witch who can mindwipe people at will, except them. It only work once on Witches though.]]
* UnwantedHarem: Almost all the Witches have been or are interested by Yamada. He couldn't care less since he only has [[spoiler:Urara]] in mind.
* WhamLine:
** Chapter 57. [[spoiler:"I love Shiraishi." - Yamada]]
* WhamEpisode
** Chapter 60 & 61. [[spoiler:The Seventh Witch has been at the school for over eight years - and no, she's ''not'' a teacher.]]
** Chapter 66: [[spoiler:The Seventh Witch has made her appearance, but she didn't erase Yamada's memory of Witches... she erased his friends' memories of ''him''.]]
** Chapter 75: [[spoiler:Saionji attempts to use her memory-wiping power again... but she discovers ItOnlyWorksOnce. Yamada now gets the attention of the Student Council President.]]
* WhenSheSmiles: Almost all of the antagonistic Witches give this to Yamada after some [[DefeatMeansFriendship conflict-resolution occurs.]]
** Shiraishi also fits this bill.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Yamada and Shiraishi.
* WistfulAmnesia: As [[spoiler:Takigawa Noa]] tells Yamada after recovering her memories in chapter 78, to put it mildly.
-->What… '''''took''''' you so long?\\
There's been this… '''''big''''', '''''black hole''''' in my heart. I was so confused. I couldn't understand why I would suddenly feel that way.
** And given [[spoiler:Shiraishi's tears after Yamada kissed Nene]] she feels this too.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Nene: purple, Meiko: purple, Noa: light blue.
** RoseHairedGirl: Maria.
* YouthfulFreckles: [[spoiler:Rika Saionji]]
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[[caption-width-right:250:Yamada and friends.]]
-> ''"Long ago - well, not really, but shush - there lived a boy named Yamada. Yamada was what you would call a problem child. All the students at his school were afraid of him. Then one day... Something happened and Yamada was never the same."''
''Yamada-kun to 7-nin no Majo'' (山田くんと7人の魔女), or ''Yamada and the 7 Witches'' is a shounen supernatural romantic comedy manga, with elements of ecchi and Gender Bending by Miki Yoshikawa (who has been an assistant to Hiro Mashima, explaining why the artstyle bears some resemblance to ''Manga/FairyTail''), currently being serialised in Weekly Shōnen Magazine.
Ryuu Yamada is a second-year student at Suzaku High. [[{{Delinquent}} Ryuu is always late for school, naps in class and gets abysmal grades.]] The beautiful Urara Shiraishi, on the other hand, is Suzaku High's brightest student. One day, without explanation, their bodies are swapped! Ryuu ends up in Urara's body, and Urara in Ryuu's. Thus begins Yamada's journey into the world of Witches and Suzaku High's mysteries.
A Live-Action TV show began airing on August 10th.
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!! This manga provides examples of:
* AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil: [[spoiler:The council president is actually aware of the Witches in the school and keeps them in line]]. Moreover, according to Tamaki, the power it holds is absolute. If you're nominated for a place inside this Council, you can't refuse. [[spoiler:And Rika the Seventh Witch serves as their enforcer, erasing memories as needed.]]
* AccidentalKiss: Actually important in the first few chapters for puzzling out the mechanics of swapping bodies.
* AllMenArePerverts: While most are, Yamada is never shown using the swap or charm powers in perverted means.
* AProtagonistIsRyu: Ryuu Yamada.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Despite her cold demeanor, Shiraishi really does care about Yamada and truly trust him, to the point when she does not even bother to ask him why he wants to swap into her body. This is further demonstrated when she demanded to include him in her camping group or said that she enjoyed school now because of him. Yamada himself admits later that he is in love with her.
* BeachEpisode: Chapter 25 and 26.
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Yamazaki, the student council president]] is shaping up to be this.
** TheDragon: [[spoiler:Asuka who, by chapter 81, has swapped body with Urara in order to held her as a hostage.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Meiko]] is a very timid, shy girl on the outside. But once she communicates her thoughts through telepathy, you get a more clear view at her SergeantRock personality.
* BiTheWay: Miyamura has no problem flirting with Yamada or hitting on all the girls. ''Especially'' when under Yamada's love power, which Nene points out doesn't change people that much when it's used on them.
** Furthermore, during this 7th Witch arc, Miyamura had no problems [[HoYay "experimenting with Yamada"]] after the latter kissed him.
* BlatantLies: Itou trying to convince the Supernatural Club of her psychic abilities (by physically bending a spoon) or her possessions (a photo of a UFO fake on a string and a rock).
* [[spoiler:BlessedWithSuck]]:[[spoiler:Rika's is NOT happy to have her power as no one will be able to remember anything about her at all.]]
* BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine: When Yamada plays tsukkomi some of the boke behaviours he is up against are sometimes enough to make his eyes bulge. Occasionally Yamada's apparent idiocy makes him the boke.
* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:Yamada gets hit by this hard after meeting the 7th Witch. Instead of losing his memories, everyone's memories of him gets replaced. He's alienated by his former friends as he is nothing but a stranger to them now. He asked Shiraishi out, only for her to reject him because she claimed she loves someone else. Itou claimed that she was in love with some other club member because they committed acts that Yamada actually did (like accidentally kissing Shiraishi while falling down the stairs or catching bathroom peepers). And after all those months of cultivating a loving relationship with her too. Then again, this is [[TheDitz Itou]] we're talking about who also claimed she might be in love with Itou.]]
** Even before that, there is his backstory with Ushio. [[spoiler:Your best friend jumps into a fight, making you feel obliged to do the same only for him to turn around and lie that you were the only one fighting, resulting in a suspension from school and turning you into the school's outcast?]]
* ButtMonkey: Yamada. The other characters act as comic relief as well, but Yamada seems to get most of the slapstick, the harshest jokes and the blame directed at him.
* BuxomIsBetter: Shiraishi is very beautiful, perfect, and as Miyamura's noted, has E-Cup breast.
** If the latest beach picture can be used as a reference then this applies to Nene, Maria and [[spoiler:Rika]] as well.
* TheCameo: Daichi Shinagawa and Seiya Chiba, of Yoshikawa's previous manga, ''Manga/FlunkPunkRumble'', make a brief appearance in the first chapter.
** They also appear in the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=1_n_k5nNA3A#t=46 manga PV]] along with Hana and Rinka.
* CharacterDevelopment: Not just a tool for characterization but actually a plot important point. [[spoiler:Yamada's influence and help encouraged the Witches to change for the better. With their memories of him gone, all the Character Development made has been lost, with the Witches going back to their old, and, for four of them, wicked ways.]]. It does a toll on Tamaki when he realizes that, helping him to grow too.
* CharmPerson: The power of Nene Odagiri, who makes anyone she kisses fall in love with her. She then uses them to her advantage. [[spoiler:Turns against her when Yamada uses the same power on her.]]
* ClingyJealousGirl: Subverted often with Shirashi. Whenever she seems like she's a bit upset about Yamada's interaction with other girls, it's actually her being concerned about other things, such as people finding out about his secret power. Or at least that's what she wants him to think.
** Played straight in Chapter 60, when she pouts over him choosing to partner with Itou instead of her.
* CluelessChickMagnet: Yamada has no idea when chicks are into him. Isn't that right Odagiri? This is lampshaded by Tamaki.
** ChickMagnet: Miyamura is a "straight" example, even if he's not in the slightest interested by the girls who squee over him, prefering to sexually harass Yamada instead. He certainly doesn't mind a shot of panties though.
* ContrivedCoincidence: Honestly, what are the chances of Yamada and Shiraishi accidentally kissing each other in that way?
** Also, what are the chances that the person Shiraishi has an AccidentalKiss with is the guy with PowerCopying?
* CoolBigSis: Miyamura's older sister Leona. [[spoiler:When she drops her shields, she shows she has a great depth of feeling but is also scared of the 7th Witch. When she realizes her brother was victim to her, she agrees to help Yamada fix everything.]]
** Yamada's sister thinks Nene is this.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Ushio does NOT like it when Nene kisses other people. Even if she's just doing it to cast her spell.
* CursedWithAwesome: Some of the Witches are unhappy with their abilities. The most obvious example is Maria who wants to get rid of her ability. The reasoning being is that her power takes the fun out of her life and it's impractical to have a relationship with someone if her power activates every time she kisses.
* CuteAndPsycho: [[spoiler:Asuka Mikoto]] after Yamada uses Nene's power on her. She wasn't exactly sane before but the trope was played UpToEleven during that time.
-->'''Yamada:''' Sh-She's not just crazy... she belong in an asylum!
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Or at least a shaky, reluctant one at that.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Shiraishi. Nene as well.
* {{Delinquents}}: Yamada and Ushio.
* DoWellButNotPerfect: The first time Yamada asked Shiraishi to take some exams in his place, she scored just one point below perfect just to show off.
* EmotionlessGirl: Shiraishi seems to be this on the outside, but she's more emotional than most people would think.
* FlashbackNightmare: The power [[spoiler:of Noa]], which lets people see the traumatic events in someone's past after they fall asleep.
* TheFourGods: The school is named after Suzaku, the Vermillion Bird. The narration in the first few chapters reveals there are also Seiryu, Byakko, and Genbu high schools. In fact, [[spoiler:Miyamura transferred from Seiryu high]].
* FreakyFridayFlip: What kicked off the plot. It was thought to be Yamada's power, but turned out to be Shiraishi's instead.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:Miyamura easily [[SpottingTheThread spots the thread]] and makes Yamada reveal his and Shiraishi's secret. Much later it's revealed that the whole reason why he transfered himself to Suzaku High in the first place is because he knew about the Witch powers.]]
* GenderBender: The first switch is with Shirashi, Yamada's female classmate who sits next to him. As they are joined by more students they all start trying out the body swapping.
** FirstLawOfGenderBending: Averted. GenderBending, or more precisely FreakyFridayFlip, is mostly a mean to an end and it gets the most usage only because it's the Witch power most readily available to the main cast[[spoiler: and a relatively harmless way to protect them from other Witch powers as two of them can't affect the same target at once.]]
** SecondLawOfGenderBending: Also averted. Characters don't markedly enjoy GenderBending more than they want to take another's place or vice versa. E.g. Yamada asking Shirashi to take an exam for him or him using her body to outwit someone else.
** ThirdLawOfGenderBending: The hat trick. Personalities remain unaffected and the characters have troubles to behave in a "gender appropriate" manner, Yamada being the [[HotBlooded most shining]] example.
* GoingCommando: [[spoiler:Rika Saionji]] states that she wear any since the day she forgot to put some on.
* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: Nene's plans fall apart when her power is used against her.
** [[spoiler:The President having everyone's memory erased of Yamada ends up coming back to bite him as the Witches abuse their power and go back to their old ways.]]
* HowDoIShotWeb: It took the characters a lot of time, creativity, experimentation and plain luck to learn how the Witch/Witch Hunter powers work. For example, only after Yamada [[PowerCopying copies]] another Witch power, him and Shirashi figured out that ''she'' was a Witch the whole time. [[spoiler:Not even the Student Council seems to know every quirk about the Witch powers.]]
* HypocriticalHumor: Frequent and lampshaded accordingly.
* IDidntMeanToTurnYouOn: Yamada unintentionally does this to [[spoiler:Noa when he asks her about the Witch Killer.]]
* IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:Once her memories are restored by kissing Yamada, Nene realizes she's in love with him. Yamazaki realizes this as well and makes her an offer to be with Yamada if she stops helping him gather the witches. She confesses to Tamaki that she told Yamazaki to stuff it because she knows that Yamada is in love with Shiraishi and she'd rather enjoy what time they have together than be a nuisance to him.]]
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Or at least a [[spoiler:embarrassed Tamaki]] is implied to be this when Yamada offers him a chance to join the Supernatural Club [[spoiler:after they find a way to restore everyone's memories]].
* ImagineSpot: Itou, [[RunningGag frequently]].
* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: Shirashi was a loner and bullied by other girls before she met Yamada.
** Part of it might have had to do with her academic excellence or it could have also been her stoic personality. It's never clearly established why she was being bullied.
* ItOnlyWorksOnce: [[spoiler:Rika Saionji's amnesia power only works on a person once. No one, not even Rika, knew this until she failed to alter Nene's memories a second time.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Nene Odagiri started out as this, but she starts changing. Noa and her friends aren't the nicest of people, but they do [[HiddenHeartOfGold care about each other]].
** Same can be said for Ushio, but all of those actions were out of his love for Nene.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Yamada may be a delinquent, but he'll go out of his way to help people in trouble. Even if said people antagonized him.
* KarmaHoudini:
** Nene never really faces any punishment for hypnotizing several people into being her obedient love slaves. Most likely because she never demanded ''too'' much from them and, as herself discovered when Yamada accidentally uses her own power on her, life is a lot more interesting for people in love.
** Ushio doesn't really face much punishment for framing Yamada as the sole perpetrator of the street fight in their backstory. He refuses to apologize for it as well. Although the reasons as to why he did it are implied to be more complicated than he lets on.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: The power of [[spoiler:Rika Saionji]], which removes the memories of anything connected to the Witches from the targets mind if they know the last Witch name.
* LastNameBasis: Everyone.
* LegacyCharacter: According to Noa, the Witch powers are this. There is always a person who will have one of the Witch powers. If one Witch leaves the school, the powers will be passed onto another person. [[spoiler:Noa herself got the power because the president ordered Tamaki to steal the power from her predecessor at the start of the year before the story begin.]]
* LemonyNarrator: The margin notes look informative at first glance, but they are fond of dishing out superfluous information. And making fun of Yamada.
* LoveConfession:
** [[spoiler:Noa gives a surprisingly casual one to Yamada.]]
** [[spoiler:Yamada gives one to Shiraishi but due to the LaserGuidedAmnesia. She turns him down.]]
* MagicKiss: How the Witches are able to use their powers.
* ManIFeelLikeAWoman: Averted with Yamada, played somewhat straight with [[TheGadfly Miyamura]].
* MsFanservice: Nene, although it's always unintentional.
* MeaningfulName:
** Shiraishi Urara means ''Lovely White Stone''.
** Yamada's given name means ''Dragon''. Miyamura's given name has the kanji of ''Tiger''. Dragon and Tiger. TheHero and TheLancer?
** Inverted in case of Miyabi however. Miyabi means graceful but she's TomBoy to Urara's girly girl.
** ''Takigawa'' means ''Waterfall River''. Noa has [[CurtainsMatchTheWindow blue hair and blue eyes]]. Her power [[spoiler:to see the past is like water, an irreversible flow.]] The name Noa is homophone with ''Noah''.
** The pinyin used in Rika's name means ''flower of truth''.
* NoSell: Witches' powers don't work on Yamada. However if a Witch kisses him, the power he just copied from them will instead be used on them.
* NotBrainwashed: Played with. Yamada's old friend Ushio Igarashi is under the influence of Nene's Witch power, but he knows that he's under her power and accepts it.
* NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught: Yamada sometimes switches with Shirashi so she can do his tests and homework. He uses the telepathy power in order for him, Meiko, and her friends to finish their schoolwork early in summer school.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: All the students started freaking out immediately when they noticed Yamada was studying seriously.
* OppositesAttract: Yamada and Urara are as opposite as they can get, but they both love each other.
* OutOfCharacterAlert: An inversion. Seeing Shirashi doing a RoundhouseKick made Miyamura realize it was actually Yamada in Shiraishi's body.
* PantyShot: These tend to happen when Yamada is in a female body and pulls off a kick. Kimishima does one when she flips Yamada. The narration helpfully advises girls not to flip people while wearing skirts to avoid this.
* PerceptionFilter: The power of [[spoiler:Asuka Mikoto until Tamaki took it from her,]] which makes anyone that gets kissed be incapable of seeing that person. [[spoiler:This enable her to swap body with Shiraishi and kidnap her per president's command.]]
* PowerCopying: What Yamada's power turns out to be. Effectively this makes him the only person who can use their powers on a Witch. All the other rules of powers still apply.
* PowerParasite: The power of Tamaki, which steals the power of any Witch he kisses. It lasts until another girl is kissed, then the power is replaced and returns to the one the power belonged to. [[spoiler:Leona suggested Tamaki to return his current power to Asuka and take away Rika's power.]]
* PowersAsPrograms: Magic is apparently very easily copied, but on the other hand there doesn't appear to be any way of storing it. Unfortunately for Yamada he doesn't think this through and ends up [[spoiler:overwriting the love power, leaving him unable to reverse the love effect on Miyamura and Miyabi until he can get to Nene and copy her power again.]] He is not pleased when he realises this.
* PowerPerversionPotential: Yamada is usually surprisingly responsible. However, this doesn't stop the other characters imagining what Yamada could do with the power, nor does it stop Itou and Miyamura from acting like complete perverts when under certain powers. It's safe to say that Yoshikawa, as the author, has considered the implications of the powers.
* PsychicPowers: What the powers of the Witches are. In order of appearance: FreakyFridayFlip, CharmPerson, {{Telepathy}}, {{Seers}}, FlashbackNightmare, PerceptionFilter, and LaserGuidedAmnesia.
* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler:Miyamura's a transfer student who went to Suzaku to hunt down the Seventh Witch who messed with his sister.]]
* [[spoiler:ResetButton]]: [[spoiler:The Seventh Witch hits it by deleting everyone's memories of Yamada from Chapter 1 until now, reversing the Witches' character development and resulting in them blatantly misusing their powers again.]]
* RivalsTeamUp: Miyamura, Nene, and Tamaki in order to be chosen as a candidate for School President.
* RoundhouseKick: Yamada likes pulling these off. Possibly they're useful for him when in a girls' bodies, but they're so distinctive they can give away his identity.
* SacredFirstKiss: Interestingly averted. Both Shirashi and Yamada say that the event that starts off the manga was their first kiss for both of them... But perhaps inevitably most characters in the manga take a more flexible view to kissing. As Miyamura points out, it's a small price to pay for being able to use Witch powers.
** Played straight in Chapter 65. [[spoiler:Shiraishi clearly treasured the fact that she was Yamada's first kiss. She wanted to stay close to him because she didn't want to risk handing that position to anybody else after he was supposed to lose his memories about it.]]
* ScrewDestiny: This is basically Yamada's aim at one point. [[spoiler:It's possible to change Saurshima's visions by using the power of another Witch. They attempt to use Shirashi's to change the future where the old school building is burning down.]]
* {{Seers}}: The Witch Maria Sarushima can see the future. Unfortunately her power only allows her to see what's [[YouCantFightFate destined to come to pass]], [[spoiler:unless another Witch's power is used]].
* ShipTease: Most of the time Shiraishi smiles, it's when she's around Yamada.
** Shiraishi refuses to kiss Miyamura, but has no problem kissing Yamada (and Itou). But it should be noted that she doesn't have any problem with him kissing other people.
** Shiraishi also seems irked that Yamada chose Itou instead of her during a school investigation.
** A lot in Chapter 65. Shiraishi was resolute to sticking close to Yamada despite the danger, because [[spoiler:she was determined to kiss him right after he lost his memory because she wanted to be his first kiss again. She was determined that nobody would "swipe her spot."]]
* SlidingScaleOfProactiveness: Pretty much ''every'' character [[BrokenMasquerade in-the-know]] is almost ridiculously proactive and much of the plot happens because one's actions quickly ends crossing with another's plans.
* SickeninglySweethearts: The whole Supernatural Club gets this vibe from Yamada and [[spoiler:Takigawa Noa]] after the latter decides to stick a bit too close to him for a while. Mind you, Yamada constantly complains to her about it and he never once flirted back ([[IDidntMeanToTurnYouOn knowingly, that's it]]), but it's just that his friends can tell he's being a lot nicer than they know he ''could'' be. [[spoiler:Shiraishi correctly deduced that Yamada became very sympathetic of Noa after [[FlashbackNightmare her power]] let him see a traumatic event from her past.]]
* SpannerInTheWorks: Yamada has played this a few times by being immune to the Witch's powers. He reversed Nene's love kiss on her without knowing it would affect her, and it prompted character development in her. [[spoiler:With his quest to undo the massive erasing of memories of the student population because he learned the seventh Witch's name. Then by helping Nene get her memories back, and the discovery the seventh Witch's power only works once, the Student Council President will put all of his attention on Yamada.]]
* SpeakOfTheDevil: Anyone who finds out the Seventh Witch's name (with the exception of the President) will find themselves being forgotten by everyone else. [[spoiler:Happens to Yamada and Tamaki.]]
* StaircaseTumble: In the very first chapter, which results in Shirashi and Yamada switching bodies. [[spoiler:Happens later on during Sarushima's arc, but thanks to it Yamada figured out other Witch powers can change the future.]]
* StepfordSmiler: Several of the characters in the story are actually pretty broken inside, despite their outward appearance. Prominent examples are [[spoiler:Noa and Miyamura.]]
* {{Telepathy}}: The power of [[spoiler:Meiko Otsuka]] who creates a PsychicLink similar to a cell phone call and requires one to picture that person in their head to send messages to them.
* TheStoic: Shirashi's facial expression rarely changes. Even when she body swaps for the first time, she isn't alarmed about it at all.
* TheTease: Noa to Yamada. [[spoiler:She dials this up when she starts to fall for him.]]
* TortureTechnician: [[spoiler:Asuka Mikoto]] is one. You better don't mess with the President.
* TheSevenMysteries: Suzaku High has their own set, and one of them is the mystery of the Witches.
* {{Unperson}}: [[spoiler:The "Witch Killers", Yamada and Tamaki, now suffers from this, courtesy of the 7th Witch who can mindwipe people at will, except them. It only work once on Witches though.]]
* UnwantedHarem: Almost all the Witches have been or are interested by Yamada. He couldn't care less since he only has [[spoiler:Urara]] in mind.
* WhamLine:
** Chapter 57. [[spoiler:"I love Shiraishi." - Yamada]]
* WhamEpisode
** Chapter 60 & 61. [[spoiler:The Seventh Witch has been at the school for over eight years - and no, she's ''not'' a teacher.]]
** Chapter 66: [[spoiler:The Seventh Witch has made her appearance, but she didn't erase Yamada's memory of Witches... she erased his friends' memories of ''him''.]]
** Chapter 75: [[spoiler:Saionji attempts to use her memory-wiping power again... but she discovers ItOnlyWorksOnce. Yamada now gets the attention of the Student Council President.]]
* WhenSheSmiles: Almost all of the antagonistic Witches give this to Yamada after some [[DefeatMeansFriendship conflict-resolution occurs.]]
** Shiraishi also fits this bill.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Yamada and Shiraishi.
* WistfulAmnesia: As [[spoiler:Takigawa Noa]] tells Yamada after recovering her memories in chapter 78, to put it mildly.
-->What… '''''took''''' you so long?\\
There's been this… '''''big''''', '''''black hole''''' in my heart. I was so confused. I couldn't understand why I would suddenly feel that way.
** And given [[spoiler:Shiraishi's tears after Yamada kissed Nene]] she feels this too.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Nene: purple, Meiko: purple, Noa: light blue.
** RoseHairedGirl: Maria.
* YouthfulFreckles: [[spoiler:Rika Saionji]]
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