History Manga / YamadaKunAndTheSevenWitches

* LuckyTranslation: Chapter 31 is titled "Odagiri's boobs" which is essentially just a line from the chapter taken out of context like with most chapters. The French translation has it easy; one French word for boobs is "nénés", and since Odagiri's first name is Nene, take a wild guess about what the chapter title is in French... ''Les nénés de Nene''.

* NoPronunciationGuide: Averted in the Crunchyroll translation which often splits Shiraishi's name in two lines in speech bubbles - "Shira-ishi" - even if there is room for it in one line. Fans tend to pronounce her name "Shee-rye-shee", when it's really more like "Shee-rah-ee-shee" (because her name is the words "shira" (white) and "ishi" (stone) put together) - so it might be to connote the actual pronunciation.

* BuxomIsBetter:

* GenericCuteness: In line with the OnlySixFaces trope. Miyamura is supposedly very handsome, while Yamada is implied to be plain or even a bit ugly - at least it isn't his appearance that makes the girls fall for him. But they both have the same face and body, except for Miyamura being maybe an inch taller. The same with Shiraishi and Itou: Itou is stated to be pretty, but not out of the ordinary. Shiraishi is seen by many as the school's most beautiful girl. They ''also'' have the same face and similar bodies ([[BuxomIsBetter though Shiraishi has bigger breasts than Itou]] so at least there's that difference).

* InherentlyFunnyWords: [[BuxomIsBetter "Boobs"]] ("Oppai" in Japanese) which is the only word Miyamura wants to say when using telepathy. The side notes point out that it's a childish way of saying breasts that's nonetheless loved by teenage boys.

A live-action TV show began airing on August 10th, 2013, running for 8 episodes. [[http://youtu.be/1_n_k5nNA3A Soon it also came in animated form]], though only as a promotional video for the manga. One million views for this promo video led to the production of an actual anime. The first {{OVA}} came out on December 17th, 2014. The anime series began airing in April 2015 as part of the Spring2015Anime season, running for 12 episodes. The second OVA was released in May 2015. Crunchyroll has the home video license and [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-07-01/crunchyroll-to-dub-release-anime-on-bd-dvd/.103876 released it on Blu-ray and DVD with an English dub]]. The series later ended up part of Crunchyroll's partnership with Creator/{{Funimation}} who [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-04-02/funimation-to-release-yamada-kun-and-the-seven-witches-on-home-video-in-july/.114246 distributed the show on DVD/Blu-ray in July, 2017]].

* SeldomSeenSpecies: The monkeys that Odagiri have [[DungFu an unfortunate encounter]] with at the zoo seem to be common marmosets as opposed to the standard monkeys of fiction [[SmallTaxonomyPools which usually are or look like capuchins, baboons or macaques]]. Makes sense since Miki Yoshikawa has a common marmoset in her work office and as such had an art model at hand.

* CuteAndPsycho: Mikoto Asuka after Yamada uses Nene's power on her. She wasn't exactly sane before but the trope was played UpToEleven during that time.

[[caption-width-right:301:[-The eponymous characters. Clockwise from the upper left corner: [[PowerCopying Ryu Yamada]], [[PerceptionFilter Mikoto Asuka]], [[LaserGuidedAmnesia Rika Saionji]], [[{{Telepathy}} Meiko Otsuka]], [[CharmPerson Nene Odagiri]], [[FreakyFridayFlip Urara Shiraishi]], and [[{{Seers}} Maria Sarushima]]. In the middle: [[FlashbackNightmare Noa Takigawa]].-] ]]

* 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. Saionji willingly does the other witches and Tamaki during the time stop portion of the ceremony. Nancy also subjects everyone else in the room besides Yamada to this when they both perform the ceremony to get his missing memories.

%%* {{Meganekko}}: Meiko.

* {{Qipao}}: Yamada (in Shiraishi's body) wears one of these, along with odango hair, when he tries on Itou's Chinese costume during their sleepover.

* AdultFear: The series' DarkestHour comes when Yamada's friends lose all their memories of him and start treating him like a stranger. It's not the unrealistic LaserGuidedAmnesia that's supposed to be the scary thing here - no, the scary thing is the (unfortunately) more realistic scenario of a person who has good friends and - as Yamada himself expresses it - "lives the high life", but suddenly becomes all alone and feels how painful loneliness is. A bit of mundane horror comes in from realizing that Yamada actually lived this way for almost a year before the start of the series. [[spoiler:[[AmnesiacHero Or at least he thought so]].]]

* DarkestHour: Chapter 67 where Yamada's friends have forgotten everything about him and completely reject socializing with him.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Chapter 119 and 120 are the first chapters to be entirely SliceOfLife - no conflicts and no use (not even mention) of witch powers. The New Year hijinks are also the only activities in the series that neither take place at school or are related to school (such as clubhouse trips or trying to get a drop-out to come back to school). After the second witch war, slice-of-life chapters without use or mention of witch powers regularly pop up, making those two chapters less weird in hindsight.

* BalloonBelly: Odagiri gets a big one ([[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything that weirdly looks like a pregnant belly]]) after Yamada swaps bodies with her and binges on a buffet.

* VoicesAreNotMental: The body of someone affected by Shiraishi's FreakyFridayFlip retain their voice, with the mental voice only heard while thinking. A switch between Shiraishi and Yamada will give the former a TomboyishVoice (when Yamada isn't trying to be cute) and the latter a soft, calm tone.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: The far majority of the characters have outlandish hair colors. The only characters with realistic hair colors are Shiraishi (light blonde), the Suzuhara twins (silvery blonde), Rika (strawberry blonde), Inose (dirty blonde), Kimishima (light blonde), Kurosaki (black), Kikuchi (light blonde), Himekawa (brown), and Sid (black).

''Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches'' (山田くんと7人の魔女, ''''Yamada-kun to 7-nin no Majo'') is a shounen supernatural romantic comedy manga with elements of ecchi and gender-bending by Miki Yoshikawa, the creator of ''Manga/FlunkPunkRumble'' (who was an assistant to Creator/HiroMashima, explaining why the artstyle bears some resemblance to ''Manga/FairyTail''). It was serialised in ''[[Magazine/ShonenMagazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine]]'' from February 2012 to February 2017, ending on its five-year-birthday after 243 chapters.

''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, the creator of ''Manga/FlunkPunkRumble'' (who was an assistant to Creator/HiroMashima, explaining why the artstyle bears some resemblance to ''Manga/FairyTail''). It was serialised in ''[[Magazine/ShonenMagazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine]]'' from February 2012 to February 2017, ending on its five-year-birthday after 243 chapters.

''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, the creator of ''Manga/FlunkPunkRumble'' (who was an assistant to Creator/HiroMashima, explaining why the artstyle bears some resemblance to ''Manga/FairyTail''). It was serialised in Weekly Shōnen Magazine from February 2012 to February 2017, ending on its five-year-birthday after 243 chapters.

* NecessaryEvil:

** For [[spoiler:Takuma's witch group]]: MentalTimeTravel, EmotionBomb, MindManipulation, CharmPerson, FreakyFridayFlip, the power for a SplitPersonality to change between the personalities at will, and LaserGuidedAmnesia.