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Friday, December 28, 2012

Another recommendation: yamada-kun to 7-nin no majo

It's gone!! Maybe I have a soft spot for gender benders that I myself am not even aware of. Anyways Yamada-kun is pretty decent manga if one likes gender benders, maybe a little romance (not too much), decent plot and enjoyable humor.


The idea is that Yamada realizes accidentally that he can switch bodies with this girl Shiraishi by kissing. You can only imagine what kind of stuff this leads to.

Art of Yamada-kun is good and shows us the best sides of the characters usually with some ecchi, but not too much. There understandably isn't any action / battle scenes so the author isn't really challenged on that regard, but it's fine since that's not what I was looking for in this manga.

Characters are the second leading force of this manga. They are well thought and compliment each other very well with different kinds of contrasts. This series relies pretty much on Yamada and Shirahoshi following mostly things that they do, but the story does introduce more side characters which I don't find as interesting, but they still manage to do the job of entertaining the reader. The bad part is that the author hasn't really kept up with introducing interesting enough characters: sure the witches have been pretty interesting so far, but the other side characters have yet to impress me.

Story is very original in my opinion and keeps the reader hooked from the start. As one would expect this series is more of comedy and the chemistry between the characters, but it can't really be described as romantic series. It's a rather fresh story which still has a lot of ways to go: now it's up to the authors imagination to where he will spin this manga.

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