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Wednesday, February 13, 2013

A Short Summary: Yamada-Kun To 7-Nin no Majo Review

This is only a short summary
Read complete review of Yamada-Kun To 7-Nin no Majo here

-Gender Bender based on comedy rather than romance
-Interesting characters
-Art is well designed
-Story line is original and well thought
-Intrigues with its original idea
-Relies a lot on the character chemistry
-Manages to create some suspension between the characters

Yamada-kun to 7 nin no majo 45: Second part of the notebook

Recap

So Takigawa Noa aims to erase all the other witches.

As expected, Noa's group was the one that thrased the supernatural club's room and they got their hands on a report that has clues about the witches, but thankfully nothing important.

Noa talks about Sarushima Maria and they were already stopped by her once. The reason for her to want other witches to be expelled is revealed when Noa says to her underling that they are doing this so that they can posses witch powers too. Her underling say that their other objective is revenge.

A rule in this school seems to be that when the witches disappear from the school, new witches will appear and that new witches always appear among delinquents. I don't know whether she's lying to them or not.

Student Council, Yamada is talking with the president who tells him that Tsubaki wasn't the one who started the fire. They also speak a little bit about Sarushima. It's now revealed that Noa possesses the second part of the report explaining about witches, which is why she knows so much about them.

At the Supernatural Club, the witches are banned using their powers since they are targeted bya Noa.

Finally they decide to switch location to Yamada's house, since they are being targeted: using The Supernatural Club would be too risky.

Yamada comes up with a plan to proceed, they will go and take away that notebook from Takigawa!

Comments

A decent chapter, nothing really happened. We learned about the existence of the secont part of the notebook, but I don't have too high hopes what it contains, since Noa herself is looking for information about the witches. I'm interested to see what kind of power Noa is holding: it doesn't look like it's the controlling ability that I first suspected. Her underlings seem to be with her by their own will, or maybe we are getting tricked by the mangaka!?

Yamada-kun to 7-nin no Majo 43: Yamada got played

In the last chapter Yamada and the supernatural club got assignment from student council: do something about the new first year witch causing trouble.

New witch is introduced as Takigawa Noa and it seems that she has ability that makes it possible for her to control people to some extent.

Yamada decides to go and confront Noa straight away and asks her on the roof. There she plays innocent and weirdly talks of herself in third person? For a while it looks like she's going for the kiss but backs off at the last moment. Yamada just got played :(.

The club decided to investigate the three who were causing ruckus to begin with. Yamada's burning with rage and says he's going to kiss her next time for sure!

Comments

It was a decent chapter: we got glimpse of new witch's personality and it seems that she's nothing short of a bitch. That and Yamada getting mad is basically all we got this week.

Predictions

In the next chapter we are going to see more about the three that Noa apparently controlled. Yamada will obviously invent a plan of some sort to finally kiss this girl!

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.