OK. Let's sum up my current situation : I started watching the anime exactly 5 days ago ; once I fnished it, there was no time left to not start the manga. So did I. Now it's exactly 04:10am, when University starts at 8:00 and exams start in no longer than 7 days. But still, as always I gotta have to write my review just right after I finished the anime / game / manga / book etc, so that everything is 'warm' and 'clear' in my minds.

I won't sum up the plot, but just make a quick and easy plan : things I loved about Yamada-kun to 7-nin no Majo and things I disliked. Easiest possible plan.

Whatever, the story itself is really great : at first, I'd advise you to watch the anime, which kinda takes 70-80% of everything that happens in the first 90 chapters. As always, a portion is taken out 'cause it wouldn't fit in the animated version, but anyway, it ain't the matter. Indeed, considering there will be no more season, it is much better to get introduced to the serie by watching it, instead of reading it.

Going back to the story's greatness : it basically has 3 major acts, with 3 pairs of 7 witches. Even though, the main characters (count 5 to 10 of them at the end, I'll precise this part in the 'things I disliked') remained and will actually experience great changes. The manga is all about an ordinary high-school life, with a lot of romance, harem, drama and funny moments. Nevertheless, if you think about the story with attention, you can easily guess that every event could be happening anywhere at anytime.

I mean, all the witches acquired their powers by being placed in a nasty / sad / dramatic situation, which lead them to be magically able to solve their issues. In a certain way, you can think - as I did - that this kind of situation happens everyday, but the victims don't have any power to back 'em up... Anyway, it is the only sad part of the review.

I really appreciated how the main characters but also the seconday characters were developped : from the start to the end, you really enter their minds and understand how everyone thinks & acts in his / her daily routine. Really interesting to follow everyone's story, which could be really ordinary and realistic.

Plus, the amount of characters makes it refreshing all the time : you don't really get bored seeing just a few characters walking around. A good and bad point is that most characters will appear again, despite they are secondary. Also, if you appreciate the happy endings, this manga has a good one (a bit rushed to my opinion, but great).

About the points I didn't : well, as usual with series containing a huge amount of characters, the authors cuts some off (totally understantable). So for example, if we take first group of witches (seen in the anime), only 3 will have a decent amount of 'screen time' (sorry, I don't know if I should write the term 'paper time' ?). I'm not even gonna talk about the 2nd arc, where the 7 witches will basically have a bigger or smaller appearance time (4 of them are concerned) but they will all be flushed out by the end.

Also, I found the way some major characters in the first and / or the second arc are just threw to the very-very secondary characters (more like the quaternary or even the quinary ones...). To those who read it a while ago or are just looking for names, here is a sample of the characters I'm thinking about : Nene, important in the first arc but crucial in the second gets thrown away in the third, due to a memory loss ; Tsubaki & Ito, the 2 main characters as shown in the anime + by reading the 1st arc, are being totally left over later (hum, well the main characters will fortunately come back to them sometimes) the 2 vice-presidents from the second arc, who are really active become forgotten in the third ; Noa, who has a secondary role in the first arc but an important role in the second is lowered into a 'not very important character but hell, let's not forget who she is', alongside with Ushio in the third arc, etc....

I totally understand the fact you can't make all the characters having a equal amount of appeareance time but... I just don't appreciate the fact the 1st set of witches remains pretty pointless for at least 2 of them (c'mon, it means 28% of the characters who are supposed to be important considering the title are kinda unused). I won't even talk about the 2nd set of witches, whom I happen to only remember 4 of them (well, Nancy the Punk of course, Kotori 'cause she's small, Konno 'cause she was the first introduced and Sora who had a quite turnover role). Third set of witches was however more interesting.

Well, to sum up my minds : great manga with a heart-catching story, having a lot of funny moments so that it doesn't look like a full drama / romance manga but more like a fantasy-magic drama-romance-harem manga. Most of the characters will get your empathy and you'll end up appreciating everyone (perhaps not, but a majority). I can't say I would like to incarnate one of the characters but they surely had a good time back there, with a life learning lesson ! I just wished it had at the end, a kind of 'who became what, who does what, etc'. You have it with the main characters but a lot remain unknown.

I wished for a season two while I read the whole manga, but it is not hard to figure out this will never happen, eh (sorry to extinguish your hopes). Even though I would still have an heart attack if I learnt it was on plans, eh. So thanks for reading, and remember : Noa's best girl (ok I admitt Nene's best girl as well).