History Manga / YamadaKunAndTheSevenWitches

** Chapter 120 was released in August 2014, but takes place in January 2012 in-universe. In the chapter, Itou has a UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 which wasn't released until late 2013 and hadn't even been ''announced'' in 2012. On the other hand, that would explain why Tsubaki is so surprised by it...

** In Shiraishi's notes to Yamada on what to do when they swap bodies, she asks him to not talk to her parents in case he goes to her house. It's unclear whether this is because she simply wants to avoid awkward situations (given that Yamada is known to be a terrible actor who usually fails to mimic Shiraishi's natural demeanor), or if it's because she wants to keep their ParentalNeglect from him (given that she tends to bottle up her feelings and generally talks very little about her personal life outside of school) and thinks it'll be easier to hide it if Yamada simply doesn't interact with her parents.

* AmbiguousSituation: Chapter 239 reveals that the reason why Yamada and Shiraishi keep meeting and falling in love despite repeated memory losses is that Shiraishi, during her first year, wished to be with Yamada, after which the wish was fulfilled as she became the original witch. This means that Yamada's love for Shiraishi originally was induced by magic and not real. When Shiraishi leaves Suzaku High during her third year, the magic is broken, but Yamada still misses her as all hell, meaning that his love for her is now genuine and not caused by any magic power. So it's very ambiguous, and left up to the reader's interpretation, at which point Yamada's magic-induced love became genuine love.

** The first chapter can feel a bit weird on a re-read with how much emotion Shiraishi shows in that chapter. Granted, she is stoic most of the time, and much of the humor derives from her underreactions to Yamada and the body-swap, but she still has more NotSoStoic moments in this chapter than in the entire rest of the series – especially when she angrily shouts at Yamada that he shouldn’t meddle with her problems, and when she is comically crying because Yamada hit her. It seems like her character concept was changed from “stoic girl who will abruptly show full emotion in extreme cases” to “less stoic but calmer and harder to read”.
** The first few chapters were much more similar to Yoshikawa’s former series ''Manga/FlunkPunkRumble'' in terms of atmosphere and world-building – we got to see students from other schools and teachers, and there were more delinquent-caused street fights. Later on, especially after the existence of the witches is revealed, the series takes its own direction – it focuses solely on Suzaku High students with teachers and students from other schools being completely absent, and the conflicts become more psychological. There are still many similarities between the two series (kind of inevitable when they share the same writer and overall genre), but they are less pronounced.

* MagicByAnyOtherName: The magic that the witches and witch-killers use is never actually called ”magic”, only ”powers” or ”witch powers”. The Japanese word for witch, “majo”, literally translates into “magical woman”, so the word “magic” is used in the series that way, but that is of course LostInTranslation.

* AllForNothing: Yamada's plan to work extremely hard to get into Tono, Japan's most prestiged university, to [[spoiler:get the attention of Shiraishi, who had forgotten everything about him]], turns out to have been for naught when the thing that ''actually'' makes him [[spoiler:catch Shiraishi's attention and making her fall in love with him all over again is simply [[BeYourself being himself]] and calling her out on being boring]]... At least in that regard. Getting a university degree does make him land a well-paid job later in life, but that's not why he wanted to go to university.

** “Spotter” ([[spoiler:the series’ term for the seventh witch’s sidekick who can always remember him/her and is able to track down witches]]) is written with the kanji that mean “observation hand”, with the furigana spelling the English word “spotter”.
* AmbiguousSituation: Chapter 239 reveals that the reason why Yamada and Shiraishi [[spoiler:keep meeting and falling in love despite repeated memory losses]] is that Shiraishi, during her first year, wished to [[spoiler:be with Yamada, after which the wish was fulfilled as she became the original witch]]. This means that Yamada's love for Shiraishi originally was [[spoiler:induced by magic and not real]]. When Shiraishi [[spoiler:leaves Suzaku High during her third year, the magic is broken]], but Yamada still [[spoiler:misses her as all hell, meaning that his love for her is now genuine and not caused by any magic power]]. So it's very ambiguous, and left up to the reader's interpretation, at which point [[spoiler:Yamada's magic-induced love became genuine love]].

** The first and second witch war initially seem to be mostly separate stories, but they start to tie together later on: [[spoiler: Ushio becomes elevated to main villain and his past with Yamada is brought up again and expanded on, Odagiri is revealed to not be the girl Yamada and Ushio saved, Yamada still tries to find out why he has his power, and it's even revealed that Yamada used to be know about the ceremony because he heard Yamazaki and Leona talk about it when they were still Supernatural Studies Club members.]]

* ArtifactTitle: During the first 90 chapters, Yamada is dealing with the seven witches. The series surprisingly doesn't end fter that, and [[spoiler: after the ritual that erased the original witch powers, seven new witches arise. Then it is revealed in chapter 110 that another set of "new" witches had their powers ''before'' the ritual which means they are ''not'' the new seven witches. This means that there fourteen witches at the school, plus the previous seven, making the title completely obsolete.]]

* ArtShift: All visions given by [[spoiler:Himekawa's retrocognition power]] are drawn like rough, unfinished sketches.

* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler:Odagiri and Ushio and Yamada and Shiraishi each have two children by the story's end. Yuri and Himekawa have one son.]]

* BadPowersBadPeople: While most of the Witch Powers are considered neutral, there are some that are noticeably good and bad. It should be noted that [[spoiler:the witches not chosen by council's powers are leaning more toward "bad".]]

** In chapter 127 when Yamada angrily confronts [[spoiler:Shiraishi and Tsubaki]]. At first it seems like [[spoiler:he is jealous of them spending time together]], but in truth he is angry because [[spoiler:Itou was under a witch power, so he just wants to warn them to be careful]].
** [[spoiler: When Kurosaki and Arisugawa were still student council newcomers, it was Arisugawa who was suspected, by Rika, of being a witch since she is a girl, while Kurosaki escapes Rika's radar, but guess which one of them actually becomes a witch? Yup, Kurosaki.]]

* BlackComedyBurst: Otsuka doing a DramaticGunCock and threatening to shoot her friends if they don't obey her is a slightly darker type of humor than usually seen in the series ([[spoiler:though she was brainwashed at the time]])

** The first and last chapter of the series has the same monologue-styled lines. The former acts as a monologue for the story's introduction while the latter is [[spoiler:Yamada reading story of himself and Shiraishi to their children]].

* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: Yamada and Miyamura are [[PragmaticHero pragmatic]] enough that they're initially willing to [[spoiler:put a random hapless student under the manipulation power]] to infiltrate the Japanese chess club. However, in the end [[spoiler:Noa volunteers to be put under the power]].

%%Is this noted in-universe as being better/more appealing/the source of their beauty?** If the latest beach picture can be used as a reference then this applies to Nene, Maria and [[spoiler:Rika]] as well.
%%** Also Miyamura's new [[spoiler:Vice President]], Arisugawa.

* TheCavalryArrivesLate: When Miyamura needs to save Yamada from [[spoiler:Dark Takuma]], he sends Tamaki to hold [[spoiler:Dark Takuma]] in check by [[spoiler:stealing his power]] while he himself gets Ushio and Noa to chase [[spoiler:Dark Takuma]] off. Once Miyamura, Ushio and Noa arrive, Tamaki has managed to pacify and chase away [[spoiler:Dark Takuma]] on his own.

* CerebusRollercoaster: Rika's arc is notably darker and more dramatic than arcs before, particularly due to the memory wipe. The series returns to its usual comedic ways after everybody gets their memories back, but gradually grows more dramatic again in the second witch war with the introduction of the Japanese chess club, the [[spoiler:provocation power]], and Yamada's [[spoiler:hidden past]]. After the end of the second witch war, the rest of the series is light-hearted and funny, though a couple of dramatic chapters pop up here and there (for example [[spoiler:Dark Takuma's appearance]] and [[spoiler:Shiraishi's disappearance]]) due to the MoodWhiplash tendency of the series.

* ChekhovsGag: Noa wanting to be Yamada's wife. [[spoiler: She doesn't actually become his wife, but she temporarily becomes his spotter, in other words some sort of {{Familiar}} who can always track and remember him, and to her that equals being married.]]

* CliffHanger: There are several good ones, but one that stands out for the suspense and the outrage it has created among the fanbase is the end of chapter 153: [[spoiler: Himekawa is about to reveal the exact nature of her significant relationship to Yamada, and Shiraishi has returned to school, arriving at their doorstep, and she has presumably been told by Miyamura that Yamada and Himekawa have become very close while she was away...]]

** In the second term of their third year, the students are obligated to leave their club to focus on college preparations. In the Supernatural Studies Club, this leaves only the first-year students Hikaru and Hotaru as members. Thus, Yamada and Itou have to scour the school for a second-year student who wants to be the new president so that the club can be saved. They do find a new president, namely [[spoiler:Noa]].

* ColorCodedCharacters: When all members of a given witch group show up on a colored cover page together, they are given their own individual colors, maybe in the form of the ribbons of their witch hats or maybe as a background color. The colors are sometimes related to their hair colors or personalities, and sometimes they seem randomly chosen. In-universe, when the witches show up on a [[spoiler:spotter's radar]], they also have the following colors:

** [[spoiler:Nancy's]] witch group: [[spoiler:Konno (sky blue), Kotori (yellow), Chikushi (purple), Seishuin (red), Kikuchi (orange), Himekawa (green), Nancy (ultramarine)]].
** [[spoiler:Takuma's]] witch group: [[spoiler:Kurosaki (blue), Ichijo (purple), Yuri (green), Hikaru (yellow), Alex (orange), Dark Takuma (black), Good Takuma (white)]].
* ColorfulThemeNaming: [[spoiler:For the new Student Council Member and the other group of witches]]:

** [[spoiler:Rainbow]]: [[spoiler:Haruko '''Niji'''no]]

* 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? [[spoiler:Subverted at the very end. When Shiraishi become the original witch during her first year, she wished to be with Yamada, meaning that their first meeting in the manga wasn't a coincidence at all, but a result of magic.]]
* ConvenientlyCoherentThoughts: [[spoiler:Kotori's mind-reading power always lets her read people's thoughts as coherent sentences, though the key words of the sentence will often repeat themselves a few times, giving the impression that people's most important thoughts echo.]]

* CosmicDeadline: Subverted. After chapter 238, an announcement came that the series would end in five chapters. The next chapter, 239, goes out of its way to wrap up all remaining mysteries regarding [[spoiler:Shiraishi]], so you'd think the next four chapters would do the same. But no, they mostly focus on mundane SliceOfLife, and as such [[LeftHanging the series ends with a lot of unanswered questions and unresolved mysteries]].

* CulturalTranslation: When rattling off rumors about what Yamada did [[spoiler:in his first year that caused him to be suspended a second time]], [[ClassRepresentative the chairperson]] mentions that one of the rumors was that he forced a girl into CompensatedDating. In the English translation, it is changed to Yamada threatening a girl into prostitution, probably because fewer Western readers would know what compensated dating is. The implication is also prostitution in the original Japanese edition, given that Shiraishi is shown in an ImagineSpot sitting half-naked on a bed while Yamada counts money.

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

* DePower: When Yamada completes the Witch Ceremony this was his desire. He wished not for the memories to be turned but the Witch Powers to be gone from the school. However it's later revealed that, [[spoiler:those powers were replaced with slightly similar ones. By the end, all of the new witches loses their powers because Shiraishi, the original witch, leaves the school, and the witch powers never returns again, making the character doubt if they were even real.]]

** [[spoiler:Konno temporarily suffers from this. She swears she will end her control over her teammates once the one game was over but she doesn't, and soon she gets to the point where she orders another student to do her homework and shuts up another who yelled at her for making someone do her work. Fortunately, Yamada eventually talks some sense into her]].
** [[spoiler:The new Mind Reading witch subverts this. She may use her power to peak into people's minds but she isn't lost to it. However, when Yamada copied it, ''he was.'' He nearly lost himself to the power until the witch went to the Memory Erasing witch to talk some sense into him. He does listen to them and realizes how bad he nearly got]].

* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler:Arisugawa, Kurosaki, Nancy, Sid, Yamada's mom, and even the owner of Shiraishi's local bookstore]] make cameos in the second OVA even before their proper introduction.

* ElectionDayEpisode: Chapter 169 focuses on the new student council election between [[spoiler:Tamaki]] and [[spoiler:Ichijo]]. Chapters 170 to 172 also take place on election day, but chapter 169 is the only one to focus on the actual event (the others focus on [[spoiler:Yamada preparing to wipe everybody's memories of Ichijo]])

* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Nene finds herself attracted to Shiraishi in Chapter 116. She theorized that it was perhaps because she was in [[spoiler: Yamada's body and therefore inherited his emotions]]. Or perhaps because Shiraishi acts differently towards [[spoiler: Yamada]].

* FateDrivesUsTogether: [[spoiler:Yamada and Shiraishi keep meeting in unlikely way despite repeated memory losses, making Shiraishi think that it must be fate's doing. Subverted in the end when Shiraishi's past is revealed - it isn't due to fate, but due to her wish of being together with Yamada no matter what.]]
* FerrisWheelDateMoment: Between Yamada and Konno when he needs to [[spoiler: kiss her to use her power against her]]. Konno even dreamt about having her perfect first kiss in a ferris wheel.

* FirstKiss: This being a series where kissing happens all the time, and where very few of the characters have dated anyone before, first kisses are inevitable. Contrasting many other Japanese works, however, the trope SacredFirstKiss is often averted or downplayed, and the only ones whose first kissing partner has been confirmed are Yamada (with Shiraishi - [[spoiler:subverted as it's actually with Seishuin]]), Shiraishi (with Yamada), Takuma (with Yamada), and Himekawa (with Yamada).

** TheSixthRanger: [[spoiler:Hikaru, who joins much, much later than the five other members.]]

* ForbiddenChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:When Nancy lets Yamada copy her memory manipulation power, she warns him to never actually use it, instead only letting it function as a SwordOfDamocles. So of course fate will have that a situation arises where Yamada needs to wipe everybody's memories to save the school.]]

** [[spoiler: The revelation that Nancy's witches aren't actually the new seven witches but always existed along with the original seven witches threw both the student council and the readers for a loop - but when you reread that part of the story, you may notice how some of these "new" witches seem way too accustomed to their powers - if it was only a couple of weeks ago since they got their powers, most of them probably wouldn't even have discovered their powers (since it does take a kiss to discover them. after all), and those who did discover them already would probably still [[HowDoIShotWeb be struggling to learn to use them]] instead of already having made lifestyles out of them like [[FortuneTeller Chikushi]] and [[MemoryWipingCrew Nancy]]]].
*** The existence of [[spoiler:more that one group of witches]] is also foreshadowed as [[spoiler:Leona and Yamazaki discovered the witches one years before the story]], but [[spoiler:Shiraishi and the rest weren't made a witch until the start of the second year.]]
** The revelation about that not only [[spoiler:Itou]] but [[spoiler:Shiraishi]] too was put under [[spoiler:Ichijo's power]] is also hinted. [[spoiler:Shiraishi has shown unusual amount of jealousy (almost to light {{Yandere}} level) when she hears the speculation from Tsubaki that Itou might have developed feelings for Yamada.]]
** Early during the Summer Remedy Lesson Arc, Yamada claims that he would never pass the class exam by himself and that he had also been in the remedy class last year as well along with Otsuka and her friends, foreshadowing that [[spoiler:he at least was involved with someone (later revealed to be Himekawa) during the first year who helped him pass the exam]].
** Before the revelation that Kaori isn't the final witch [[spoiler:that is Himekawa]], there is actually a subtle hint about it with her name doesn't follow the ColorfulThemeNaming of the other witches of Nancy's group.
** After [[spoiler: the second memory wipe]], Ushio can be seen reading a book about poetry. He would later found a poetry club [[spoiler: along with Noa]].

** [[spoiler:Subverted with Ushio and Odagiri. Yamada thought they framed him for starting the fight that Ushio started for some spiteful reason, but it's revealed much later that their memories were changed - Yamada and Ushio started the fight together, but Yamada thought Ushio started it alone, and Ushio and Odagiri thought Yamada started it alone]].

** Similarly, after the second witch war, when Yamada needs to find all of [[spoiler:Takuma's seven witches to hold a ceremony]], he already knows four of them ([[spoiler:Kurosaki, Ichijo, Yuri, and Takuma himself]]).

* TheGoldenRule: Brought up when Kotori wants to stop Yamada from [[spoiler:indiscriminately using her power]] and asks him how he would like it if other people [[spoiler:read ''his'' thoughts]] without permission.

* GoodWitchVersusBadWitch: One of the dynamics in the second witch war since [[spoiler: there are two witch groups existing alongside each other. Nancy's witch group, the female witches, are the Good Witches and are all on Yamada's side, helping him to initiate a ceremony. Takuma's witch group, the male witches, are the Bad Witches as several of them are on Ushio's side to help ''him'' initiate a ceremony. It's seen in their general personalities: All of Nancy's witches are friendly, the worst of them being Nancy herself who can be somewhat ill-tempered, but is still good-hearted. Of Takuma's witches, two of them are villains, Takuma himself is a WildCard working with the villains, and the only heroic one is still a bit of a jerk]].

* GraduateFromTheStory: The last chapter of the story proper (not counting the two epilogue chapters) is about Yamada and co.'s graduation from Suzaku High which also [[spoiler:rekindles Yamada and Shiraishi's relationship]].
* GreenEyedMonster: 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. [[spoiler:However, a glimpse into Yamada's implied that it's only partly her fault, since it was the previous presidentess's intention to have their knowledge about the witches erased.]]

* HarshWordImpact: Seen a few times, like when Kurosaki makes fun of Tamaki's height, and when Yamada and Ushio jokingly [[spoiler: give Nancy the blame for everything that happened after their fight, without her realizing it's a joke]].

* HookedUpAfterwards: [[spoiler:Ushio]] and [[spoiler:Odagiri]] as well as [[spoiler:Yuri]] and [[spoiler:Himekawa]] have suddenly married in the epilogue without much foreshadowing given that both [[spoiler:Odagiri]] and [[spoiler:Himekawa]] had [[SingleTargetSexuality fixations]] on Yamada. ([[spoiler:Ushio]] and [[spoiler:Odagiri]] did receive some ShipTease, though, and are seen together at the entrance examinations after the TimeSkip, suggesting they may already have become a couple back then, but the [[spoiler:Himekawa/Yuri]] couple comes out of the blue since [[spoiler:Himekawa always said she only saw Yuri as a little brother]].

* HypocriticalHumor: Frequent and lampshaded accordingly. Usually Yamada is the victim. One time Yamada gets to be the one to remark on the hypocrisy of Nene making fun of [[spoiler:Midori]] because of her big boobs by pointing out that it's not like she's small herself. That shut Nene up, though not for the reason [[ObliviousToLove Yam]][[MasterOfTheMixedMessage ada]] thinks it did.

** Averted later in the series: [[spoiler: While the enhanced witches are all girls, the reborn witches are all boys, and some of the original female witches get less screen-time.]]

* IncitingIncident: If Yamada hadn't accidentally tripped and locked lips with Shiraishi on their tumble down the stairs, nothing whatsoever of interest would have happened in his high school life, and there would be no plot. [[spoiler:Though given his hidden past, two other moments could be counted as inciting incidents for his high school life: Himekawa bringing him dinner on the summer camp, and even earlier him accidentally being overheard by Shiraishi when he complained about high school being boring.]]

* InfoDrop: [[spoiler:Nancy first mentioning that she was present during the street fight instead of Odagiri]] is treated as this, since it's not given the same dramatic attention as the other major reveals of the series - probably because this reveal had so much {{foreshadowing}} that the readers were expected to have figured it out already.

* InMediasRes: [[spoiler: This is probably the biggest [[TheReveal reveal]] of the series. The series starts in Yamada's second year even though he already had a lot adventures, misadventures and troubles during his first year, some of which haven't been solved yet. A variation in that Yamada is just as oblivious as the readers to the fact that the story starts this way: He thinks for most of the story that his days of being bored and miserable ended, and his fun school life started, when he met Shiraishi, and it takes him more than 150 chapters to realize that he has his lost his memories of his first year]].
* InsistentTerminology: Yamada and Shiraishi (especially the former) decide to [[ShoutOut pay tribute]] to none other than [[Series/{{Friends}} Ross Geller]] when they insist that they didn't "break up" during the time [[spoiler:Shiraishi was under the provocation power]] - they were "on a break".

* {{Irony}}: Yamada almost falls victim to abusing the Mind Reading Power due to wanting to know what Shiraishi thinks because he wants to know what the person he loves think about him, fortunately, he is stopped in time by Kotori, who gives Yamada a pep talk about what would he feels if Shiraishi reads his mind too. [[spoiler:In the past, Himekawa intends to use her Reminiscence Power to know if Yamada likes her or not.]] Needless to say, [[spoiler:it didn't end well as she found out that Yamada liked someone else instead of her.]]
* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: [[spoiler: By the DistantFinale, the whole story about the school is crafted into a novel titled...''[[TitleDrop Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches]]''. What else?]]

** 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. [[spoiler:Subverted since his memories of the incident were changed, and he really thought Yamada was the sole perpetrator. While he's never directly punished for anything, he spends the last third of the series [[TheAtoner atoning]].]]

* LandslideElection: [[spoiler:Tamaki wins the president election by a landslide; presumably he got every single vote because Ushio wiped everybody's memories of Ichijo, the other candidate, right before the voting. Otherwise, Ichijo himself was about to win a landslide victory because Odagiri ([[{{Brainwashed}} through Yuri's manipulation power]]) roused everybody into thinking he was the best candidate. The day before the election day, however, Ichijo and Tamaki were equally matched in terms of popularity and expected votes.]]

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: [[spoiler:In chapter 96, when Yamada and Shiraishi go into a sappy, romantic mode and kiss each other again and again, Kurosaki suddenly appears and tells them this isn't a girls' manga where they can "play kissy-face". He just about manages to stay within the fourth wall because it isn't made clear if he knows that they are characters in a {{Shonen}} manga instead, or if he thinks [[ThisIsReality that their world is reality]].]]
* LeaveTheTwoLovebirdsAlone: When [[spoiler:Ando]] is about to declare her love for [[spoiler:Miyamura]], Itou insists that they should leave the room, taking Yamada and Leona with her.
* LeftHanging: Due to the series suddenly being {{cancelled}} with Yoshikawa getting five chapters to finish the series, there is quite a lot of questions that are never answered after the last chapter. Among major things, [[spoiler:Yamada never finds out how he got the copy power even though that was the SeriesGoal (it's only implied that he got it to be together with Shiraishi), we never really find out anything about the chairperson or Dark Takuma, Hino's character arc is never resolved (the poor girl's last appearance in the series ends with Yamada unwittingly breaking her heart), and we never find out exactly why witch powers work by kissing.]]

** [[spoiler: The reborn witches show that even though the basic witch powers are the same from person to person, the specifics vary each time a power is passed on. For example, Noa and her successor Kurosaki can both see the past. But while Noa sees it in the form of a dream when she's sleeping, Kurosaki's mind directly travels back to the past and can interact with it.]]

* LightIsGood: Himekawa's Reminiscence Power is considered good power, due to it showing people's happiest memory, and she is definitely shown to be good person [[spoiler:which seems to be heading for {{Deconstruction}} due in the past, she intended to use the power to see who Yamada's liked most.]]

* LoveAtFirstSight: It's all but stated that this is what happened during [[spoiler:Yamada and Shiraishi's meeting near the end of the second term of their first year]]. Yamada is sent to the staffroom, and later that day, [[spoiler:Shiraishi appears in the vision Himekawa gets from him with her romance power]], meaning that they must have fallen in love almost instantly when they met in the staffroom.

* MagicKiss: With the exception of the seventh witch whose memory manipulation powers are activated with the power of thought and a few oddballs later in the series (such as [[spoiler:Ichijo who uses his powers with handshakes]] and [[spoiler:Yuri who uses his powers by headbutting]]), witch powers need to be activated with a kiss on the lips.

** [[spoiler:Leona and Yamazaki who are the main couple of the series after Yamada and Shiraishi. They were definitely in love with each other in high school, but Leona rejects Yamazaki at graduation because he doesn't have the guts to ask her out on his own, and says she'll wait for the day when he manages to do it. In the epilogue, they appear together, but are simply mentioned to "get along well". It's not known if they have become a couple, if they have moved on from their romance, or if Yamazaki is still not able to ask her out.]]
** [[spoiler:Itou and Tsubaki. Tsubaki falls in love with Itou after getting over his hopeless crush with Shiraishi, but she doesn't notice or reciprocate it during high school. In the epilogue, Odagiri asks Itou why she doesn't just marry Tsubaki, but it's not clear if she was joking, or if the two of them are a couple now.]]
** [[spoiler:Nancy and Sid. Sid was in love with Nancy all along, but Nancy is in love with Yamada until she gets over him by the end of the second witch war. It's unknown if she started to notice Sid, or if she even keeps in touch with him after high school - she plays in a band at Yamada and Shiraishi's wedding, but her band members aren't shown clearly.]]
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: [[spoiler:The witch powers themselves. Yamazaki is the first person to speculate that since they cannot be physical proven given that they're all PsychicPowers, they may not actually exist in the first place. After Shiraishi leaves the school, the witch powers disappear, and ten years later, they've never appared again. Yamada himself thinks that they may just have been part of everyone's imagination, but he accepts that he'll never find out if they were real or not.]]

* NecessaryDrawback: As pointed out by Odagiri, most witch powers have at least one of these, and that's the reason why the witches generally aren't nigh-unstoppable. In the day-to-day life, the major drawback of most witch powers is PowerIncontinence - you cannot kiss anyone without automatically using the power, and the powers have fixed effects that can backfire in certain situations. The lack of necessary drawbacks was why Odagiri considered [[spoiler:Konno's]] power to be so dangerous; because it has to be manually activated after the kiss, and because [[spoiler:she just plain controls people without affecting their emotions]].

** [[spoiler:Since she started having feelings about Yamada, Shiraishi has held this view about Yamada kissing people. Since he is immune to the powers, it logically makes sense but she hates it. Especially after she became his girlfriend]].
** [[spoiler:After Shiraishi was de-powered but other Witches were revealed and Yamada had to seek them out again, he was also bothered about kissing the Witches since he'd place her under a spell if they kissed, but he figured that they'll just have to kiss twice to cancel it out.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Yamada thought that the witches' powers will be gone for good. However, Yamazaki informs them that the powers themselves cannot be erased and consequently new seven witches will be selected.]]

* NoAntagonist: After the second witch war, there are no lasting antagonists for the rest of the series, and the obstacles are simply the troubles that the characters go through to [[spoiler:recover the lost memories]]. The closest thing to an antagonist is [[spoiler:Yuri and Dark Takuma brewing sinister plans in the background, but they're not actual villains for anything but a couple of chapters and are quickly made to cooperate with the heroes.]]

* NonIndicativeName: Because Rika is the last one of the first seven witches to be discovered, the characters coin the term "seventh witch" for her witch type, i.e. someone who can erase memories related to witches and track witch powers. As such, they also use the term to describe [[spoiler: Nancy and Takuma, even though they're both the ''second'' witch to be discovered in their groups.]]
* NoodleIncident: [[spoiler: When Yamada switches bodies with the new body-swap witch Alex, Alex does something unmentionable to Odagiri, and the rest of the chapter plays for laughs the fact that neither Yamada or the readers know what it was. The only hints we get was that it was something sexual that you shouldn't do to other girls when you have a girlfriend, something bad enough to make Shiraishi fairly angry, and something that was not a kiss given that Odagiri didn't wise up to the body-swap.]]
* NoOntologicalInertia: Yamada hoped this would be the case when he [[spoiler:wished for all the Witch Powers to vanish. And he was right as the memories of the ones affected by the seventh witch were returned.]]

* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: After over eighty chapters, major changes to the status quo arise after all seven witches are gathered for a ritual in the same place. Yamada wishes the Witch powers would go away, but this leads to the appearance of brand new ones in different people. The subplots about the antagonistic Student Council end with Yamada and friends getting control of the Council, with Miyamura as the new President and some new blood. Yamada and Shiraishi go steady. And then the second witch war begins with [[spoiler:two new batches of witches]].

* NumericalThemeNaming: For the [[spoiler:Male Witches]]:

* OfficialCoupleOrdealSyndrome: After Yamada and Shiraishi become a couple, they can't seem to have a normal romantic relationship for more than a few chapters until something comes up to spoil their relationship, after which this something must be solved. However, since they're so happy together, it's almost always external circumstances that keep them apart rather than emotional issues, for example Yamada being too busy in the student council, Shiraishi [[spoiler:losing her memories of Yamada]], and finally Shiraishi [[spoiler:moving away]].

* OneSteveLimit: Averted as there are two characters named Aiko - one-note character Aiko Gagada and the somewhat more significant Aiko Chikushi. It may or may not be intentional as they are both fortunetellers - but while Gagada is a fraud, Chikushi is a [[spoiler:real witch who has an actual precognition power]].

* OnlySixFaces: There may be subtle differences here and there, like some characters have slightly bigger eyes or rounder heads, but in general you would have a ''very'' hard time differentiating most characters' faces if their signature hairstyles were switched around. This goes for the guys as well as the girls. This adds some odd subtext to the revelation that [[spoiler:Nancy is someone from Yamada's past, though he doesn't remember her]] - due to the art style, she looks exactly like Shiraishi and slightly to Odagiri when she lets her hair down. [[spoiler:The latter is actually plot point with Yamada mistook her for Odagiri as the girl that he and Ushio rescued.]]

** Subverted in the second first war; Nancy predicts that this trope might happen by saying that Miyamura's most important task is to ensure that Yamada remains loyal, alluding to the fact that [[spoiler:Yamada may find out about the lost memories sooner or later and help the Japanese chess club recovering them]]. Nothing bad happens because [[spoiler:Yamada only focuses on recovering his own memories, and Miyamura remains supportive to him]].
* PlotTumor: The memory manipulation power. In the first witch war, the memory wipe is - though an important part of BigBad Yamazaki's backstory - mostly a final obstacle for Yamada to overcome, and the overall plot focuses more on his relationship to Shiraishi and the other witches. By the second witch war and onwards, the story is all about memory manipulation; [[spoiler: memories are wiped left and right for a multitude of reasons, everybody is revealed to have lost their memories at some point or another in past, all characters try to ally with the seventh witches so that they effectively control the memory wipes, and the ceremony is relegated to a mere PlotDevice for returning memories.]]

*** For premonition witch: you can't control the future you want to see, or change it unless other witch powers are involved in the equation. [[spoiler:The latter is not applied to Chikushi due to her be able to change it at will, albeit, by herself.]]
*** For retrospective witch: you are going to have nightmare every nights as part of side effect(seeing people's traumatic past). Again, [[spoiler:this is not applied to Himekawa due to her seeing positive memories.]]
** The telepathy witch cannot stop thoughts from coming in or going out. [[spoiler:This is not applied to Kotori as she can distance herself when she doesn't want to read thoughts.]]
** The invisibility witch must first trick the victim's mind into unable to see or remember her first before she is invisible. [[spoiler:Kikuchi's version simply makes her invisible to those she kisses instead of complicated method like the former one.]]
** The amnesia witch shall be forgotten as long as she still has and using her power. [[spoiler: Nancy, or rather, Haruko gets around this by using alias.]]
* PowerMisidentification: [[spoiler:The student council members initially believe that Konno has the same [[CharmPerson charm power]] as Odagiri given that she can make her team comrades do her bidding. But then it turns out that Konno's power is simply a CompellingVoice; she makes people obey her, but unlike Odagiri's power, she doesn't make people fall in love with her, so there's no emotional strings attached and no risk of insubordination.]]

** For [[spoiler:Nancy's witch group]]: CompellingVoice, {{Telepathy}}, two {{Seers}} (one with precognition and one with retrocognition), FreakyFridayFlip, PerceptionFilter, and LaserGuidedAmnesia.
** For [[spoiler:Takuma's witch group]]: MentalTimeTravel, EmotionBomb, MindControl, CharmPerson, FreakyFridayFlip, the power for a SplitPersonality to change between the personalities at will, and LaserGuidedAmnesia.
* PsychicLink: What Otsuka's telepathy power creates. Anyone who's been kissed by her can communicate telepathically not only with her, but also with others who have been kissed by her, making it the only witch power (except for [[spoiler:the seven witch's ability to designate a spotter]]) that can grant ordinary people temporary powers.

* RainbowMotif: [[spoiler:The six normal witches of Nancy's witch group are all named after a color, and Nancy's real name (surname) is Nijino, of which "niji" means "rainbow". However, their ColorMotifs aren't the colors of rainbow (there are no red, orange and yellow among them).]]

** Since four of the five [[spoiler: original]] student council members [[ChekhovsGunman turn out to be very important down the line despite that they may seem insignificant at first]], you'd be forgiven if you thought that the fifth member, Inose (the girl with the pigtails and the hoodie), would be equally important. She even has ''more'' lines than the other members in their introductory chapter. But no, she never plays any role and hasn't been seen for such a long time that she may have left the series for good. She was probably just there to act as the normal student among two witches, a [[ManipulativeBastard ruthless manipulator]] and a revengeful guy who wants to hunt down the seventh witch.

* RelationshipResetButton: [[spoiler:Happens no less than twice to Shiraishi after she starts dating Yamada in chapter 90, because of two different types of memory-wipes. It's not overly dramatic - the first time, she is convinced by her diary that Yamada is her boyfriend and soon opens up to him, and the second time Yamada immediately restores her memories with a kiss since the witch powers have gone forever.]]
* RelationshipRevolvingDoor: [[spoiler:Yamada and Shiraishi go through several periods where they are technically not dating, but the trope is more justified here than in most cases because it's [[AmnesiacLover memory loss that makes them stop dating]]. Shiraishi even points out in chapter 225 that Yamada has asked her out four times, which becomes five times at the end of the series since she loses her memory of him one more time. They are also [[InsistentTerminology "on a break"]] at one point.]]

* ResolvedNoodleIncident: When Alex [[spoiler:swapped bodies with Yamada]] and met with Odagiri, he did an unknown thing that made Odagiri very embarrassed and [[spoiler:made both Odagiri and Shiraishi angry that "Yamada" who already has a girlfriend would do this thing to another girl]]. After some chapters where the readers are left to their own imagination about the incident, it's revealed that [[spoiler:Alex asked Odagiri out on a date]].

** Miyamura learns and tells Yamada [[spoiler:Kotori and Konno ''had their powers long before Yamada erased the original witches' powers'', and as such there are 14 witches on the school and not seven.]].
** Chapter 151 turns one integral part of the series on its head: [[spoiler: We were, through 150 chapters, lead to believe that Yamada led a lonely high school life before the start of the series other than a short-lived friendship with Ushio. But no, he was actually close to Sora Himekawa, one of the witches, back in the days. They have just forgotten about each other because their memories were wiped.]]

** Yuri also wants to [[spoiler:avenge Himekawa by taking his anger out on Yamada]].

* RooftopConfrontation: The second witch war ends with Yamada and [[spoiler:Ushio]] having a fist fight on the school roof to find out who [[spoiler:gets the honor of wiping the memories of Ichijo's supporters.]]

** [[spoiler: Whenever the ceremony are held, the Seventh Witches (Rika, Nancy and Takuma) will always try to expose the undergarments of everyone present during the time stop portion, be it flipping up the skirts for girls or lowering down the pants for boys.]]

** Nancy and Sid only use the light music club to keep track on the witches. [[spoiler: When Nancy stops being the seventh witch, they do get new members and form a band, however.]]
** The Japanese chess club members are smart enough to actually play Japanese chess on a high level in order to better hide their true purpose and not seem suspicious. Still, their true purpose is [[spoiler: to take over the student council and wish for everyone's memories to return.]]
** When the new school year starts, [[spoiler: Noa and Ushio form a poetry club, and Takuma becomes the president and only member of the people-watching club. They don't actually care about club activities - Noa and Ushio just wanted to hang out in a comfortable room instead of the rooftop, and Takuma wanted a place to sleep, but they were all told that they couldn't have their own rooms unless they formed clubs.]]

* SchrodingersButterfly: [[spoiler:In the epilogue Yamada starts speculating that the witch powers may not have been real and they were just imagining anything related to them. If that's really true, it certainly makes you wonder if Yamada and co. also just imagined some of the more mundane scenes...]]

** The first is the fact that [[spoiler:Ushio and Asuka are the only people who know of the witch powers who aren't invited into the Supernatural Studies clubroom to hear about the powers' disappearance]]. And indeed, they [[spoiler:reappear as villains in the second witch war]]. In the anime, [[spoiler:Ushio is invited into the clubroom, though Asuka is still nowhere to be seen]].
** The second is the mystery about why Ushio framed Yamada for the streetfight. In the manga, Shiraishi guesses that Ushio simply betrayed Yamada so that he and Odagiri could be left alone, but it's never confirmed, and Miyamura later points out that he's sure Ushio is hiding something. Furthermore, if you look close in the flashback, you can see that [[spoiler:the girl has a different hair color from Odagiri, which foreshadows that it wasn't Odagiri, but actually Nancy]]. The mystery is later solved in the second witch war. In the anime, Miyamura's line is taken out, and in the flashback, [[spoiler:the girl is obviously Odagiri instead of Nancy]], meaning the mystery is solved right there.
** The third is the fact that Yamada hasn't found out why he got his copy power, even after meeting all seven witches. The anime just ends before he finds out, and the manga [[spoiler:also ends without him finding out, even though the mystery is brought up again in the second witch war]].
* SeriesFauxnale: Nope, chapter 90 isn't the last chapter of the story, but you can easily pretend it is and stop reading there since almost all plot points have been resolved. [[spoiler: Unless you're interested in Ushio's not fully resolved character arc and you want to know who the girl in his and Yamada's flashback really was - then please read on.]]

** Chapter 154 makes it clear that the overall goal of the entire series is, even though it's not mentioned often, to find out why Yamada has the copy power. [[spoiler:Subverted since Yamada never actually finds out.]]

** Yamada's partners in the Light Music Club, Sid and Nancy [[spoiler:(who's one of the seventh witches)]], are an obvious one to [[Music/SexPistols Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen]]. Being a nickname, Nancy is an intentional InUniverse example as well.

** When Yamada takes on the guise of the Masked DK as part of working off the 50,000 yen fee to kiss Aiko Chikushi [[spoiler:a witch who inherited Sarushima's power and uses it both to make money and fight crime as the Masked JK]] his speech is very close to the one said by Series/KamenRiderStronger.

* SittingOnTheRoof: Yamada, Ushio and Noa all have a habit of hanging around on Suzaku High's roof when they feel like they have nowhere else to go (for example when Yamada and Ushio were still delinquents, and after the second witch war when [[spoiler:everyone has forgotten about Yamada and Ushio]]). In fact, Tamaki gave [[spoiler:Ushio and Noa a clubroom]] because he took pity on them sitting on the roof in the cold.
* SixthRanger: The series quickly settles on the Supernatural Studies Club having four members. Quite a few chapters later, would-be accidental arsonist Tsubaki joins them after a subplot where they prevent the fire from happening. [[spoiler:Much, much later - when Tsubaki has become part of the TrueCompanions - Hikaru joins the club and fills this role.]]

* SmarterThanYouLook: Yamada, while not as brilliant as Shiraishi or Miyamura, can be very astute and keen on how to get close to some people. He is the only one [[spoiler:noticing that Tsubasa Konno's power doesn't exactly match up with any of the old ones]].

* TheStakeout: When Arisugawa and Kurosaki look for [[spoiler:new witches]], they go on an extra silly stakeout in the quad by hiding under cardboard boxes. Arisugawa, being the {{Cloudcuckoolander}} she is, keeps wearing her cardboard box over her head for the rest of the chapter.

** Yamada also accidentally stands up Shiraishi when he's busy [[spoiler:playing around with Kotori's mind-reading power]].

** The second one, logically called "the second witch war" in-universe, [[spoiler: details the new student council's meetings with the two new group of witches and their fight against the Japanese chess club which tries to overthrow them]].
** The third and last one doesn't have an in-universe name. The first part details the search for [[spoiler:the remaining memories of all students]], and the last part focuses on Yamada and co. preparing for college.

* SuicideAsComedy: When Ando goes all crazy over [[spoiler:Miyamura's rejection]], she treatens to kill herself after [[spoiler:killing Miyamura]]. No one takes her remotely seriously except that Yamada has a minor freak-out about how she shouldn't [[spoiler:kill herself while she's in his body]].

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: When Yamada asks [[spoiler:Takuma]] to give him the names of [[spoiler:the other witches in his group]], he refuses to do so. Not because of his perpetually secretive personality... But because of the Japanese privacy protection act.

* SwordOfDamocles: [[spoiler:Shortly before her power is stolen by Ushio, Nancy lets Yamada copy it so it can function as a deterrent - believing that Ushio will be hesitant to wipe everybody's memories of Tamaki if he knows that Yamada may wipe everybody's memories of ''him'' - but she insists that Yamada shouldn't actually use the power.]]
* SymbolicallyBrokenObject: Odagiri tears up her PreciousPhoto of Yamada to indicate that she has moved on from being stuck between him and [[spoiler:Ushio]] and no longer needs a photo to confirm that he's the one she loves.

* {{Synchronization}}: [[spoiler:Happens when Yamada copies the seventh witch power. If the seventh witch lets himself/herself be forgotten by wiping memories, Yamada will be forgotten too - and vice versa. They will also share the spotter that one of them designates. Why the seventh witch power is the only power to synchronize when copied is never explained.]]

* TargetSpotter: [[spoiler:The spotters that the seventh witches designate are named after this concept and effectively function as a non-military, non-sniping version of the trope along with being the seventh witches' human {{Familiar}}s. More precisely, the spotter can tell where each witch is located thanks to an inner-eye coordinate system, and then the seventh witch can approach them unexpectedly and wipe their memories.]]

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: It's implied on several occasions that Ushio and Yuri outright dislike each other, but they have still chosen to work together to [[spoiler:hold a ceremony because that's the easiest way for both of them to reach their individual goals]]. Even the more cordial Japanese chess club members are still stated to not consider each other friends - they just work together because that's handier.
* {{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.
* TensionCuttingLaughter: When Yamada and Miyamura are investigating [[spoiler:Yamada's hidden past]] because Miyamura wants to find out [[spoiler:who Yamada dated]], they find an unknown mail address that they presume belongs to [[spoiler:the person Yamada dated]]. Yamada sends a mail to [[spoiler:this unknown person]], and at the exact same time [[spoiler:Miyamura receives a mail]]. It does turn out that [[spoiler:Miyamura's mail was from Leona, so that he wasn't the person Yamada dated]], but both of them still break into a nervous laughter in an attempt to relieve the awkwardness.

* TheirFirstTime: Yamada and Shiraishi don't exactly hurry to have a sex life after they become a couple. The trope is subverted in chapter 185 and 186 which focus on Shiraishi staying at Yamada's place with both of them preparing do to the deed, but they end up doing nothing because they miss each other's signals. It's subverted again in chapter 217 when Yamada invites Shiraishi over with the ruse of studying, but she brings the entire Supernatural Studies Club. [[spoiler:Since they have two children at the end of the epilogue, they must have done it at some point or another.]]

* ThirdPersonFlashback: The flashback from chapters 157 to 161 is about Yamada's [[spoiler:lost memories]], but for some reason also features a few scenes from the student council office where Yamada wasn't present.

* TickleTorture: Just like Yamazaki's student council, [[spoiler:Tamaki's]] new student council is no stranger to torture. However, [[spoiler:Tamaki]] probably isn't the kind of guy who'd ask his subordinates to break people's limbs, so instead he makes them tickle the victims. They're not above stripping the victims and using ropes to keep them in place, though.

* TheTragicRose: Shiraishi is shown laying on a bed of roses in an ImagineSpot during the late-series reveal that [[spoiler:she has sacrificed her memories to ensure Yamada remembers her - the depressing fact that she has left Suzaku High forever along with the uplifting fact that Yamada might find her and restore her memories makes for a very bittersweet scene]].

** [[spoiler: In the second part of the story, the remaining members of the Supernatural Studies Club are Shiraishi, Itou, and Tsubaki. Officially, Yamada and Miyamura are still members, but they never have time to show up anymore due to their student council work.]]

* TwoGirlsToATeam: The Supernatural Studies Club has two female members (Shiraishi and Itou) throughout the whole history until the very end when the third-years retire, leaving [[spoiler:to male members (the Suzuhara twins) and one female member (Noa).]]

** The new main character team after [[spoiler: the new presidency run has begun]], consisting of Yamada, Miyamura, and [[spoiler: Noa]].

* TheUnmasquedWorld: In the present day, only a selected few students know about the witches. However, [[spoiler:back in Yamada's first year, Dark Takuma apparently discovered the existence of witches and shared the secret with everyone he met. This forced the student council to intervene and wipe everybody's memories about the whole third term of the year to keep up the masquerade.]]

** [[spoiler:Yamada and Ushio become this again after Ushio's memory wipe.]]

** Chapter 153 ends with the implication that there will be a ''huge'' reveal about [[spoiler: Yamada and Himekawa's shared past]] in the next chapter, told by [[spoiler: Himekawa herself]]. But the next chapter opens with her accidentally tripping, falling into his arms. Suddenly, she finds the situation too awkward to tell anything and runs off instead.
** [[spoiler: The unreveals don't end there. Even though Yamada wishes for his memories to come back so he can know what happened between him and Himekawa, he ''still'' doesn't find out. Well, he does find out how he met her, and how they became close enough for her to fall in love with him, but the memories of the dramatic incident that made her ask Nancy to wipe their memories didn't return, and as such we and all the characters are in the dark about what really happened to them for a long time]].

* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: In this verse, an IndyPloy thought up in the heat of the action generally works much better than a meticulously thought-up plan. The most noteworthy examples of this are Miyamura's plan to keep Tsubaki away from the old school building and Shiraishi's plan to [[spoiler:make Yamada have her warm up to him at the graduation after she's forgotten everything about him]]. The former plan does work fairly well until Yamada is forced to leave the "date", while the latter plan immediately fails as [[spoiler:none of Shiraishi's conversation suggestions for Yamada work]]. In case of the former plan, the solution simply is for Yamada to swap bodies with Tsubaki, and in case of the latter plan, the solution is [[spoiler:for Yamada to call out Shiraishi on being boring]].

** Yamazaki also got one, albeit way more dysfunctional, since it included a GreenEyedMonster and a TortureTechnician. Still, at the core, he's the same than Yamada, only interested by [[spoiler:Leona]] who also happened to be the OnlySaneWoman.

* VacationEpisode: The Guam arc is mostly about Yamada and co. enjoying the beaches and activities of this tropical island, though the arc also serves the further the plotline about [[spoiler:the lost memories]].

* VitriolicBestBuds: Most friendships in the series have this to some degree, but Yamada and Itou exemplify it best. They spend most of their time bickering and insulting each other, but they are still good friends who are perfectly capable of enjoying each other's company. The bonus chapter shows it best. [[spoiler: This is also how Yamada figured out that Itou was under a witch power in chapter 127. He knows she would never be so affectionate with him, but he also knows she supports him and his relationship to Shiraishi and would never lie just to drive them apart.]]

* TheWarHasJustBegun: [[spoiler:As Miyamura's student council is unseated, Ichijo thinks he's already guaranteed a spot as the new president. Asuka, however, mentions that the unseating is just the beginning, implying that they have a whole long election campaign in front of them.]]

* WeAreTeamCannonFodder: In the first witch war, all members of the Supernatural Studies Club would help out during the witch search. In later chapters, [[SpotlightStealingSquad Miyamura]] is the only club member who helps Yamada search for witches, and Shiraishi, Itou and Tsubaki only have roles to play in more SliceOfLife-oriented scenes and chapters. After Yamada asks all of his friends to help him [[spoiler:recover the lost memories]], Tsubaki even points the trope out by saying that the only help he can provide is [[TeamChef cooking meals]].

* WeNeedADistraction: [[spoiler:When Yamada needs Ushio to give Kotori back her power, he doesn't expect that Ushio will do it without coercion. Thus, he enlists Miyamura and Noa in his plan which goes like this; Yamada will walk into the Japanese chess clubroom and distract Ushio with smalltalk while Miyamura and Noa will wait by the open window and ambush Ushio and tie him up once Yamada gives the signal. Unlike [[UnspokenPlanGuarantee most plans in the series]], the plan actually works as intended, but still comes to a halt when Ushio says that he'll give the power back without coercion]].

** Chapter 134. [[spoiler: "The one who stole my power was Ushio Igarashi". Not that it was hard to see coming due to plenty of {{Foreshadowing}}, but it still changes the course of the story and the characters' motivations.]]
** Chapter 151. [[spoiler: "The male student who's been erased from Himekawa's memory... That student is me, isn't it...?"]]
** Chapter 235. [[spoiler:"Who is Shiraishi?"]]

** Chapter 172: [[spoiler:Yamada is forgotten by everyone ''again'' - even though Ushio tried to take the fall for him.]]
** Chapter 236: [[spoiler:Shiraishi has left the school, and everybody except for Yamada has lost their memories of her.]]
* WhamShot: [[spoiler:Shiraishi being the girl Yamada dated in the past]] is revealed this way. Yamada is looking at an unknown girl, he reaches out his hand and [[spoiler:asks her to go out with him]], and then a panel taking up the whole next page shows [[spoiler:Shiraishi's face]].

** [[spoiler: The flashback showing how Yamada met Himekawa and Nancy is the longest one of the series, lasting from chapter 157 to chapter 161.]]

** [[spoiler:Shiraishi's past is shown throughout the whole of chapter 239.]]

* YouMustBeCold: PlayedForLaughs during the winter trip. [[spoiler: Odagiri - who has swapped bodies with Yamada - tries to act the way a romantical boyfriend would do in front of Shiraishi. She concludes that she should do the things that she herself would want a boyfriend to do. One of these things is saying that Shiraishi must be cold and giving Shiraishi her hoodie (even though Shiraishi is already wearing a coat and a scarf), leaving her wearing only a t-shirt in freezing cold. Shiraishi subverts and returns the favor by saying that Odagiri must be the one who's cold and gives her the hoodie back along with her own scarf.]]

** At the very start, shortly after the ceremony, Yamada and co. think all is well because the witches lost their powers and can't cause troubles for themselves or others anymore. [[spoiler:Then it turns out that a ''new'' witch group has been born...]]
** Some chapters later, when Yamada has met and made friends with Nancy and [[spoiler:most of her witch group]], it seems like the problem with [[spoiler:the new witches]] was resolved easily and peacefully. Except that [[spoiler:Nancy's group wasn't the new witches Yamada was looking for. They existed on the school all along. And so a new and much more difficult witch search begins]]...

* 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.

* TeensAreShort: Generally inverted. All recurring teachers are short, with the teenaged main characters towering over them. Probably to signify that in this world, AdultsAreUseless, and it's actually the teenagers who run the school and drive the plot. Exceptions are some of the parents: Itou's mom is tall, and Yamada's mom seems to be of average height.

* ThreeAmigos: Yamada, Shiraishi and Miyamura at the start (before Itou and Tsubaki at the start) - as well as Yamada, Odagiri and Tamaki in Rika's arc, the two of them filling Shiraishi and Miyamura's roles.

* PowerWalk: When the student council walks through the school halls to confront the Japanese chess club.

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** Takuma's evil alter ego being nicknamed "Yami Takuma" ("Dark Takuma" in the English translation) is a clear nod to all the evil alter egos in ''Manga/YuGiOh''.

* SymbolSwearing: Shobami (voiced by Miyamura) swears like this when Miyamura wants to exemplify the anger of the students.

* BilingualBonus: Because of having lived in another country, Sarushima thinks in SurprisinglyGoodEnglish, so any Japanese reader without at least some knowledge of English language wouldn't have been able to tell what she's thinking in chapter 107 - a funny little CallBack to the first time Yamada met her.

** Yamada tries again in chapter 90 after Shiraishi recovers her memories. This time, TheyDo. For additional Awww value, she confirms that the reason why she rejected him before was because at the time she knew she was in love with someone even she couldn't remember who that person was.

* OfficialCouple: It took long enough for it to [[TheyDo actually happen]], and [[OfficialCoupleOrdealSyndrome they still have their ups and downs]], but it's become abundantly clear at this point that no power on Earth can sink the ship that is Yamada/Shiraishi.

** While Shiraishi and Yamada are the main source of ship tease until TheyDo, they are certainly not the only ones. Yamada has had reasonable amounts of ship tease with every girl he's befriended, and even a couple of the guys. Of other characters, Odagiri and Tamaki actually get a substantial amount despite that Odagiri seems to be constantly lusting over Yamada. Itou also has some with Miyamura, and later with Tsubaki.

* TheyDo: After all the troubles and hesitation of the first witch war, Yamada and Shiraishi finally start dating for the rest of the series and end up married.

* WillTheyOrWontThey: Yamada and Shiraishi. TheyDo.

-> ''"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."''

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[[caption-width-right:301:[-The eponymous characters. Clockwise from the upper left corner: Ryu Yamada, Mikoto Asuka, Rika Saionji, Meiko Otsuka, Nene Odagiri, Urara Shiraishi, and Maria Sarushima. In the middle: Noa Takigawa.-] ]]

* TriangRelations:
** Two of them, both type 4: 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...]]
** [[spoiler: Type 7 is shaping up between Yamada, Shiraishi, and Himekawa. Yamada and Shiraishi are still a couple, but they are "on a break". In the meanwhile, Yamada has become close to Himekawa and may or may not have developed feelings for her (Miyamura thinks he has, but Yamada himself is confused), and she is obviously fond of him, too.]]

* OffModel: There is often a noteworthy art-style difference between the characters (which are presumably drawn by Yoshikawa herself) and the backgrounds/inanimate objects (which seem to be drawn by her assistants). The latter are drawn with softer, thinner lines and look more photorealistic - but also somewhat less dynamic - than the characters.

* EvilCounterpart: The Japanese Chess Club to the Supernatural Studies Club. Both get a stoic, silent and intelligent female President, a hot-blooded delinquent who drive the plot, a man running for presidency of the council who set the goals, a tall and powerful BigGuy who can easily bash Yamada and TheChick. The only difference comes in the form of a SixthRanger who has yet to show what is his role. It's a variant in that their chief enemy is the student council, and they have little to do with the Supernatural Studies Club.

** TheChick: Itou, who - despite her tendencies to complain and criticize the others - also has her heart in the right place and helps keep up the team spirit thanks to her enthusiasm.