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| demographic = ''Shōnen'' | magazine = Weekly Shōnen Magazine | first = February 22, 2012 | last = | volumes = 20 | volume_list = List of Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches volumes }} is an ongoing manga series written and illustrated by Miki Yoshikawa. The series has been published by Kodansha in their ''Weekly Shonen Magazine'' since February 22, 2012. The series has been licensed in Chinese by the Taiwanese publishing company Tong Li.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tong Li's Chinese catalog )〕 It was adapted into a live-action television drama which aired on FujiTV from August–September 2013.〔 On October 26, 2013, Crunchyroll announced a partnership with Kodansha where it would distribute chapters digitally to 170 countries. The series has been licensed for North American release by Kodansha Comics USA, who will begin releasing the series in 2015. As of November 2015, the series has been compiled into 20 volumes in Japan. ==Conception and development== Manga author Miki Yoshikawa's previous work, ''Flunk Punk Rumble'' ran in Kodansha's ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' from 2006-2011, with a total of 211 chapters. Her editor suggested for her next project that she write a one-shot for ''Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine''. She developed two stories: a prototype story for ''Yamada-kun'' and ''The Demon's Classroom''. The second story was initially chosen, but became difficult to run because the main character was a grade school girl. The prototype ''Yamada'' story eventually became the first chapter for ''Yamada-kun''.〔 In the ''Natalie'' interview, Yoshikawa said that she had thought of the body swapping idea in the ''Yankee-kun'' days, and had researched some medical books on the differences between men and women, both physically and emotionally, but generally went with it because she liked the idea. "It just kind of came to me, but I was wondering how a guy finding himself in a girl’s body would react, and the reverse".〔 She treats a body-swapped character as an entirely different character.〔 At Anime Expo 2015, she said that she initially thought about gender swapping first but later rejected that as a potential magic power.〔 When it was noted that the main characters for both of her works were delinquents, Yoshikawa replied that those types of characters came easily for her, as she grew up in the lower end of Tokyo. The characters and their names are not based on her friends so that they can act crazy.〔 At Anime Expo 2015, she said that the characters reflect different aspects of herself. She also said that the ''Yamada-kun'' characters go to a different school from the ones in ''Yankee-kun'' but that they live in adjacent neighborhoods.〔 With regards to drawing, she tries to vary each kiss, but mostly uses the side angle to make sure it comes through. With regards to kisses between members of the same gender, she replied that wasn't intended to target any specific demographic but just "an inevitable outcome." At the time of Anime Expo, she said she had five assistants. She does her drawing by hand in black-and-white, and uses the computer for the filling in colors. She spends about half of her time on story, and the other half on actual drawing.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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