With word recently of an important announcement coming up that many had hoped would mean a second season of the property, the Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches has instead announced that the manga series will be ending soon. Serialized in Weekly Shonen Magazine, the series from Miki Yoshikawa is now slated to end in five chapters. With the twenty-seventh volume scheduled for a February 17th, 2017 release, the twenty-eighth and final volume will likely be scheduled quickly to bring the property to a close. Crunchyroll is currently handling simulpub chapters while Kodansha Comics USA has been bringing it out in print and digitally as well.
The anime adaptation ran for twelve episodes. The project was directed by Tomoki Takuno, who did the storyboards as well, with Fumiaki Usui serving as the assistant director while Eriko Iida handled the character designs and Michiko Yokote on the scripts.
The cast includes Ryota Ohsaka as Ryu Yamada, Saori Hayami as Urara Shiraish, Toshiki Masuda as Toranosuke Miyamura, Maaya Uchida as Miyabi Ito, Masumi Tazawa as Rika Saionji, Aoi Yūki as Noa Takigawa, Toshiharu Sasaki as Kentarō Tsubaki, Eri Kitamura as Nene Odagiri, Daisuke Ono as Ushio Igarashi, Yui Makino as Meiko Ōtsuka, Yuki Takao as Maria Sarashima, Shinnosuke Tachibana as Shinichi Tamaki, Tomokazu Sugita as Hideaki Tsurukawa and Yuuki Ono as Mitsuru Kamedea.
The series is based on the manga by Miki Yoshikawa, which debuted its OAD on December 17th, 2014 and a second on May 15th, 2015 with the 17th volume of the manga.
Plot concept: Shiraishi Urara is the top student in her school. One day, due to an accidental kiss, Urara finds herself in the body of the school delinquent, Yamada Ryuu! In trying to switch back to their own bodies, Urara and Ryuu discover that kissing causes them to switch bodies, which leads to their discovery that there are 7 witches in their school. They soon try to uncover the identities of the 7 witches…
[Source: ANN]
