Yankee-kun na Yamada-kun to Megane-chan to Majo

Name: Yankee-kun na Yamada-kun to Megane-chan to Majo
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2015-08-26

ヤンキー君な山田くんとメガネちゃんと魔女

7.0(10,686)

MAL Score

Ranked #5038

Popularity #4814

Comedy
School

Episodes: 1
Duration: 7 min
Aired: Aug 26, 2015
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

The official website for *Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches* announced that the first Blu-ray Disc and DVD box sets will include a collaboration with *Yankee-kun to Megane-chan* in both manga and anime form.

(Source: ANN)

Otaku Consensus

As a Blu-ray/DVD-bundled one-shot, Yankee-kun na Yamada-kun to Megane-chan to Majo is best judged as a celebratory Miki Yoshikawa extra rather than a full adaptation: its brisk pacing and crossover novelty are the selling points. Fan and review commentary around the source material consistently praises Yoshikawa’s laugh-out-loud school comedy, shippable leads, and clever twist-driven setup, while the most common criticism is that the Yankee-kun side can feel stale over time and this special has a deliberately slight, fan-service-for-existing-readers ceiling.

Why You Should Watch

If you want a school-comedy chaser to Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches without committing to another cour, this is exactly the snack-sized oddity to queue up. It is a LIDENFILMS-produced, one-episode Miki Yoshikawa crossover that puts the rom-com delinquent energy of Yankee-kun to Megane-chan, also known as Flunk Punk Rumble, beside Yamada-kun’s witch-and-gender-bending flavor. The appeal is not lore completion; it is seeing two Yoshikawa comic modes collide in a format built for fast gags, cast recognition, and “wait, they actually animated this?” novelty. It scratches the same itch as a bonus OVA after a shounen rom-com finale: light, self-contained, and more playful than canonical. Best for viewers who already like school chaos, supernatural comedy, and loud character chemistry, not for someone seeking a polished standalone entry point.

Key Characters

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Hana Adachi(VA: Youko Hikasa)
The Megane-chan half of Yoshikawa’s earlier school-comedy identity gives the crossover its connection to the delinquent-romcom roots that made Yankee-kun to Megane-chan so fondly remembered.
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Daichi Shinagawa(VA: Yuuki Ono)
Daichi carries the Yankee-kun side of the title, bringing the rougher old-school school-comedy energy that contrasts with Yamada-kun’s supernatural witch setup.
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Seiya Chiba(VA: Tomoaki Maeno)
Seiya’s inclusion helps the special feel like a crossover of ensembles rather than a simple two-lead cameo exchange.
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Rinka Himeji(VA: Mika Kikuchi)
Rinka represents the witch-flavored side of the special, tying its school-comedy rhythms to the magic and gender-bending tags associated with Yamada-kun.

What Makes It Stand Out

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It is a single-episode crossover between Miki Yoshikawa’s Yankee-kun to Megane-chan and Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches, making it more of a creator-universe bonus than a conventional OVA sequel.
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The anime was tied to the first Blu-ray Disc and DVD box sets for Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches, and the collaboration was announced in both manga and anime form, which gives it a specific collector-oriented production context.
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LIDENFILMS handled the animation, the same studio credited in the research data for this special, keeping the project compact rather than expanding it into a separate television run.
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Its AniList tag profile is unusually hybrid for a one-shot comedy: School, Magic, and Witch all sit at 79%, while Gender Bending registers at 55%, reflecting how the crossover fuses straight school-romcom material with Yamada-kun’s supernatural identity.
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Its reception numbers show niche-but-real visibility for a bonus episode: 6.97 on MyAnimeList from 10,686 votes and 68/100 on AniList, with 85 AniList favourites.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: Miki Yoshikawa is credited as the original creator, and the project functions as a direct bridge between two of her shounen school-comedy properties rather than an adaptation by an unrelated crossover committee.
Fun fact 2: Yankee-kun to Megane-chan is also known in English as Flunk Punk Rumble, and the web data notes that it received a 10-episode Japanese television drama adaptation separate from this anime crossover.
Fun fact 3: The special finished airing on August 26, 2015, the same release date context that ties it to the early home-video rollout of Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches.
Fun fact 4: The Japanese cast pulls recognizable anime regulars into a very short format, including Youko Hikasa as Hana Adachi, Yuuki Ono as Daichi Shinagawa, Tomoaki Maeno as Seiya Chiba, and Takuma Terashima as Gaku Izumi.
Fun fact 5: Fan commentary on the Yankee-kun to Megane-chan manga repeatedly highlights its humor and central pairing, while also noting that the longer manga can become stale later on, which helps explain why this crossover works best as a compact gag delivery system.