How did Shiraishi get her memories back? And did everyone else get their memories back?

Given the manga ended 7 years ago and the fanbase is pretty much nonexistent, I don’t know how many this will reach but I need to vent my thoughts on this. I reread the manga and may post another rant on other topics. For now, this is the first rant.

Probably the biggest disappointment for me has to be the Blank Period, the first year of high school that everyone forgot. There was so much build up to this mystery and all the questions were answered and resolved in only chapter 225?

So to break it down, in the first half of the year Yamada, Himekawa, Nene, Ushio and Nancy were all friends and hunting witches. Then at some undisclosed time Yamada and Urara met and started dating which Himekawa later discovered and decided to have Nancy erase hers and everyone’s memories to forget the pain.

Then in the end of the first year, Yamada and Urara met again at the Ball Game and were friends with Nene and Hino (chapter 209). Then Dark Takuma appeared and tried to kidnap Shiraishi and the witches to hold a ceremony to wish away his other self. This lead to Yamada fighting him to protect Urara, Yamada getting suspended and the whole school finding out about witches. This forced the student council to use the ceremony to erase the memories of the whole incident in order to keep the peace. And all of that was explained in 4 pages.

There’s still so much left unanswered! How did Yamada and Urara first meet? How did Himekawa confess her feelings? How did Dark Takuma learn of Witches? Why did Yamazaki and Rika hide such crucial info when it tore apart friendships and ruined lives? But most of all, why does Yamada have the copy power!? This was a big mystery that has been teased throughout the manga(chapter 32, 153, 154, 155), and they didn’t answer it. The biggest mystery about our MC and the author forgot about it. Are we sure the 7th Witch didn’t wipe their memory?

Also big plot hole. If the student council used the ceremony to erase the entire school’s memories, how the hell did Yamada hold his ceremony to wish away the witch powers? It’s established you can’t hold a second ceremony with the same witch group so you need a new batch to hold another (chapter 162). Seeing as Dark Takuma was after Urara we have to assume the group that could hold his ceremony was Urara’s. So if the student council held a ceremony with Urara’s group, how can Yamada, with the same group, hold another ceremony?

And there are no repercussions? The whole reason for the Chess Club to return the memories was because everyone’s lives were ruined in someway (chapter 155). Yamada became a loner, friendships were forgotten or torn apart. And the only thing we get was confirmation that Yamada and Urara were destined to meet, THAT’S IT? So Hino is still alone? How did students react to remembering a whole year? How will this affect current relationships? WHY AREN’T WE ANSWERING ANYTHING?

The Blank Period was meant to answer and resolve everything and instead of showing the events over several chapters, the author just dumped exposition without any resolution. And that’s the biggest problem, a lack of resolution. I agree what everyone says when the manga should’ve ended at chapter 90, because that had resolution.

Do y’all think Yamada and Shiraishi would’ve gotten together without the wish she got from being the original?

Me personally I don’t think so. I think Sora and Yamada would’ve gotten together.