Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahō

Modern Magic Made Simple
Cover art for the new edition of the first light novel, featuring the main cast of characters
よくわかる現代魔法 (Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahō)
Genre	Magical girl
Light novel
Written by	Hiroshi Sakurazaka
Illustrated by	Miki Miyashita
Published by	Shueisha
Demographic	Male
Imprint	Super Dash Bunko
Original run	December 25, 2003 – present
Volumes	6
Manga
Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahō comic edition
Written by	Hiroshi Sakurazaka
Illustrated by	Miki Miyashita
Published by	Shueisha
Demographic	Shōnen
Magazine	Jump Square
Original run	August 4, 2008 – September, 2009
Anime television series
Directed by	Yasuhiro Kuroda
Studio	Nomad
Licensed by	NA Sentai Filmworks
Original network	BS11, AT-X, Bandai Channel
English network	NA Anime Network
Original run	July 11, 2009 – September 26, 2009
Episodes	12 (List of episodes)

Modern Magic Made Simple (Japanese: よくわかる現代魔法^?, Hepburn: Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahō, lit. "Comprehensible Modern-Day Magic") is a Japanese light novel series by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, with illustrations by Miki Miyashita. As of March 25, 2009, six volumes have been published by Shueisha under their Super Dash Bunko imprint. A new edition of the first light novel was released on April 25, 2008. A manga adaptation started serialization in the shōnen magazine Jump Square on August 4, 2008. An anime adaptation was announced in October 2008. A 12-episode anime adaptation began airing in Japan on the networks BS11, AT-X, and Bandai Channel between July and September 2009.

The protagonist, Koyomi Morishita, is a short, clumsy, female high school freshman. She is always annoyed mercilessly, since life hasn’t been fair to her, other than her friend Yumiko. Seeing a flyer about a school for magicians, Koyomi takes the enrollment and becomes a student of Misa Anehara, a powerful master magician. Modern magic is accomplished with the aid of computers by writing special programs for them. So far Koyomi's talent seems to consist of making washbasins randomly fall out of the sky, although magic is not as easy as it seems.

The light novel series is by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, with illustrations by Miki Miyashita. As of March 25, 2009, six volumes have been published by Shueisha under their Super Dash Bunko imprint. A new edition of the first light novel was released on April 25, 2008.