Komi Can't Communicate

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Komi Can't Communicate
Cover Art Komi-san wa, Komyushou desu Vol 1.jpg
Cover of the first manga volume featuring Komi (left) and Tadano
古見さんは、コミュ症です。
(Komi-san wa, Komyushō desu.)
Genre
Manga
Written byTomohito Oda
Published byShogakukan
English publisher
Viz Media
ImprintShōnen Sunday Comics
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Sunday
DemographicShōnen
Original runMay 18, 2016 – present
Volumes22 (List of volumes)
Television drama
Directed by
  • Yoshihito Okashita
  • Eiji Ishii
Produced byHiroyuki Onuma
Written byFumie Mizuhashi
Music byEishi Segawa
StudioTV Man Union
Original networkNHK General TV
Original run September 6, 2021 – present
Episodes8
Anime television series
Directed by
  • Ayumu Watanabe (chief)
  • Kazuki Kawagoe
Written byDeko Akao
Music byYukari Hashimoto
StudioOLM
Original networkTV Tokyo
Original run October 7, 2021 – scheduled
Wikipe-tan face.svg Anime and manga portal

Komi Can't Communicate (Japanese: 古見さんは、コミュ症です。, Hepburn: Komi-san wa, Komyushō desu.) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tomohito Oda. It has been serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday since May 2016, with its chapters collected in twenty-two tankōbon volumes as of August 2021. The series has been licensed for English release in North America by Viz Media. A live-action television drama adaptation premiered in September 2021, and an anime television series adaptation by OLM is set to premiere in October of the same year.

Premise[]

On her first day attending the elite Itan Private High School, the main setting of the story, Shouko Komi immediately receives an overwhelming surge in popularity due to the unprecedented, stoic beauty and refined elegance her classmates perceive her to possess. However, only Hitohito Tadano, an exceedingly average schoolboy who to sits next to her, is able to have the opportunity to discover that, behind her bishōjo appearance, Komi has serious issues in communicating with others. Tadano sets out to help Komi on her quest to find 100 friends.[4]

Characters[]

Shouko Komi (古見 硝子, Komi Shōko)
Voiced by: Aoi Koga[5]
Portrayed by: Elaiza Ikeda[6]
An absolute beauty to anyone, Shouko Komi in reality suffers from extreme social anxiety and communication problems, making her largely unable to talk to others. However, her attractiveness and stoic appearance, which in itself results from her anxiety, is perceived as refined class, making her highly popular while preventing people from actually getting to know her. Komi's first conversation with Tadano is over a blackboard, and she uses a notebook to convey her feelings through writing. Despite this, she is still capable of verbal conversation over a cell phone. Her dream is to overcome her communication problems and make 100 friends.[4]
Hitohito Tadano (只野 仁人, Tadano Hitohito)
Voiced by: Gakuto Kajiwara[5]
Portrayed by: Takahisa Masuda[6]
Sitting next to Komi, Hitohito Tadano is, as his name implies, an "average" schoolboy in every possible way. Discovering Komi's communication problems by inadvertently becoming the last students remaining in the classroom, he befriends Komi and, over a blackboard, promises to help Komi to accomplish her dream of having 100 friends, with him being the first. As the story progresses, Tadano gradually uncovers Komi's issues and gets to know more of her personality, while ultimately being in denial of his slowly-progressing romantic feelings between the two of them; though they eventually date. His name is a play on words; tada no hito (ただの人) means "an ordinary/average person", and hito (仁) means "human" or "compassionate".[4]
Rumiko Manbagi (万場木 留美子, Manbagi Rumiko)
Portrayed by: Ai Yoshikawa[7]
Rumiko Manbagi is a gyaru who joins Tadano and Komi's class in their second year of high school. She initially presented herself with an excessive amount of make-up, scaring people off and causing her to become increasingly lonely - even suffering ill physical health because of it. Tadano and Komi befriend her and help her overcome her loneliness; from then on, Rumiko considers herself their best friend. She eventually drops the make-up entirely, as well. Similar to Komi, Rumiko is described as a 'wallflower' by her friends. Her affection towards Tadano also grows to the point where torn between it and her friendship with Komi, she offers to step aside for Komi's sake; Komi refuses to allow such a course of action, reasoning that she cannot allow her friend to sacrifice her happiness for her own sake.
Najimi Osana (長名 なじみ, Osana Najimi)
Voiced by: Rie Murakawa[5]
Portrayed by: Yūtarō[7]
A character with ambiguous gender, Najimi Osana has been friends with Tadano since middle school. Long knowing them as a boy, it is to the latter's surprise that the former now dresses in a girls' uniform, albeit with a boy's tie, as they both advanced to the Itan High School. Najimi's gender is never confirmed, and they are frequently referred to with gendered pronouns, although it is implied that Najimi is genderless. Najimi regularly switches from saying they're a boy or a girl and laughing that anyone ever thought otherwise, though Tadano connects this more with what he describes as pathological dishonesty. They are the "ultimate" childhood friend, as everyone in the school has known them since childhood, due to their family's frequent moving during their childhood. Najimi is depicted as having immense capability in conversing and befriending others as a result of their childhood moving, but was hampered when introduced to Komi by Tadano, as their unsuccessful childhood attempt to befriend Komi left them with psychological trauma. Their name is a play on words; osananajimi (幼馴染) literally means "childhood friend".[4]
Ren Yamai (山井 恋, Yamai Ren)
Voiced by: Rina Hidaka[8]
A character who is the leader of the "Cool Girls", she is also aggeressive as she held a knife and threatened to kill Tadano in Volume 2.
Omoharu Nakanaka (中々 思春, Nakanaka Omoharu)
Voiced by: Rumi Okubo[8]
Nakanaka is immature and, due to her chūnibyō nature, often thinks that she is a princess.
Himiko Agari (上理 卑美子, Agari Himiko)
Voiced by: Yukiyo Fujii[8]
Agari is anxious whenever she goes; she is also the school librarian, Gorimi's, assistant. In volume 12, she is seen joining the Library corps.
Makeru Yadano (矢田野 まける, Yadano Makeru)
Voiced by: Ami Maeshima[9]
Yadano hates to lose; in Volume 2, she appeared at the fitness examination which her goal is to beat Komi to show that she is the best. After losing most of the components, she decided to challenge Komi.
Akako Onigashima (鬼ヶ島 朱子, Onigashima Akako)
Voiced by: Sarah Emi Bridcutt[9]
Shigeo Chiarai (地洗井 茂夫, Chiarai Shigeo)
Voiced by: Kenji Akabane[10]
Taisei Sonoda (園田 大勢, Sonoda Taisei)
Voiced by: Yuga Satō[10]
Mono Shinobino (忍野 裳乃, Shinobino Mono)
Voiced by: Kensho Ono[10]
Shōsuke Komi (古見 笑介, Komi Shōsuke)
Voiced by: Junya Enoki[11]
Hitomi Tadano (只野 瞳, Tadano Hitomi)
Voiced by: Maaya Uchida[11]
Narrator (ナレーション, Narēshon)
Voiced by: Noriko Hidaka[8]

Media[]

Manga[]

Komi Can't Communicate is written and illustrated by Tomohito Oda. Before its serialization, a one-shot chapter was published in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday on September 16, 2015;[12][13] the series began serialization in the same magazine on May 18, 2016.[14] Shogakukan has collected its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was published on September 16, 2016.[15] As of August 18, 2021, twenty-two volumes have been published.[16]

In November 2018, during their panel at Anime NYC, Viz Media announced that they acquired the license for the manga.[17] The first volume was released in North America on June 11, 2019.[18]

The manga is licensed in Southeast Asia by Shogakukan Asia,[19] in Taiwan by Chingwin Publishing Group,[20] in Indonesia by Elex Media Komputindo,[21] in Germany by Tokyopop,[22] in Italy by J-Pop[23] and in Argentina and Spain by Editorial Ivrea.[24][25]

Volume list[]

No. Original release date Original ISBN English release date English ISBN
1 September 16, 2016[26]978-4-09-127343-7June 11, 2019[18]978-1-9747-0712-6
2 December 16, 2016[27]978-4-09-127426-7August 13, 2019[28]978-1-9747-0713-3
3 March 17, 2017[29]978-4-09-127509-7October 8, 2019[30]978-1-9747-0714-0
4 June 16, 2017[31]978-4-09-127575-2December 10, 2019[32]978-1-9747-0715-7
5 July 18, 2017[33]978-4-09-127664-3February 11, 2020[34]978-1-9747-0716-4
6 October 18, 2017[35]978-4-09-127856-2April 14, 2020[36]978-1-9747-0717-1
7 December 18, 2017[37]978-4-09-127885-2June 9, 2020[38]978-1-9747-0718-8
8 March 16, 2018[39]978-4-09-128091-6August 11, 2020[40]978-1-9747-0719-5
9 June 18, 2018[41]978-4-09-128254-5October 13, 2020[42]978-1-9747-1740-8
10 September 18, 2018[43]978-4-09-128390-0December 8, 2020[44]978-1-9747-1741-5
11 December 18, 2018[45]978-4-09-128590-4February 09, 2021[46]978-1-9747-1882-5
12 March 18, 2019[47]978-4-09-128802-8April 13, 2021[48]978-1-9747-1884-9
13 June 18, 2019[49]978-4-09-129166-0June 8, 2021[50]978-1-9747-1883-2
14 August 16, 2019[51]978-4-09-129329-9August 10, 2021[52]978-1-9747-1886-3
15 November 18, 2019[53]978-4-09-129441-8October 12, 2021[54]978-1-9747-1885-6
16 February 18, 2020[55]978-4-09-129555-2December 14, 2021[56]978-1-9747-2454-3
17 May 18, 2020[57]978-4-09-850072-7February 8, 2022[58]978-1-9747-2455-0
18 September 18, 2020[59]978-4-09-850178-6April 12, 2022[60]978-1-9747-2456-7
19 November 18, 2020[61]978-4-09-850277-6——
20 February 18, 2021[62]978-4-09-850389-6——
21 May 18, 2021[63]978-4-09-850529-6——
22 August 18, 2021[16]978-4-09-850644-6——

Anime[]

On May 11, 2021, an anime television series adaptation by OLM was announced. The series will be directed by Kazuki Kawagoe with Ayumu Watanabe serving as chief director, with scripts by Deko Akao, character designs by Atsuko Nakajima, and music by Yukari Hashimoto. The series is scheduled to air on TV Tokyo on October 7, 2021.[5][64][65][a] Kitri will perform the series' ending theme "Hikareinochi".[8]

Drama[]

A 8-episode live-action television drama adaptation premiered on September 6, 2021, on NHK General TV.[66][6][67] Aiko performed the series' theme song.[7]

Reception[]

Popularity[]

The series ranked first in a 2020 poll conducted by AnimeJapan of "Most Wanted Anime Adaptation".[68][69]

Sales[]

As of September 2018, the first ten tankōbon volumes had over 2 million copies in circulation.[70] As of February 2021, the first twenty tankōbon volumes had over 5.2 million copies in circulation.[71]

Critical response[]

In a review of the first volume from Anime News Network, Rebecca Silverman called the series "a nice little story with humor and a distinct lack of cruelty that doesn't break any new barriers but is definitely fun to read." Faye Hopper considered that it is hard to tell if the humor of the series lies in Komi's "seemingly outlandish, absurd behavior" or if it is a "legitimate depiction of anxiety that we laugh at because we relate." Hopper also called the character of Najimi a "transphobic punchline", criticizing the jokes about their gender fluidity, calling them "extremely tasteless" and that they "undermines the book's message by making light of an already marginalized community." Nevertheless, Hopper stated that the series "succeeds in spite of a potentially noxious premise", pointing out that the other characters are "just as dysfunctional as the eponymous Komi, creating a solid base of compassion and doing a good job not casting her as a weird social outlier."[72]

Notes[]

  1. ^ TV Tokyo lists the series premiere at 24:00 on October 6, 2021, which is effectively 12:00 a.m. JST on October 7.

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