Komi-san wa, Comyushou desu.
Komi Can't Communicate

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I just finished Komi Can't Communicate by Tomohito Oda—a series that’s been with me on and off for almost five years now. After the non-stop adventure of One Piece, I was looking for something more laid-back and heartfelt, and Komi’s world delivered exactly that.

As an introvert, I found Komi’s struggle to connect incredibly relatable. Though I don’t have a communication disorder, watching her move from silence to self-expression—first by jotting down her thoughts and then, bit by bit, speaking—felt like a personal journey of growth. The story is simple, centered on high school life and the everyday challenge of making friends, yet it manages to ... pull off both lighthearted humor and moments of real emotional impact.

Speaking of Tadano Hitohito, he’s my favorite character. His charm lies in his delightful averageness—he isn’t superhuman or extraordinary in the usual sense, and that makes him wonderfully genuine. It’s refreshing to see a character who reminds us that being normal is perfectly okay and even heroic in its own way. Komi herself, with her gradual transformation from near-total silence to forming full conversations, is not just adorable but also profoundly inspiring. I still get chills thinking about the moment she and Tadano first communicated using chalk on a blackboard—a simple, yet beautifully executed scene that captures the magic of a budding friendship.

Then there’s the rest of the cast—hundreds of uniquely quirky characters who each bring their own flavor to the story. Oda Tomohito deserves major kudos for creating a world where every character, no matter how eccentric, feels both distinct and endearingly real.

In the end, Komi Can't Communicate isn’t just a manga—it’s a gentle reminder that despite our insecurities and quirks, there’s beauty in every connection we make. It spreads a subtle, unintentional positivity that encourages us to embrace our imperfections and celebrate the wonderfully odd nature of human relationships.

The manga ended this week but there's a final 500th chapter coming in the volume, but I won't be able to read that, so I'm writing my review now.

This manga is full of wacky, kooky characters. It becomes bigger than it feels like it will be when you read the premise. There's something for everyone and sometimes something that's not for everyone, but I appreciate the mangaka's commitment to creating so many different and unique characters for a premise that could be boring and pedestrian if other mangaka tried to write it. It was fun to meet all the weirdoes and watch them mature ... throughout high school together. That said, this is also why I marked my review as mixed feelings because I think people who have trouble with characters that have questionable quirks might not like some of the characters or how they're presented in the story.

That said, the story is interesting, but I think the anime has a better way of approaching the presentation. The manga is cute though and worth the read.

If you liked the anime, the magna is definitely worth checking out. If you're looking for a cast of wholesome characters that aren't too weird, then you might be disappointed.

Don't usually make reviews and I don't mean to be pessimistic by any means but I just really feel like this series is literally the most overhyped series of all time.

Genuinely cannot stand how brain numbingly repetitive this series is and how absolutely dogshit the characters are. None of the characters are interesting and especially not komi san. Komi san saying nothing at all is just a boring and easy way to make the moments she does speak seem special, and while you might say that's the point, the story COMPLETELY leans on it and lacks any other actually interesting plot devices.

Talking about plot, this ... series is the most formulaic series I've ever fucking read. Every single chapter they meet someone who has some sort of gag/problem, and komi and the green haired dude solve it in an incredibly similar frictionless way every single chapter. It's incredibly predictable and boring.

When it comes to characters the green haired dude is incredibly boring, and people will surely defend this by saying that he's "supposed to be boring" because he's an 'average joe' type character. I've seen more than plenty of these average joe characters but he takes the cake for being such a ridiculously boring character. As far as how he solves problems with his positivity and kindness and talking through everything in a genuine manner, I usually enjoy these types of characters regardless of how realistic or corny or cheesy their save-the-day speeches are but I still think even that part of this series is garbage. He's so fucking boring he literally gives me that same gut feeling of when you initially meet someone and think they're initially interesting but they're actually incredibly boring people who provide nothing to the conversation.

The art is fucking awful. it is unique but it's stupid and the artist has no consistency when it comes to drawing characters, his framing is bland and there is 0 depth or variance and everything just looks the same.

That's all from me regarding the most overhyped manga in existence. If you think I'm being harsh when I'm breaking it down by tropes because all anime has tropes and whatever, that is completely irrelevant. I'm breaking it down by tropes because the author fails to be creative in any meaningful way and completely relies on them.