Komi Can’t Communicate, Vol. 1 by Tomohito Oda

Classmates admire her enigmatic personality. If you're wanting a good natured slice of life comedy, this one is definitely worth your time.

Like many slice of life comedic manga, there's quite a few sexual jokes that many won't like, and some of which may cut a bit of the sweeter nature of the story for American or some European readers, but overall, I find this one well worth a look. general good nature of it, all of these appeal to me. The final panel alone, her excitement, the humor, the. Take for example when she actually succeeds in making a friend other than Tadano: The scenes featuring the second style often create great comedy, but also make the reader (or at least this reader) feel more sympathy for her. She's almost always drawn in one of two ways first as a more detailed depiction trying to show her as others see her (cold, beautiful, almost always with a frown) the other way is with larger eyes, less detailed features and far more expressive. While it lead to more humorous scenes, where the book excelled was giving the mostly dialogue free character of Komi a real personality. then we got the blackboard scene mentioned above and I became impressed with how the book started handling both her social awkwardness and her attempts at overcoming it. I mean, it had a few funny scenes, but it initially just wasn't working for me. During the initial set-up chapters, I was pretty sure that I was going to consider this one a disappointment. The chapters were all extremely short and rather awkward. So, this one was a bit rough at the start. Thus Tadano has a new goal, helping Komi at least try to communicate.

Through a (wonderful) scene where they communicate on the class blackboard, he realizes that she's wanted to make friends for some time but can't talk to people. After a few interactions, he starts realizing that it's not cold aloofness like others think, but rather extreme social anxiety. He meets Komi who is one of the most popular girls in class, but also one of the most unapproachable. His goal is to pretty much go unnoticed (middle school was a nightmare of bullying and being a social outcast from what little we get from his background).

The plot follows Tadano as he starts high school.

Komi Can’t Communicate, Vol. 1 by Tomohito Oda