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古見さんは、コミュ症です。 [Komi-san wa, Komyushō Desu.] #37
Komi Can't Communicate, Vol. 37
Socially anxious high school student Shoko Komi’s greatest dream is to make some friends, but everyone at school mistakes her crippling social anxiety for cool reserve. Luckily she meets Tadano, a timid wallflower who decides to step out of his comfort zone in order to help her achieve her goal of making 100 friends.
When Komi started high school, she was friendless, shy, and unsure of herself. Now that graduation is right around the corner, she’s come a long way in her self-confidence journey and has a hundred friends to show for it! Talking might always be a challenge, but Komi has proven to everyone (including herself) that she can communicate with the best of them.
When Komi started high school, she was friendless, shy, and unsure of herself. Now that graduation is right around the corner, she’s come a long way in her self-confidence journey and has a hundred friends to show for it! Talking might always be a challenge, but Komi has proven to everyone (including herself) that she can communicate with the best of them.
200 pages, Paperback
First published March 18, 2025
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Tomohito Oda
76 books390 followersODA Tomohito
Name (in native language): 小田智仁
Associated Names: オダトモヒト
Tomohito Oda won the grand prize for World Worst One in the 70th Shogakukan New Comic Artist Awards in 2012. Oda’s series Digicon, about a tough high school girl who finds herself in control of an alien with plans for world domination, ran from 2014 to 2015.
Name (in native language): 小田智仁
Associated Names: オダトモヒト
Tomohito Oda won the grand prize for World Worst One in the 70th Shogakukan New Comic Artist Awards in 2012. Oda’s series Digicon, about a tough high school girl who finds herself in control of an alien with plans for world domination, ran from 2014 to 2015.
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March 11, 2026
Genuinely, I don’t think I would have wanted Komi to have ended any other way. By which I mean it had some moments of real heart and humour and then also grated on my last nerve. Consistent to the end.
When the graduation speech finally comes, it is a rather neatly realized message about how it’s okay to just be weird. Having accumulated an incredibly oddball assortment of characters over these many, many volumes it was nice to see it used for a clever sentiment at the end.
Some of the chapters work decently. Despite Kawai being present, a character who rivals Yamai in detestability and attitude, the section where Komi goes house hunting is very funny. Actually, it’s because of Kawai that it works at all, so….
Another, where Manbagi and Komi try to get their driver’s licenses, is incredibly amusing and a reminder of how Komi can be really good once in a while. This takes a real turn and may or may not kill a driving instructor.
But if ever a series existed on a fulcrum, it was this one. It relies on piling on really juvenile humour and it might get a chuckle now and then, but it’s very cheap and frequently falls flat.
I mean, this volume literally has a dick measuring contest, so… what more can be said? The Yamai chapter (sigh) decides to explain the former’s obsessions with Komi, which is roughly 30-odd volumes too late. Also it’s wrapped up in Yamai trying to paw at Komi’s nipples, lest you think I wouldn’t hate it or something.
There’s also precious little closure to this story. Even the epilogue chapter just decides to wrap things up with the hint of sex and a look at a very predictable status quo.
But there’s no Naruse and Ase, very little Manbagi, nothing from Komi’s brother, and the one girl in first year who Komi helped does have a nice moment, until her section is wrapped up in unresolved yuri bait. They even bring back that secret society who fantasize all the time, which really wasn’t needed.
It’s incredibly frustrating. As can be seen in this very volume, when the series was good it could be amazing. Yet it frequently was not. I know it’s not easy to crank this much content out, but, even if that’s an accomplishment, if the content isn’t great, who cares?
This ended well enough for me, if we’re being honest, but it could have used a lot more of its page count to make it truly special. Instead, it doubles down on a lot of the things that have driven me crazy for several volumes now.
3 stars - speaking of consistency, Yamai appeared (and got a whole chapter, no less). One more automatic three stars for the road. I survived, but I feel I won’t ever come back to it.
When the graduation speech finally comes, it is a rather neatly realized message about how it’s okay to just be weird. Having accumulated an incredibly oddball assortment of characters over these many, many volumes it was nice to see it used for a clever sentiment at the end.
Some of the chapters work decently. Despite Kawai being present, a character who rivals Yamai in detestability and attitude, the section where Komi goes house hunting is very funny. Actually, it’s because of Kawai that it works at all, so….
Another, where Manbagi and Komi try to get their driver’s licenses, is incredibly amusing and a reminder of how Komi can be really good once in a while. This takes a real turn and may or may not kill a driving instructor.
But if ever a series existed on a fulcrum, it was this one. It relies on piling on really juvenile humour and it might get a chuckle now and then, but it’s very cheap and frequently falls flat.
I mean, this volume literally has a dick measuring contest, so… what more can be said? The Yamai chapter (sigh) decides to explain the former’s obsessions with Komi, which is roughly 30-odd volumes too late. Also it’s wrapped up in Yamai trying to paw at Komi’s nipples, lest you think I wouldn’t hate it or something.
There’s also precious little closure to this story. Even the epilogue chapter just decides to wrap things up with the hint of sex and a look at a very predictable status quo.
But there’s no Naruse and Ase, very little Manbagi, nothing from Komi’s brother, and the one girl in first year who Komi helped does have a nice moment, until her section is wrapped up in unresolved yuri bait. They even bring back that secret society who fantasize all the time, which really wasn’t needed.
It’s incredibly frustrating. As can be seen in this very volume, when the series was good it could be amazing. Yet it frequently was not. I know it’s not easy to crank this much content out, but, even if that’s an accomplishment, if the content isn’t great, who cares?
This ended well enough for me, if we’re being honest, but it could have used a lot more of its page count to make it truly special. Instead, it doubles down on a lot of the things that have driven me crazy for several volumes now.
3 stars - speaking of consistency, Yamai appeared (and got a whole chapter, no less). One more automatic three stars for the road. I survived, but I feel I won’t ever come back to it.
April 8, 2026
A heartwarming conclusion to a beautiful manga
It may have gotten a little long at the end, but I enjoyed this series from beginning to end and I’ll certainly remember it
It may have gotten a little long at the end, but I enjoyed this series from beginning to end and I’ll certainly remember it
March 10, 2026
I was ready for this to be over a dozen volumes ago, but my mama didn’t raise a quitter.
March 10, 2026
I can’t believe this volume, this last one of the manga I’ve been reading for the past five years, has a running dick joke in one of its chapters, that’s absurd 😭
And a whole chapter dedicated to Yamai??? GTFO
And a whole chapter dedicated to Yamai??? GTFO
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 27, 2025
Solo puedo decir que fue tan linda esta historia, me encanto ver cómo fue creciendo el personaje de Komi y de todos los demás. Hay unos personajes que nunca terminaron de gustarme pero bueno son parte de la historia.
Creo que nos deberían de dar un capítulo especial para ver a todos de adultos porque no es suficiente con ese final
Creo que nos deberían de dar un capítulo especial para ver a todos de adultos porque no es suficiente con ese final
July 17, 2025
overall I give it 3 stars, although it was much better from the beginning
February 25, 2026
Chadano the goat, FUCK YAMAI
March 17, 2026
Is this the most amazing series ever? Maybe not—but, I sure did love going on adventures with Komi and her friends~
August 17, 2025
Godspeed, you crazy kids.
March 19, 2026
Komi Can Communicate!
After ten years of my reading it, Komi Can't Communicate is over, coming in at 37 volumes. And if you, a n0n-manga reader, are sort of impressed or horrified by that kind of commitment, you should know that it takes less than an hour to read one of these volumes. But it is an accomplishment, a tribute to stick-to-it0ness, ir obsessive completism, maybe.
Speaking of accomplishments, it will surprise you (and interest you) not at all that Komi achieved her high school goal of making 100 friends. But at what a price to readers who must meet and get to know and largely forget dozens of characters clogging each issue!? Why not have her realize, 1/3 of the way, that it is the quality of your friendships and not the quantity of them that truly matters?! Cue Wizard of Oz music here, there's no place like home. Or something. Because in the anime, which I have not seen, there would be music to help you cry here. But is it a good point? Of course.
But what really is that point? That you can survive high school as a positive experience if you make an effort and take a chance. And what is the effort fundamentally about? Communication Disorder, or Social Anxiety Disorder, that Komi has (and her equally shy boyfriend Tadano has) in spades. And the series makes a serious (or rather, largely junenile-ly funny) contribution to the literature on this disability. In short, every kid has a problem with communication in this series, they all struggle with it. Some are adhd-ishly over-speaking, and some almost never speak. Some are rude, many are inappropriate. They are, in short, learning how to live with others, and this as it turns out for most kids, is way hard. So here I applaud, tired as I am of the series I was praying would end a dozen or more volumes ago. The main characters are likely, the jokes sometimes land, for me, so for teens it will really work.
The ending with Tadano and Komi graduating and going off to uni together (to live in the same dorm?!) had to happen, it had to end with them together, though the hint at the very end that Komi makes of actual sex happening sooner or later is a sad joke for readers who waited at least 20 volumes for a mere kiss. But it is sort of funny to end in that way?. The sexual references in this volume on genitalia--penis measuring?!--are a little cruder than in most volumes. And there were fantasy sequences that touch on these issues as well. Oda letting loose, a bit, in the end?
Everything is mosly bland and predictable in this last issue, bringing most of the main characters in for a last hurrah. My fave moment was the opening bit, where Komi, as a more confident graduating senior supports a shy freshman girl. That's what you do, you pass it on, you pay it forward. Sweet. I sort of liked the driver's license scene, too, amusing.
Do I recommend it? I recommend you read some of it, at least, as I do think it is a real contribution to the literature on anxiety, which is worse in schools than ever.
After ten years of my reading it, Komi Can't Communicate is over, coming in at 37 volumes. And if you, a n0n-manga reader, are sort of impressed or horrified by that kind of commitment, you should know that it takes less than an hour to read one of these volumes. But it is an accomplishment, a tribute to stick-to-it0ness, ir obsessive completism, maybe.
Speaking of accomplishments, it will surprise you (and interest you) not at all that Komi achieved her high school goal of making 100 friends. But at what a price to readers who must meet and get to know and largely forget dozens of characters clogging each issue!? Why not have her realize, 1/3 of the way, that it is the quality of your friendships and not the quantity of them that truly matters?! Cue Wizard of Oz music here, there's no place like home. Or something. Because in the anime, which I have not seen, there would be music to help you cry here. But is it a good point? Of course.
But what really is that point? That you can survive high school as a positive experience if you make an effort and take a chance. And what is the effort fundamentally about? Communication Disorder, or Social Anxiety Disorder, that Komi has (and her equally shy boyfriend Tadano has) in spades. And the series makes a serious (or rather, largely junenile-ly funny) contribution to the literature on this disability. In short, every kid has a problem with communication in this series, they all struggle with it. Some are adhd-ishly over-speaking, and some almost never speak. Some are rude, many are inappropriate. They are, in short, learning how to live with others, and this as it turns out for most kids, is way hard. So here I applaud, tired as I am of the series I was praying would end a dozen or more volumes ago. The main characters are likely, the jokes sometimes land, for me, so for teens it will really work.
The ending with Tadano and Komi graduating and going off to uni together (to live in the same dorm?!) had to happen, it had to end with them together, though the hint at the very end that Komi makes of actual sex happening sooner or later is a sad joke for readers who waited at least 20 volumes for a mere kiss. But it is sort of funny to end in that way?. The sexual references in this volume on genitalia--penis measuring?!--are a little cruder than in most volumes. And there were fantasy sequences that touch on these issues as well. Oda letting loose, a bit, in the end?
Everything is mosly bland and predictable in this last issue, bringing most of the main characters in for a last hurrah. My fave moment was the opening bit, where Komi, as a more confident graduating senior supports a shy freshman girl. That's what you do, you pass it on, you pay it forward. Sweet. I sort of liked the driver's license scene, too, amusing.
Do I recommend it? I recommend you read some of it, at least, as I do think it is a real contribution to the literature on anxiety, which is worse in schools than ever.
April 3, 2026
After loving volume 36 so much, I knew the finale was going to disappoint me. I knew that the perviness and awkward comedy would be back and that a bunch of the weird side characters I'm not fond of would have to be given time. I gave a three-star rating because I'm really torn on whether or not I should have just skipped this volume altogether.
Here's what I liked:
- The driver's license stuff (though it was filler)
- Komi finally confronting Yamai (for lack of a better term)
- The yearbook stuff
- The graduation
- Getting to finally see Komi's direct perspective
- The stuff with Komi and Hiki
- Tadano's speech
Here's what I didn't like:
- The opening stuff with Hiki and what's-her-name (a relationship I don't care about)
- No Shosuke or Hitomi (I recognize that their story has already peaked, but it would've been nice to see them one last time)
- No Naruse and Ase (Naruse is in the background but never says anything)
- Kawai
- The final page of the epilogue. I'm sorry, but that is not the way I want to remember Komi after all this time.
Your mileage may vary. I'm still a fan of the series as a whole, though a lot of the content makes it a hard one to recommend to others. If they ever make more seasons of the anime (har har), maybe they'll tweak some things. I can dream.
Here's what I liked:
- The driver's license stuff (though it was filler)
- Komi finally confronting Yamai (for lack of a better term)
- The yearbook stuff
- The graduation
- Getting to finally see Komi's direct perspective
- The stuff with Komi and Hiki
- Tadano's speech
Here's what I didn't like:
- The opening stuff with Hiki and what's-her-name (a relationship I don't care about)
- No Shosuke or Hitomi (I recognize that their story has already peaked, but it would've been nice to see them one last time)
- No Naruse and Ase (Naruse is in the background but never says anything)
- Kawai
- The final page of the epilogue. I'm sorry, but that is not the way I want to remember Komi after all this time.
Your mileage may vary. I'm still a fan of the series as a whole, though a lot of the content makes it a hard one to recommend to others. If they ever make more seasons of the anime (har har), maybe they'll tweak some things. I can dream.
April 2, 2026
For a final volume, there's some really odd digressions here along with some of the uncomfortable moments that have been in and out of this series. Some plot threads just kind of fade out while others get wrapped up. It's an odd conclusion to the whole adventure, but it still has moments of very sincere heart. It's been quite the journey from day one and, uneven as it's been at times, I'm glad I got to follow along.
March 13, 2026
A conclusion that I expected and was pretty spot on. I wished we could have had more closure with characters instead of Yamai backstory and a dick measuring contest at a public bath. The chapters with Komi and Komorebi were great and the graduation does remind the reader of the many great characters and great times they had.
March 29, 2026
I was expecting more or Komi and Tadano’s romance and the ending was super bland… but it’s the last book and I felt really sad that Komi was slowly parting ways with her school and friends. I really wished for another volume to check up on the changes of Komi’s friends and how she lived everyday. Ending seemed a little rushed, but it was bittersweet to me either way.
April 3, 2026
This was such an anticlimactic ending. There were so many sections in this last volume where I really would have preferred they replaced them with almost anything else that gave more closure to the characters. But there were also some pretty solid sections that did a great job of resolving some aspects of the story. It feels less like we ended and more like we just stopped.
April 15, 2026
One of my new favorite series. I absolutely adored it since the first volume. The humor in this series is right up my alley and had me laughing like crazy. It's such a wholesome manga. Def adding the physical volumes to my collection!
June 6, 2025
4.5 Stars
September 11, 2025
nostalgia is a funny thing pq como me explicas que descubrí este manga en 2do de prepa y ahora estoy en mi 2do año de universidad?? 🥺🥺
November 9, 2025
3-3.5 stars
November 27, 2025
Rating: 3.5 stars
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December 29, 2025c’est la fin de l’aventure snif
March 19, 2026
My five stars is for the entire series which had many ups & downs but I sure was happy when I noticed a new volume was available for check-out!
April 1, 2026
después dice el otaku hombre porque lo veo mal
April 12, 2026
I'm so sad it's over.
April 22, 2026
And we've reached the end of another manga series. This series was nice, clear character development, and a sweet romance
April 27, 2026
I really enjoyed a lot of parts of this series, unfortunately this final volume wasn't very satisfying for me.
Review of advance copy
I expected a much better ending than this so two stars only for getting my hopes up
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