The official media of Japanese publisher Shogakukan has released new updates on the 35th compilation volume of the popular romantic comedy manga Komi-san wa, Komyushou desu (Komi Can’t Communicate). Among these updates is the reveal of the official cover of the new volume of Tomohito Oda’s manga, featuring the female protagonist of the story, Shouko Komi, along with her brother Shousuke Komi and mother Shuuko Komi.
In addition, the official website of the Shogakukan publishing house specified that the compilation volume #35 of the manga Komi-san wa, Komyushou desu is scheduled to be released for sale in bookstores and shops in Japan on 18 October this year. Another detail to note is that this volume will have a total of 192 pages.
Komi-san wa, Komyushou Desu manga revealed the official cover of its 35th volume.
‘Komi-san wa, Komyushou desu’, also known as “Komi Can’t Communicate” in the West, is a romantic comedy genre manga that is written and illustrated by Tomohito Oda. The manga started as a one-shot in Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine in September 2015 and began serialization in May 2016.
Due to its immense popularity in the otaku community, an anime adaptation was announced in May 2021, fulfilling the wish of many fans to see an anime series of this manga.
On October 7, 2021, the manga Komi-san wa Komyushou desu premiered its anime adaptation, which consisted of 2 seasons (24 episodes in total). The series was produced by the animation studio OLM under the direction of Kazuki Kawagoe and Ayumu Watanabe. The series is available legally through the Netflix platform and is dubbed in English.
The anime Komi-san wa, Komyushou desu has the following description: The story introduces us to Hitohito Tadano, an ordinary young man with a pretty clear plan for his first day at high school: avoid trouble and do his best to fit in with the other students. However, everything changes when he ends up sitting next to Shouko Komi, who is known as the ‘queen’ of the school. From then on, his classmates see him as an obstacle to getting the chance to sit next to the most popular girl in the class.
Komi, with her beauty and elegance and long dark hair, is adored by all and enjoys immense popularity, despite her enigmatic personality, but what no one knows is that she suffers from crippling anxiety and a communication disorder that prevents her from sincerely relating to her classmates.
In a moment of solitude in the classroom, a series of events leads Komi to communicate with Tadano by writing on the blackboard, as if in a one-way conversation. Being the first to realise his difficulties in communicating, Tadano picks up the chalk and begins to write as well. Eventually, he discovers that Komi’s goal is to make a hundred friends during her time in high school. Determined to help her, he becomes her first friend and partner in this mission.
Together, they face both funny and poignant situations, trying to overcome the challenges they face as Komi works to overcome her communication difficulties and reach her goal of making one hundred friends. As their friendship grows stronger, they discover that true beauty lies not only in outward appearance, but in the genuine connection and understanding that is established between people.
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