Komi-san wa, Comyushou desu.

Hitohito Tadano is an ordinary boy who heads into his first day of high school with a clear plan: to avoid trouble and do his best to blend in with others. Unfortunately, he fails right away when he takes the seat beside the school's madonna—Shouko Komi. His peers now recognize him as someone to eliminate for a chance to sit next to the most beautiful girl in class.

Gorgeous and graceful with long, dark hair, Komi is universally adored and immensely popular despite her mysterious persona. However, unbeknownst to everyone, she has crippling anxiety and a communication disorder which prevents her from wholeheartedly socializing with her classmates.

When left alone in the classroom, a chain of events forces Komi to interact with Tadano through writing on the blackboard, as if in a one-way conversation. Being the first person to realize she cannot communicate properly, Tadano picks up the chalk and begins to write as well. He eventually discovers that Komi's goal is to make one hundred friends during her time in high school. To this end, he decides to lend her a helping hand, thus also becoming her first-ever friend.

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Komi, Shouko Main

Koga, Aoi Japanese

Tadano, Hitohito Main

Kajiwara, Gakuto Japanese

Osana, Najimi Supporting

Murakawa, Rie Japanese

Otori, Kaede Supporting

Moriyama, Yurika Japanese

Komi, Shousuke Supporting

Enoki, Junya Japanese

Onemine, Nene Supporting

Aoki, Ruriko Japanese

Nakanaka, Omoharu Supporting

Ookubo, Rumi Japanese

Komi, Shuuko Supporting

Inoue, Kikuko Japanese

Agari, Himiko Supporting

Fujii, Yukiyo Japanese

Tadano, Hitomi Supporting

Uchida, Maaya Japanese

Kondou, Shuuhou Producer

Beniya, Yoshikazu Producer

Kojima, Hiroaki Producer

Itou, Kaori Producer

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Sep 9, 2023

xXDAGGERHEARTXx

Recommended

All the characters were very charming and oddly realistic and relatable despite their out-there personalities and gimmicks. It feel kind of like what anime club used to be like in high school, all the oddballs put together in a pit where they all think they're the main character.

A lot of reviews don't seem to like that Komi continues to be silent/near silent and progress is made in incredibly small increments but I think it's more realistic that way. She doesn't overcome her problems just because people like her. I like the focus on her being understood as she is rather than being forced to become ... someone she's not. Also this is a strange compliment for a silent character but I think her voice actress does an awesome job giving her so much personality through noises alone.

Slice of Life isn't really my bag but despite all that this was an easy 8 for me, bordering on 9. If you like this genre more than I do I imagine it'll be a total hit with you, an easy 9 or 10.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Dec 5, 2023

Lost_Hearts

Mixed Feelings

It's an okay anime, I would not say it's bad, however not a fantastic anime.

The plot stays consistent throughout the entire anime, our main protagonist Komi has trouble interacting with other people around her and feels uncomfortable talking to others. Unfortunately, that is the entire anime, and it does not expand off that. You can argue that
"It's the name of the anime so obviously the anime will bring up that Komi is introverted!"
Yes except after watching an entire anime that revolves around that, you find yourself getting bored because it never feels like the plot is going anywhere.
The characters are "okay", you won't find ... yourself hating them it is just half of the characters have the same personality and motives as each other.
"The only thing that matters in my life is being friends with Komi. I don't care about anything else. Even though I know nothing about her."
That right there describes half the cast. Except, why do they want to be her friend? Is even more irritating, they obsess over her because she is quiet, and no one knows anything about her. That or they feel bad for her because she is always alone. If they were to work on their characters, I would have enjoyed myself more watching the anime. Instead, the characters seem rather bland and their whole character can be described in one or two words.
The animation is smooth and nice looking. There is nothing else to say about it other than that.
The music sounds... okay. It's nothing noteworthy, nor something to say is a redeeming quality of the anime.
My last comment is the rewatch value, and it is average. Because the plot is so straightforward and predictable your experience will be the same as the first time you watched it.

So, I would say that if you had the option to pick an anime suggested to you and it is one that you are told you would love or pick this anime, pick the one suggested to you.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Jan 8, 2024

Shabo-kun

Not Recommended

„Why did I watched this? Am I some kind of masochist?"
These were my first thoughts after completing this show.

Needless to say that sense of humor and comedy differs to each person. Still when I somehow managed to finish this creation and looked on meta score, I was surprised the most in a while. First of all it’s comeady, so I started to watch this and take it somehow easy expecting to deal with most things by humor and then watch some serious moments in addition. Instead of this I got almost
zero serious moments and humor was same thing over and over. There was ... so many things I hate like worshiping of a person, bullying, SIMPs, terrible romance and mainly repetitiveness. YES there are literally 2-3 major jokes which are repeated all the time. It’s really not funny to see how is some guy mistreated and despised for no apparent reason at least not for me, it wasn’t funny for the first time, second time and it’s not funny even the 4512th time. I hoped it would be something like Yamada-kun to lvl 999 for example, perfectly mixing and uniting humor with some personal issues and social/mental health dissorders. Instead of this I got generic comedy which is not even funny.

STORY: 2/10
Generic and repetetive simple as that. Another slice of life/romance anime where main characters are "dealing" with their everyday life "problems". You’re asking why that irony? Simply because problems are petty and are often dealt by the most stupidest way just to make that medicore not funny gag humor. Whole story revolves around the fact that girl MC is beautiful and if she wasn’t nobody would pay her any attention, THE END.

It feels like authors are trying to say to you „Doesn’t matter if you are suffer from social dissorder as long as you are pretty", yeah... Each episode has that same narrative of Komi entering the scene and being worship, making friends or spending time with them, some MC misstreating, wannabe romance and going back to main duo, repeat. There were actually few sparkles of hope and moments which I enjoyed a bit, but they were overshadowed by some stupid joke right after.

CHARACTERS: 2/10
There isn’t a single character which I would enjoy from all my heart. All of them are somehow annoying and some almost not bearable. Type of people who would buy Komi onlyfans right after she would make one - her pathetic simps which are praising her like you would praise the sun in Dark Souls. Who knows they would maybe bought her excrements to fill their pillow with it. Komi which character stands on her beauty and overshadowes her dissorders and other traits, because authors need to throw it to your face in every episode. MC which is perfect example of generic romcom MC and has every trait of character like that. Side characters have better development then main characters. I appreciate they want to indicate that some of the side characters are just as important to the story (that means Kaede and Najimi). Don’t get me wrong they weren’t anything special and felt medicore, but at least i didn’t have that intuition to punch something like in case of an MC.

ART: 6/10
There’s not a reason to praise it or neither hate it. If you consider it’s made in 2021 you somehow expect solid animations and art style. Still in it’s own genre and vintage it looks on point. On the other hand there are few which looked better in my eyes like Horimiya, Koikimo, Higehiro, Taisho Otome Fairy Tale etc.

SOUND: 8/10
Best part of the anime in my opinion. OP perfectly fits to this art style and anime overall. Music and sounds throughout the show was nice addition to atmosphere.

ENJOYMENT: 2/10
Although I praised last to aspect little bit, there was still a lot of things which were destroying this show in my eyes. It bothered me to the point where I had serious issues to not drop it. For sure it’s not my type of thing and I’m pretty sure it would be enjoyable for me if authors would choose different approach to the story and main characters. It’s hard to pick a serious theme like social dissorders and mental health which is such a big topic nowdays and turn in into a good comedy. I’m a type of guy which can make fun from almost anything, but I didn’t find this style of humor funny at all. This is my main issue which authors didn’t handle.

OVERALL: 2/10
Despite the fact that I scored two aspect quite high my conscience doesn’t allow me to go higher. Komi is type of anime which you either hate or like and nothing between. If it’s style of humor fits you well, you will have a good time and if not you will probably drop,
because humor is the thing it stands on. Don’t expect real dealing with dissorders and social anxieties or you will be dissapointed.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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