'Komi-san wa, Comyushou desu.' Announces Supporting Cast Pair [Update 9/29]

AbelNhom said:
1 more month till the day.
Kaguya took 4 years, Komi took 5 years. Not that longer tho.

VanishingKira said:
I haven't read the manga in a while but maybe its nearing its end, like Horimiya for example. I'm pretty certain there have been other similar cases before where an unadapted manga gets an anime right before it get announced it's manga will be ending soon.

RobertBobert said:
Why did the producers take so long to do this? Komi has even more hit potential than Kaguya, but it is only now being adapted.

Judevin said:
It kinda does, but not really. it works really well in manga format, because there's no end goal per se. It's just a manga with wholesome highschool shenanigans, similar to Horimiya, whereas Kaguya has an actual endgame of how Kaguya and Shirogane will end up together.

So I personally don't think it will actually attract many anime watchers who prefer having some substance or some plot every episode, compared to just having an episodic series with something new happening each episode. This is also why Horimiya skipped so much material just to maintain that romantic plot between Hori and Miyamura.

RobertBobert said:


Well, I barely heard of Kaguya before the adaptation was announced, while the "lol, Komi still hasn't been adapted" meme appeared consistently in discussions of every other manga announcement. The Hype was so huge that even I, a person who only read random 5-6 chapters, believed it was a huge blockbuster.

Judevin said:
It kinda does, but not really. it works really well in manga format, because there's no end goal per se. It's just a manga with wholesome highschool shenanigans, similar to Horimiya, whereas Kaguya has an actual endgame of how Kaguya and Shirogane will end up together.

So I personally don't think it will actually attract many anime watchers who prefer having some substance or some plot every episode, compared to just having an episodic series with something new happening each episode. This is also why Horimiya skipped so much material just to maintain that romantic plot between Hori and Miyamura.

Gardefusilier said:
If anything, I found Komi has clearer goal than kaguya lol. Since the start of the series the original goal has always been for Komi to get her 100 friends as well as overcoming her disorder. That should help explain why the manga took the approach of doraemon-like one new quirk character every chapter, it's just later on in the 2nd year we got more structured approach by having sub-arcs in the manga for author to explore deeper dynamic within Komi social relationship, so yeah mostly still your usual SoL shenanigans but with the definitive end goal. Kaguya in the other hand kinda lost its goal later on after after multiple arcs focusing on secondary characters.

Judevin said:
We've hardly scratched the surface of that objective in 321 chapters though, the endgoal isn't even important for the series, that's the point I'm trying to make. Like we have hardly tried to get Komi-san to get over her social anxiety, compared to say Hitoribocchi which ended earlier this year which DID have the objective of getting over anxiety and making friends with everyone and it stayed right on that target the entire time where she making a new friend each arc. In 321 chapters, all we've had in Komi-san is just a lot of wholesome stuff, compared to Kaguya which has stayed on course with Shirogane and Kaguya, sure we've had arcs about Ishigami and the other main characters (the student council aren't side characters), but they've been on course for the most part and they've had a decent narrative. Komi-san has just been about episodic wholesome highschool stuff. I guess that is a subjective conclusion though but I don't remember the "Komi wants to get over her anxiety or make 100 friends" being brought up since like the first volume of the manga.

So yeah, like Horimiya, OLM can either make Komi-san a 1 season anime where they focus on specifically the romance part, OR, they can go with Kaguya route and A1, and create multiple seasons documenting the entire wholesome experience from the manga.

Gardefusilier said:
You kinda undersell Komi’s progression here. Komi DID overcome her hardship. She rarely talked before she met Tadano in High school, and considering her selective mutism, she has a lot more issues to tackle instead of simply having a ‘social anxiety’ and shy girl trope like bocchi is. And the progression throughout the years did show that, in the 1st year she was brought along with Najimi’s shenanigans and introduced to a lot of social interactions and the quirky characters where everything from her POV is literally new to her, hell even bringing a friend over to your house is a whole new world. And in the 2nd year it steadily shifted to Komi taking a more active approach in her relationship dynamics, namely by going around actively helping her friends in her own unique way like Isagi, Rei, and most especially Manbagi which is far more rewarding to read rather than simply 'she can talk now'. Calling it just ‘a lot of wholesome stuff’ is just simply undermining this aspect, the wholesome stuff is a plus, but Komi did progress steadily to reach 100 friends and with complexity of relationships she had on top of that, so the whole 100 friends thing doesn't act as mere quantity objective.

I get what you're saying but it does not feel like that AT ALL, like sure they want Komi to make friends, but how many chapters are even about Komi? And how many are focussed on pretty much everyone around her and their shenanigans? I would even go so far to say that outside of Komi and Tadano, and Komi and Manbagi interactions, Komi is just treated like a deity and not much more until much later when she makes like 2 more friends (the glasses girl and the sweaty girl) who she can genuinely talk to (or well just nod and shake her head towards). You just simply cannot avoid the conclusion that MOST if not all of the fanbase reads the manga for the "wholesome" shit that goes down, and not about Komi making friends if they even remember that. The manga rarely focusses on that objective. Either way, subjective conclusion, each to their own I guess.

And just so we are clear Komi had just social anxiety, unlike Bocchi who shows a lot of reactions to it by throwing up or passing out, Komi practically freezes, which is a running gag in the manga since she still has the exact same problem and starts shaking. You are overselling her problem here for being anything more than social anxiety which is literally what she has. She has gotten better, but her uhhh "selective mutism" is always there so it's impossible to tell if she has improved. I mean in the more recent chapters, she still only barely manages to whisper things instead of actually saying them and even that is rare. I'm not saying the development is bad in Komi, it's just slow and placed in separate "chapters" than let's say a coherent story that Miyamura got over his problems because he met Hori and yada yada. It is extremely subtle, which isn't bad, but the average anime watcher might find it boring (I hope not because I love Komi manga but I do think so). Episodic anime get shit on all the time by anime-only folk which was the original point that I was trying to make. You need something substantial to keep people glued to the screen for 24 minutes straight like Kaguya's comedy and character drama or Horimiya's drama and romance (Horimiya wasn't even that good of an adaptation but anime watchers treated it as such).