Komi-san wa, Comyushou desu.
Komi Can't Communicate

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Komi-san is a really great series by Tomohito Oda as it conveys a lot of hassle when trying to befriend someone, the main character is a person that has a difficulty communicating, she doesn't have any friends in middle school, despite being a school beauty that everyone is adoring.

I first watched the anime, and then got hooked so I read the manga. This is one of the best romantic sub-plot manga in my opinion, the main goal is not to become a thing with Tadano, it's to get 100 friends, because of this every characters in this manga is unique, they have their own ... personalities and hurdles in live. Though, when the time is right, the romance aspect of this manga could get really good, it's the type of manga where you don't see progress often but when you do you'll love it! It's romance done right.

Give this manga a read, 500 chapters might seem a lot, but it's packed with a lot of stories, 3 years of high school in Komi-san felt longer.

The manga ended this week but there's a final 500th chapter coming in the volume, but I won't be able to read that, so I'm writing my review now.

This manga is full of wacky, kooky characters. It becomes bigger than it feels like it will be when you read the premise. There's something for everyone and sometimes something that's not for everyone, but I appreciate the mangaka's commitment to creating so many different and unique characters for a premise that could be boring and pedestrian if other mangaka tried to write it. It was fun to meet all the weirdoes and watch them mature ... throughout high school together. That said, this is also why I marked my review as mixed feelings because I think people who have trouble with characters that have questionable quirks might not like some of the characters or how they're presented in the story.

That said, the story is interesting, but I think the anime has a better way of approaching the presentation. The manga is cute though and worth the read.

If you liked the anime, the magna is definitely worth checking out. If you're looking for a cast of wholesome characters that aren't too weird, then you might be disappointed.

Don't usually make reviews and I don't mean to be pessimistic by any means but I just really feel like this series is literally the most overhyped series of all time.

Genuinely cannot stand how brain numbingly repetitive this series is and how absolutely dogshit the characters are. None of the characters are interesting and especially not komi san. Komi san saying nothing at all is just a boring and easy way to make the moments she does speak seem special, and while you might say that's the point, the story COMPLETELY leans on it and lacks any other actually interesting plot devices.

Talking about plot, this ... series is the most formulaic series I've ever fucking read. Every single chapter they meet someone who has some sort of gag/problem, and komi and the green haired dude solve it in an incredibly similar frictionless way every single chapter. It's incredibly predictable and boring.

When it comes to characters the green haired dude is incredibly boring, and people will surely defend this by saying that he's "supposed to be boring" because he's an 'average joe' type character. I've seen more than plenty of these average joe characters but he takes the cake for being such a ridiculously boring character. As far as how he solves problems with his positivity and kindness and talking through everything in a genuine manner, I usually enjoy these types of characters regardless of how realistic or corny or cheesy their save-the-day speeches are but I still think even that part of this series is garbage. He's so fucking boring he literally gives me that same gut feeling of when you initially meet someone and think they're initially interesting but they're actually incredibly boring people who provide nothing to the conversation.

The art is fucking awful. it is unique but it's stupid and the artist has no consistency when it comes to drawing characters, his framing is bland and there is 0 depth or variance and everything just looks the same.

That's all from me regarding the most overhyped manga in existence. If you think I'm being harsh when I'm breaking it down by tropes because all anime has tropes and whatever, that is completely irrelevant. I'm breaking it down by tropes because the author fails to be creative in any meaningful way and completely relies on them.