Komi Can't Communicate, Vol. 5
By (Author) Tomohito Oda
5
Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc
Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc
10th March 2020
5th March 2020
United States
General
Fiction
741.5
Paperback
192
Width 127mm, Height 191mm, Spine 15mm
161g
The journey to 100 friends begins with a single conversation.
Socially anxious high school student Shoko Komis 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.
Komis friendship quest just hit its first major obstaclethe green-eyed monster! Tadano and a girl named Onemine have been hanging out a lot lately, and Komi doesnt know how to deal with her sudden flood of jealousy. She cant explain whats wrong, so she ends up spying on them from the shadows. Will her creepy peeping lose her a chance at a new friend and push Tadano away
Tomohito Oda won the grand prize for World Worst One in the 70th Shogakukan New Comic Artist Awards in 2012. Odas 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. In 2015, Komi Cant Communicate debuted as a one-shot in Weekly Shonen Sunday and was picked up as a full series by the same magazine in 2016.