古見さんは、コミュ症です。 volume 11

古見さんは、コミュ症です。 [Komi-san wa, Komyushō Desu.] #11

by Tomohito Oda, オダトモヒト

中毒必至のコミュ症ヒロインコメディー!!

ゴールデンウィーク、古見さんは、家族旅行です。
そこには偶然、只野くんの家族となじみちゃんが。
皆で過ごせる嬉しい時間です。夜、星空を見に行こうと
只野くんと歩いていた時、突然の雨で二人は山小屋へ。
毛布は一枚、お互いが、寒くならいように譲り合い。
言葉にするのが難しかったり、照れたりする優しさが、
二人の”コミュニケーション”を紡いでいきます。

相手を慮る優しさが、温かさと共に伝わってくる
コミュ症美少女コメディー、第11巻。

【編集担当からのおすすめ情報】
オススメは、古見さんファミリーと只野くんファミリー(+なじみちゃん)が
一堂に会するゴールデンウィーク旅行です。古見さんの弟・笑介くんと、
只野くんの妹・瞳ちゃんも、もちろん登場。濃くて素敵な家族の交流は…
そして、古見さんの2年生の新たな友達はもちろん、1年生の時の
友達、さらには古見さんの家族の新鮮な側面がたくさん垣間見えてきます。
ますます魅力が広がる古見さんワールドに、きっと魅了されるはずです。
今巻も是非。

人付き合い(コミュニケーション)で、
たまに胸が締め付けられる全ての人に、
お読み頂けますと幸いです。

Genres: Manga, Romance, Young Adult, Slice Of Life, Contemporary, Fiction, Humor

192 pages, Paperback

First published December 18, 2018

About the author

ODA Tomohito
Name (in native language): 小田智仁
Associated Names: オダトモヒト

Tomohito Oda won the grand prize for World Worst One in the 70th Shogakukan New Comic Artist Awards in 2012. Oda’s 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.

Reviews

[Dave Schaafsma · Rating 4 out of 5]

An entertaining volume, especially if you are on the Komi-Tadano Romance Watch. The Komi family goes to an adventure resort and hey! the Tadano family is there too! When a storm has Kodano (Komi and Tadano!) in a cold and deserted cabin and just one blanket, how will they stay warm? And then there is a word game where the word kiss comes up. . . but don't get your hopes up.

So many new characters, as Komi needs to get to 100 friends. Manbagi (of the weird fashion and makeup choices) has a crush on Tadano, and as with so many in this series, can’t talk to him. A new character, Ase, has social anxiety because she sweats a lot, but will not become a fave character. Creepy Yanai returns, stalking Komi, speaking of non-fave characters. There’s a very funny flashback story on how Komi’s parents came to meet. Overall, a fun volume.

[Zuli · Rating 3 out of 5]

go lil rockstar

[Nicolo · Rating 5 out of 5]

This series continues to be adorable. After a shaky volume, this is a return to what I love in this series. Komi being adorable, and being an ordinary high school girl and getting her first crush, and friends to talk about it. The cuteness is doubled with Manbagi (the resident gal/gyaru), but right now she's just a tsundere towards Tadano.

In this series with an expansive cast, there's going to be more than a few characters who are benched. But as long as my favorite odd couple in the younger Komi-Tadano tandem have a chapter to themselves, I'm satisfied.

[Kate♡ · Rating 4 out of 5]

4/5stars

[debs ༉‧₊˚. · Rating 4 out of 5]

⋆˚꩜｡𐔌՞. 4.5 stars .՞𐦯⋆. 𐙚 ˚

[Geoff · Rating 4 out of 5]

Having a series where the goal is to get one of the characters 100 friends means a TON of side characters. It's a to to keep track of and in general the author does a good job of giving them unique aspects without reducing them to their stereotypes. But this also means that you have to have a large number of unique aspects and unfortunately this volume features characters whose core traits aren't the best. The character who is "terrified to be in school because they sweat too much" is sweet if a bit one note but the one who "obsessively stalks the protagonist" is just creepy and disgusting. The side plot with the main character's younger siblings is a bit creepily manipulative too. The two core protagonists however remain sweet and the stories focused on them save this volume.

**Thanks to the artist, publisher, and NetGalley for a free copy in exchange for an honest review.

[☠︎︎ A.K. ☠︎︎ · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5/5 ✩

R.E.A.D.S. SCORE
R: 6/10
E: 7/10
A: 7/10
D: 7/10
S: 7/10
Total: 6.80/10.00

[akacya ❦]

2023 reads: 133/350

[Mark · Rating 3 out of 5]

Maybe Komi doesn’t want to communicate? Did you ever think about that? Okay, fine, she does, but when confronted with an average entry in an uneven series, you’re not getting me to waste my good material that easily.

If we actually expect Komi to reach 100 friends, this series is going to take forever. At any rate, we start off with a pretty cute vacation encounter between Komi and Tadano that ends up in a surprising place with unsurprising results. Then we get another ridiculous Najimi game, delinquents of questionable purpose, and random fashion shows.

None of these stories is the series at its best, honestly, and the new friend they add this volume, Ase, whose big thing is that she sweats a lot, is dropped just as quickly as she’s introduced (note to authors: the definitive manga about hyperhydrosis exists and it’s Sweat & Soap, not yours). She’s not interesting in the slightest.

Then there’s a segment featuring Yanai, and if you’ve read my previous thoughts on her, well, this is not her best story because a meteorite did not strike her down where she stood. Seriously, I will never give a volume of this more than three stars if she gets more than a cameo because she is that icky.

There are some bright spots; as stagnant as the Komi and Tadano relationship remains, their vacation IS cute and they have a particularly charming moment during the rainy day chapters that close the book, which are the high point of the volume.

The last rainy day chapter features Manbagi, who I think is now my favourite character. She’s quite taken with Tadano, which of course will go nowhere, and the way she accidentally learns just how kind he is at the end (and her reaction to it) is very sweet. I likewise enjoy her utter inability to process her feelings towards him when they talk.

Outside of our leads, we have a flashback to how Komi’s parents started dating which is probably the funniest chapter of the book. Let’s just say that until it starts to happen, you probably have no chance of guessing how it will go down and it’s a solid payoff.

Tadano’s sister and Komi’s brother also get some page time, where once again she is mercilessly tormenting him and “helping” him. On the one hand, I feel for the guy being tormented as he wants to be left alone. On the other, her methods are pretty funny and the capper at the soccer match is brutally hilarious.

Like I said, three stars. Even without the Yanai parts I doubt I would go higher. This series typically has a higher number of solid chapters than this and none of the ones presented here are exemplary. Worth it if you like the series, but certainly not the best it’s done.

[Shae · Rating 4 out of 5]

I continue to adore this series.

We get SO MUCH TIME with Komi and Todano in this volume, it truly was a joy to read. We get the normal shenanigans of course, and we get a new friend for Komi.

I am so ready for Komi and Todano to be officially together! Let us hope we get to see it soon!

[valerie · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars.

[DonutKnow · Rating 3 out of 5]

My favourite is Komi’s mum and dad ❤️

[andrea · Rating 4 out of 5]

- tadano sister needs to learn boundaries
- sharing blankets with tadano ACKAKCKAKCK
- komi's (school trip) friends know for sure she likes tadano 🙈
- im worried abt the love triangle ☹️ its brewing its simmering
- i absolutely HATE naka x yamai 🤬 "dog and cat duo" my foot!

[Đức Nhật · Rating 4 out of 5]

11/07/2022: Thử thách đọc truyện trong lúc cắm camp One Piece 99 Limited: #5

4 sao. Tập này dễ thương vì mình quý đôi Tadano x Komi. Cũng vui vì tự thân Komi có thể tự kết bạn mà không cần đến sự giúp đỡ của Tadano. Thi thoảng gặp lại mấy người bạn cũ cũng rất ổn.

03/08/2022: Quá trình hồi phục ngày #17.

Vẫn 4 sao thôi. Nhưng lần này mình đã lọ mọ ra nhà sách mua bản tiếng Việt đọc cho đã thay vì tìm bản tiếng Anh và đọc trên kindle. Có nhiều điểm mình yêu thích trong tập này: Từ buổi dã ngoại giữa 2 gia đình và người bạn chí cốt Najimi, cho đến những khoảnh khắc đáng yêu ở trường.
- Hai gia đình gặp nhau và có nhiều khoảnh khắc tương tác dễ thương, cho đến khi Najimi kêu là tốn 7 trang truyện rồi đấy :>.
- Komi tia "hàng" Tadano-kun. Nghiện mà còn ngại hả cô gái :)).
- Người em ruột thừa Hitomi với nhiều biểu cảm hiểu chuyện. Kể ra thằng anh ngố tàu thì phải có đứa em lém lỉnh nó mới hợp cạ.
- Shosuke và Hitomi ở trường cũng cute lắm lắm. Hitomi bà chúa rảnh sự, thích tạo công ăn việc làm cho nam thần nên có nhiều tình huống tréo ngoe thật sự.
- Komi kiếm được thêm bạn mới. Chúc mừng gái.
- Thêm nhiều khoảnh khắc cute của đôi Tadano x Komi.

Nói chung truyện slice-of-life, rom-com thì đọc ở bất cứ thời điểm nào cũng rất thoải mái. Mình thích tập này.

[Rod Brown · Rating 4 out of 5]

This volume is the near perfect epitome of the series, capturing all the appealing aspects (and a couple minor peeves).

Foremost, we have incremental but joyous progress in the shy, gentle romance between Shoko Komi and Hitohito Tadano, and an equal amount of slow but steady development in the romantic rival who will inevitably cause some drama down the road.

Various members of the Komi and Tadano families -- some of the better supporting cast members -- get featured in multiple chapters throughout, with the two families meeting for the first time during a Golden Week vacation, more from the weird relationship between the respective younger siblings, and another flashback to Komi's parents as teens.

Stupidly fun gags are dragged out of the communication misunderstanding between Komi, Kotai, and a new gang of bullies.

The only drawbacks are maybe a little too much time spent on tertiary characters and any panels given over to Komi's creepy stalker, Ren Yamai.

[Jon Ureña · Rating 4 out of 5]

So far this is the last published volume of the ongoing series, although I've read up to chapter 182.

In my previous review for an earlier volume of this series, I was disappointed with how little the titular chacter, Komi Shouko, had changed despite the life experiences she had gone through. By volume 11 I must congratulate her for the opposite. She approaches people not only when she wants something but to help them as well, she maintained a few spoken conversations (an achievement for someone who mainly communicates through notebooks) and got involved in plenty of activities that pushed her limits. The highlight, and one of the most heartbreaking subplots in a series where the focus is on the funny interactions between the characters, were the few chapters involving the daughter of a college friend of Komi's mother. The parents of this kid are the kind that move for work often and to distant places, and the rest of the time are barely involved in raising their daughter. As a result the child, having gone through sequences of getting attached to people only to lose them forever, and coming home to loneliness, has hardened into a proper, no-nonsense person who avoids getting close to people and resents those who approach her, because if she allows herself to care for them, she's signing up for major heartbreak when they inevitably disappear. Komi awkwardly worms her way into the kids heart, and when she notices herself calling Komi her big sister, the child gets angry and runs away. Najimi, that meddlesome, hyperactive boy/girl, enlists dozens of people into looking for the child. When they do find her, Komi apologizes, believing, because of her low self-esteem, that the child ran away because of something she said. The child admits in tears that she simply cannot allow herself to care for people, because they will eventually abandon her, and at the end of the day she's just accumulating pain. Komi embraces her. I don't recall what she said, but a few days later the kid's mother reappeared and announced that they were moving again, this time to the US. Now it was Komi's time to cry. We get a last sequence with the kid fresh in a much messier school, but determined to enjoy human relationships although they will be ephemeral.

I appreciate the care the author put into setting up convoluted scenes of miscommunication with hilarious consequences. The first that comes to mind is when a group of delinquent first year students enter Komi and company's school and intend to assert their dominance by beating up the second year leader. They hear of Komi's (which is her non-gender specific last name) legendary status, and they assume it's some huge mean guy. When they go to her class they mistake the local socially awkward, scary looking buff guy, Katai, for the leader. After a complicated set of events, Katai ends up with their money, and the group of delinquents go away to spread the news that Komi-san is not to be messed with.

Komi Shouko remains a very peculiar main character: she's considered extraordinarily elegant and beautiful, yet she's as anxious as they come (particularly in the beginning), and can barely utter a word. Most of the time she is drawn with enormous eyes depicting her as confused and startled, and to most interactions she reacts by nodding her head or shaking it crazily. She's quite adorable.



Regarding the rest of the cast, my least favorite is probably Najimi, that histrionic loudmouth with an ambiguous gender. If I knew him/her in real life I'd probably end up holding his/her head underwater for a while.

I was surprised by how regional some of the references and in some cases the issue of some entire chapters were. Games that are only played in Japan, maybe in some regions of it, for a short while; manners of speaking, etc. The most conspicuous example was an entire chapter devoted to a word game that's completely untranslatable; the translators had to add the original Japanese words under the text for it to make any sense. It's rare that I come across stuff like this; I've been consuming Japanese manga/anime since I was a child. I grew up not only reading/watching the usual stuff from the pre-Pokemon/Digimon days ("Dragon Ball", "Captain Tsubasa", etc.), but also stuff like "Detective Conan", "Ranma 1/2", "Rurouni Kenshin" and some shoujos that are probably too embarrassing to remember. I got my first realistic taste of what a job routine was from the underrated "Patlabor", a team of average policepersons that fight crime on mecha-like machines, although I ended up having a few job experiences that were more stressful and panic-inducing than theirs. My first cartoon crush was queen tsundere herself, Asuka Langley Sōryū from the odd mega hit "Evangelion"; that probably says all you need to know about my self-respect back then, and about my subsequent romantic relationships.

Too bad I can't read any more of this "Komi-san" shit. In some ways it was just getting started. I hope they make an animated version soon, but in that case I hope they get a bigger budget and a more inspired director than with "Domestic na Kanojo"'s ongoing adaptation and their fucking censorship.

[Shannon · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.75

[Peter · Rating 5 out of 5]

There are a few reasons why I enjoyed this volume more than most.

First of all, it was very funny. I've said in previous reviews that a lot of the situations involving the character Katai are very humorous, and that stands true in this volume.

Secondly, it was sweet. I guess there were quite a few moments in this volume that were sweet, but the moment that stood out to me most was the ending. I'm not going to write what happens, but Tadano was very kind, and it does make me smile. This leads into the third reason.

This volume had good character development. But it wasn't from Komi. The two most notable characters are Tadano and Shosuke. In the first volume, Tadano seemed sort of like a placeholder character, only there for the story to begin. He wasn't very interesting. And I still don't think he is a great character, but he seemed pretty nice here, and he's getting there. Shosuke, on the other hand, went through a lot of character development. I thought he was already a good character, but it seems as if he's closer to letting his true self shine rather than not talking at all.

Because this volume did so well in these three categories, I think it's worthy of five stars.

[Ady Weasley · Rating 4 out of 5]

La familia Komi se encuentra con la familia Tadano en sus vacaciones de la Golden Week, por lo que terminan pasando juntos el tiempo. Shoko y Hitohito tienen un momento juntos pero la timidez de ambos no les ayuda.

Pobre Shosuke, Hitomi es muy entrometida, quiero ver cómo evoluciona eso.

Los capítulos de los papás de Komi son tan lindos!!!

Parece que Mangabi está desarrollando ciertos sentimientos

[Jacqueline · Rating 5 out of 5]

Its a very cute and compelling manga. I definitely want to read more into it. Its So SOOO fricken cute, and I love the art work.
(My son flies through these lol, might as well enjoy them as well, am I right?)

[Jillian -always aspiring- · Rating 4 out of 5]

2021 Read #67

I think this is the first volume of Komi in a while that has made me laugh out loud more than once. Some of the character interactions are just comedic gold! And I’m glad I waited on this volume since I have volume 12 in my hands to read, gleefully, next.

[Ken Yuen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another fine volume. Komi's little brother and Tadano's little sister are the new hilarious highlight, but there's a lot of great scenarios throughout the book. It's amazing how many things happen in this volume.

[Reading_seas0n · Rating 5 out of 5]

The love triangle is growing slowly but honestly I love it because I know it won't be cruel or mean and both girls like each other. It's just hard no to like Tadano.
Also the fact that the friends in the other class are branching out and being friends without Komi is sweet!

[Larry Ramirez · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love how both the hito family and to komi family both go to the same place to celebrate some family time. I like how tandano and komi slowly develop their relationships. I like that we also see tandanos sisters life and how her relationship is with komi in her class.

[Tsuki Pop · Rating 5 out of 5]

5 stars because shosuke’s in it. thats the only reason. there was shosuke. i love shosuke. shosuke is the only reason i read this series. shosuke. theres were tons of pages of shosuke. i was fed well today. shosuke for president. oh and i guess like the others were there as well but like shosuke.

[Katryne · Rating 5 out of 5]

if naka and yamai don’t end up together by the end of this series, im rioting.

[Mariah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Family trips and raining reigns supreme in this volume. Is it weird that rain makes me grin? Not with this volume! Komi so cute!

[Cloe · Rating 5 out of 5]

5/5 *

[trina · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love that her parents got together by her Dad making a flash mob to ask her out ㅋㅋㅋ

[Victor The Reader · Rating 4 out of 5]

Komi and Tadano unexpectedly spend time together (and still getting closer) when their families have a nice camping trip together. Back at school we see some tough students riling up trouble, more of Najimi’s shenanigans and some familiar faces in different classes. A- (91%/Excellent)