Komi Can’t Communicate, book 1 by Tomohito Oda

[james_davis_nicoll]

Komi Can’t Communicate, book 1 by Tomohito Oda

Comments

[kathmandu]

Who puts a row of lockers right in front of the blackboard so that you're forced to lean forward un-ergonomically?

[roseembolism]

Not to mention thrust your butt out toward the class...

[ba_munronoe]

Probably designed by the same person who made mini-skirts part of the school uniform.

[scott_sanford]

Also, in any real school that convenient flat surface would be covered in piles of stuff.

[(Anonymous)]

If the teacher can't get out of the habit of facing the students and casually leaning back while talking, then, interposing something so that s/he isn't leaning on the blackboard and chalking him or her self is another remedy.

But I think the theory about the character posing elegantly for the cover is more likely.

I had a quick browse and it appears from stock photograph libraries, at least, that Japanese schools still go for chalkboards (that stuff technically isn't "chalk", I gather), in wide portrait orientation but not particularly high. No doubt the design of Japanese writing is a factor. In the United Kingdom I think we've gone over to whiteboards.

Robert Carnegie

[roseembolism]

So at three friends per volume, she'll reach her goal around Volume 33. That's series longevity.

[chomiji]

XD

This seems to me to be the sort of series that runs for 8-10 volumes at most. I imagine that once Komi had a decent number of friends, she'll start to consider quality over quantity.

(And I might actually read it.)

[james_davis_nicoll]

I believe it is up to eighteen volumes so far.

[roseembolism]

Once they get into the "Tournament to be a friend" arc, that should extend the series by at least another six volumes, at least.

(Note: I'm being a little facetious here....)

[ba_munronoe]

I'm not sure I find either the art or the story concept interesting enough to make it through over 18 volumes without the occasional Death Battle. (Komi can't communicate: can she tear out a man's heart with her bare hand and show it to him before he dies?)

[james_davis_nicoll]

Sometimes it is pleasant to read about mutually supportive people.

[ba_munronoe]

Nothing wrong with mutual support, but 18 volumes of people being cutely socially clueless is likely to get on my nerves.

[thomasyan]

I've borrowed, read, and enjoyed volume 1. I like how the Kindle edition lets me double tap to enter a mode where it zooms into a panel and then tapping advances or rewinds to the next.

I was initially confused when tapping to "advance" did nothing, until I tried tapping the other side. That worked, and makes sense since manga is read right to left.

On to volume 2!