Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Komi has to fight for her school, her friend, and maybe her boyfriend too

Komi Can't Communicate vol. 29 by Tomohito Oda

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Palate cleanser was needed so I went for a volume of Komi Can’t Communicate (v.29). In yet another improbable (and stupid if you think about it too hard) situation, Komi and pals’ school is in danger of being shut down because the 20-something nepo-baby in charge got drunk and made a wager. Now, Komi, Tadano, et al. have to compete in a trivia game, and go to camp to do it. That’s plot thread 1. Plot thread  is that it turns out that the star […]

HS rom-com, monster battle apocalypse, and a historical mystery all make progress

Kaiju No.8 vol. 9, Komi Can't Communicate vol.27, The Apothecary Diaries vol. 9 by Natsu Hyuuga, Nekokurage, Tomohito Oda, Naoya Matsumoto

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Take Kaiju No. 8 (vol. 9); as a monster fighting type story, there’s plenty of battles, and power ups and close calls and close calls. With a major kaiju attack underway, and things looking grim, a handful of the heroes are trying out new more powerful equipment for the first time. Kikoru and Hoshina are both using super rare specialized weaponry for the first time that are made from kaiju remains, one bit of which (Hoshina’s) remains somewhat sentient. Kikoru’s belonged to her late mother. […]

The wilds of high school social interactions

Komi Can't Communicate vol. 25 by Tomohito Oda

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Bingo 22: In the Wild Komi Can’t Communicate is set in high school (kind of the wilds) and Komi and her familiar group are separated in the beginning of their last year of high school, so Komi suddenly is faced with the challenge of taming a whole group of new friends (which is likely going to help her with her goal of making 200 friends since she’s only got a year left to do it). That and a good chunk of volume 25 is a […]

The value of female friends over boys wins for once

Komi Can't Communicate, vol. 17 by Tomohito Oda

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Komi Can’t Communicate is mostly a cozy manga series about high school kids and friendship. It’s reasonably predictable with no real disasters and some occasional comic moments. The protagonist Komi is the class beauty but she’s got social anxiety to the point where it’s difficult for her to speak to anyone in public, but this is taken by most people as ‘cool’. Tadano is the totally average guy who seems to understand Komi and decides to help her work on her anxiety and make friends. […]

Komi is Learning but What about Everyone Else?

Komi Can't Communicate, vol. 11 by Tomohito Oda

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My kind of mindless yet entertaining read has recently been the Komi Can’t Communicate manga. The interesting thing is that until now, this series told as a bunch of loosely connected mini-episodes has so far managed to stay interesting. It took until volume eleven for things to get a little shaky. I still like Komi, and she’s making steady progress as a character. She actually speaks a few complete sentences to different people here, out loud. The romance angle is obvious and a little pointless […]

Komi Can Communicate, But Only Just Barely

Komi Can't Communicate, vol. 10 by Tomohito Oda

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So, Komi Can’t Communicate is one of those things that makes use of a lot of stereotypes and still mostly manages to be entertaining. It’s volume ten of the manga, and Komi actually gets to take the lead in some social interaction and making a new friend without Tadano or anyone else. There’s also a side story about her younger brother who’s apparently pretty similar to Komi in that he struggles to use words with other people, getting away with it on the basis of […]



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