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EP. REVIEW: Komi Can't Communicate Season 2

Hey I finally caught up with Netflix and...... Man only two comments. Guess it lost some popularity or Netflix is slower than Japanese for more than only one episode.

Neat return. Still, I'm kinda conflicted about this anime considering while Komi, Tanado and Najimi are likable characters, the other students are just one gag guys who are unbearable. It's like if the author needed to write comedy so much that he grabbed the closest cliche and copypasted.

tintor2 wrote:

Neat return. Still, I'm kinda conflicted about this anime considering while Komi, Tanado and Najimi are likable characters, the other students are just one gag guys who are unbearable. It's like if the author needed to write comedy so much that he grabbed the closest cliche and copypasted.

I feel the problem with Komi - if you want to call it a "problem" - is that the manga advanced to a point where we knew the main direction the series was going to progress to, juuuuussssstttt as the anime was announced. Now the anime, presumably, has to get to that point but it's probably going to have to forego a lot of the filler and gags. That means getting to "the" moment after +300 chapters in the span of maybe another cour following this current one, which is a pretty tall order for any series with a slice-of-life-ish romance focus.

And I only mention such a short window as can we really foresee Komi continuing for like four to five cours? I'm not so sure this type of series can draw in that degree of viewership.

I ponder similar romance/comedy slice-of-life manga that have yet to be animated such as Amano-san, Takizawa-san, or Hitomi-san, and those series have either finished up or advanced to where the romance is in a more managable set of chapters. If they are every animated, they can advance their romance plots to more definitive conclusions within a managable set of time. Komi-san just threw in so many filler characters and gags, and happened to have occur what we all assumed would happen just at the magical point of being announced as receiving an anime.

The problem with Komi is that it's simply not as good as the manga readers had hyped it. The anime production goes above and beyond to offer a pleasurable watch and it succeeds as much as it is humanly possible. But it's still a 4-koma gag adaptation operating on two wheels: 1) Comedy and 2) Romance. First is how Komi will make friends, and second is how she will get her boyfriend.

Now the boyfriend is well-thought enough (even though he is... 'Just A Boy') but the friends are way too hit or miss. And sadly there are more misses than hits. The rest of the cast consists of completely stereotypical characters with no depth other than what their name describes them as, repeating the same jokes over and over again. They are not even bouncing off of each other (or Komi) well. For example, the moment Yamai appears on screen to harass Komi as the stereotypical predatory lesbian archetype, it ruins the show for me. It's not funny, it's downright creepy, and it's definitely aiming to project on some of its viewers.

Also the entire anime presents itself as how will Komi manage to connect despite her communication disorder, but in reality it is nothing but a gigantic Komi simping. Everybody deifies and likes Komi by default. She offers either zero effort into actually making people like her or does the bare minimum and is constantly praised like a godess by everyone around her simply because she's beautiful. If pretty privilege were ever an anime, that would be Komi.

The only person she is portrayed to have a meaningful relationship with, is Tadano. So it's no wonder people are tuning in for the romance and not for the 'friendship' aspect of the series. The rest of the cast is largely a miss and way too contrived comically.