15 Memorable Quotes from Komi Can’t Communicate

The introduction of every episode begins with this line, as it sums up the premise of Komi’s situation pretty well, while also reminding us that making 100 friends is a pretty challenging task to complete.

Tadano had been especially wild during his middle school years. So before beginning high school, he had decided to let go of his gangster vibe to become a completely normal person.

Komi finds new ways to communicate with the friends she has made, and one of the methods she had discovered back then was telling jokes. Safe to say, Najimi heavily misinterpreted it and was terrified for her life.

While introducing Itan Private High School, Najimi tells the viewers that the students were admitted on the basis of interviews, where they were judged for their uniqueness. The student body thus ended up with all kinds of personalities.

Despite all her playfulness, Najimi is usually the one with quick and wise responses to awkward situations. She understood that while they all were worried about Komi, hovering around the latter’s injury would only increase her guilt.

Najimi, being her social butterfly self, brought a crowd of over a thousand people to accompany her during the festival. They’re all friends of course, (or friends of friends), so it is only natural that they see the festival together.

Katai had trouble communicating his thoughts, partly because his actions were often misunderstood due to his frightening appearance. Here, he remembered a line from a book he had read and came to the conclusion that Komi intensely staring at him meant that she was helping him by giving him hints. He then mentally declared her as his mentor.

Winter had arrived, which meant that festivities and fun activities were on their way too. But it also meant that exams were right ahead to ruin their mirth.

Yamai and Nakanaka are usually seen fighting for Komi’s attention, and in another one of their eventful battles, they were trying to decide who Komi favored more (it’s Najimi of course!).

While the dark weather might have fascinated her briefly, Komi was terrified of thunder. And fortunately, by whatever celestial connection they shared, Tadano called her at the exact moment her mother left, to attend to Shosuke. She then asked (yes, Komi spoke. Character development!) him to stay on the call for a little longer.

Tadano can not only read what’s on Komi’s mind from her expression, but he can do the same for others too. So Nakanaka tried to trick him by thinking that he was reading her mind, but he could deduct as much from her face.

Katai desperately wanted to be friends with Tadano, but his inability to convey his thoughts would always get in the way. Our local telepath though, was skilled enough to understand his intentions and they would get along nicely (under the watchful eye of Katai’s self-proclaimed mentor and Najimi of course)

Komi was elated to receive her birthday gift but was unsure how to respond to all the time and effort all her friends had put into preparing it for her. In times like these, Tadano was always there to ease her anxiety and guide her out of socially awkward situations.

Katai’s relatable mental crisis never fails to generate the required humor for the audience, because most of the time, we stress over the simplest of things too.

Najimi has been adept in the art of making friends ever since her childhood (the only exception to this was Komi). Her introductions, along with Tadano’s valuable advice, have been helping Komi a lot in narrowing down that list of 100 friends.