Komi Can’t Communicate Anime is premiering this year according to the official website. The anime will be premiering in October in Japan on Tokyo TV.
Komi Can’t Communicate Anime will be based on the manga of the same name by Tomohito Oda.
Aoi Koga will be voicing Shoko Komi. Aoi Koga is also the voice of the character Rozaliya from the popular gacha game Honkai Impact.
Gakuto Kajiwara will be voicing Hitohito Tadano. Kajiwara also voices Asta from Black Clover in Jump Force and also the anime series.
Rie Murakawa will be voicing Najimi Osana. She also voices Est in the popular Japanese RPG Fire Emblem Heroes.
Plot:
- Hitohito Tadano is an average schoolboy in the elite Itan Private School
- Shoko Komi is a very popular girl in the same private school
- However, Tadano discovers a secret beneath the stoic beauty, elegance and also the popularity of Komi
- Komi is super awkward and also can’t communicate well
- She wishes to be able to overcome this and also make a 100 friends
- Tadano makes it his mission to help Komi make a 100 friends
Najimi Osana is also the most interesting character in the series. Osana is a character with an ambiguous gender. Najimi’s gender is never revealed as a result, people often confuse her/him.
Ayumu Watanabe is the chief director of the anime. Kazuki Kawagoe is directing the anime at OLM. Deko Akao from Noragami is in charge of the music composition. Atsuko Nakajima is designing the characters.
If you are interested in this manga series check out the exciting new announcement for a live adaptation of the manga.