#Komi Can’t Communicate Writes in TV Anime Adaptation for October 2021

Finally, Komi’s quest for 100 friends gets an anime adaptation! An official website for a Komi Can’t Communicate TV anime opened today revealing that an adaptation of the popular manga series from Tomohito Oda will be coming in October 2021. The lead staff and cast were revealed alongside a teaser visual, trailer, and full character art for the three main characters.

Mysterious Girlfriend X director Ayumu Watanabe will be the chief director on Komi Can’t Communicate, with Kazuki Kawagoe (storyboarder and episode director on Beyblade Burst) as the director. The characters will be designed for animation by Atsuko Nakajima (Ranma ½) with scripts and series composition by Deko Akao (Noragami) at OLM (Pokémon). 

Voicing the titular Shouko Komi will be Aoi Koga (Kaguya in KAGUYA-SAMA: LOVE IS WAR), with her guiding quest master Hitohito Tadano being voiced by Gakuto Kajiwara (Asta in Black Clover), alongside the “childhood friend” Najimi Osana being voiced by Rie Murakawa (Ram in Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-).

The character art for all three characters was also released:

Shouko Komi

Hitohito Tadano

Najimi Osana

The Komi Can’t Communicate manga has been serialized in Weekly Shonen Magazine since May 2016 and has been collected into 20 volumes, with the 21st volume scheduled for release on May 21. Viz Media translates the series into English and has so far released 12 volumes, with volume 13 scheduled for release on June 8, and volume 14 scheduled for August 10. Viz describes the first volume as such:

Timid Tadano is a total wallflower, and that’s just the way he likes it. But all that changes when he finds himself alone in a classroom on the first day of high school with the legendary Komi. He quickly realizes she isn’t aloof—she’s just super awkward. Now he’s made it his mission to help her on her quest to make 100 friends!

Komi Can’t Communicate will be broadcast in Japan on TV TOKYO starting in October 2021.

Sources: Komi Can’t Communicate Official Website, Comic Natalie

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Daryl Harding is a Japan Correspondent for Crunchyroll News. He also runs a YouTube channel about Japan stuff called TheDoctorDazza, tweets at @DoctorDazza, and posts photos of his travels on Instagram.