Komi Can’t Communicate Volume 3

Synopsis 

It’s officially summertime for Komi and her friends. With all of Komi’s summer school work completed, what can she do with her summer vacation? Thankfully for Komi, her friends are better at calling to check on her, as she’s still anxious to call them over summer break. Komi goes to the pool and a festival for the first time in volume 3 and tries her best to communicate without a notepad and writing utensils. This volume shows you can still have the best summer ever, even when you struggle to communicate. 

Review and Recommendation 

*Spoiler Alert* (A spoiler alert is being issued because there are mentions of specific plot points that relate to the rating of this review.) 

Volume 3 of Komi Can’t Communicate was a light-hearted and fun read. This volume is set during summer vacation and revolves around Komi attempting to communicate and interact with others with her social anxiety. One of my favorite panels from this volume was when Komi helped Najimi with her summer job. They only had to pass out packets of tissues to people, and the people getting the tissues from Komi were just as nervous, if not more nervous, to get tissues from her. Seeing their interactions with her and how anxious they were to go up to her to get a packet of tissues was hilarious. The volume also dives deeper into Komi’s family, specifically her father. He was socially anxious, too, but somehow, Komi and her father could interact and communicate with each other with very little said between them. Of the three volumes that I’ve read so far, volume 3 is my favorite because there is still a struggle for Komi, but she is coming out of her shell more and experiencing teenage life despite her social anxiety. This volume was fantastic and makes me miss summer. Hopefully, reading this volume has manifested summer vacation to arrive sooner this school year. 

Cautions 

There isn’t much from this volume that caught my attention. There are still a few innuendos and inappropriate interactions that Komi has with the other characters, but it wasn’t anything too bad that younger readers wouldn’t be able to read.