Chapter 0

Chapter 0
Oneshot
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---Note: Oneshot is not canon in the mainline series---

One Shot are a grouped collection of 8 chapters intended as the pilot for Tomohito Oda's Komi Can't Communicate. It can be considered as Chapter 0, as it was made first, however it is not canon in the mainline series.

Summary

Chapter 1 - Heart Pounding

Shouko Komi arrives at school, and is admired by her fellow students for her beauty and stoic nature. Three girls try to confess their feelings to her, but are met with an icy stare and total silence. Unknown to everyone, Komi has a communication disorder, which makes it difficult to interact with people on a basic level, much less make friends. Only Tadano Shigeo, her acquaintance, an unremarkable boy with a knack for reading situations, understands her at all. He greets her as everyone scatters in fear, as she uneasily repeats his greeting. An easy task for some, Tadano recognizes how difficult it would've been for her to say that.

Chapter 2 - Extremes

At the lockers, Tadano asks Komi why she stares at people when they talk to her, to which she shortly replies that it's due to her education. When he asks for details, Komi rapidly and extensively explains that she stares because her mother said she should make eye contact, but when she does, she loses the will to talk as she can't speak well, as Tadano notes that Komi either speaks too little, or too much.

Chapter 3 - Currently

Tadano and Komi meet in a diner a few times a week, in an effort to fix her disorder. On one visit, he asks her if she's thought of any topics to discuss, to which she awkwardly replies as to if he'd rather eat curry flavored poop or poop flavored curry. Tadano, confounded at such a strange question, explains that talking about topics like that will cause her to regret it later, a feeling that Komi is all too familiar with. Tadano suggests talking about recent occurrences, as Komi recounts the time she took half an hour to answer a doorbell and accidentally scared away a mailman, causing a fight at school by looking at a group, and glaring at a teacher. When she describes.

Chapter 4 - Boy Meets Girl

Tadano goes home 3 months ago, when he was walking, he was hit by a Komi on a motorcycle. Tadano lies on the road screaming in pain. as Komi comes up at first, just looks for a bit, and then takes him to the hospital.

Chapter 5 - Not good with this

In the hospital, the doctor says that it’s just a slight bruise, there’s nothing wrong, Komi from far away was waiting for Tadano when Tadano comes up to her, then Komi apologized to Tadano so many times, Tadano asked to stop apologize that it’s just a slight bruise, but she still apologized, then Komi looked at Tadano and Tadano said "can you say something already?" Komi said no with her head, Tadano, not understanding that she just wanted to leave, but Komi pauses and says that it is difficult for her to speak, biting her tongue, Tadano was a little embarrassed and did not know what to answer, he tried to leave, but Komi stopped him, and Komi said that she wanted to apologize, despite the fact that she didn’t see where she was going, when speaking, Tadano tried to look into the eyes of the Komi, but she always turned her back so Tadano realized that the Komi could not speak looking into the eyes.

Chapter 6 - I wasn't able to go

They sat down, Komi still apologizing for hitting him, and still Tadano forgives Komi, while Tadano thought that he probably said something rude to her, if she can’t speak when she looks at the interlocutor then maybe she should talk to others now? "So why didn’t she understand yet," he thought to ask her, but Tadano still thought about what would happen later, and told Komi that she was not on a school trip, that she never had friends, that she was forgotten in groups, she thought she just wanted to to be alone but no, Komi thought that she hated herself for not being able to talk.

Chapter 7 - Tadano-kun is a Good Person

Tadano, for some reason, understands what Komi feels, and the fact that his friend said that Tadano is boring. He was scared and they told him to understand the interlocutor, because of this he was disappointed, after these words Komi wanted to leave, but Tadano stopped and offered to be friends. Although she did not answer, they still became friends.

Chapter 8 - My best smile

After that day, when Komi went to school, the girls proposed to meet. There was silence but then Komi said well, then Komi smiled and the girl fainted from fear.

(Please note: The vast grammar mistakes here were edited by an American, my apologies if they are not correct in your place of living!)

Characters

• Komi Shouko
• Tadano Shigeo

Events

• 1st chapter we are introduced to Komi and Tadano
• 2nd chapter they get to know each other and Tadano tries to help her
• 3rd chapter Tadano found out about the problems of Komi
• 4th chapter Komi hits Tadano with a motorcycle
• 5th chapter she tries to apologize in the hospital and Tadano understands that Komi is embarrassed to talk looking into eyes
• 6th chapter they talk about the problems of Komi
• 7th chapter they become friends
• 8th chapter a girl comes up and gives a love letter but Komi only smiles

Trivia

• Komi and Tadano are the only characters used in the Oneshot and the mainline series
• Komi has a white cat as her profile picture on her Yohoo account, suggesting it's her favourite kind, whereas in the main series she likes black cats prominently
• The series takes place in 2015, as seen from Komi's question on Yohoo
• Komi's question on Yohoo is posted exactly 1 year before the Japanese release of Volume 1 (September 16th, 2015 and 2016, respectively)
• The diner Komi and Tadano talk at is similar to the one seen in the first 4 Omake chapters in the mainline manga
• Tadano suggesting that Komi will agonise over awkward topics at home is referenced in chapter 35
• Komi bows extremely low, like Agari
• Komi briefly has her signature cat ears
• Komi holds Tadano's blazer to stop him leaving, like in chapter 5
• Komi decides to not go on her school field trip, like in chapter 103
• Komi has a unsettling forced smile, like Katai