In Komi Can’t Communicate, Shouko Komi, the most popular girl at Itan Private High School, struggles to communicate with others. Everyone was entranced by her beauty and grace to the point where they were unable to approach her in any way at all. Hideto Tadano, an average-looking boy who happens to be seated next to her, is one of the few students who has dared to approach her and speak with her.
She had been hiding her most embarrassing secret, which was that she had terrible communication difficulties with other people. Her condition was termed as “social anxiety” in the television series. According to the anime, it is a scenario in which a person has difficulty connecting with and building relationships with other people. What approach does the series take to deal with this problem?
When it comes to social anxiety, how does Komi Can’t Communicate deal with it?
In the first episode, it was established that Komi is a very quiet, composed, and collected college student. Whenever she is the focus of attention, which is nearly all of the time due to her classmates’ (and other schoolmates’) awe at her beauty, she begins to freeze. Everyone is staring at her, and she is occasionally even being videotaped doing innocuous things like writing in her notebook or taking notes.
Her body would freeze when someone approached her, and she would not move for quite some time. She had the same thing when her teacher asked her to recite. After experiencing paralysing anxiety after her initial reaction, Komi finds it difficult to communicate with others. Tadano eventually established a method of communicating with her that involved the use of textual communication.
As a result of their brief conversation, the audience gained an understanding of how Komi feels plagued by cultural pressure, which includes the urge to connect with others while also being known as the most attractive and popular girl at school. That she must satisfy others in order to maintain her popularity, or else she will be bullied by her classmates, is implied by this statement.
Tadano, as well as Komi, suffers from social anxiety. A self-conscious individual desperate to fit in was introduced when he was first introduced. Actually, he had intended to go unnoticed throughout his first year, but everything changed when Komi was assigned to be his seatmate. His anxiousness grows as he learns that he would have to put in extra effort if he wants to continue his education at the elite school.