The journey to 100 friends begins with a single conversation. Socially anxious high school student Shoko Komis greatest dream is to make some friends, but everyone at school mistakes her crippling social anxiety for cool reserve With the whole student body keeping their distance and Komi unable to utter a single word, friendship might be forever beyond her reach. Its time for the school trip to Kyoto. Komi has never been on a school trip before, but shes not worried. After all, shell have Tadano and her friends at her side But then shes assigned to be buddies with two girls she doesnt even know who dont seem very nice. Is Kyoto ruined, or will Komi be able to make new friends all on her own?About the AuthorTomohito Oda won the grand prize for World Worst One in the 70th Shogakukan New Comic Artist Awards in 2012. Odas series Digicon, about a tough high school girl who finds herself in control of an alien with plans for world domination, ran from 2014 to 2015. In 2015, Komi Cant Communicate debuted as a one-shot in Weekly Shonen Sunday and was picked up as a full series by the same magazine in 2016.