Komi Can't Communicate

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Komi Can't Communicate (古見さんは、コミュ症です。, Komi-san wa, Komyushō desu.), also called Miss Komi is Bad at Communication and Komi-san Has Trouble Communicating in the English translations, is an ongoing manga series started in 2016 by Tomohito Oda, with 19 volumes released so far. It concerns the title character, who suffers from a condition that has an effect of selective mutism. Despite her beauty and kindness this makes it difficult to make friends; but with the help of her classmate Tadano, she has the goal of making 100 friends.

Tropes used in Komi Can't Communicate include:

All Just a Dream: Chapter 52. Nothing happens on this chapter, except Komi trying to tell Tadano there is a spot on her face.
Ambiguous Gender: A Running Gag with Najimi, to the point of their possibly being Ambiguously Human. The narrative never makes it clear if they are a girl or a boy using a female uniform. It reaches a boiling point in the teacher-parents reunion chapter, where their parents do not show up. At this point, the possibility of their being an android is not to be discarded.
Blatant Lies:
- Chapter 277. Tadano swears he didn't go to the passport center to stalk Komi, but to get his own.
- Chapter 295. Ichou repeatedly affirms she won the game on Indian poker over Komi. The narration even points out her faulty logic like the narrator is directly talking to her. Komi is also holding the award at the end of the chapter.
Country Mouse: Chapter 51 presents Inaka Nokoko, a girl from countryside who feels very out of place on the city. She tries to fitting by reducing the height of her skirt (barely), and gets pretty embarrassed about it, showing she came from a comically conservative place, and later by imitating Komi, which she thinks of as a model of a "cool girl from the city".
Class Trip: Chapters 277 to 295 involve the second-year class going to New York City, United States of America. Ichou's sheer incompetence and the students' lack of knowledge of English generates good laughs.
Dark Horse Victory: Chapter 325. Most students' introductions are some kind of disaster, but the gyaru Shiroki Yuka surprises everyone by managing to introduce herself without any problems.
Dysfunction Junction: Justified. Every student in Komi's third year class has some communication problem like her because the head teacher of the year gathered all of them on the same class with basis on the fact they didn't make friends last year.
First-Name Basis: Chapter 53 revolves around Komi wanting Tadano to call her that way. he gets very embarasssed and so does her when Najimi challenges her to do the same to him.
Five Second Foreshadowing: Chapter 61. The utmost seriousness with which Agari treats going to a restaurant spells to the audience that she is the famous critic that the restaurant owners want to please.
Gainaxing: Chapter 54. Agari doesn't wear a bra while trying to eat bread while jumping, making her breasts bounce.
Girlish Pigtails: Hitomi Tadano, Hitohito's little sister, is very girly and usually wears her hair in twin tails.
Hard Work Montage: Chapter 276 features involving Komi and Manbagi trying to lose weight.
Hikkikomori: Chapter 275. Hiki Komorebi, which became one after becoming embarrassed at how bad she was at volleyball despite her tallness.
Huge Schoolgirl: Chapter 275. Hiki Komorebi is this Up To Eleven, being already taller than most Japanese adults while still in middle school. As a result, she feels embarrassed by the attention she gets.
I Have This Friend: Chapter 294. Manbagi begins to talk about "this guy I have a crush on" and "this girl". While talking to said guy, Tadano. Tadano figures out it's him, and Manbagi even ends up referring to him in second person instead of third person.
Ironic Name: The girl named Komi has communication problems.
Genki Girl: Hitomi Tadano is very cute, and very hyperactive. This extends, even when she is texting, spamming messages over and over again if ignored.
Late to The Punchline: Chapter 298. Manbagi takes from pre-class to homeroom to understand Najime's alien joke.
Mistaken for Special Guest: Chapter 61 involves around Komi being mistaken by a famous restaurant critic, from which the owners have a vague idea of what they look like. She gets proper treatment while Tadano and Agari are treated like a side thought, if not despised, until the owner suddenly regains the will to please his customers. By the end of the chapter the critic is revealed to be Agari.
Mute Protagonist: Komi, due to her condition.
Nekomimi: When Komi is curious about something, she sprouts cat ears. Nobody else has commented on this, so it would be easy to dismiss it as yet another stylistic effect in the manga medium - after all, for a character whose dialogue is constrained, one takes opportunity for expressiveness where one can... Except that in one scene Komi has a nagging anxiety and confusion about why she sometimes grows them.
Nosebleed: In chapter 54, the male students visibly bleed of excitement at the sight of Agari's breasts bouncing.
Panty Shot: Chapter 60. A gust of wind ends up revealing Agari's panties.
Prophetic Dreams: Chapter 52. The day after Komi dreams of Tadano having a spot on his face he does show up with one.
Proper Tights with a Skirt: Komi wears these with her school uniform.
Rule of Three:
- Chapter 278. Najimi tries to bring bottled drinks and heated launch boxes on the planes, something he/she was repeatedly warned about. But he/she can bring Pollock Roe, which caught Tadano by surprise.
- Chapter 296. The narrator emphasizes three times Itou lost the game of Indian poker. The third time in bold letters.
School Festival: Chapter 54 to 55 revolves around the sports festival, with the students competing by class in such categories as juumping rope, obstacle course race and tug-of war.
Schoolgirl Lesbians: Chapter 292. Ichou does something with Komi under the sheets, and hearts are seen wafting over it. A balloon says "kiss, kiss, rub rub", implying something more than just kisses is happening.
Stalker with a Crush: Chapter 277. Tadano follows Komi around while she is getting a passport. He even wonders in his thoughts why he is trying to hide.
The Klutz: Fuki's introduction in chapter 325 involves him dropping everything he touches. Bag, chair, and student table.
Wham! Line: At the end of chapter 298. Manbagi says "Do you have some time after school"? to Tadano.