Talking to new people and making friends when one feels unsure of themselves often feels awkward and difficult, and most people have at least one experience where they have felt out of their depth socially. Komi-san wa Comyushou desu takes a look at a girl learning to interact with others despite her initially cold and intimidating appearance. Often this sort of interaction is made into a comedy through cringe humor, something like Watamote for instance. Komi-san takes a different path by making the humor based around the main character, Komi, clearly work to fix her problems when dealing with people rather than remaining stony and stand-offish.Even in this short one-shot, the audience watchers as the other character, Tadano, comes to understand and communicate better with Komi. The humor value is more looking at how far Komi still has to interact with others well, even if she does incrementally better with each encounter

Due to being a one shot the story can’t do much more than showcase the potential of the story, but does manage to show progress and change, which I counted as a plus and definitely made me more interested in the longer story. The art is fairly average, save for the occasionally chibified or other stylization used to show how characters feel or the aura they’re meant to give off during the story.

Overall, this one shot does it’s job of creating interest for the main story, and provides a reasonable way for the reader to decide if they are interested enough to commit to a longer story.