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THOUGHTS ON KOMI CAN'T COMMUNICATE (EP 8)

Another good episode. First, we have Komi and her family visiting their extended family during summer vacation with Shuuko talking all throughout the trip. While I do love Komilf, I kind of admit that I'd have opened up the side door and jumped out.

Some highlights of the trip and the most hilarious is when the family stops to pray to their ancestors...and then the tombstone goes "eh!?" when Komi was there just being silent. They arrive at their destination with Shuuko greeting the aunt and happily speaking with her whereas Masayoshi and the uncle have an intense staring contest. Or maybe doing mental battles whatever the case.

We then have Komi meeting her cousin Akira who is practically just as anxious as she is (I also hope she has her own Tadano in school just because it would be cute). And it appears that the invisible mouth thing runs in the family. Then they meet with grandma and she is glad that her granddaughter is making friends...but then drills her on if she had a boyfriend. Looks like Tadano will have to battle Grandma to get her blessing.

The festival segment was also great due to Tadano and Komi spinning some time together with Tadano, ever the Chad, trying to make Komi feel more comfortable when she forgot her notepad. And then she even says his name! The boy keeps on winning!

As for side plots...of course, Yamai just so "happened" to be at the summer festival because she was totally not stalking Komi. I admit that while I still despise her, after the whole kidnapping incident, she did tone it down a bit where she was tolerable...except when she had Komi kneel on the ground to give her a roasted sausage. Dude, my guys, somehow she makes Mineta from My Hero Academia seem like a monk. But Najimi eats the sausage instead. Najimi, you have no idea how much of a hero you are.

Also, it's kind of funny how Najimi had somehow received invitations from around 1,000 people. Is...Najimi human at all?

Speaking of our favorite questionable gender lad, they show that they have a habit of being a gambler which is...troubling for when they get older. Watching them fail again and again and screaming their lungs out is comedy gold. I really have to hand it to their seiyu for their work.

Then we have Yadano again trying to compete with Komi over a shooting game, but that goes as best as it sounds. They then have to cut pictures out of clay, but I swear if anyone was saying "oh, it's just like in Squid Game!", there will be trouble. Funnily enough, Tadano successfully cut the picture out despite being universally average.

Komi is then invited to Tadano's house seeing that Najimi was already there as well. And then...for the love of, Yamai AGAIN makes herself an unwelcome guest when no one even freakin' invited her in the first place. I really wish that she would've fallen into a coma after fainting from seeing Komi in a kimono back at the festival.

We are also formally introduced to Tadano's little sister who basically has his face, just with ponytails kind of like some Mickey Mouse stuff. She greets his friends but wonders if Yamai was her brother's girlfriend. Ha, a hard no on that sis, Yamai hates his guts and only refrains herself from killing him because he was Komi's friend. When she sees Komi, she takes her brother out of the room to ask him what trick he used to wring Komi in. Dang, that is cold.

Of course, it turns out that Najimi spent so much time preoccupied with having fun, they had neglected to finish their summer homework, so they were wanting to mooch off the others. Tadano also did not complete his homework so decides to work alongside Najimi while Yamai stares at Komi. Girl, get some help.

Komi starts crying but not because she was hurt, but it was because she had so much fun during the summer that she did not want it to end. Our little girl is growing up the more she breaks out of her shell.

Smiling Tadano

[INCOMPREHENSIBLE SCREECHING]