The non-credit version of the Komi Can’t Communicate anime opening is now available on YouTube in full. The anime premiered earlier today in Japan. Netflix will be streaming it worldwide weekly starting on October 21.
The official Twitter for the anime describes the opening as “one page from Komi-san’s youth”. The sequence also features the opening song “Cinderella” by Cider Girl:
Studio OLM (POKEMON) is animating the series. Kazuki Kawagoe is directing, with Ayumu Watanabe (After the Rain) as the chief director. Atsuko Nakajima is in charge of character designs, Deko Akao is overseeing series composition, while Yukari Hashimoto composing the music.
Aoi Koga is voicing Shouko Komi, the main character who struggles with social anxiety, while Gakuto Kajiwara is Hitohino Tadano, her classmate who wants to help her make friends.
The anime previously revealed the main key visual, along with a trailer:
The anime is based on a manga by Tomohito Oda. The manga, which started publishing in 2017, is currently being serialized in Weekly Shounen Sunday. Viz Media licensed it in English.
The journey to 100 friends begins with a single conversation. Socially anxious high school student Shoko Komi’s 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. Timid Tadano is a total wallflower, and that’s just the way he likes it. He lives to blend in with the background. All that changes when he finds himself alone in a classroom on the first day of high school with the legendary Komi. He quickly realizes she isn’t aloof, she’s just super awkward. Now he’s made it his mission to help her on her quest to make 100 friends!
via Viz Media
Source: Official Twitter
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