Release Date January 9, 2020 Story & Art Tomohito Oda Publisher Viz Media Letterer Eve Grandt Translator John Werry Amazon

Summer vacation is ending for Komi and her friends, and the return to class looms ever closer. Will new characters appear and help her reach her goal? More importantly, how will Komi fair in the sports festival? Komi Can’t Communicate is a romantic comedy series written and illustrated by Tomohito Oda. It is currently being licensed and translated through Viz Media, available in both physical and digital formats. Is Komi Can’t Communicate volume 4 worth reading?

Continuing the story

The story still revolves around helping Komi reach her goal of making 100 friends, so it is a bit more of the same. There are a couple of highlight moments that stood out to me I want to mention. The first is right at the beginning of the volume where Komi and company get together and play what is obviously Super Smash Brothers (but for legal reasons, it is instead called Swamp Bros). It was fun to see them trying to work around character copyright and watching Komi dominate at a game in which she has no clue how to play. It was also a nice touch to see Komi cosplaying as Princess Zelda. An enjoyable and quirky chapter that knew what it was and didn’t take itself too seriously.