History Characters / KomiCantCommunicateItanHighSchool

* TapOnTheHead: Gives the neck chop variety to Yamai when the latter tries to badger Komi for a kiss at the end of the first year.

* JerkassToOne: To Tadano, [[DrivenByEnvy because of his closeness to Komi]]. While they tone it down in later chapters, and eventually cease to be anatonistic at all to him, it's unclear if they consider him a friend now.

* DrivenByEnvy: Though they are less antagonizing than, for instance, Yamai, they are definitely not Tadano's friends and have shown scorn and disdain towards him due to his closeness with Komi, even when they're all socializing as a group in outings. It's also important to mention that while they are in Komi's friend list[[labelnote:(!)]]Chapter 47.5[[/labelnote]], they did not reach a significant connection with Komi.

* HisOwnWorstEnemy: If only they approach Komi instead of admiring her from afar beyond their superficial understanding of her, Komi would have become closer to them.
* HormoneAddledTeenager: The three of them. They base their fantasies on superficial knowledge about their girl classmates and tend to be showy, disloyal to one another, and act hungry for girls. It's precisely due to their shallowness that they don't cover much territory with girls past mere friendship.

* JerkassToOne: To Tadano, [[DrivenByEnvy because of his closeness to Komi]]. While they tone it down in later chapters, they never outright become his friends.
* [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Jerks With Hearts Of Gold]]: Although they don't favor Tadano, it's shown that they do favor Komi and try their best not to let other people come close to ogle at her. Shinobino, in fact, is part of the "Secret Komi Security". They are also [[HiddenDepths seen to have some respect for the girls]], if their {{Imagine Spot}}s where they [[ThinksLikeARomanceNovel imagine a relationship with them]] are anything to go by.
* LaserGuidedKarma: In a sense of poetic justice, just because [[JerkassToOne they don't get close to Tadano]], they don't get close to Komi as a result. It's looking so bad for them that even Yamai is closer to Komi.

[[folder:Wakai Takenori]]
!! Wakai Takenori

->'''Voiced by''': Creator/MegumiHan (Japanese), Creator/SuzieYeung (English), Regina Tiscareño (Latin American Spanish)

* AccentAdaptation: Is given a Southern drawl in the English dub for her Tohoku dialect.

* CountryMouse: Her gimmick. She has an extremely thick country accent and tends to view anything her classmates do as amazing "City Folk" activities.

Toro is a female classmate of Komi and Tadano's during their second year. She's widely considered the most attractive female student in the school and has her male classmates wrapped around her fingers. Komi and Manbagi go to her for love advice.

A new classmate of Manbagi's, introduced in her third year, and the soccer club captain. He sits next to her in class 3-5 but suffers from crippling anxiety when it comes to talking to the opposite sex.

* CannotTalkToWomen: Quite literally Wakai's quirk to a T, he becomes a stuttering mess when it comes to talking to girls.
* CelibateHero: Though not for a lack of trying, Wakai's anxiety prevents him from having a conversation with a girl.
* ChickMagnet: Not to Shosuke's exaggerated level, but between being considered attractive and being the captain of the school's soccer team, Wakai is pretty popular with the female students, [[CannotTalkToWomen to his consternation]].

* EntertaininglyWrong: He's under the impression Katai is Manbangi's boyfriend, completely unaware they are only friends.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: After Manbagi was placed in a different class from Komi and Tadano in her third year, readers were quick to note that Wakai bears a shockingly similar appearance to Tadano.

* TheArtifact: Yadano gets slightly more focus than some of the other reoccurring characters in the series but despite this, the few spotlight chapters she gets don't flesh her out beyond her quirk. So the few times Yadano does get to reappear it's largely [[ButtMonkey to make her the butt of the joke]] [[spoiler:until Chapter 431.]]

* TheArtifact: Yadano gets slightly more focus than some of the other reoccurring characters in the series but despite this, the few spotlight chapters she gets don't flesh her out beyond her quirk. So the few times Yadano does get to reappear it's largely [[ButtMonkey to make her the butt of the joke]].

* SoreLoser: When your gimmick is "hates losing," this is definitely the case. Occasionally subverted when she [[GracefulLoser accepts defeat gracefully]] (or, more likely, calmly declares the match a draw despite losing horribly). [[spoiler:This is finally built upon in Chapter 431, where it's explained her consistent 2nd place status led her to question whether she could ever "win" at anything despite her efforts, but hides it with over-reactive frustration in order to get a laugh out of people and not sense her actual turmoil.

* DemotedToExtra: With Komi's classmates no longer treating her like a ParodySue, this has put a major dent in Yadano's role as being her UnknownRival who is obsessed with one-upping her. Yadano now rarely appears save for the occasional [[RunningGag one-off gag]].

* OutOfFocus: Yadano perhaps gets this the most of all the supporting characters. Despite getting a grand introduction of being established as Komi's UnknownRival, she never formally joins Komi's friend group.

* SoreLoser: When your gimmick is "hates losing," this is definitely the case. Occasionally subverted when she [[GracefulLoser accepts defeat gracefully]] (or, more likely, calmly declares the match a draw despite losing horribly).

->'''Voiced by''': Live Mukai (Japanese), Creator/SarahWilliams (English), Regina Ruiz (Latin American Spanish)

* SenpaiKohai: She's one year the main characters' senior and Agari's team leader at the library.

* SenpaiKohai: Is a year ahead of the main characters, so they usually refer to her as Netsuno-senpai.

* AccentAdaptation: Is given a Southern drawl in the English dub for her TohokuRegionalAccent.

* TohokuRegionalAccent: Speaks in Akita dialect in Japanese.

* TheDreaded: Albeit she's intimidated by herself, she is dutiful in her function, so most of the characters understand her punishments. However, she's Najimi's [[ArchEnemy bane]] because Najimi is very loud and a repeat offender.

* AlwaysSecondBest: Invoked and subverted. This is what she thinks she is compared to Komi. In reality, she is not even remotely close to Komi in any aspect, athletics, academics, or even biometrics. Still, even when her efforts are not noticed by Komi, they are noticed and admired by other classmates, earning her a fanclub.

* DemotedToExtra: With Komi's classmates no longer treating her like a ParodySue, this has put a major dent in Yadano's role as being her UnknownRival who is obsessed with one-upping her. Yadano now rarely appears save for the occasional [[RunningGag one off gag]].

* HisOwnWorstEnemy: She always sets herself to lose against Komi because she either doesn't admit her own shortcomings, or doesn't see them in the first place. It's not only that, but she also tends to put herself in ostensibly disadvantageous situations (like helping the stand next to Komi's in the Summer Festival, a stand that can possibly sell nothing or attract customers), first, without any reason whatsoever other than to "antagonize" Komi, and second, without even getting Komi's attention to her efforts.
* LethalChef: In chocolate at least, where compared to Komi, her chocolate was very bitter and gross.

* UnknownRival: Yadano considers herself as Komi's rival and tries to beat her in anything. Komi doesn't even notice her.

Inaka hails from the same country village as Komi's grandma, being close acquaintances and contributing parishioners to the local temple, though she hadn't met grandma Komi's granddaughter until they enrolled in the same high school.

** For added irony, Komi's stoic demeanour comes from her father's side of the family, which actually comes from the exact same country town as she does. In fact, it specifically seems to come from her grandmother, who Inaka actually knew ''before'' she ever met Komi herself.

* TenderTears: When Onemine and Otori excitedly accept her handmade picture frames to commemorate their class trip together, she is so elated at the fact that they are willing to be her friends even when they know that she has an accent that [[TearsOfJoy she breaks into tears]], showing how much of an issue her accent was to her, and finally realizing how much she was unnecessarily burdening herself by thinking it diminished her on her classmates' eyes.

* {{Tomboy}}: Of the rural kind. As there is little to do at her hometown in terms of entertainment, she makes do with what's available on the countryside: she makes shurikens out of grass blades, improvises fishing rods with bamboo, catches insects and crabs, forages for edible mushrooms, you name it.

A sweet girl with a short, ''short'' fuse. She's a childhood friend of Yamai and an almost constant companion to her. Onigashima is assigned to a different class than Komi on her second year.

* CuteLittleFangs: Goes well with both her cheerful demeanor and her personal gimmick.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Having passed almost a year since the beginning of high school, and being a friend of Yamai, Onigashima makes several appearances in the manga before her formal introduction. She first appears conversing with Yamai on Chapter 7.

* RageBreakingPoint: Her gimmick is that she's generally a very nice girl, but becomes a demon when she gets angry enough. Even Yamai, Onigashima's friend and one of the scariest characters in the comic in her own right, is terrified at the idea of being near an enraged Onigashima.

* StatingTheSimpleSolution: The way to defuse her wrath? As Komi shows, it's simple: be kind to her when she's about to break because, believe or not, ''she needs it''.

* {{Tomboy}}: Going by her way to relieve stress (batting homeruns), it's implied she's one. This also implies that she is the tomboy to Yamai's GirlyGirl.

A girl whose niceness is actually a fault, Amami is known for her absolute selflessness, to the point that people both over-rely on her and take advantage of her kindness. In the first-year, she seats next to Komi on the opposite side to Tadano. Satou is assigned to a different class than Komi on her second year.

* SuperGullible: May fall into this; one guy asks her to scratch his back (just to get her to touch him) and her friend tries to get her to practice saying No to favors by asking for a 100,000 yen loan (about $1000), both of which she immediately agrees to. Knowing her nice nature though, it's possible she would've agreed even if she didn't believe them.

The so-called "Normies" in Tadano's classroom, they are also part of the "Komi Imperial Guard". They tend to fantasize about the girls in class, thinking about possible scenarios on which they have a relationship with them. The Normies are assigned to a different class than Komi and Tadano during their second year.

* ChocolateOfRomance: Sonoda receives one from Nakanaka during Valentine's day... though [[SubvertedTrope it's revealed that he's imagining it]].
* DemotedToExtra: Invoked. In Chapter 193, they show up at Matsuri's stall with Yamai's friends, and are referred to as "extras" by the narrator.

** Shinobino likes competitive girls and country-types, namely Makeru and Inaka.

** Chiarai seems to have a preference for Yamai, or just tsunderes in general, and is also a member of the Makeru Fan Club and likes whenever she gets overtly competitive.
* HisOwnWorstEnemy: If only they approach Komi instead of admiring her from afar beyond their superficial understanding of her, Komi would had become closer to them.
* HormoneAddledTeenager: The three of them. They base their fantasies on superficial knowledge about their girl classmates, and tend to be showy, disloyal to one another, and act hungry for girls. It's precisely due to their shallowness that they don't cover much territory with girls past mere friendship.

** Their scenarios are surprisingly romantic coming from high school kids, so much that Tadano often gets enthralled by their conversations. In other contexts, they could be more pervy.
** Though they come up with the romantic scenarios involving their female classmates, they all admit that they'd prefer Komi above all of them. The funny thing is, they consider the possibility so remote, and they know so little of how Komi actually is, that they have to come up with a fictional scenario set as a period drama. At that point, ''they haven't even engaged Komi in conversation'', so that possibility, as remote as they think it is, ''is more remote still''.

* JerkassToOne: To Tadano, [[DrivenByEnvy because of his closeness to Komi]]. While they tone it down on later chapters, they never outright become his friends.

** "''Chiarai''" is a play on the concept of the Charao, which is the [[SpearCounterpart male counterpart]] of the GyaruGirl. A Charao is flirty, easygoing, stylish, but has the reputation of being unreliable and unfaithful.

A friend of Yamai and Onigashima who resembles a knight, wearing plate armour alongside her school uniform and carrying a (replica) sword at her side. Himeko has taken it upon herself to protect Komi from anyone who would cause her harm, and is a founding member of the "Komi Imperial Guard". After spending much of the series as a background character, she gained some prominence in the third year as one of the few familiar faces in Komi and Tadano's new class.

* ActionGirl: She's tremendously skilled, having been taught kendo, judo, karate, fencing and horse riding. Her main drive is to serve and protect a worthy individual.

** In the same chapter, she is shown protesting Shinobino's suggestion of a ninja-themed period drama movie, stating that she'd rather do a western period chronicle movie instead. As such, she's shown to be partial to medieval themes, akin to her character design.
** Her spotlight chapters reveal she's a member of the volleyball club, on top of being trained in kendo, fencing, kudo, karate and horseback riding since she was young.

* JapaneseDelinquents: As a consequence of Komi telling Himeko that she doesn't need to dedicate her school life to protecting her, Himeko takes the wrong lesson from this. Now finding herself without ''any'' cause to dedicate herself towards, she falls into becoming a delinquent. She snaps out of it in the next chapter after Komi encourages her to still be herself, but to also treat her like a friend.
* {{Knighting}}: Played for laughs. In Chapter 259 (a retrospective chapter), Komi decides to give presents back to the friends that celebrated her birthday, Kishi included. At the moment of her receiving her birthday gift, Kishi takes the knee and receives Komi's gift as if she were being given a sword by a queen.

* TheQuietOne: Perhaps even moreso than Komi, to the point where Tadano theorizes her knightly persona may just be her way of dealing with her own communication issues. Even Chapter 342, which focuses directly on her, has her mostly communicate via InternalMonologue.

* ScarredEquipment: After her fall into delinquency by the end of Chapter 342, her usually well-maintained armour becomes scarred and worn.

* TheSlacker: PlayedForLaughs at the end of Chapter 342. Komi wanted Kishi to see her not in a LadyAndKnight manner, but as friends and equals. Kishi misinterpreted this as Komi not needing her protection any longer, moreso upon noticing Tadano nearby. At the end of her chapter, she's already dozing off on her table with ScarredEquipment and a few empty cans of (hopefully non-alcoholic) beverages.

* SilverTongue: Along with being attractive, a major element of Toro managing to get her male classmates to do what she wants is using flattery to puff up their ego.

* AffectionateNickname: She is initially intriduced as "Yukapuyo", which is Manbagi's nickname for her.

* TheSocialExpert: Shiroki winds up in a class dedicated to helping students who have social anxiety and hard time-making friends, which is odd since Shiroki is actually a social butterfly much like Najimi, although it's implied this was why she was placed in the class.

* BrutalHonesty: She's the one acquaintance of Komi's who can give her a completely unbiased opinion, as Shiina is uninterested on pandering up to Komi.
* CommanderContrarian: She's established as a complete cynic. In her very introduction she is quick to change her mind after she's encouraged to follow her dreams.

* NothingButSkinAndBones: If Omakawa goes for more than seven days without being called cute, she becomes emaciated and loses all strength (her parents calling her cute don't count).

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: She starts engaging her students in a more friendly manner after Komi brings her a bento as an apology for interrupting her grocery shopping. Touched by the gesture, she opens herself more and becomes both an educator and a friend to her students.
* BrickJoke: In her introductory chapter, she arrives home on a Friday night and exhausted, she collapses on the entrance until Sunday afternoon; two chapters later, she states that she intends to sleep in her bed throughout the Summer break, implying two things: first, she passes out at the entrance of her apartment ''a lot'', and second, fittingly, that she doesn't get to sleep in her bed that often as a result. So, it's a BrickJoke combined with FromBadToWorse.

* LazyBum: Y'know how you get home from work and there are all these things that need doing and you can't bring yourself to do any of them and just have a nice lie-down? That's basically her life. Plus, when we see inside her home, it looks like she still has the boxes from when she moved in and never got round to unpacking.

* RankUp: Omojiri ends up becoming the official Homeroom Teacher for Komi's class starting in her third year after their previous [[LazyBum homeroom teacher]] actually managed to get promoted be the Head Faculty.

* NotDistractedByTheSexy: She's one of the few characters in the manga who doesn't grovel to Komi.
* PaperFanOfDoom: She always has one that she uses to enforce silence in the library.

* ThresholdGuardians: A parody of the trope. Trying to study without eliciting Gorimi's wrath becomes an informal game played by Komi's group, as if competing to see who lasts the longest and prodding Gorimi to see what she tolerates and what sets her off.

* BrokenPedestal: To Isagi, who idolized her from the introduction ceremony for apparently noticing an anemic student in front of her and yanking the mic off of the principal's hands to make the audience take a seat. However, she was just tired herself. On top of that, Isagi finds out that she is currently repeating her third year of high school, and that she's notoriously untidy.

* EveryoneHasStandards: In Chapter 330, upon being questioned by Isagi about the funds she used to purchase the toy guns for the battle royale (which would constitute a massive misappropriation of school funds if those were used), she reveals that she paid out of pocket from her savings from her part-time work, as well as having asked for three months of advance pay from the school. As she spent so much out of her own funds and effort, Isagi cannot stop the battle royale.

* GenkiGirl: Combined with ThePollyanna, she's unwaiveringly bubbly and immune to criticism.

* HiddenDepths: She has many faults, but she has an unwavering dedication to the school; problem is, this dedication is more often than not, counterproductive.

A new classmate of Manbagi's, introduced in her third year, and the soccer club captain. He sits next to her in class 3-5, but suffers from crippling anxiety when it comes to talking to the opposite sex.

* CelibateHero: Though not for a lack of trying, but Wakai's anxiety prevents him from having a conversation with a girl.

** He has a communication disorder just like Komi, but in Wakai's case it's limited to a crippling anxiety when talking to the opposite sex.

Inaka Nokoko's younger cousin, a third year middle school student who meets Komi while the latter is filling in as a shrine maiden. She has profound social anxiety and has to [[{{Hikikomori}} work herself up to even leave her own room]]. She eventually joins Itan High School as a new freshman when Komi enters her third year.

A bubbly, cheerful girl. She joins Komorebi's class in Itan High School and becomes friends with her during the Battle Royale.

Netsuno Chika's younger cousin. She joins Komorebi's class in Itan High School and becomes friends with her during the Battle Royale.

* BattleAura: Omakawa positively ''brims'' with delight whenever she's called cute.

* MeaningfulName: Her name is a pun for "soon-to-be commander".

* MeaningfulName: Omakawa means "you are cute", while Machi means "waiting"; both signify how Omaka is just waiting for people to call her cute.

[[folder:Omokawa Machi]]

* BattleAura: Omokawa positively ''brims'' with delight whenever she's called cute.

* TheGlomp: Aoi tries to follow Susumu's example; unfortunately, Aoi's version is more of a tackle. She's stopped from attempting it.