#komi can’t communicate

[aaamike]

Sorry Komi, he’s not just your boyfriend, he’s your parent’s boyfriend as well.

[floralcavern]

The difference between male wish fulfillment vs female wish fulfillment in romance anime

There’s kind of a different gaze that can be targeted to in romance anime. 

In male wish fulfillment anime romances, there’s usually a much heavier emphasis on the male love interest’s pov than the female’s. Also, women tend to be much more.. objectified and there’s an unnecessary amount of fan service. An example of this is Rent a Girlfriend and Don’t Toy With Me Miss Nagatoro. It’s more about the male lead being hit on by.. really horny women than actual romance.

However, in female wish fulfillment anime, it tends to be more told from the female’s perspective. The way the male love interest tends to be written is to make him emotional and aware and.. kind, rather than objectifying him or even making them horny, because women.. we don’t really want to be lusted after like that, typically. We’re already objectified enough. My favorite example is Kimi Ni Todoke: From Me To You. Kazehaya admits he’s a ‘pervert’ but in a respectful way. The writer doesn’t make him fully pure or naive or anything like that. He’s still a teen boy. But in this series, the male character is written to be sweet, emotional, and aware but he’s not stripped away from his inherent masculinity (nontoxic masculinity!). Not just.. a guy, if that makes any sense. Meanwhile, in male wish fulfillment anime, the women are just women, rather than characters. Again, I hope this makes sense!

Now, I’m not saying all romance anime that’s written from the female’s perspective is the best! I think MY Love Story!! is a good example of this! The main character is a male and he’s a genuine, total sweetheart while still having a sense of masculinity! And the female character isn’t objectified! And I would even say even say that this show could be considered a male wish fulfillment romance, based on how it’s written.

And then there’s shows for both, like Kaguya Sama: Love is War. In this show, the two love interests have complete equal power in focus, making them feel completely balanced and real. Neither are objectified and both get treated like humans. Same with The Apothecary Diaries, if not more so!

Anyways, sorry for this ramble. I just really like (well written) romance anime. And I will leave off with a list of romance anime recommendations!

•Kimi Ni Todoke: From Me To You (adorable, fluffy, amazing character development, doesn’t beat around the bush the entire fucking series. Half of the manga is pining and the other half is the complexities of being in your first ever relationship as you try to navigate it all)

•Snow White With The Red Hair (amazing female lead with cool world building and interesting dynamics)

•MY Love Story!! (SO CUTE! Amazing show about not judging appearances)

•My Happy Marriage (Really wholesome Cinderella type story)

•Kaguya Sama: Love Is War (hilarious. I actually recommend the dub. Genuinely really sweet)

•Sasaki To Miyano (so sweet it’ll give you cavities)

•Tomo Chan Is A Girl (there is sadly quite a bit of fanservice in this. I’ve seen way worse, but ya. If you’re wanting something to watch with your parents, this may not be it. Mostly just close ups on boobs)

•Monthly Girls Nozaki (romcom that leans really heavy on the comedy more than the romance, but I love it too much to not recommend. Watch it in the dub, you won’t regret it)

•Fruits Basket (Really sweet)

•Toilet Bound Hanako (THE MANGA! READ THE MANGA! DON’T LET THE TITLE WEIRD YOU OUT, I SWEAR IT IS INCREDIBLE! READ!)

•Komi Can’t Communicate (I would, however, like to apologize for Yamai ahead of time. The entire fandom hates her, don’t worry. There’s also quite a bit of fan service in this one 😔)

•Toradora (haven’t seen it in a while, but it’s a classic lol)

•Horimiya (Another romance anime that doesn’t beat around the bush!)

•The Ice Guy And His Cool Female Colleague (SO. CUTE. AGHHHH. Despite it being ice themed, it certainly makes me feel warm and fuzzy)

•Love, Chuunibyou, and Other Delusions (so silly, amazing story about maturity while also keeping your inner child alive)

•I Want To Eat Your Pancreas (be sure to bring tissues! You will cry!)

•Kamisama Kiss (I really like the characters and world building in this one. Sadly, we’ll probably never get another season 😔)

•Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop (SUCH A CUTE MOVIE! Amazing feel good romance that just makes you happy)

•My Little Monster (not my usual first recommendation, but it’s an overall fun watch… still so desperately want another season. False hope lol)

•Ouran High School Host Club (an absolute classic romcom. Another situation where I actually recommend the dub)

•Apothecary Diaries (AGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! …full stop. I love this show.)

•Princess Tutu (I LOVE THIS STORYBOOK SETTING! And Ahiru is so silly. She’s just a duck, she can’t handle all these responsibilities!)

[northlight14]

Pt.2 of me summarising anime plots in a few sentences!

(Pt 1 here)

Possible spoilers ahead!

Anohana: grief, trauma and love triangles

Bungo stray dogs: great writers of the past, except this time they’re not misogynistic p3dophiles (well, most of them) solve crimes and give me gender envy. Also they all have superpowers and a lot of gay subtext with their rivals…like A LOT

Stars align: y’all remember when this was a sports anime and not about these kids trauma?

Your name: pretty animation and soul connections go brrr

Bloom into you: two lesbian demiromantic’s fall in love and the whole cast gets a bit too relatable for me to be fully comfortable

Terror in resonance: fucking traumatising game of cat and mouse

Death parade: fucking traumatising game of life and death

A silent voice: fucking traumatising

Wandering son: the most wholesome example of trans ftm/mtf solidarity you ever did see

Komi can’t communicate: local teen with social anxiety gets adopted by two extroverts and then they work together to help her adopt more extroverts (and a few introverts too for bonus points)

Ace Attorney: the sped up version of the gay lawyer game but made gayer, somehow

Buddy daddies: two assassins accidentally adopt a child and then accidentally end up in a queer platonic relationship and if you thought you were safe from the angst, you were sorely mistaken

Given: music as a love language and overcoming past traumas

[dreamyeuphoricll]

Major anime news

[luffysfakebeard]

Shousuke just no toweling it in the sauna 😂

[trashland-llamas]

🤝 My favorite type of character; the little dickhead (/affectionate) in the corner that talks shit about the other characters

[xionandpluto14]

My rare contribution to the Komi can’t communicate fandom

[serexvu]

komi shouko from komi can’t communicate

[rustycopper4use]

I’m Taking Requests for Writing Again!

This post is mostly to advertise it and go through the basics

I Won’t Write:

Smut

Minor X Adult

Non-con elements to any degree 

Character X character (I’ll make an mentions to one but I won’t write where it’s the main focus)

Yandere! Characters (I can do like obsessed but it mostly depends on the situation)

More to be added…

Nothing super gory

I will write 

ALL types of readers, male, trans, fem, you name it I’ll probably write it.(it’s my specialty after all)

Kid readers (ONLY IF ITS PLATONIC OR FAMILIAR ISTG)

dark topics, as long as it’s not romanticized and it’s not too grim 

Head cannons

One shots 

Poly

SFW alphabet 

Song based request 

Au’s

Fandoms?

Inside Job

Ouran Highschool Host Club

Hellvua + Hazbin

B99

Saiki K

Kakegurui

Komi can’t communicate 

Spy x Family 

Romantic killer

Apothecary dairies 

BNA

Aggretsuko

The amazing digital circus 

Gravity falls

All of Escaped Audios characters (:D)

futurama

superstore

That’s all for now!

[rattierose]

Okay so I'm writing a 'fluff' fanfiction or whatever where Hitohito Tadano is transfem and Komi realizes she's pansexual because of it. Takes place around volume 31 or so, cuz that's what I've read up to.

[eggomlette23]

No gender only swag 😎

[remember-my-name-mitski-kinnie]

🗣: if danganronpa never existed, in which anime you could have been in ?

Me:

Komi can’t comlunicate

[seilucard]

new kin/mirror-link template just dropped. psychoanalyze urselves away! (mine is below the cut)

i want you guys to infer something about me based on my mirror-links!!

[luffysfakebeard]

I need someone to praise me for achieving my simple tasks like Tadano does 😭

[yourfaveis-hyperose]

Osana Najimi from Komi can’t Communicate is Hypersexual!

Requested by Anon

[ashdash2417]

This whole scene from chapter 349 is just too damn cute, and nobody can convince me otherwise!!