TadaKomi

TadaKomi is the het ship between Shouko Komi and Hitohito Tadano from the Komi Can't Communicate fandom.

Anime
Hitohito meets Shouko on the first day of high school, and he is immediately captured by her beauty. He tries to talk to her but she runs away from embarrassment. Hitohito enters the classroom and discovers that he sits next to Shouko, and he receives glares from his jealous classmates in return. He looks at Shouko and thinks everything she does is perfect. After the lessons, during lunch, both remain alone in the classroom. Hitohito again tries to talk to her, but this time, she doesn't run away. She uses the blackboard to communicate with him, since she can't talk due to her social anxiety. She explains her situation and how she feels. She expresses the desire to make 100 friends. He listens to her and he promises to help her to achieve her goal and announces he will be her first friend.

After that day, Hitohito decides to ask people to be Shouko’s friends thinking it should be easy since everyone loves Shouko. It doesn't end up going too well as most of his classmates are jealous of him sitting next to Shouko and won't even let him talk. Hitohito now has no choice but to talk to his childhood friend, Najimi. Suprisingly, Najimi refuses to be her friend which leaves both Hitohito shocked and Shouko sad. Hitohito learns why Najimi refused and tells her to walk home with Shouko and she'll understand. It works and Najimi becomes friends with Shouko. Even though Shouko and Najimi are now friends, Hitohito still has to translate to Najimi what Shouko is trying to say.

Najimi asks Shouko to go get her a really complicated drink or else she won't be friends with her anymore, and she actually does it. Hitohito asks Najimi why she would do that and Najimi replies saying it's to help Shouko with speaking. Shouko manages to get a drink, but not the drink Najimi wanted. When Shouko gets back she starts crying. Both Najimi and Hitohito apologize even though the blame was on Najimi.

Manga
When Shouko was shopping with her father she comes across Hitohito in the mall. She forces her father to leave the area so she wouldn't be noticed by him. They ended up meeting later on while talking and picking new outfits for Shouko’s father. When Hitohito was eavesdropping on a conversation between classmates of his, fantasizing about the girls in the class he conjures up a scenario between him and Shouko. He's quickly taken back to reality when more loving moments come up and bangs his head against his desk.

When winter comes around the corner Komi arrives at school and puts away her things but Najimi surprises her from behind, they put their arms on her neck to make them warm then runs off. When Tadano arrives seconds later Komi does the same to him but pulls her hands away before he realizes it was her. She flushes red for the next few seconds. When Katai asks Komi and Tadano to sit with him for lunch and fails, Tadano and his kind nature sit with him anyway and Komi follows him and watches from a corner, concerned for Tadano. After Tadano figures out why Katai has such an intimidating demeanor he calls Komi out from her secret-not-so-secret-hiding-spot if she wanted to join them. She blushes but joins them anyway.

When Manbagi confesses to Tadano on Valentines Day and he accepts, Tadano thinks about Komi. Manbagi then asks if he would regret dating her and then questions him (once again) if he has a crush on anyone. Tadano says he isn't sure, he thinks he might have a crush on Komi but Komi is popular and Tadano doesn't think she'd like him back. Manbagi then asks Tadano again if he'd regret dating her, and Tadano finally then says that he probably has a crush on the person he was talking about (Komi). Manbagi then tells Tadano he should go to Komi (most likely telling him to confess to her). Tadano runs to Komi's house and awkwardly asks if she maybe has any chocolate for him since she gave some to everyone, Tadano then sees Komi next to him and figures out it was Komi's mom he was talking to. Komi gives Tadano some chocolate and apologizes for not giving it to him earlier. Tadano takes the chocolate then finally confesses to Komi, realizing how much he likes her. Komi is really flustered and Tadano, and as both students became super embarrassed, Tadano says he should probably go now which Komi waves him for goodbye. After leaving, they share a last dialogue between them, making both kids more embarrassed than they were to finally make Tadano run away as both were completely blushing.

Komi once invited Tadano to visit universities and see which one Komi prefers so she can join it after she graduates from high school. Tadano went with her and became proud of how she could talk to a guard asking for permission to pass in. They saw many colleges and they enjoyed spending time together, but at the end Komi confessed him that she made it up so both can hang out together and see if they get a chance to go to the same college. Tadano became so happy she was about to hug her, but he turned back and instead went to hug a tree nearby. Moments later they started walking back home, but it began to rain heavily, so both of them got to a mini hotel they found to stay there. They ordered one room for them, and stayed there waiting for the rain to pass. Tadano and Komi laid down in the room’s bed while their hands were holding. Komi in a flirtatious way told Tadano he looks handsome. Tadano was blushing and became really nervious, and seconds later Komi uses her hair to tickle his face. The rain stops and both of them part ways. Tadano arrives at his home and he was wondering what was all about that happened in the room they were.

Fanon
TadaKomi is the most popular ship within its fandom. With Hitohito’s incredible abilities to understand and support others, and with Shouko’s infinte kindness and beauty, they have won the heart of the fandom. The ship is rivaled by ships such as RumiKomi, TadaJimi and OsaKomi, but TadaKomi overshadows all of these ships. Though this has inspired the creation of the polyships like TadaOsaKomi. As Tadano and Komi are both the main characters and are dating, many fans ship TadaKomi, causing an influx of fan content. The popularity of TadaKomi has caused some people to ship their siblings, Hitomi and Shosuke, creating the Hitosuke ship. The fandom really love how their relationship is very holesome and easygoing, as they both have really cute moments and they aren’t toxic with each other. Some fans also love how Hitohito completely understood Shouko’s feelings and problems due her communication disorder, as he was the first one to notice this and became her first friend, and how Shouko even if she’s really shy and has problems talking, she’s been very protective towards Hitohito, as she rejected Yamai’s offer of being her friend and left her, since she kidnapped Hitohito, later when Yamai apologizes to both Hitohito and Shouko, which he smiles to Shouko to tell him it’s okay.

After Hitohito confesses his love to Shouko, she has become more openly and flirtatious around Tadano, as she can widely talk to him about anything, and she’s not that nervious anymore to be around him as she was before. One example is on the latest extra chapter, as she was taking photos of herself and wanted to send them to Tadano but ended up sending only one, and the next day at the school she could explain Tadano her intentions when she send that photo, waiting for Tadano to send her a photo too. And at the end Tadano did send her one, and both of them used the picture of the other one as wallpaper of their phones. Many fans felt very excited after seeing this progress coming from Komi. Right now there are about 60 works of them on AO3.

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