Episode 23

"
**It's just tights./It's just an oni's metal club./It's just sweetness./It's just a fight.**" is the eleventh episode of the second season of the Komi-san wa Komyushou Desu anime series.

## Synopsis

Komi tears a small hole in her tights prompting Ren to give her a new pair... hilarity ensues. Onigashima is introduced, and her temper is the focus of the part. Sato is another person introduced who is known to be a real pushover. Kato unintentionally gets Komi and Tadano into a "Fight" when she asks them to solve a Shogi puzzle she created.

## Summary

On February 15th, Komi is preparing for school when she remembers how she indirectly confessed to Tadano when giving him his Valentine’s chocolates. Mortified, Komi hides under her bedsheets and tries to skip out on school. Eventually, Shuuko comes in to see what’s wrong, and eventually deduces it has something to do with Tadano. She proceeds to try and drag her out of the sheets, and eventually convinces Komi to go to school by claiming she’ll lose out on perfect attendance if she doesn’t go.

Once she arrives at school, she meets with several students who praise her chocolates: Onemine (who teases Komi by saying she’ll put on weight if she eats too much), Najimi, Nakanaka, and Agari (who goes into an extremely detailed review of the chocolates, much to everyone else’s surprise); they also meet Yadano, who is outraged that Komi’s chocolates were bigger than hers. Eventually they get to class, but Komi notices Tadano is sitting there and becomes terrified. She eventually does sit down and greets Tadano, but is straining her face and giving off an incredibly bad vibe in order to hide the fact that she is embarrassed. Tadano contemplates why she is doing this, and eventually decides to break the ice by thanking her for the chocolates. When he does this, however, this prompts Komi to rush out of the classroom in a panic.

### It's just ripped tights.

Following science class, Yamai notices that Komi's tights have a tear in them. In a matter of seconds, she contemplates filming it, making it bigger, telling her, or doing nothing, all while Tadano judges her. Eventually, Yamai comes up with a plan. At homeroom, Yamai informs Komi about it, and "as it so happens", she has the perfect-sized tights on her person. She immediately takes Komi to the restroom to change into them. While there, Yamai apologizes for not telling her earlier, and Komi assures her that she is glad she did anyway. Komi gives Yamai her regular tights to hold onto while she puts on the new ones, only for Yamai to betray Komi’s trust by putting the waist of the tights over her head. Flustered and angry, Komi chases Yamai down the hall to get her tights back while Yamai continues wearing the tights over her head. Tadano sees this and contemplates doing something, but ends up seeing Komi’s bare legs (due to her not putting on the new tights) and becomes too turned on to do anything.

### It's just an oni and her club.

Onigashima Akako is formally introduced as she runs to school and says hi to Tadano. Onigashima is described as generally a pleasant and cheerful girl, but that she has a volatile temper that springs up with minor inconveniences and can be measured with a “Monster Meter”. This ends up being realized when, while they are walking to school, Onigashima flares up over numerous things such as being caught at crossroads, being unable to pass people on the sidewalk, her shoelaces becoming untied, and her earbuds getting tangled up. By the time they get to school, Onigashima is in an extreme rage. Tadano sees her approaching Yamai, who he hopes will help her calm down since they are best friends, but Yamai turns away as Onigashima passes her. When Tadano questions this, Yamai explains to him that she has known about her temper flaring since they were childhood friends in elementary school, and that her unpredictability makes it impossible to calm her down directly. She also explains that the only things that calm her down are eating, sleeping, taking baths, or venting at batting cages, and since none of those are a possibility at school, Yamai suggests Tadano wait out the problem until she is in a position to calm down. Unnerved by how “normal” Yamai sounds when describing this, Tadano reluctantly takes her advice. Throughout the day, Onigashima become increasingly angry with more inconveniences, including her earbuds still being tangled. Eventually it is lunchtime, which Yamai hopes will allow Onigashima to calm down. While this initially works, Onigashima ends up dropping some juice onto her shoulder, causing her Monster Meter to reach fever pitch and Yamai and Kishi to flee. In fury, Onigashima goes to the sink to wash up, where she encounters Komi. Komi picks up Onigashima’s earbuds after the latter nearly drops them in the sink. Thinking Onigashima tied them improperly rather than them getting tangled up on their own, Komi untangles the earbuds and re-ties them as if they were brand new. Touched by the gesture, Onigashima not only manages to cool down, but also bursts into tears. As thanks, Onigashima invites Komi (alongside Tadano, Najimi, and Yamai) to the batting cages with her after schoool. Most everyone fails, but Onigashima hits a home run, and she and Komi build up a better friendship with each other.

### It's just a pushover.

Early one morning, a Class 1-1 student named Satou Amami cleans up the classroom in preparation of Komi’s arrival. Satou is a complete pushover, constantly doing menial tasks for others which she agrees to them without question. After school, Satou randomly questions this tendency with her fellow Social and Culture Research Club members, Maeda Hoshio and Ushiroda Eiko, and they confirm them. While Maeda jokingly tries to use this to get Satou to give him hers and her mother’s panties (only for her to say she will), Ushiroda tries to convince Satou to say "No" more often. To this end, Ushiroda asks Satou for ¥100,000, but Satou takes this seriously and agrees. Once things are straightened out, Satou explains that she can’t help but be nice to people because it feels good, but Ushiroda warns her that someone will take advantage of her if she keeps doing that. As Satou contemplates why she is finally thinking she does too much for others, she goes back to her classroom where she runs into Tadano, who has to carry a giant pile of papers to the staff room as part of his class president duties. As Komi watches Tadano in fright, Satou insists on taking them there for him despite Tadano insisting he can take them. Satou proceeds to take the stack despite it being way too heavy for her, so Komi intervenes by taking a portion of the stack, and insists that Satou ask her for help in the future. Tadano and Najimi also take part of the stack and they all take the papers together. After they do this, Satou realizes she has never actually asked help from anyone the way they ask help from her. Deciding to take this initiative, she nervously asks Komi if she could help her clean the classroom in the morning. Flustered, Satou immediately tries to take it back, but Komi agrees to do it, as do Najimi and Tadano. The narrator says that this would become a daily activity for them for the rest of the school year (except for Najimi, who would sleep in). One day, Ushiroda and Maeda also come by, and after school, Komi and Tadano visit the Social and Culture Research Club; all three members become Komi’s friends, bringing her total to twenty-seven.

### It's just a fight

Komi sees Katou reading a book on Shogi Puzzles. Ecstatic at the thought of talking shogi with others, Katou shows one to Komi for her to solve and also ropes in Tadano too. Komi and Tadano begin solving the puzzle as Katou looks on in joy, but this quickly sours when Komi and Tadano disagree on one of the moves, and their mutual stubbornness ends up causing them to have a minor argument, to Katou’s dismay. As a result of this, Komi and Tadano act tense around each other throughout the day. Eventually after school, Najimi comes by to talk with them and quickly senses the atmosphere. They then point out that the two’s relationship must be close if they are having their first “lovers’ quarrel”, causing Komi and Tadano to blush. The next day, Katou reveals that Komi was correct, and when Tadano apologizes, Komi gives him a smug look, only for him to find it cute.

## Characters

*In order of appearance. Bold denotes debuting characters.*

* Komi Shouko
* Komi Shuuko
* Nene Onemine
* Osana Najimi
* Omoharu Nakanaka
* Agari Himiko
* Yadano Makeru
* Kometani Chushaku
* Tadano Hitohito
* Otori Kaede
* Shinobino Mono
* Ren Yamai
* Onigashima Akako
* Kishi Himeko
* Satou Amami
* Sasaki Ayami
* Chiarai Shigeo
* Hoshio Jukujosky Maeda
* Eiko Ushiroda
* Katou Mikuni
* Homeroom Teacher

## Adaptation Notes

**This episode adapts the following material:**

* Manga Volume 9
	+ Communication 119: Valentine's Day Aftermath
	+ Communication 120: Gotta Run
	+ Communication 121: Quelling the Demon
	+ Communication 122: Helpful
	+ Communication 124: Quarrel
	+ Communication 124.5: Bonus
	+ Communication 128.5: Bonus (second page)