Episode 20

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**It's just the school trip.**" is the eighth episode of the second season of the Komi-san wa Komyushou Desu anime series.

## Synopsis

Komi, paired with Sasaki and Kato during the trip to Kyoto, intends to finally stand out in class by making Komi have the best time. She bonds with Tadano during their bus tour guide and aptly refuses to allow Ren's request in the bath area. The night ends with a pillow fight, making Komi overstimulated and unable to fall asleep.

## Summary

Komi is seen off by her mother, and later meets with Tadano and Najimi at the station. The two briefly greet Komi and get on the train, and as part of their duties as class president and vice president, Tadano and Najimi do a head count of all of the students in their respective groups.

* The first group is Yamai, Agari, and Nakanaka. Naturally, the former and latter are angry at being in the same group as each other, leaving Agari mortified and Tadano concerned for her.
* The second group is Onemine, Inaka, and Otori. Onemine and Otori immediately break the ice by asking Inaka about her accent (which Kometani reveals everyone in the class already knows about), leaving Inaka shocked, but Tadano realizes everything will be fine with Onemine.
* In her group, Yadano engages in games with her two group mates, only to keep losing to them.
* Chiarai, Shinobino, and Sonoda are naturally in a group, and immediately begin scoping dessert places.
* Otaku, Seikimatsu Toshio, and Samurai Sam are also in a group, and begin talking about Seikimatsu’s girlfriend.
* Finally, they get to Tadano’s group, which consists of him, Katai, and Naruse. While Katai and Naruse are excited, Tadano is worried due to all three of their clashing personalities.

Tadano then remembers the group he is most worried about: Komi’s, as she has been paired with two girls she does not know, Sasaki Ayami and Katou Mikuni. Sasaki and Katou are, by their own admission, the most ordinary people in the class, and with them not even being friends with each other, let alone Komi, all three girls find themselves sitting in awkward silence. To break the ice, Sasaki offers the two some Pocky, and they accept, but this only does so much. However, Sasaki and Katou then nonverbally decide to come to an agreement: to make up for their lack of personality, they will dedicate their trip to giving Komi the best experience possible. Unbeknownst to them, Komi senses them planning something and, not knowing what it is, feels left out.

Finally arriving in Kyoto, the students take a bus tour, and right off the bat their bus guide Ryoko Tenjoin makes a mistake in her introduction. As she continues, Najimi asks her an inappropriate question (if she has a boyfriend) and she denies the fact, so Chiarai offers to be said boyfriend. At their first destination site, Ryoanji, Ryoko psyches herself up and tries to grab the class' attention by detailing the background of the temple rock garden. However, all of them have their attention drawn to Komi (who quietly meditates by the rock garden) and not her, which frustrates Ryoko. Not wanting to give in, Ryoko tries again at Kinkakuji and quizzes the group on which anime the temple recently appeared in. Ryoko succeeds in getting them to try to answer, but they all take longer than expected. To make matters worse, Naruse compares himself to the temple, and when a couple of women ask him to take a photo of them, he assumes they want a picture of him and poses, prompting them to leave and Ryoko to question the class’ sanity, especially after Najimi guesses the question wrong. At the next temple they visit, Nishi Hongwanji, Ryoko discloses the background of the place, but soon realizes that the students have become completely bored of her. Nakanaka runs off to the gift shop and buys a Shinsengumi outfit and sword, so when she comes back Ryoko changes the subject to a bit of history on the Shinsengumi to try and get Nakanaka interested, only to discover that Nakanaka actually believes she is Shinsengumi. On top of that, Najimi keeps talking to the locals, Agari keeps snacking, Otori nearly walks off, and Katai scares her when he tries asking for the restroom. Back on the bus, an exhausted and dejected Ryoko flubs on another bit of information, the Kamo River, but doesn't care as the students aren't listening to her at all anymore. This changes when Ryoko sees Komi and Tadano look outside their window, following what she said. Ryoko then recalls why she became a bus tour guide in the first place: as long as one person is interested, you’re succeeding. and gains the confidence to continue the tour without fail. In doing so, she manages to endear herself to the entire class and even becomes equipped to their eccentricities. At one temple, Tadano gets distracted by a wooden structure and stares at it with Komi, leading them to get separated slightly from the group. As he explains the structure to her, Tadano apologizes for nerding out, so Komi tries to reassure him by saying “I like it”. Instead m, however, she writes a phrase more akin to “I like you”, and has to clarify that she likes to hear what Tadano is saying. Tadano nervously laughs at this, and Ryoko - who had gone to look for them - sees this and internally says the two of them should just get married already.

At their hotel, Yamai, Komi, Agari, Nakanaka, Onigashima, Kishi, and intruder Najimi share a room. The group gets their turn to use the onsen, and Yamai breaks the fourth wall to share her plot to touch Komi’s boobs during it. She hides in some bushes waiting for Komi to get undressed for the bath, but Komi is too self-conscious about undressing and nothing happens. Onemine then arrives and points out that in addition to Komi, Agari has also not gotten undressed to go into the bath because of an incident in junior high when a girl called her boobs “meatballs”. Trying to cheer up Agari, Onemine offers her a towel to cover herself, which works. However, she then says that she is mildly envious since she does have big breasts, and says Agari should be proud of her own. Touched, Agari strips in full and exposes her large boobs, shocking Komi and Onemine so much that the latter says “meatballs” anyways, to Agari’s dismay. In the bathing area, Yamai laments for having her "view" blocked by Onemine’s towel, but remains undeterred, not noticing Nakanaka judging her. Once Onemine and Komi arrive in the bath area, they prepare themselves and get in the bath. There, Yamai directly asks to touch Komi's boob, and despite Yamai trying to act innocent, Komi flatly refuses.

Meanwhile, Tadano, Katai, and Naruse enter their room and see that they're paired with the class delinquents, who are all horrified at the thought of sharing a room with Katai. Unaware of the delinquents' apprehensiveness toward him, Katai greets them, but ends up leaving them more terrified. This sentiment carries into the onsen despite Naruse’s attempts to cheer them up, but the delinquents eventually change their minds on Katai and find him cool after seeing him flexing his muscles in the bath. Later, as they are drying up, Naruse let’s Katai borrow some of his moisturizer and compliments his physique directly. He then suggest a fun activity: they take shirtless pictures of themselves together. Katai happily accepts while Tadano, who is tasked with taking the photos, is baffled. Soon the delinquents join in, and after some time, Tadano actually begins enjoying taking the photos. Unbeknownst to them though, Komi’s group walks by and Komi ends up seeing them taking photos, again misinterpreting it as gay.

Back in their room, Najimi suggests a pillow fight, with the victor getting the right to sleep next to Komi (they even throw a pillow at Kishi to draw first blood). Everyone soon engages in battle, and despite being the prize, Komi happily engages in the pillow fight too after Najimi invites her to join in. Soon, everyone but Yamai and Najimi wear themselves out, but before they can settle the score, their teacher checks up on them, and they all feign sleep (with Najimi slinking into the spot next to Komi, technically making them the victor). After giggling among themselves, everyone eventually does fall asleep; Komi, though, finds she is too excited to do so.

## Characters

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

* Komi Shuuko
* Komi Shouko
* Najimi Osana
* Tadano Hitohito
* Ren Yamai
* Omoharu Nakanaka
* Agari Himiko
* Nene Onemine
* Inaka Nokoko
* Otori Kaede
* Chushaku Kometani
* Satou Amami
* Yadano Makeru
* Ushiroda Eiko
* Chiarai Shigeo
* Shinobino Mono
* Sonoda Taisei
* Otaku Yuuji
* Samurai Samu
* Seikimatsu Toshio
* Katai Makoto
* Naruse Shisuto
* **Katou Mikuni**
* **Sasaki Ayami**
* **Ryoko Tenjoin**
* Onigashima Akako
* Kishi Himeko

## Adaptation Notes

**This episode adapts the following material:**

* Manga Volume 8
	+ Communication 104: School Trip
	+ Communication 105: Tour Guide
	+ Communication 106: The Bath
	+ Communication 107: Pillow Fight
	+ Communication 110: The Universe