I remember being a kid and reading the manga because the art looked interesting. Each chapter was only a couple pages. But it was chapter after chapter of this dude being a tool and a doormat for some popular girl who just pretends he doesn’t exist in public and I stopped because I figured it was just gonna be pathetic the whole time.
Have some god damn self respect.
It made decent enough second monitor viewing while playing minecraft but I never felt the magic where other people were super into it. It just felt like pretty generic high school love comedy stuff with a different approach to it. I have to assume the social awkwardness just resonated with a bunch of people.
Social awkwardness was one part, I also liked Najimi "the Nadge-meister", who is, as always, at it again with the white Vans.
Now of course when I watched Komi the only other high school love comedy I'd seen was Kaguya-sama, so even in the ways that Komi was generic it probably wouldn't have seemed as generic to me.