After 8 years and more than 30 volumes, one of my favorite slice of life manga is entering its final arc and I don’t know how to feel

For years now, one of the most reliably sweet, funny, and overall relaxing manga series in my reading rotation has been Komi Can’t Communicate, a straightforward but occasionally absurd story about an almost competitively anxious girl struggling to make friends in high school, and who finally starts to make some headway with help from a boy named Tadano. It’s consumed nearly an entire shelf in my manga library, and every new volume is always a short and simple treat. So the news that this manga’s final arc will start this year fills me with mixed emotions.

As Anime News Network reported, Komi Can’t Communicate will start its final arc with the next issue of Japanese magazine Shogakukan, due July 24. It’s unclear how long this arc will last – we could have a few months or many, many months of new releases still to come – but the series is very much approaching the end.