And another girl joins the friend group.

It's always heartwarming to see Komi connect with someone who needs it all on her own.

You will start to think so, once you get to know me...
That wasn't watermelon soda in previous chapter, was it?

...
kinda remind me with my classmate ...
She get beaten by her parents if she get dirty ...
and have way WORSE personality and phobia than the girl in this chapter ...
I wonder if she even live now ... or how she can live ...

Urgs, OCD + germ phobia. Poor girl.

I like her design...

.......BUT HOW DARE YOU CLEAN THE BLESSING KOMI GAVE YOU THROUGH YOUR MERE MORTAL HAND??!!! #jk

She seems alright and cute

>when you hate yourself so much that you hate being touched because it reminds you that you are trapped in your own skin

I CAN'T BELIEVE SHE WASHED PRECIOUS KOMI-SAN SCENT FROM HER ARM. IFI WERE HER I WOULD WRAP IT WITH PLASTIC TO PRESERVE MY HANDS. ??

She seems alright.

Hi, psychologist here,
I would like to put my 2 cents bc I see a lot of people talking about OCD and phobias, pardon me some mispelling because Im not native

An OCD is, by definition, something you can't control, that`s the part about being a compulsion, sure, let say people can go and do things and try to fight this impulsive sensation to do the compulsive action, but in the end they can not stop thinking about it, that's because is an obsession too. People who have this kind of disorder tend to be overly neurotic about contexts and actions so they can control the situation they are in, that way they can do the obsesive-compulsive action they need to do before of after an action, e.g: Anna really need to switch the lights on and off 20 times before enter a room, if Anna don't do it, then she is not enter the room, if you try to force her to enter then she is gonna decompensate, maybe she will faint, scream, froze, there are a lot of reactions, but usually their reactions are what I mentioned.

In the other hand, a phobia is an irrational fear, the object of fear can be a object, animal, person or a situation, although in can be hate too. People who have XXXXXphobia try their most to not being exposed to a situation where their object of fear/hate is present, and they will do herculean efforts to ensure this.

The reason all of the people here talk about the two is because people with phobias tend to do obsesive-compulsive actions, so they can ensure a context where the object of displeasure is absent.

In this case, obviously fictional, Isagi-san have a big, enormous feeling of displeasure when she is in physical contact with filth, being the case of objects or people, something that the author seems to simplify as "I don't like to be touched". She is not a germophobe, in anywhere in this chapters is stated that she fear or hate germs, her obssesion is about not being in contact with filth, the confusion comes because cleanliness is the reaction we can expect of this two phenomena.
We can see examples in chapter 196.1 when she clean the teacher desk, clean her desk after find a hair, toss her blouse off the window when the classmate touch her, etc., and this give off the feeling that is better not to get in contact (not pun intended) with her, because this kind of people are really difficult to interact with, and nobody wants to be treated like a shit.

Plus this characteristic, in this chapter we can see that Isagi-san is a very considerate person, and generally speaking, a very harsh and direct person, the kind of person that are are often see as prideful and full of themselves when you meet them.

Well, that said, I like her design and character, and the fact that she don't treat Komi like a god, but I can understand that people are put off because Isagi is very neurotic in his demeanors, and although is very direct with her words, she don't put in words her intentions and good will.

peace ?

I like this new girl. She's not exactly charming but she's an earnest yet complex character. Plus I dig her design.

That last page was Kominu-san XD

@iamagaroze yeah but she's already stunning with the glasses

I understand Isagi. Being touched makes me incredibly uncomfortable.

tsuuuunnnnndeeeeerrrrreeeeeeee

now just to wait till we get a clean shot of her face without glasses ;^]
manga logic dictates she'll be STUNNING

"What would sex with her be like?"
Shower sex exists, people.

I wonder if germaphobia exiseted in some form before people even knew of germs.

@Nolanar You're vastly oversimplifying both OCD and germaphobia. The options are not "makes complete sense" and "makes absolutely no sense". There is a wide array of middle ground. A germaphobe is ALWAYS about germs. That was where I talked about rolling around in an actual sty for pigs. That's why a germaphobe is always focused upon cleanliness and not, for example, making sure to flip on and off the light switches a particular number of times to prevent the world from exploding.

I also already discussed how this isn't even like a case of OCD in reality, that people calling this OCD are just assuming a MASSIVE amount of crap in order to justify their comments.

@Nolonar: I refer you to this comment for why she's not OCD.

No one can hate Komi.