Ren Yamai (Komi Can't Communicate)

Yamai Ren (山やま井い恋れん, Yamai Ren?) is a character in Komi Can't Communicate. She is one of Komi Shouko's classmates from Class 1-1 and her stalker. In her main arc in Volume 2, her obsession with Shouko led her to kidnap Hitohito Tadano and threaten to kill him.

Why She Sucks

 * 1) To get things out of the bag, Yamai has an unhealthy obsession with Komi. And not just in a sexual way, but as much as she wants to hurt herself for Komi's sake.
 * 2) Her introductory is a rough start: talking rudely to Tadano and Naijimi just for being nice to Komi, kidnapping and taking Tadano as hostage, having plenty of pictures with Komi, and threatening to Komi to become her lover with a knife. In which that she herself is known as a psychopath.
 * 3) And thanks to her, Komi nearly ended her friendship with Tadano to make sure that nobody can get hurt.
 * 4) Her actions and her character seems to be out of place, as Yamai should have been in a horror anime rather than a slice of life one.
 * 5) Yamai had received undeserving forgiveness in the end, when she could've been arrested for committed attempted murder, stalking and kidnapping.
 * 6) She can make a lot of faces that are unappealing to look at.
 * 7) Even with being one Komi's friends, Yamai still does plenty of perverted things, which will make you wonder why Komi chose to befriend her in the first place:
 * 8) * Licking the same cup that Komi used, which you can get sick with the bad bacteria by the way.
 * 9) * Wearing Komi's used stockings over her face.
 * 10) * Wanting to see Komi's underwear during a game of Twister.
 * 11) When the story doesn't progress, she sometimes get too much screentime in later chapters and doesn't seem to improve in a sense.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) She does have her fair share of funny moments.
 * 2) Yamai's character design is still cute.
 * 3) Most of the time, Rina Hidaka did a passable job voicing her.

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