Noa-senpai wa Tomodachi. - Vol. 7 Ch. 66 - Rihito and Reni's Day Off

[Orion2G]

dropping this shit. can already tell this is gonna be some lazy bait shit because the author has no idea what they're doing.

 

[Mingu113]

Well, I kinda understand Reni. Suddenly your brother who live alone far away from family have a girl colleague (who isn't his gf) that are very demanding of his attention (sending messages almost always,...), get him to bad life style (drinking every night), whom also doesn't act normal, evading of conversations,...
Her brother may talk good about that girl, but she probably can't believe it, maybe her brother never talked bad about anyone anyway. She also a girl, which she will think she understand Noa more than her brother, who never has any experience with female.
in short: all she see of Noa is a minefield, and her brother is a man in animal costume being lured toward it.

 

[D0ncoming5torm]

Okay, I made a brocon incest joke about Reni before, but now I wanna be for real. You think Reni has a genuine brother complex? Not necessarily in the sense where she would have any repressed sexual or romantic feelings for her brother, but rather that she wants to monopolize his attention for herself? Like she thinks she could perpetually keep up this bratty little sister routine and maintain her relationship as it has always been even after he moved out of their house. She only has one friend, so maybe having Rihito move out was what made her so disdainful of Noa. Even if some of the stuff she says about her could be true, Reni's extreme hatred for Noa could be due to her being a threat to her perfect little bubble she doesn't want to change. Like she's the only girl who deserves Rihito's attention and nobody else.

 

[AnotherDuck]

"He looked like he was thinking, 'What is this woman even saying...'"

Well, that's not exactly wrong. Technically speaking.

"It's weird for her to be sending so many in the first place!"

That many, yes, but a bunch is still normal.

"You're the worst. What's wrong with you?"

Any idea why he wouldn't want to hang out with a person saying that to his face? Any idea at all, miss Toxic?

"You're a bad fit."
"That's just in your head."

An introvert and extrovert can easily make for a good, complementary relationship.

"She's a big crybaby," she cried.

"It's fun."
"You've been brainwashed."

That's not how it works.

"You wouldn't get it, since you don't have a best friend."

What about Noa?

"I have more friends than you."

Burn.

At least she's responsible enough to close and lock the door. That's one plus after more negatives than Noa.

 

[Coffin_]

hell nah I've waited enough I'm done with this shit man...still every dude should read this once so that they can stay away from girls like noa lmao anyway it was fun at the beginning, not anymore

 

[Papyrus1910]

Thank you for the chapter.

 

[rayce]

Some adorable, lewd, thicc, WANNA HUG, Noa Senpai these three chapters have been. Made my weekend.

Love love love how things now seem to be set in motion. HYPE.

 

[rymar]

We are so close to the MOGGING! Chapter 69

 

[masteroftasks]

At least sis was mindful enough to close and lock the door before chasing.

 

[Whoopswrong]

Why are the women in his life just so toxic? Emotional manipulation, guilt tripping, and just being plain rude. I know manga isn’t necessarily supposed to be realistic, but the type of story this is just weird. The both of them have the emotional maturity of a child, and the guy just takes it.

 

[Rh0n]

Comments are hilarious, god bless this series

 

[Rh0n]

hell nah I've waited enough I'm done with this shit man...still every dude should read this once so that they can stay away from girls like noa lmao anyway it was fun at the beginning, not anymore

dropping this shit. can already tell this is gonna be some lazy bait shit because the author has no idea what they're doing.

"lazy bait shit", "I've waited long enough" they say 1 chapter before status quo upgrade, that's hilariously bad reader intuition to not spot a cliffhanger 😮‍💨

 

[Qchan]

I'm gonna miss catoru

 

[abdullah17]

Just let it go reni 🥀 he's already too deep in noa-senpai (not literally(soon to be literally))

 

[Ainkrip]

I had a partner with bpd, I guess a few years back at this point. It was for a short while, although I knew them for longer than that (I sort of just fell into it to be honest). It was kind of suffocating, and not entirely due to them but also because due to all of the horrible things they had been through with past partners (this tends to happen a lot to people with bpd) it felt like I had to make up for that. The bpd itself...they were desperate. Not super clingy 24/7, but clingy when they felt especially concerned about our relationship. Absolutely willing to help me in any way possible (even up to offering to give me money, which was kind of the "I can't handle this" moment for me; the sort of thing where if you actually accepted you would feel like a shitty human being) And eventually I broke up with them and at least in my mind I was one of many dominoes leading to a huge spiral. Luckily, last time I checked seemed to have recovered; gotten psychological help, etc.

The point being here is that even if it's not said straight out, Noa clearly has bpd. It's blatantly obvious from the string of abusive relationships to the tendency to have emotional outbursts when they feel particularly unstable or cornered to the fixation on things that clearly are exacerbating the issue. Maybe not 100% accurate, but enough that I can somewhat identify with this story. And I say this in a completely non-"I'm projecting on this character" way (there were other problems that caused the break-up and I'm not enthused on being in a similar situation ever again), but I'm on Team Noa and Rihito getting together in the end. Why? Because it's not necessarily the friendship that is healthy for Noa, it's someone who doesn't feed into her impulses to cling as hard as possible or exploit that impulse. A long term friend is probably a good base for a healthy relationship when (based on my experience) there can be a tendency to become romantically attached to people extremely quickly if they let them.

Not sure why I wanted to say this.

“Them” lmao.

 

[Ainkrip]

Reni should get the backhand from Rihito once, it'll do her good in the long run

Nope. Reni at least has boundaries while Noa forces him to make every day about her.

 

[abdullah17]

dropping this shit. can already tell this is gonna be some lazy bait shit because the author has no idea what they're doing.

Does he know?

 

[Rh0n]

Nope. Reni at least has boundaries while Noa forces him to make every day about her.

Rihito literally says he makes time for himself when he wants. And mosts of activities he does with Noa he enjoys and has fun, having new experiences and seeing new places - it takes special person like Noa to do that. All while Reni insults, ignores his opinions and even attempts to control his brother - she is clearly going beyond just a caring sisters boundaries. So I don't buy this argument, maybe if Rihito was a different type of character... but we aren't theorycrafting

 

[Magnus_Prime]

Noa is childish, but who's being the bitch?

 

[Silfir]

Reni: "You're so annoying! She's so annoying!"
Noa: "I'm so annoying!"

That's the difference. When something goes even mildly wrong in Noa's life, her first instinct is to blame herself. Reni blames anyone but herself.

Rihito keeps Reni at arm's length at least in part because he doesn't enjoy getting casually told that he's dry and no fun to talk to and that's why he doesn't have a best friend (or that he's annoying and the worst because he dared to celebrate his birthday with someone else.) She refuses to work on her issues and keeps spitting venom. Meanwhile, Rihito's mildest admonishment of Noa's behavior will have her roll around in self-loathing for weeks. She always, always blames herself. But it's not performative, and therefore not manipulative - she really is convinced she sucks that bad.

Noa is childish, but who's being the bitch?

I spent whole minutes writing my post and trying to make a point, how dare you summarize it in one sentence? I bet you don't have a best friend either.