Noa-senpai wa Tomodachi. - Vol. 7 Ch. 68 - Noa-Senpai and Her Best Friend

[Mukapower3]

Rihito and 7 deadly sins....

 

[Nuggz]

Now fuck her, fuck her raw and ha-who the fuck is this new girl??

 

[Imryse]

oh look, another big tiddy troublemaker, rihito can't escape.

 

[sterven]

"Who?"

Bro that was my exact reaction

 

[Mangamoz]

She is very fun addition

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I don't say she is a 3rd MC, Mika just appears often since she is an intern at their workspace and also Reni's only friend, having flexibility to appear in various contexts. Mika is more of an lawful agent of chaos that likes amusing things happening around her and teasing others, but she is a supportive type that likes Noa and Reni, I don't think she has romantic feelings for Rihito so not a rival.

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Oh I don't think she herself is a bad character, I actually really like a reveal later on that

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she may be more than just a close friend to Reni 🌸

 

[drEJ]

Dangerous boobs and glasses

Immediately interested

 

[javajulien]

Well, hope viewers like glasses girl cause she pretty much becomes the 3rd protagonist from here on.

 

[Anonymous4245]

Oftentimes when it comes to someone like Noa I think it's more like...being desperate but also not being desperate enough to completely go off the deep end? Noa wants to do whatever is necessary to maintain her fragile happiness. Except...she doesn't understand other people and assigns the worst possible scenarios to them. She doesn't do what other people say they want, but what she believes is necessary to be done to maintain the status quo. But that's it. The status quo is what state she is happy being in, not the state her friend/partner is happy being in. The fact that Noa has never actually gone as far as having sex with any of her ex-partners is either the standard rom-com "They're a bit weird but they're a pure virgin" premise or a representation of how wanting someone to love you does not equal being willing to do anything for them.

I get the vibe Noa is more of a "1 month relationship that you extrapolate as much bigger than it actually was in conjunction with every failure prior" type of person than a long term relationship type of person. I'm not sure if she has actually gotten close enough to anyone to reach this particular point, especially from what was said last chapter where she seems to percieve Rihito being friends with her for six months (damn 68 chapters and it hasn't been a year?) as being an abnormally long time to be friends with someone.

On some level, I'm not even sure if Noa understands how she looks right now, her perception of relationships being warped in comparison to ours.

Forgive me, it's probably my poor memory talking, but was it explicitly stated Noa didn't do the dirty with her exes? Just jard to believe you know

 

[wandere]

Forgive me, it's probably my poor memory talking, but was it explicitly stated Noa didn't do the dirty with her exes? Just jard to believe you know

Yeah sometime early on like...I'll check;
Oh that took five seconds. Reread chapter 7; her friend specifically states that Noa is a virgin and Noa confirms that she is a virgin with the explanation that "They were too aggressive and we had only just started dating" (not exact words)


Not too crazy; there's a disconnect between sexual experience and overall dirty-mindedness; beyond that I have first hand experience of someone who had been through a slew of toxic relationships but didn't actually lose their virginity until years later, and if I extended that to all the people I've encountered who believe themselves to be the biggest degens imaginable only to reel back when they actually have the chance to have sex the examples are bottomless. Pulling back when you realize something isn't happening the way you want it to happen is the natural reaction. Noa heavily reminds me of the kind of person who comes off as possibly a bit promiscuous but in large part it's just shielding from some sort of past traumatic event or current traumatic lifestyle. Not in a "pure gyaru" sort of way but...well it's a thing. Really makes me wonder where Noa's childhood trauma is hiding, that's one of the big unrealistic points in this.

To put it another way, the more time you spend imagining how things would be, the more you kind of construct a false reality of how things actually work, and oftentimes the more likely someone is to react poorly to or become disillusioned by the actual experience. Like Noa, who clearly heavily idealizes love, romance and friendship but is also heavily jaded by the realities of her attempting to engage in those things, using an approach that doesn't work because it isn't realistic.

 

[Nightazakus]

I wish I had someone who felt this strongly about me 🙁

 

[Bireus]

He fixed her ggez.

...??

He made her worse.

 

[Divinorium]

I have to say.... I am a couple of chapters from dropping this...

This already got beyond stupid... to keep this going i feel like the author is having to try just way too hard...

 

[shadebane]

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Oh I don't think she herself is a bad character, I actually really like a reveal later on that

Spoiler

she may be more than just a close friend to Reni 🌸

 

[Sky_Ravager]

thanks for the chapter

 

[Mangamoz]

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The yuri teasing event is in chap 86, so it is still quite a bit away for the english TL unfortunately.

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[Dalteeno]

...??

He made her worse.

No she is fixed ggez

 

[Chronigan]

Oftentimes when it comes to someone like Noa I think it's more like...being desperate but also not being desperate enough to completely go off the deep end? Noa wants to do whatever is necessary to maintain her fragile happiness. Except...she doesn't understand other people and assigns the worst possible scenarios to them. She doesn't do what other people say they want, but what she believes is necessary to be done to maintain the status quo. But that's it. The status quo is what state she is happy being in, not the state her friend/partner is happy being in. The fact that Noa has never actually gone as far as having sex with any of her ex-partners is either the standard rom-com "They're a bit weird but they're a pure virgin" premise or a representation of how wanting someone to love you does not equal being willing to do anything for them.

I get the vibe Noa is more of a "1 month relationship that you extrapolate as much bigger than it actually was in conjunction with every failure prior" type of person than a long term relationship type of person. I'm not sure if she has actually gotten close enough to anyone to reach this particular point, especially from what was said last chapter where she seems to percieve Rihito being friends with her for six months (damn 68 chapters and it hasn't been a year?) as being an abnormally long time to be friends with someone.

On some level, I'm not even sure if Noa understands how she looks right now, her perception of relationships being warped in comparison to ours.

Noa suffers from low self esteem. She dislikes herself and projects that dislike of herself onto others. People with too much self esteem do the opposite.

The anxiety caused by the fear of being alone causes her to over think every interaction, applying the worst possible thoughts and outcomes.

Noa not only knows her actions are off putting and can drive people away, but at the same time she hates herself for it. It is that very fear of driving people away that makes her act in ways that drive people away. It's a vicious circle. Hopefully now that she isn't afraid, she will be able to calm down.

 

[boldmonkey]

Jesus, she became even more annoying.

 

[Cikacherrycola]

I love how she has no second thoughts about saying I love you.
Its honestly pretty adorable

 

[Marek79813]

Love that the children are bullying the sister.