Noa-senpai wa Tomodachi. - Vol. 6 Ch. 57 - Talking About Love With Noa-Senpai

[drEJ]

Kinuya making Nao use all two braincells to develop self awareness.

Noa was already aware, Kinuya even acknowledges this... Noa just continues because Rihito allows her to.

 

[ShEEeshAlert1]

Whats worse? The insane Pandora's box opening when she mentioned rhitho being a marriage snag... Or rhitho only showing emotions to A PET DOG!!
Don't ask about spelling...

 

[drEJ]

Thanks for the TL

We pinky promise to at least release one chapter a week moving forward!~

 

[Castane]

How is this damn fujo getting married?

 

[Skater901]

It's fine Catoru, video games ARE more fun than working. I am also playing video games instead of working on the volunteer software projects I agreed to help with.

 

[Nemo2342]

It would be pretty funny if someone actually started chasing after Rihito.

Only if you want to see the romcom manga become a horror manga 😅

 

[Kaito57]

Damn, I thought Kinuya would be annoying but she’s actually the most aware female character in this series lol

Tachibana ain’t the worst character ever but the fact that now she refers to our boi as a « sexual beast » kinda irks me : if it was the real world, that’s the kind of words that could start rumors and not the good kind.

 

[Coffin_]

We gotta kill that long haired gay girl man

I hate her more bcz she says weird/bad stuff about rihito ALL THE TIME which is annoying

 

[LocoBolon]

Noa wants to get married, but doesn't want to get married to Rihito, but doesn't want him to get married. Who needs enemies with friends like this

but doesn't want to get married to Rihito

She never said this. So your math is a complete 180ª in the wrong direction ha

 

[JashwanthGeass]

I don't know if Noa is yet to recognize her own feelings or she is just being borderline toxic for Rihito.

 

[gloss]

She never said this. So your math is a complete 180ª in the wrong direction ha

You can pretty easily infer this based on her saying that she doesn't see him as a man/someone she would want to date immediately before the marriage talk, the fact that someone completely different showed up in her marriage daydream and the fact that she said marriage was off the table for him but not for her.

All that being said, they're basically guaranteed to get together, so it's whatever, but clearly in this chapter she's saying she wouldn't marry him. Like, unambiguously, whether or not that's what she actually believes

 

[AnotherDuck]

That's the fictional part

Yeah, fiction, romance fiction in particular, is full of stuff that's creepy or toxic IRL.

 

[bluepanda800]

I feel like this chapter is getting severely misunderstood. Noa is in denial about her feelings because she has bad experiences with romantic relationships. She's got a brain block on what is and what isn't romance/love.

Love for Noa equals grand gestures of romance which Rihito doesn't give her but she's actually unhappy when she gets those kinds of boyfriend's and vastly prefers being around Rihito. Noa understands their relationship as friendship but it's pretty clear to everyone else that they don't act as normal friends.

Her type is heartthrobs. Which is why she can't imagine marrying Rihito- he's not her usual type and he's not pursuing her in a similar way to her previous boyfriends. (In her brain this isn't a romance).

But her stance on weddings is still set at the little girls dream wedding fantasy level.

(For insight this is more that she's envisioned what her future wedding/husband will be like that fantasy is still what she's referencing when thinking of a wedding and since Rihito doesn't fit the fantasy she's skipping over him as a candidate not that she has considered Rihito and doesn't want to marry him).

Not making the connection of putting Rihito there as her husband isn't an indication that she doesn't like him. She admit she likes heartthrobs then says he has cool eyes which she likes.

When people insist that they are acting like a couple Noa pushes back for several reasons; she's in denial, she's still attached to her fantasy wedding and hasnt considered reality, she's happy with the security friendship offers over romance which in her understanding brings drama/unhappiness and leads to breaking up and no longer seeing that person again. Etc.

That said she's devastated at the thought of becoming the second most important person in his life and upset that she likes him the most whilst he (according to her) shows no special interest in her.

Essentially by my reading Noa is toxic but isn't fake. Rihito is her favourite person and even if the person who she on paper should be head over heels for approaches she's not going to give up Rihito for them. She does need to recognise there are more ways to show love in the world than how her exs did

 

[Askorti]

Psycho lesbian not being annoying challenge. Difficulty level: impossible.

 

[Sky_Ravager]

Thanks for the chapter

 

[syhoa]

Why don't she realise that if she married him, it would all her problem jusst like that one chapter she mentioned about living under one roof

 

[Unanswered]

honestly i kind of like that noa is still refusing to admit her feelings, because i think that if she did, she'd convince herself that she'd have to enter 'girlfriend mode' and end up torpedoing the relationship via her smothering and neediness. she needs some time to get her head in order.

ty for the chapter, fellas!

 

[UlysUlysUlys]

I know the answer is obvious, but I can't help but wonder what the end-goal of the manga is supposed to be? Rhitio-kun is so established as a character as not wanting nor into relationships, that I can't possibly see it ever happening without it being out-of-left field decision for him.

If it is a romance manga, then I think the author did a bit too much hammering of that character. Why continually say that he has no interest whatsoever in the opposite sex? His entire shtick is anti-thetical to the progression of a romcom.

If it's supposed to be as on the name, and it's supposed to be an aversion of usual romance manga, then... that screws the audience, no? Unless, it's supposed to be mainly about her becoming a better person, but that isn't super focused upon (Rihitio-kun is the POV for a lot of the chapters, and he doesn't go out of his way to discourage these behaviors in a serious tone set by the manga), nor really established as the main plot?

It really does feel like it's stuck in this romcom setting, when it's trying to be more than that. Like it wants to explore other themes, but it can't because that's not what people are reading this for.

Does anyone know the tags for whatever manga this hosted on? I wonder if it even has the romance tag in the first place.

 

[aa11bb]

the cringy girl coworker is back, ew

 

[Rafalga]

So her stance concerning Rihito is still the same from the first chapter (literally doesn't see him as a man or potential relationship prospect. Just selfishly wants him to give attention to her and ONLY her. He is just a source of attention and anxiety relief to her).
"Get married already" spammers will need to dig deeper now. Yeah yeah, she is not aware that she is in love. lol

Her basicly saying, "i don't want him as a partner but i don't want him to find one either since that would mean less me time" is straight up bitch behaviour. Not a cute girl failure, not a haha funny menhera. Straight up bitch.