Noa-senpai wa Tomodachi. - Vol. 12 Ch. 119 - Noa-Senpai and New Year's Eve!

[BREAD123]

Built for pronebone man holy

 

[jojoka]

Therapy would make wonders to Noa, and I really mean it.
She does want to get better (the first step to getting better), and I can see Noa agreeing to go to therapy.

I mean part of the problem here is from what I understand therapy is fucking awful in Japan. I don't know too much about Japan but I read a manga called Asper Kanojo which showed how bad Japan social system are at dealing with people with stuff like social disorders, depression, learning disabilities, etc.
The therapy in that series was next to useless, but this is from a manga so maybe it's better irl.

 

[pslbslesl]

JUST KISS ALREADY!!! JUST BECOME LOVERS ALREADY!!! SPECIAL BEST FRIENDS TO LOVERS!!

 

[mildmannered]

Noa-senpai is always so cute (when she isnt drinking herself sick)

 

[mildmannered]

I mean part of the problem here is from what I understand therapy is fucking awful in Japan. I don't know too much about Japan but I read a manga called Asper Kanojo which showed how bad Japan social system are at dealing with people with stuff like social disorders, depression, learning disabilities, etc.
The therapy in that series was next to useless, but this is from a manga so maybe it's better irl.

You're actually pretty close to home. There's a reason the fatality rate is so high.. usually "therapy" boils down to: "try harder!" or "you're not trying hard enough!" 🤡
In the states, we have occupational therapists! In Japan, not so much.. :/

 

[Silfir]

I mean part of the problem here is from what I understand therapy is fucking awful in Japan. I don't know too much about Japan but I read a manga called Asper Kanojo which showed how bad Japan social system are at dealing with people with stuff like social disorders, depression, learning disabilities, etc.
The therapy in that series was next to useless, but this is from a manga so maybe it's better irl.

Noa is also working a full time job. To make room for therapist appointments she'd have to ask for some form of medical leave, and since there's nothing physically wrong with her, the gossip would swiftly turn to speculations about her mental health. For someone who is as invested in her perfect career woman persona as Noa, that's a complete non-starter. Actually, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that it'd be a non-starter for pretty much every Japanese office worker.

Not that I see what a therapist would be able to do for her that Rihito isn't already doing.

 

[DairoZ]

bro im pretty sure the author has made her thicccer since the first 10 chs

 

[Skater901]

Did she go to the shrine visit with bare legs?? That'd be SO cold.

 

[undeadman]

That one yuri manga

 

[Schmucklet]

I love this mega-girlfailure so much that I forgive her weak self-control.

Can confirm that care and understanding of mental unrest is really no good in Japan, had a great friend in Chiba with several diagnosed ailments, difficulty to get anywhere in life until she had a breakthrough, got a new job to feed herself and two cats, even got back on her mangaka route. Then early 2018 there was nothing but silence, absolutely zero online activity, not even her LINE account. I like to think that this real-life girlfailure ended up becoming one of the original niji/holo vTubers and lives a happier life.

 

[draxdeveloper]

Noa is also working a full time job. To make room for therapist appointments she'd have to ask for some form of medical leave, and since there's nothing physically wrong with her, the gossip would swiftly turn to speculations about her mental health. For someone who is as invested in her perfect career woman persona as Noa, that's a complete non-starter. Actually, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that it'd be a non-starter for pretty much every Japanese office worker.

Not that I see what a therapist would be able to do for her that Rihito isn't already doing.

Yeah... Friends and family are not the same as going to the therapy

 

[Silfir]

Yeah... Friends and family are not the same as going to the therapy

You seem educated in the ways of the therapy. What would a therapist be able to do for Noa?

There are hundreds, if not thousands of comments by now to the effect of "Noa needs therapy" (yeah, we know). Can't remember one that offered any insight that went beyond that.

 

[Kaito57]

LAWD HAVE MERCY !!!

I swear, she's getting thicker by the cover...

 

[Crystalball]

You seem educated in the ways of the therapy. What would a therapist be able to do for Noa?

There are hundreds, if not thousands of comments by now to the effect of "Noa needs therapy" (yeah, we know). Can't remember one that offered any insight that went beyond that.

Therapy has to be seen as good or otherwise people will act as if you are stigmatizing mental health issues.
The thing people really don't want to talk about is how therapy in many cases is adapting the person to a broken environment. It's often a tool of managing symptoms, sometimes with medication, that people have with regards to an atomized society. The pathology is put on the individual, not the structures of our lives. Not that people can't have issues, of course, but it's sad when therapy fails and then the person blames themselves even further.

 

[XavZra]

Noa's childish behavior shined a bit more in this chapter than I'd like. Not only did she continue eating in Rihito's bed after being told not to, but putting your feet/shoes on the pillow and jumping in the bed is just...

 

[draxdeveloper]

You seem educated in the ways of the therapy. What would a therapist be able to do for Noa?

There are hundreds, if not thousands of comments by now to the effect of "Noa needs therapy" (yeah, we know). Can't remember one that offered any insight that went beyond that.

Noa seems to have traumas related to her parents and abandonment, which probably caused crushing anxiety and low self-esteem. Therapy would help her deal with those scars.
If she has chronic anxiety (which is a possibility), she can also go to a psychiatrist who could give her a prescription for anxiety meds.
Noa Issue, it's not only "wow, but she has a terrible personality", she has mental health issues, and it's even stated in some level in the story.
But as some people said, mental health treatment in Japan is far from good

 

[Woolanemone]

Did she go to the shrine visit with bare legs?? That'd be SO cold.

You'd think she'd have some fleece-lined leggings at least, but given that one recent chapter, apparently not.

 

[LordTartaros]

Noa became a fatass

 

[Sky_Ravager]

thanks for the chapter

 

[Takuma_Aki]

Now that I really think about it, the fact that Noa pounces Rihito and has so much skinship with him, in both of their bedrooms, no less, and both never crossed into a horny territory, kinda implies that,
1. Rihito is really platonic with Noa; and
2. Noa is just really starving for human touches and not really sex or anything.

Putting it that way, this is kinda depressing