Noa-senpai wa Tomodachi. - Vol. 1 Ch. 5 - Noa-Senpai and Advice

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In the first page of every chapter "friend" is put in quotations lol.
From what I understand scare quotes don't really exist in Japanese. Quotation marks are used like this for emphasis, so it's more like writing it as friends every single time.

On the other hand, in the description friend is the only word that gets " as its punctuation while other emphasized terms use「 and 」so maybe there is actually some meaning there.
 
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From what I understand scare quotes don't really exist in Japanese. Quotation marks are used like this for emphasis, so it's more like writing it as friends every single time.

On the other hand, in the description friend is the only word that gets " as its punctuation while other emphasized terms use「 and 」so maybe there is actually some meaning there.
Could it be then that "friends" being emphasised again and again means something like constant self-reassurance? Like, "we're definitely "friends", nothing less and nothing more, and no point in entertaining any other line of thought"
 
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i haven't heard anyone mention it yet but this is the same author/artist as 'kimi ni koisuru satsujinki'...
from the general tone it doesn't seem it'll go that way but i'm still gonna pray for it not to 🙏
why... do you have to remind me that...
 
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Spoil me, sempai.
(I looked up the title, and it doesn't sound like something I'll enjoy. But I am curious how it played out.)
i kind of skimmed through it so i don't know the details but basically dude finds a girl he likes and they start going out. however, girl is the type that like bounces through bfs on a whim and ends up with a lot of stalkers and other baggage. so mc decides, ok i'll just kill them. and he does. and it ends up that he kills a couple (or more, again skimmed through don't know the details) people, including the guy that the gf actually liked. who had cheated on her with like 10 other girls when they were going out. the girl had some backstory about how she wanted love but couldn't get it no matter how many guys she dated (sound familiar?) and thought the guy (not mc) was the one. when the guy died they ended up being found out and chased by the cops. mc decided to turn himself in and told her to keep living. he gets the death sentence, and the manga ends on the girl walking away on a beach after attempting suicide. reason she didn't kill herself was because mc wanted to live, and/or to repent? idk but i remember her saying she has to live alone from now on

sorry for the wall of text
the reason this one will probably be better is because we're dealing with adults now, not students (hs/uni) so noa (and our mc here forgot his name) probably has something special not many students have called 🌈common sense🌈
but who knows
 
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i kind of skimmed through it so i don't know the details but basically dude finds a girl he likes and they start going out. however, girl is the type that like bounces through bfs on a whim and ends up with a lot of stalkers and other baggage. so mc decides, ok i'll just kill them. and he does. and it ends up that he kills a couple (or more, again skimmed through don't know the details) people, including the guy that the gf actually liked. who had cheated on her with like 10 other girls when they were going out. the girl had some backstory about how she wanted love but couldn't get it no matter how many guys she dated (sound familiar?) and thought the guy (not mc) was the one. when the guy died they ended up being found out and chased by the cops. mc decided to turn himself in and told her to keep living. he gets the death sentence, and the manga ends on the girl walking away on a beach after attempting suicide. reason she didn't kill herself was because mc wanted to live, and/or to repent? idk but i remember her saying she has to live alone from now on

sorry for the wall of text
the reason this one will probably be better is because we're dealing with adults now, not students (hs/uni) so noa (and our mc here forgot his name) probably has something special not many students have called 🌈common sense🌈
but who knows
Thanks! I hate it!

It sounds exactly like the ridiculous sh**show I thought it would be.

I appreciate you typing that wall of text. You saved me.
 
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