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An upgrade.
Not for Akiha, she doesn't care.
The chapter 8 of that comic antholgy gave me the feels abot Noel.
Girl was not a monster, deep she wished for a normal life , and she ended trapped in a world wich is too much for her . Im not agree with the shinji comparisons , not saying shinji is devoided of nuance, but Noel does not just want to be a good exceutor because ego , she cant just quit the church, its basically too late for her
Noel is great. She contributes a lot to Ciel's route. Sometimes too much to the point she feels more heroine-esque than Ciel. But that's my opinion.
not just your opinion, she absolutely does
Ciel is the protag in her route.
her harem consists of Shiki, Arc and Noel.
Noel is definitely suitable to be a main heroine. The more I reread, the more I appreciate how well she was written. It's crazy how just her inclusion alone made Ciel's route so much better. I expect the same from Far Side.
Just read the other day an interview excerpt from 2001 about how OG had, at some point only Arc's Good ending, and that Takeuchi urged Nasu to write a 'parting' story which ended up being the True Ending we know today. In other words, True ending was added after Good.
I didn't know about this. Takeuchi is really a business man.
Interesting to see how they settled with the opposite this time.
I would like Noel a lot more if she wasn't an ephebophile preying on her students
You know, I kind of find that as one her lesser personality faults compared to her homicidal tendencies and extreme self-righteousness.
Understandable with her background.
Noel's prey is always same, a man 'mentally' older than her.
top tier voicing during this scene too
Spoiler:
I'm excited to see what the hell her post-Tsuki DA Noel scenario will be about.
The ephebophilia is honestly more off-putting to me than anything else, even if it is understandable. It straddles the boundary for me between acceptable levels of fucked-up for a character and way too fucked up in a very real sense.
She is doing the latter for sure, but there is a part of her that seems to genuinely like him. She imagines him a sort of stand-in for the person she had a crush on in her youth (the eastern student), the same one who threw her to the wolves (zombies in this case, I guess lol) after they escaped Elesia's pit of death.
That's definitely the main perk of Ciel's route... getting another EXTRA heroine as the focus of the story... In OG Tsuki, she was basically NTR-ed by Arc and now Noel does just that... Still, the remake feels so much better I guess... I haven't replayed OG Tsuki but I remember that Ciel's route is so similar to Arc's route except for that Shiki-Roa stuff. Oh and also Roa not being BRoa in the OG...