Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-108.199.57.40-20140124050314/@comment-75.18.254.214-20141118053017

Actually, he firsts meets Yuri in the underground tunnels of the Guild along with the other first members of the unofficial Afterlife Battlefront and he simply just got smitten by Yuri by something she said that made him like her. From there on he blindly follows Yuri after defeating the Boss(Shiina) who Noda says he has been fighting with for quite some time by himself which then Yuri offers him to join her team and fight Kanade.

Judging from Noda's personality, he has a strength insecurity which may relate to why he is in the Afterlife in the first place. Noda tries to become stronger by training, picking fights, and acting tough making him an idiot in intellect. It could be that Noda was unable to protect something when he was alive because he wasn't strong enough. He even shows this in a humorous scene where he is bloodily murdered by Yusa by writing on the ground where he laid saying he was the strongest in his own blood. Judging from how he easily fell for Yuri, I don't think she has any involvement with his reason for arriving in the afterlife. I don't even think this "thing" he wanted to protect is no where similar to Yuri in character or interest.

I also found it funny when he assumed Yuri was Chaa's wife because of a misunderstanding in the conversation and he ran away crying. I love that bloody muscle head idiot. Oh my goodness, I have to read that chapter again!