While still an AV star, Noa secretly began a new chapter as a manga writer under the pen name Hibari Meguro. This career change happened by pure chance. The idea came to her while drinking at a bar, where she met the manga artist Jin Kobayashi, famous for his hit series *School Rumble. She had no idea who he was at first. They hit it off, went out for ramen a few times, and jokingly talked about drawing a manga about ramen. But the joke turned into a serious idea, and Noa started working on a concept.
Beyond video content, she has been featured in various gravure magazines and fashion-adjacent photography, emphasizing her versatility as a model. Public Persona and Media noa torigoe