@Nihilist1 It's been a long time since I read Nisekoi, but I'm pretty sure Marika was also a childhood friend who met Raku at the same time as Chitoge and Onodera and fell in love at the same time. That means it was not a triangle.
the way he handled the manga artist girl was way better than this new girl
kitajima is really running out of writing material, now forced to write a generic harem plot development
@CelticMutt Nah, she only appeared to become imminent threat for onodera and chitoge for a little while. The fact that she only have a mini arc explaining why she is part of the promised girl candidate is the moment she is thrown out of the picture to seriously stand against the original triangle.
Even if it isn't love triangle by definition, it doesn't change my argument that whenever more love rivals introduced it simply meant the manga just went down the shitter, especially if it was done as horribly as this chapter.