"Nowâru" (2001)TV series

Director:

Matt Greenfield

Writer:

Ryoei Tsukimura (writer)

Seasons:

1

Genre:

Action | Animation | Thriller | Crime | Drama

Plot:

Noir is a tale of assassins, in particular one named Mireiyu Buke, a contract killer who receives a...

Plot Keywords:

Wuxia Fiction | Innocence | Visual Poetry | Messiah | Responsibility

Cast

Kotono Mitsuishi	...	Mireille Bouquet (1 episode, 2001)
Houko Kuwashima	...	Kirika Yuumura (1 episode, 2001)
Shelley Calene-Black	...	Mireille (1 episode, 2001)
Katrin Filzen	...	Kirika Yuumura (1 episode, 2001)

Also Known As:

Noir (USA)

Runtime:

25 min (26 episodes)

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Certification:

UK:12 (some epiosodes) | UK:PG | Australia:M (DVD rating) | Germany:16 | USA:TV-PG

Company:

ADV Films

Trivia:

Koichi Mashimo was developing this project at the same time he was developing ".hack//SIGN" (2002)

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Mireille checks the background info and news on Taiwan on her computer, the news text is on Hunan province of Mainland China. Furthermore, there's no such temple in Taiwan either.

Quotes:

Altena: If love can kill a person, surely hatred can save them.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The Bourne Identity (2002)

WOW

Noir is one of the finest animes there is. The animation is great, the plot is difficult, but good and it has lotsa, and i mean a lot of shooting. The character's are somewhat hollow at beginning, but just watch. Intresting plot i must say. Music plays the biggest part. It is beautiful. Classic music.

And thats funny cos i hate classic music, but it fits in Noir just perfectly. Nearly every episode has this great, powerful music and I LOVE IT! The shootings are not violent, altough there is much of it. It's very moderate, but still intense. And one thing to say, Noir is a bit feministic, nearly every man is evil and women are heroes. And something about the plot, Noir is about two female assasins. Yeah thats what im saying about the plot, cos its rather difficult to explain. But its a action-drama about these two assasins. Dont expect this to be pure action, even if i said it has lotsa shootings. Its not. Its rather slow, but still great. Its not an ordinary anime, its like a beautiful masterpiece.

If I must discribe Noir with one word, it would be beautiful. nothing more to say. Check it out.