Noir
Noir is about two female assassins who search about their pasts together. A well-created anime, its artwork and soundtrack are very good. The music in this anime is particularly notable; there are songs in Japanese, Italian, &c. The character development is good as well, especially when Chloe is introduced. It is also interesting to see how Kirika deals with the jobs when the targets have various relations with her (episode 6).
The small problems I have with the series is: 1) sometimes I didn't really understand exactly what was supposed to be going on (especially episodes 20 and on) and 2) the ending. While the "obvious guess" seems like it is what really happened, I sometimes wonder if instead it was supposed to mean something else (??).
FINAL SCORE: 86
The 7 words or less Episode Guide!
- The Maidens with Black Hands - Killing suits, hanging people, clock
- Our Daily Bread - "You're Noir?" BAM!
- Assassin's Game - Ambush in the Sound of Popcorn
- The Sound of Waves - Relaxing at the beach (!)
- Les Soldats - "You can't kill me..."
- Stray Cat - An old man with a price
- The Black Thread of Fate - Insane revolutionaries
- Intoccabile (Act I) - Knife beats gun any day
- Intoccabile (Act II) - More knives
- True Noir - This time it's throwing knives
- Moonlight (Mad) Tea Party - "I received this!"
- Assassin Training - Chloe's day of fun
- Season of Hell - Kirika's art lessons
- A Bouquet for Mireille - Mireille's reunion
- Heartless Assassin (Act I) - Crazy woman
- Heartless Assassin (Act II) - Crazy woman = Doku Mushi (Poison Bug)
- Coming back to Corsica - What a bad sniper.
- Darkness within Me - Even toys are killing tools...
- Both Hands of the Soldats -
- Sin Amongst Sin - Present for Kirika
- Morning of the Wicked Heart - Little kids... how violent (!)
- The End of the Journey - Townspeople in France are violent, too
- Affection in Story of the Remainder -
- Recurrence to Darkness - Big Swords!
- Depth of Hellfire - Final Duel: Guns vs Knives
- Birth - ?!? Did what I think happen?