Noir review
Noir review
Year it was made: 2001
Studio: Bee Train
Distributor: ADV films
Format: Series
Where I saw it: On DVD (personal collection)
Subbed/Dubbed/Both: Both
Genre: Action/Drama/Girls with guns
Lenght: 26 episodes
Story: 9.5/10
Characters: 9.5/10
Animation: 9/10
Art: 10/10
CGI: N/A
Fanservice: 5/10
Action: 9/10
Music: 10/10
SFX: 10/10
Japanese VA: 10/10
English VA: 9.5/10
In depth review
When I read other reviews about Noir I hear things like it's slow, boring, the pacing is all wrong and it's a watered down version of Gunsmith Cats and Serial Experiments Lain. This is not the case. The reason why people think Noir is slow is they misunderstand what this anime is trying to do, which is creating an atmosphere through the art and music, that sucks you into the experience. As for the pacing, it's perfect with a nice mix of action and story. Noir is one of the best action, drama, girls with guns series out there. This anime is about a female assassin, Mireille Bouquet who receives a mysterious email from a teenaged girl named Kirika Yuumura who is also an assassin. Kirika asks Mireille to go on "pilgrimage to the past" with her which means killing a lot of henchmen and other assassins who get in their way. I would tell you more about the plot but then I would have to kill you.
The story in Noir is very original and interesting to watch. What makes Noir interesting is that it doesn't reveal plot details all at once but rather takes it's time to develop to the story. One of Noirs greatest strength is the characters. It's Noir greatest strength because of the interaction between characters, for example Kirika and Mireille relationship, where their forced to work together but their don't really trust each other which is interesting. On the action side of things there are plenty of shoot outs and on the fanservice side of things there is surprisingly very little except for a one or two scenes and a shojo-ai scene in episode 25.
The visuals are excellence with great animation (but the animators cheated a little, so their don't get a perfect score) and the backgrounds look amazing. Noir also has excellence audio from the realistic gun shots and sub-machine gun/assault rifle sounds to the music composed by anime music goddess Yuki Kajiura. The voice acting is great in both Japanese and English with anime legend Kotono Mitsuishi as Mireille in the Japanese track and ADV veterans Shelley Calene-Black, Monica Rial, Tiffany Grant and Hilary Haag in the English track.
Noir is one of the best action/mystery series out there which deserves a cloak and dagger 9.5/10.
Year it was made: 2001
Studio: Bee Train
Distributor: ADV films
Format: Series
Where I saw it: On DVD (personal collection)
Subbed/Dubbed/Both: Both
Genre: Action/Drama/Girls with guns
Lenght: 26 episodes
Story: 9.5/10
Characters: 9.5/10
Animation: 9/10
Art: 10/10
CGI: N/A
Fanservice: 5/10
Action: 9/10
Music: 10/10
SFX: 10/10
Japanese VA: 10/10
English VA: 9.5/10
In depth review
When I read other reviews about Noir I hear things like it's slow, boring, the pacing is all wrong and it's a watered down version of Gunsmith Cats and Serial Experiments Lain. This is not the case. The reason why people think Noir is slow is they misunderstand what this anime is trying to do, which is creating an atmosphere through the art and music, that sucks you into the experience. As for the pacing, it's perfect with a nice mix of action and story. Noir is one of the best action, drama, girls with guns series out there. This anime is about a female assassin, Mireille Bouquet who receives a mysterious email from a teenaged girl named Kirika Yuumura who is also an assassin. Kirika asks Mireille to go on "pilgrimage to the past" with her which means killing a lot of henchmen and other assassins who get in their way. I would tell you more about the plot but then I would have to kill you.
The story in Noir is very original and interesting to watch. What makes Noir interesting is that it doesn't reveal plot details all at once but rather takes it's time to develop to the story. One of Noirs greatest strength is the characters. It's Noir greatest strength because of the interaction between characters, for example Kirika and Mireille relationship, where their forced to work together but their don't really trust each other which is interesting. On the action side of things there are plenty of shoot outs and on the fanservice side of things there is surprisingly very little except for a one or two scenes and a shojo-ai scene in episode 25.
The visuals are excellence with great animation (but the animators cheated a little, so their don't get a perfect score) and the backgrounds look amazing. Noir also has excellence audio from the realistic gun shots and sub-machine gun/assault rifle sounds to the music composed by anime music goddess Yuki Kajiura. The voice acting is great in both Japanese and English with anime legend Kotono Mitsuishi as Mireille in the Japanese track and ADV veterans Shelley Calene-Black, Monica Rial, Tiffany Grant and Hilary Haag in the English track.
Noir is one of the best action/mystery series out there which deserves a cloak and dagger 9.5/10.
posted by Jim at 8:04 AM
4 Comments:
Now you have to see Madlax and give it a 10. =P
I liked Noir alright but I thought there were too many filler episodes.
I found I was having to put up with a bunch of episodes that weren't answering my questions about the overall plot and got impatient.
I wouldn't personally say that individual episodes were "slow" but if you removed all the filler episodes the end would get there faster.
Also, what was with the ending? Way to end it with more questions.
I also watched 12 episodes of madlax and the separate storyline is making me impatient.
The filler episodes had character developement in them which made them more then just filler episodes.
I call it the where do we from here ending.
With Madlax it's a good impatient though.
What I meant about the ending were the two gunshots. Did they kill each other? Were they killed my someone else? Were they starting an old car that backfired twice?
It's probably from the earlier shoot out or just to fuck with your head.
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