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 Noir - Vol. 1 (DVD)
Description: Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy - Science Fiction / Theatrical Release: 2003 / Director: Kouichi Mashimo / DVD ... more  Noir - Vol. 1 (DVD) ... released 19 May, 2003 at Adv Films / Features of the DVD: Anamorphic, Animated, Colour, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Widescreen, PAL / Professional hitwoman, Mireille Bouquet, forms a partnership with the amnesiac killer Kirika Yumara. Contains the episodes 'Maidens With Black Hands', 'Daily Bread', 'The Assassination Play', 'The Sound Of Waves', and 'Les Soldats'.Newest Review: ... intrigued, aware as we are that Mireille is an assassin of merit, why she would care about a Japanese schoolgirl and a ... more ... child's lullaby seems inexplicable.
Drawn further into curiosity, we meet Kirika, alone at school, clearly something of a lost kitten (being the name of a future episode, with, literally, a lost kitten but it is clear this also refers to Kirika). Walking home, Mireille follows Kirikia and begins to confront her but we find ourselves in the midst of a short flashback. Kirika remembers a moment from her past, a fractured event, suited men chasing her, attempting to kill her in a wood. Only it becomes Kirika who is the hunt...more |
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Noir - Vol. 1 (DVD): Welcome to the darker side of anime (1569 words)
by no_name - written on 13.03.07 (Very useful, 92 readings)
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A regular guilty pleasure, Noir is 26 episodes of um, err… well, girls with guns. Well, not exactly, this is, of course, why it works. Like so much anime you have to work within generic conventions and Noir is no exception. On the surface you expect this volume, being the first five of twenty-six twenty-five minute episodes, to be full of dubious fan-service (a term applying to the use of rather gratuitous flashes of sex / nudity, etc., I quote: "unnecessary to a storyline, but designed to amuse or excite the audience"). Noir, thankfully, manages to avoid all this and instead hooks the audience through vertiginous plotting, depth of characterisation and the ...
