About this title

Storyline

Noir is a tale of assassins, in particular one named Mireille Bouquet, a contract killer who receives a message from a young girl with no memory about herself, but is an incredibly efficient killing machine. The story takes us on a pilgrimage to the pasts of both girls, which leads them to Paris, France, and someone is trying to stop them...

Country: Japan

Type: scripted

Status: Ended

Language: Japanese

Release Date: April 6, 2001

Also Known As: 黑色天使, Нуарノワール, Noir |  See more »

Genres

Plot Keywords

assassin
amnesia
emotional vulnerability
corsica
anime
girls love
anti-heroine
attraction
brutality
bullet-dodging
cat
cemetery
chandelier
computer
crime-syndicate
death
explosion
fear
feline
female-assassin
female-protagonist
girls-with-guns
gun
gun-violence
gunfight
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memory
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murder
photograph
pistol
pocket-watch
punched-in-the-face
reference-to-dostoyevsky
reference-to-fyodor-dostoevsky
reference-to-fyodor-dostoevsky's-the-idiot
reference-to-the-idiot-the-novel
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searching-for-the-truth
secret-organization
shooting
shootout
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silencer
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violence
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assassination
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killing
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female-female-kiss
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castle
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knife-fight
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village
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warrior
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political-manipulation
poison
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art
espionage
dagger
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hyperrealism
swarm-tactic
childhood-sweetheart
christ-allegory
conspiracy
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justice
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hero
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death-of-mother
title-spoken-by-character

Company Credits

Production Co: Bee Train, Victor Entertainment

Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

2001 | 26 Episodes

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