646f9e108c Two beautiful female assassins travel the world accepting assignments to kill various culprits, and at the same time, having deadly traps set against them by their own employer. In the business of life and death, trust and loyalty are definitely two lines that shouldn&#39;t be crossed. In this action packed anime, Monica Rial and Shelley Black loan their voicesthe roles of Mireille and Kirika, two maidens of death who have nothing in common except one thing: they&#39;re both emotionless killing machines. Mireille Bouquet is one of France&#39;s most revered killers who will wack anybody for the right price. Up until now, Mireille hasn&#39;t had a reason to care or a reason to depend on anybody but herself. All of that changes though when a beautiful young Japanese girl shows up asking Mireille for help in finding her identity,it turns out that Kirika is an amnesicac with no memory but has the skills of a very dangerous woman. Mireille agrees to help Kirika,she feels that Kirika may hold they key to unlocking a mystery to Mireille&#39;s own past. The two set up shot in Paris and begin two worka hit squad code-named Noir and their journeys take them to the chilly land of Moscow to the beautiful land of Sicily. As the girls take down their targets and get some serious bigtime pay, they draw closer to the truth behind Kirika&#39;s sudden amnesia and the truth behind Mireille&#39;s banishment from her home in Corsica years agoa child. However, a dangerous organization called the Soldats doesn&#39;t want the girls uncovering the truth about anything and even goesfarto send one of their own, a young girl named Chloe to silence them. Now the men and women of Soldats who swore a mysterious oath to watch Kirika and Mireille&#39;s back are now eager to put a bullet in them. The two girls will have to learn the difference betweeen being a target and being a shooterthe Soldats start closing in and Mireille decides that it&#39;s time to go gunning for revenge. In the end, the girls will learn the difference between trust and loyaltythey enter a dark world where watching each other&#39;s back is the only way to stay alive. It seems that over the last few years feminism is getting a stronger hold on anime. This is more than evident in this picturesque and extremely depressing anime - among the same level of depressingNeon Genesis and Elfen Lied. What I could see almost instantly that the sinister and well hidden agenda of this anime is undermine the male gender while lionising and glorifying the female. This anime is not the usual man-hating that anime like Love Hina and almost every other recent anime which is slapstick has. This is far more serious. The anime asks me were women oppressed in the preceding generation? The answer of course is yes - there were some tyrannical men who wanted to &#39;oppress women.&#39; But in the World Wars hundreds of men were killed just to investigate enemy grounds - they were expendable. This anime is a prime example of a source that will be used in the approaching inevitable Men&#39;s Movementit depicts menevil thoughtless zombies who answer to their dodgy generals and political leaders who are killed by the two heartless female assassinsif they were nothing! An example that men are oppressed by other men yes but thats not the worst of it! Mirielle and especially Kirika unlike the men they slay so casually and cruelly - and it almost always IS men - bleed -if trying to show they are human and the men they kill are not. The cast is all female with Chloe joining in too add to the killing. This anime lionises women with the two maidens of death hogwash that will make any male viewer who is not a complete wuss wonder about his wortha man - its just like Lucy from Elfen Lied being made to look like a holy virgin pure daughter of the mother god! Can you imagine the success of this anime if it were two men who were killing women every episode? It would be banned from countries! It does have an interesting story I&#39;ll admit though the ending is just plain patheticis Kirika who is supposed to be some rip off of Rei Ayanami from Neon Genesis who&#39;s lost her memory. I can&#39;t give an anime that depressed the hell out of me a good rating. It seems that the only serious anime now a days are plagued by feminism. If its not slapstick anime where its easy to have the females kicking around the &#39;perverted&#39; weak males then they&#39;ll just do anything to make females the leads and in charge and by far the stronger and more pure and innocent sex in the more powerful anime. This anime is a good watch for anyone really though. As it will further educate the male population how worthless their lives are and how hated they are and thus speed up the arrival and strengthen the backlash against the very message of this anime - feminism. People just love this anime because they are so blind to this fact. Noir is truly a great and &quot;out of the ordinary&quot; type of anime worth watching. It is interesting to mention that the story has a sexy touch and at times slight lesbian moments (oh yeah!!).<br/><br/>The story starts with a young beautiful assassin for hire called Mireille Bouquet, who&#39;s mysteriously contacted by another beautiful and even younger girl called Kirika Yumura, who&#39;s skillsassassin surpasses by far those of Mireille. Kirika needs Mireille&#39;s help to uncover her past because she is amnesic,they try to work together; a mysterious organization is trying to kill them both. Little they both Kirika and Merielle know that their dark past have a lot in common and that the organization trying to kill them (the Soldats) is also part of their past.<br/><br/>As they try to survive and try to uncover the mystery of the Soldats, both girls start to see how entwined their past is and how their survival and future depends on uncovering the truth. Its beauty relies on the fact that at times is rather slow paced (some hard core anime fans can not stand that). Nothing wrong with the slow pace, this adds to the complexity of the 11+ hours, 7-volume story that develops and builds to a great climax and outcome. The slow parts happen when they are off work, sometimes the seem to be contemplating the beautiful views of the French countryside, visiting cafes and fashion shops, or at times they stare at each other in a conspicuous manner for no other reason that to know what are they thinking. The story also has its fast paced times with lots of action,the girls do their assassinations in a cold and calculated manner. <br/><br/>The music is superb; it is very rare to see an anime with such good music. Not only the music is great, but it also fits the slow and the fast story parts to such extent that it brings the overall anime experience to unexpected heights. This 7 DVD volume collection (as wellthe 2CD soundtrack) is a keeper and I highly recommend it!!
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