Then there is the flashback. I suppose everyone has heard of the flashback, and the show does repeat it a lot, and the one episode where it is entirely appropriate gets not enough of it. But I was surprised to find that this was not the only flashback that gets repeated. Many a time I found that events as recent as the previous episode got fairly lengthy flashbacks, and it was at these points where I was going, yeah, 'I know this already!'
There is also the issue of the soundtrack. Now I love the soundtrack, the OP is the only track I don't like but there is only 2 or 3 tracks used for the fight scenes and they get tiring after a while. Otherwise the soundtrack is very good and used in mostly appropriate places.
It's well animated overall, though the lack of blood still bugs me. The actions scenes are well choreographed, and one must mention the amount of detail put into the guns. Each weapon exists in the real world, and the signature weapons, a Beretta Model 1934 and Walther P99 are superbly detailed. The voice acting is pretty good. I felt the english track more.....suitable, given the situation, but the actors do a pretty good job. Of course there is Chloe and Kirikas habit......of speaking in......sentance fragments, but that's not their fault.
Noir is still a pretty good show, but it wasn't as fantastic as my memory serves. The story is, for the most part, sound and well paced, it's well animated with good music. The characters are distinct and memorable, but it's dragged down by the ambiguity of the big bad, and of the end and all the flashbacks taking up so much time, and limited use of it's great soundtrack.
