Noir is the name of an ancient assassin, and just the mention of that name is enough to strike fear in the hearts of anyone. Now that code name belongs to two assassin girls named Mireille Bouquet and Kirika Yuumura. They are now going around accepting assassination jobs. However, a certain powerful organization named Soldats is hiding in the background, and they are trying to get rid of Mireille and Kirika. On top of that both Mireille and Kirika seem to be involved with this mysterious organization in some way.
Mireille Bouquet is one of the two women who make up Noir. She was born in Corsica, France. But due to certain circumstances she had to leave. Now she lives in Paris, but she travels around a lot since she does assassination jobs all over the world.
Kirika Yuumura is the other half of Noir. She's emotionless and has no memories of her past. But for some reason she is very skilled at handling guns and killing. When she joins up with Mireille she makes a promise with her that Mireille will get to take her life once the mysteries surrounding their pasts are cleared up.
The animation in this show is very simplistic and uses a lot of stills. It's not very visually appealing. The only exception to that is some of the backgrounds. They have some really nice shots of Corsica for example, and it makes at least teh backgrounds worth watching.
The music in this show is quite good. It was composed by Yuki Kajiura (Fate Zero), and the music is just fantastic to listen to. If I had one complaint about it, it would be that the music can often overshine what happens on screen, but I don't put that down to the music alone, as overshining what happens on screen is not very hard when it comes to this show.
Now as you could probably tell from that last line there, I'm not a fan of this show. With that said, it's not like this show is terrible either. I wish I could say it was and leave it at that, but it's more so that it feels like this show didn't really have much of a direction. The show wastes so much time with showing us flashbacks, and usually it's the same flashback over and over again. The show want's to be methodical and let the viewer know that everything is important. Everything from the dialogue to the flashbacks, but the way they go about always reminding the viewer about what has happened through the use of flashbacks makes it feel like the show has no faith in the viewer keeping up with the story. It's not even like it's that hard to keep up, but the show really does treat it's audience like we're all retarded, and I don't appreciate that. It makes even the best of moments in this show just feel like a huge waste of time. I feel like this show could have been so much better if it would have just trusted it's audience to keep up with the story a lot more than they did, but because of them not doing that I have to say that this show is just not worth anyones time. I would however recommend you to check out the OST as that is by far the best part of the show.
