The premise is a pair of female assassins taking jobs and digging through a criminal underworld for clues to each of their pasts that seem to be intertwined. One protagonist suffers amnesia and preternatural skills -- Jason Bourne vibes. It takes place in late 90s/early 00s: there are rare cell phones, a fax machine, and minimal internet; there are no smart phones or darkweb.
Episodes 1-9 are "adventure/destination-of-the-week," plot driven ep. 10-26. I found the first 9 slow on my first watch-through, but later I appreciated their sparse-ness. There's slow character development, but it leads to the best ending in a TV show I've seen yet.
Highlights include e16 "The Cold-Blooded Killer pt 2," the side trip in e12 "Assassination Mission," and the fight scene in e03 "Assassination Play."
This show doesn't have explicit girl love romance, and the implications are late and on the mild side. Somehow I love it for that: it displays a wide range of emotions and relationships two women can have with each other without falling into -dere tropes.
This is considered the first in the Bee Train animation studios' "girls with guns" trilogy, the others being Madlax and El Cazador de la Bruja (The Witch Hunter). It's the most realistic/least magical of the set. It also has the slowest pacing, with El Cazador being the most modern paced. The others have more explicit Girls Love/yuri themes, but also come with problematic hetero relationships.
