Noir: The Complete Collection

Noir: The Complete Collection

Noir: The Complete Collection
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Actor: Noir
Audio: English (Subtitled); English (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language)
Format: Animated, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 650 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-06-14
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Adv Films

Movie Reviews of Noir: The Complete Collection

Movie Review: The Man Within the Man, The Sin Within the Sin...
Summary: 5 Stars

The Good Things
*Good action scenes. Every episode contains at least one good fight scene.
*Excellent animation quality; motions are mostly fluid and artwork is splendid. Settings are very detailed and distinctive.
*The story is continuously intruiging. It may not make sense at first, but once the mystery is unravelled, it's interesting. Repeated viewings reveal more details, too.
*Aside from the main story arc, there are also a number of good stand-alone episodes with good stories.
*Characters are very well-developed. They have a large number of subtleties, backgrounds, and issues that make them very memorable.
*Great emotional impact (although this could also be seen as sappy).
*Bloodless action and implied sexuality makes the show edgy without being too graphic (rated 15+).
*Excellent music.

The Bad Things
*Slow pacing may be too tedious for some people.
*Flashbacks are repeated throughout, and can be seen as annoying.

The Questionable Things
*Some parts are really silly when you think about it (like Chloe's fascination with a fork, or the fact that Kirika stands in the line of fire and never gets hit, or the part where she gets shot in the head and lives without a scratch...).
*Strange ending (still don't know why Mirielle didn't shoot Altena, but it all worked out in the end anyway).

It's a slow, emotional, character-driven European drama, but still has a lot of slick action. Once I got into it, it was very immersive and fascinating, and has become one of my absolute favorite anime shows. Highly reccomended to anybody who has the patience.

DVDs have good video and audio quality, and contain a number of interviews. Episode 21 has a hilarious easter egg (push up, down, left, and right on the remote during the second eye-catch to see an 8-minute sock puppet video!).

Summary of Noir: The Complete Collection

The Female Is The Deadlier Of The Species. A cryptic message. A mysterious organization. A girl with a missing past. These are triggers that launch professional hit woman Mireille Bouquet into the ultimate odyssey of death and vengeance. Joining forces with Yuumura Kirika, a young girl with deadly skills and a forgotten identity, Mireille finds herself thrust into a secret world where the only law is kill or be killed, and where your closest friend could turn out to be your worst enemy. Two female assassins embark on a journey through the ultimate darkness, in the acclaimed animation masterpiece NOIR! Available now for the first time in this complete collectors edition!
In Paris, professional assassin Mireille Bouquet meets emotionally shattered Kirika Yumura: neither woman can remember her past, but they're both extremely good at killing people. (Kirika doesn't even look--she just points the gun and fires and her victim falls.) The two women form a partnership as "Noir," but after a couple of murders for hire, they realize someone is trying to kill them. The mysterious Soldats seem to be everywhere, so it's kill or be killed. The only recurring characters in Noir are amnesiacs, who are essentially blank slates and therefore not very interesting. Director Kouichi Mashimo may set new record for repeating footage in an animated series--some shots crop up three times in a single episode, including portentous images whose significance is more apparent than real. The result feels like a watered-down combination of Gunsmith Cats and Serial Experiments Lain. This set contains the complete six volume series. (Rated 15 and older: violence, grotesque imagery) --Charles Solomon

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