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Noir (TV)

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Alternative title:
Нуар (Russian)
ノワール (Japanese)
黑色天使 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Genres: action, drama, mystery
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Plot Summary: Mireille Bouquet is a professional assassin, and a very good one at that. But when she follows up an e-mail from a young Japanese girl named Yumura Kirika, inviting her to take "a pilgrimage to the past", her life becomes even more dangerous than it already is. Now, with a haunting melody invoking the memory of an event long past, Mireille and Kirika decide to work together to find the truth about a thousand year old organization that has controlled both of their lives since before they were born. And the only clue in their search, the only thing Kirika remembers about herself, becomes their working codename: a name designating an ancient fate, of two maidens who reign over death--Noir.
User Ratings: 2167 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 242 votes (sub:136, dub:87, Ger.dub:4, Fre.sub:3, raw:3, ?:2, Ger.sub:2, Spa.dub:1, Fre.dub:1, Por.dub:1, Por.sub:1, edit.dub:1)
 Excellent: 498 votes (sub:320, dub:155, Spa.sub:5, ?:4, Ger.dub:4, Rus.sub:3, Fre.dub:2, Por.sub:2, Spa.dub:1, raw:1, Fre.sub:1)
 Very good: 499 votes (sub:335, dub:138, Ger.dub:5, ?:5, Spa.dub:3, edit.dub:3, Por.sub:2, Rus.sub:2, Dut.sub:1, Fre.sub:1, Spa.edit.dub:1, Ita.sub:1, raw:1, Spa.sub:1)
 Good: 413 votes (sub:275, dub:110, Por.sub:7, ?:5, Pol.sub:4, raw:3, Fre.sub:3, Ger.dub:2, Fre.dub:1, Rus.sub:1, Spa.dub:1, Ger.sub:1)
 Decent: 218 votes (sub:146, dub:60, Spa.dub:3, ?:3, Rus.sub:1, Fre.sub:1, raw:1, Por.dub:1, Por.sub:1, Ger.dub:1)
 So-so: 136 votes (sub:93, dub:40, Spa.dub:2, Spa.sub:1)
 Not really good: 48 votes (sub:30, dub:13, raw:2, Spa.sub:1, Spa.dub:1, Ita.sub:1)
 Weak: 66 votes (sub:46, dub:16, Por.sub:1, ?:1, Spa.dub:1, Ger.dub:1)
 Bad: 33 votes (sub:23, dub:9, Por.dub:1)
 Awful: 9 votes (sub:6, dub:2, Por.dub:1)
 Worst ever: 5 votes (sub:4, ?:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 4171 users, rank: #88
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.493 (Good+.49), std. dev.: 1.8955, rank: #945
Weighted mean: 7.413 (Good+.41), rank: #921 (seen all: 7.70 / seen some: 6.59 / won't finish: 4.28)
Bayesian estimate: 7.414 (Good+.41), rank: #724
Running time: 24 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 26
Episode titles: We have 26
Vintage:
2001-04-06 to 2001-09-28
2004-04-05 to 2004-06-29 (Germany, VIVA)
2004-12-12 (France Air Date)
2006-04-24 to 2006-10-16 (Animax Latin America)
2006-10-16 (Spain - Buzz Channel)
Releases: We have 1
Opening Theme:
"「コッペリアの柩」 - Coppelia no Hitsugi (Coppelia's Casket)" by ALI Project
Ending Theme:
"「きれいな感情」 - Kirei na Kanjo (Beautiful Emotions)" by Akino Arai
Links: We have 6
Trivia: We have 8
DVD Easter Eggs: We have 9
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Related reviews:
    Noir DVD 3
    Noir DVD 2
    Noir DVD 1
    Noir DVD 1

Related releases:
    Noir - Shades of Darkness (DVD 1) 2003-02-18 (from $5.00)
    Noir - Shades of Darkness DVD + Empty Artbox + Tshirt (DVD 1) 2003-02-18 (from $33.74)
    Noir - The Hit List (DVD 2) 2003-04-08 (from $5.00)
    Noir - Death Warrant (DVD 4) 2003-06-24 (from $3.98)
    Noir - Terminal Velocity (DVD 5) 2003-08-05
    Noir - Cloaks & Daggers (DVD 6) 2003-09-16 (from $3.98)
    Noir - High Definition (DVD 1) 2005-03-08
    Noir - The Firing Chamber (DVD 3) 2003-05-13 (from $3.98)
    Noir - The End of the Matter (DVD 7) 2003-10-28 (from $3.98)
    Noir - Complete Collection (Thinpak) (DVD 1-7) 2005-06-14 (from $52.99)
    Noir - Complete Collection (DVD 1-7) 2008-06-17 (from $58.05)
    Noir - Original Soundtrack I (OST) 2005-05-03
    Noir - CD Soundtrack 2 (OST) 2005-09-06

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director:
Koichi Mashimo
Satoshi Ohsawa (OP)
Yoko Kikuchi (ED)

Script: Ryoe Tsukimura 

Screenplay: Ryoe Tsukimura

Storyboard:
Hideyo Yamamoto
Itsuro Kawasaki
Koichi Mashimo
Masaki Tachibana
Shunsuke Tada
Toshiro Kawasaki
Yuki Arie (as Yuuki Arie)

Episode Director:
Hideyo Yamamoto
Itsuro Kawasaki
Koichi Mashimo
Masaki Tachibana
Shinya Kawatsura
Toshiro Kawasaki
Yuki Arie (as Yuuki Arie)

Music:
Hitoshi Konno (Violin)
Yuki Kajiura
Yuriko Kaida (Vocals)

Original Concept: Ryoe Tsukimura

Character Design:
Minako Shiba
Satoko Miyachi
Yoko Kikuchi

Art director: Toshihisa Koyama

Animation director:
Minako Shiba
Minoru Ueda
Satoko Miyachi
Satoshi Ohsawa
Yoko Kikuchi (ED)

Mechanical design: Kenji Teraoka

Sound director: Koichi Mashimo

Director of Photography:
Kenji Takehara
Seiichi Morishita

Producer: Shigeru Kitayama

Animation: Yoko Kikuchi (OP)

Animation producer:
Kunimori Egawa 
Kuninori Egawa
Meiri Kanbayashi

Color Coordination: Yumiko Katayama

Editing: Seiji Morita

Episode Assistant Director:
Hideyo Yamamoto
Masaki Tachibana
Shinya Kawatsura
Yuki Arie (as Yuuki Arie)

Key Animation: Minako Shiba

Mechanical animation director: Kenji Teraoka

Music Director: Masao Fukuda

Musician:
Kyoichi Sato (Drums)
Masayoshi Furukawa (A. Guitar)
Tomoharu 'Jr' Takahashi (Bass)

Planning: Shiro Sasaki

Production manager:
Akemi Saitoh
Hideaki Muraoka
Kuninori Egawa
Meri Kanabayashi
Nari Kamibayashi
Ryoji Maru
Takafumi Kawai
Tatsuya Hamamoto
Teppei Tabuchi
Tomomi Saitoh

Recording:
Masanori Tsuchiya
Syoko Maeda

Sound Effects: Masaru Urahata

Sound Producer: Toru Nakano

Sound Production Manager: Takeshi Takadera

Special Effects: Masahiro Murakami

Theme Song Arrangement:
Hisaaki Hogari
Mikiya Katakura

Theme Song Composition:
Akino Arai
Mikiya Katakura

Theme Song Lyrics:
Akino Arai
Arika Takarano

Theme Song Performance:
Akino Arai (ED)
Ali Project (OP)

 

Houko Kuwashima as Kirika Yumura

Kotono Mitsuishi as Mireille Bouquet

Aya Hisakawa as Chloe

TARAKO as Altena

Ai Satou as Marguerite

Banjou Ginga as Brefforl

Emi Shinohara as Marennes

Fumihiko Tachiki as Killam

Hikaru Miyata as Jean Jacque Legrand

Hiroshi Ito as Reimann

Hiroshi Kamiya as Dominiques

Hiroshi Yanaka as Pierre Cressoa

Hiroya Ishimaru as Madran

Hisao Egawa as Paolo

Hitoshi Takagi as Edringer

Houchu Ohtsuka as Krode Feddi

Katsumi Chou as Francesco

Katsunosuke Hori as Nazerov

Kazuhiro Nakada as Ho

Kiyoshi Kobayashi as Beltonie

Koichi Sakaguchi as
Dupois
Loshuman
Renoir

Kotono Mitsuishi as Oditt

Kouichi Nagano as
Andore
Ricardo
Vinto

Masako Katsuki as Borne

Masaru Ikeda as Yun

Masayuki Omoro as Wu

Mika Itou as Rosalie

Naoya Uchida as Hammond

Osamu Kobayashi as Salvatore

Rokuro Naya as Zellner

Ryunosuke Ohbayashi as Arberl Dukus

Shinichi Kotani as Yan

Taimei Suzuki as Distan

Takashi Taniguchi as Izudin

Takeshi Watabe as Tristan

Takuma Suzuki as Rolan

Taro Arakawa as Galle

Tokuyoshi Kawashima as Heinz

Tomoyuki Kouno as
Chu
Lune
Vanel

Toshihiko Seki as Milosh Habel (ep 13)

Urara Takano as Shaoli

Yoshiko Asai as Mary

Yousuke Akimoto as General Kanora

Yuji Fujishiro as Yubell

Yumi Touma as Silvana "Intoccabile" Gleone (eps 8-9)

Yuriko Yamaguchi as Paulette

Japanese companies 

Animation Production: Bee Train

Backgrounds: Production AI

Broadcaster:
Bandai Channel
TV Tokyo

Distributor: Victor Entertainment

Film Processing: Imagica

Music Production: Victor Entertainment

Original Titles: Maki Productions

Production:
Bee Train
Victor Entertainment

Production Cooperation: M.S.C. (eps 8-9)

Recording Studio: Procen Studio

Sound Producer: Half H-P Studio

Video Editing:
Imagica
Video Tech

English cast 
English staff 

ADR Director: Matt Greenfield

Art director: Ruby Halipoto

ADR Script: Matt Greenfield

Executive producer:
John Ledford
Mark Williams

Producer: Matt Greenfield

Creative Director:
Chris Hawley
David Del Rio

DVD Coordination: Janice Williams

DVD Graphics: Larry Koteff

DVD Producer: David Williams

Editing:
Joey Goubeaud
Neil O'Sullivan

International Coordination: Toru Iwakami

Packaging Design: Larry Koteff

Post-Production Manager: Shelly Thomas

Production Assistant:
Carole Pavlik
Maki Nagano
Marta Bechtol
Miyuki Kamiya

Project Translator: Shoko Oono

Recording engineer:
Cesar Inserny
David Grundy

Sound Design: Christopher Bourque

Subtitle Script: Andrew Kent

Monica Rial as Kirika Yumura

Shelley Calene-Black as Mireille Bouquet

Hilary Haag as Chloe

Tiffany Grant as Altena

Andy McAvin as
Cressoy (ep 2)
Don Marco

Charles Kennedy as
Paolo
Roshman (ep 12)

Christine M. Auten as Belladonna

Christopher Patton as Chu

David LeMaster as Ricardo

Dean Turner as Driver

Derek Degeyter as
Dupois
Rene (ep 14)

Don'l Johnson as Guerrilla

Emily Carter-Essex as Margaret

Frank Page as Don Lucio

George Manley as
Bertonie (ep 17)
Francesco
Informant (ep 10)
Soldats Man (ep 22)

Heather Bryson LeMaster as Silvana

Illich Guardiola as
Burke
Guerilla (ep 7)

James Faulkner as Yan

James Marshall as Man in Flashback

Jason Douglas as
Feyder (ep 14)
Henri's Father
Public Prosecutor (ep 10)

Jay Hickman as
Guerilla (ep 7)
Milosh (ep 13)
Vanel

John Gremillion as
Doctor
Guerilla (ep 7)

John Kaiser as
D'Estaing (ep 10)
Priest
Soldats' Man (ep 11)

John Swasey as
Dux (ep 3)
Priest
Reimann (ep 12)
Salvatore (ep 8)

John Tyson as Council Member D

Kelly Manison as
Henri's Mother
Shaoli

Kevin Charles as Council Member B

Kevin Corn as Henri

Kira Vincent-Davis as
Kid
Russian Boy (ep 6)
Young Nazarov (ep 6)

Laura Chapman as Paulette

Laura Scott as Borne (24-26)

Mandy Clark as Rosalie

Marcy Bannor as Old Lady (ep 18)

Marcy Rae as Old Woman

Mark X. Laskowski as
Rizzo
Security Guard Kicked in Balls

Matt Culpepper as Dupois

Melinda DeKay as Mary

Mike Kleinhenz as Legrand

Mike Vance as Hammond

Nathan Parmer as Waiter

Phil Ross as Bartender

Randy Sparks as Tanner

Rick Peeples as
Old Man
Zellner (ep 12)

Rob Mungle as
Foster
Izuddin (ep 7)
Rocard (ep 2)

Robert Anderson as
2nd Bodyguard (ep 12)
Guerrilla

Ron Howald as Andre

Ross Walton as Associate

Sasha Paysinger as Village Girl

Scott White as Galle

Sean O'Neel as Vint

Sheri Sims as
Mireille Bouquet (Young)
Russian Girl

Ted Pfister as
Hubert
Minister Song (ep 15)
Nazarov (ep 6)

Tiffany Grant as Store Clerk

Tiffany Terrell as Marennes

Vic Mignogna as
Domenic
Heinz
Wellman

Victor Carsrud as
Captain
Killam
Professor
Renoir

Cynthia Martinez

Elizabeth Bannor

Kurt Stoll

Larry Hermes

Lauren Goodnight

Leraldo Anzaldua

Matt Greenfield

Paul Locklear

The Foley Gang

English companies 

Broadcaster: The Anime Network

Distributor:
ADV Films (UK) (UK)
Madman Entertainment Pty. Ltd. (Australia)

DVD Authoring & Encoding: M.O.F.C.

Licensed by:
ADV Films
Geneon Entertainment (USA) Inc. (Soundtrack)

Post Production: Monkey Boy Studios

French staff 
French cast 

ADR Director: Philippe Roullier

Adaptation:
Didier Duclos
Hélène Monshe
Xavier Hussenet

 

Helene Bizot as Kirika Yumura

Nathalie Bienaime as Mireille Bouquet

Olivia Dutron as Altena

Pascale Chemin as Chloé

Pascale Duchemin as Chloe

Bruno Magne as
Albert Dux
Jean-Jacques Legrand
Turner

Eric Missoffe as Claude (Mirielle's uncle)

Eric Missoffe

Gilbert Levy

French companies 

Broadcaster:
Canal +
Canal+
Gong (from May 2009)

Dubbing: Studio Chinkel


Spanish staff 
(none)
Spanish cast 

Claudia Nieto as Mireille Bouquet

Luis Pérez Pons as Old man

Maria Teresa Hernandez as Kirika Yumura

Rebeca Aponte as Chloe

Spanish companies 

Broadcaster: Buzz Channel (Spain)

Distributor: Selecta Visión (Spain)

DVD Distribution: Selecta Visión (Spain)

TV Distribution: Selecta Visión

German staff 
German cast 

Synchronregie & Dialogbuch: Susanna Sandvoss

 

Kathrin Filzen as Kirika Yuumaru

Tolilah Jolas as Mireille Bouquet

Michelle Sterr as Chloe

Dieter Memel as Dieter Reimann (General)

Jörg Stuttman as
Jean-Jacques Le Grand
Mr. Hammond

Kathrin Simon as Altena

Manfred Trilling as Pierre Cressoy

Martina Dunker as Borne (Ordensschwester)

Michaela Amler as Silvana

Thomas Rauscher as Konrad Zellner

Thorsten Münchow as Vint

German companies 

Broadcaster: VIVA (2004-04-05 to 2004-06-29)

Distributor:
ACOG
OVA Films

Dubbing: Circle of Arts

Dutch staff 
Dutch cast 

Production Coordination: Jeroen Schiffer

 (none)
Dutch companies 

Distributor: Dybex

Russian staff 
(none)
Russian companies 

Distributor: Mega-Anime

Russian cast 
(none)
Tagalog staff 
Tagalog companies 
(none)
 

Dubbing: GMA 7 (Broadcaster)

Tagalog cast 
(none)

Portuguese cast 
Portuguese staff 

Dubbing Director: Wellington Lima

Angelica Santos as Mireille Bouquet

Luciana Baroli as Kirika Yumura

Isabel Cristina de Sá as Altena

Letícia Quinto as Chloe

Adriana Pissardini as Silvana/Intocabile

Cecília Lemes as Belladonna

Elcio Sodré as Dux

Fábio Moura as Jean Jacque Legrand

Wellington Lima as Cressoir

Portuguese companies 

Broadcaster:
Animax (Brasil)
Animax Latin America

Dubbing Studio: Álamo

Translation: JBC

Chinese (Taiwan) staff 
Chinese (Taiwan) companies 
(none)
 

Licensed by: Proware Multimedia International Co., Ltd.

Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
 
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