Noir (TV)
Alternative title:
Нуар (Russian)
ノワール (Japanese)
黑色天使 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Objectionable content:
Significant
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 Kirika Yumura, 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:
2942 ratings have been given [details]
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)
2004-12-12 to 2005-02-09 (France)
2006-04-24 to 2006-10-16 (Animax Latin America)
2006-10-16 (Spain - Buzz Channel)
Release dates: We have 2
Opening Theme:
"Coppelia no Hitsugi" (コッペリアの柩; Coppelia's Casket) by ALI Project
Ending Theme:
"Kirei na Kanjō</" (きれいな感情; Beautiful Emotions) by Akino Arai
Insert song:
"canta per me" by Yuriko Kaida
"lullaby" by Yuriko Kaida
"salva nos" by Yuriko Kaida
Official website:
Mega-Anime's Official Noir Website (Russian)
●【m-serve】 ノワール● (Japanese)
Links: We have 5
Trivia: We have 10
DVD Easter Eggs: We have 9
Comment:
Noir is the first entry in Koichi Mashimo's/Bee Train's "girls-with-guns" trilogy; Madlax is the second and El Cazador de la Bruja is the third.
Reviews:
Noir Blu-Ray (Jul 31, 2015)
Noir DVD (Sep 21, 2011)
Noir DVD 3 (Jun 30, 2003)
Noir DVD 2 (May 5, 2003)
Noir DVD 1 (Jan 29, 2003)
Noir DVD 1 (Jan 24, 2003)
News: Show:
Crunchyroll Adds Hero Tales, Shigurui, Tenchi in Tokyo, Noir, More Kaleido Star to Catalog (Sep 22, 2017)
North American Anime, Manga Releases, April 12-18 (Apr 14, 2015)
Funimation Previews Noir Blu-ray's Remastered Scenes (Mar 19, 2015)
Starz' Live-Action Noir 'Is Not Moving Forward' (Jan 26, 2014)
Noir Blu-ray Box's Remastering Previewed in Ad (Dec 30, 2013)
Starz' Live-Action Noir Remake at Standstill (Jan 22, 2013)
Live-Action Anime-Based Noir TV Series Put on Hold (Mar 26, 2012)
Convention report:
Anime Weekend Atlanta 7 (Sep 25, 2001)
Press Releases:
ADV Films UK's Warehouse Blowout Sale for 1 Week Only (Jan 22, 2008)
ADV Films Announces Bite-Size DVD Collection (May 4, 2004)
Other articles: Show:
Shelf Life - Bringing out the goods (Apr 6, 2003)
Shelf Life - Hard Times and Great Expectations (Feb 15, 2003)
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Director: Kōichi Mashimo Script: Ryōe Tsukimura Storyboard: Hideyo Yamamoto (6 episodes eps 6, 12, 15-16, 20, 24 )Itsurō Kawasaki (eps 3, 8-9) Kōichi Mashimo (eps 1, 7) Masaki Tachibana (5 episodes eps 2, 13, 18, 22, 25 )Shinya Kawatsura (ep 21) Shunsuke Tada (eps 5, 11) Toshiro Kawasaki (eps 23, 26) Yuki Arie (as Yuuki Arie; eps 4, 10, 19) Episode Director: Hideyo Yamamoto (6 episodes eps 6, 12, 15-16, 20, 24 )Itsurō Kawasaki (eps 3, 8-9) Kōichi Mashimo (ep 1) Masaki Tachibana (5 episodes eps 2, 7, 13, 18, 22 )Shinya Kawatsura (5 episodes eps 5, 11, 17, 21, 25 )Toshiro Kawasaki (eps 23, 26) Yuki Arie (as Yuuki Arie; 6 episodes eps 4, 10, 14, 19, 23, 26 )Original Concept: Ryōe Tsukimura Art Director: Toshihisa Koyama Mechanical design: Kenji Teraoka Sound Director: Kōichi Mashimo Animation: Yōko Kikuchi (OP) Art Assistant: Yoshimi Umino Assistant Episode Director: Hideyo Yamamoto (ep 1) Masaki Tachibana (ep 1) Shinya Kawatsura (ep 1) Yuki Arie (as Yuuki Arie) Color Coordination: Makiko Kojima (Studio Road; eps 2, 4, 8) Sayuri Yoshida (Studio Road; eps 6, 9-25 odd) Yuko Tsumori (13 episodes eps 1-7 odd, 10-26 even )Yumiko Katayama Finish Check: Takayuki Yokose (Studio Road; eps 2-26) In-Between Animation: Hiromi Sahara (MSC; eps 3, 8) Naoko Igarashi (MSC; eps 8-9) Rie Kawai (ep 3) Toshifumi Niijima (MSC; eps 3, 8) Yukiyo Komito (MSC; eps 3, 8-9) Yuriko Ishii (MSC; eps 3, 8-9) In-Between Check: Daisuke Nakamura (eps 19, 25) Eriko Kiguchi (eps 20, 23) Hiromi Sahara (ep 3) Kyōko Kotani (4 episodes eps 5, 12, 17, 24 )Mika Sakuraba (eps 8-9) Sachiko Mori (4 episodes eps 7, 14, 16, 22 )Takaaki Chiba (eps 15, 18, 26) Takato Nakajima (eps 1, 7) Wakako Yoshida (4 episodes eps 4, 11, 13, 21 )Yūichi Maru (eps 2, 10) Key Animation: Akihiko Mamashita (eps 4, 15) Akihiro Izumi (eps 25-26) Akiko Nagashima (Production I.G; ep 18) Akiko Nishio (eps 1, 6) Akinori Fudesaka (DAST; eps 13, 17) Akio Shimotsukasa (eps 22, 26) Atsuko Takahashi (ep 25) Chikara Sakurai (eps 17, 25) Chikashi Kubota (ep 10) Chizuru Miyawaki (eps 3, 8-9) Chūichi Iguchi (eps 5, 10) Daisuke Nakamura (4 episodes eps 14, 16, 23, 26 )Eriko Kiguchi (4 episodes eps 14, 19, 23, 26 )Fumi Morita (Production I.G; 4 episodes eps 7, 11, 17, 21 )Fumino Fujii (eps 19, 23) Hirofumi Suzuki (ep 20) Hiromi Muranaka (Studio Mu; ep 24) Hironori Yamamoto (ep 20) Hiroyo Izumi (Production I.G; 4 episodes eps 11, 17-18, 21 )Hiroyuki Notake (eps 2, 15) Hiroyuki Takahashi (ep 25) Hitoshi Kamata (eps 22, 25) Kaname Watanabe (DAST; eps 13, 17) Kayoko Nabeta (eps 3, 8-9) Kazuaki Chishima (ep 20) Kazuko Matsumura (ep 24) Kazuya Tsurumaki (ep 26) Kenji Adachi (Production I.G; eps 7, 11, 17) Kenji Irie (eps 1, 9) Kenji Teraoka (OP,ED) Kenji Yokoyama (6 episodes eps 1, 6, 13, 16, 20, 26 )Kiichi Suzuno (eps 2, 13, 19) Kimiko Matsushita (ep 24) Koichi Nakaya (Studio Mu; ep 24) Kōichi Takai (Anime R; eps 3, 8) Koji Haneda (DAST; eps 13, 17) Kunisu Watanabe (eps 13, 17, 22) Kyōko Kotani (5 episodes eps 1, 14, 16, 22, 26 )Kyoko Taketani (Production I.G; 4 episodes eps 7, 17-18, 21 )Makiko Yamazaki (DAST; eps 13, 17) Makoto Furuta (ep 13) Makoto Sawazaki (eps 22, 26) Makoto Shimomura (ep 7) Mamoru Hoshino (eps 5, 12) Manabu Fukazawa (ep 26) Mariko Emori (OP, ED; 8 episodes eps 1, 3, 8-9, 12, 14, 22-23 )Masahide Yanagisawa (ep 12) Masahiko Aoyagi (eps 15-16) Masahiko Arai (eps 4, 13) Masahiro Satō (eps 3, 8) Masako Onozawa (5 episodes eps 2, 10, 16, 19, 23 )Masayo Ogura (Production I.G; 5 episodes eps 7, 11, 17-18, 21 )Mayumi Oda (Studio Mu; ep 24) Michinori Chiba (ep 1) Michio Satō (ep 2) Mieko Ogata (ep 9) Mieko Saitō (ep 24) Minako Shiba Minoru Ueda (Production I.G; OP; 5 episodes eps 11, 17-19, 21 )Misao Abe (7 episodes eps 1, 4, 10, 15, 22-23, 26 )Mitsunobu Nakamura (Production I.G; 5 episodes eps 11, 17-19, 21 )Miyako Yatsu (Production I.G; OP; eps 17-18, 21) Moriyasu Taniguchi (Anime R; eps 3, 8) Motoi Nakamura (DAST; eps 2-3, 8) Nobuhiko Genma (OP; eps 2, 22, 26) Nobuo Horii (ep 19) Rie Maehara (6 episodes eps 1, 6, 12, 16, 20, 24 )Ryota Niino (Production I.G; OP; 4 episodes eps 7, 11, 17, 21 )Ryōtarō Akao (ep 25) Ryuji Tsuzuku (eps 2, 15) Sachiko Mori (4 episodes eps 1, 14, 22, 26 )Satoko Miyachi (OP, ED; 5 episodes eps 1, 6, 16, 20, 24 )Satoru Iida (ep 26) Satoshi Kubo (ep 4) Satoshi Ohsawa (OP; ep 24) Sawako Hirabayashi (eps 10, 15-16) Seishirō Katō (eps 4, 14, 19) Shinji Abe (eps 13, 16, 20) Shinmei Saito (ep 19) Shinsuke Terasawa (ep 5) Shintarō Muraki (ep 5) Tadashi Muraoka (ep 22) Taeko Oda (eps 1, 6) Takaaki Chiba (6 episodes eps 1, 5, 14, 16, 22, 26 )Takahiro Kuroishi (4 episodes eps 1, 5, 10, 15 )Takamasa Shimizu (eps 15-16) Takao Abo (ep 20) Takashi Iwao (ep 25) Takato Nakajima (eps 1, 14, 19) Takeshi Yoshioka (eps 25-26) Tatsuya Oka (OP, ED; 5 episodes eps 1, 12, 14, 20, 24 )Tetsu Honda (eps 16, 20, 24) Tetsuya Takeuchi (5 episodes eps 7, 11, 17-18, 21 )Tokuyuki Matsutake (OP; ep 20) Tomoaki Kado (eps 4, 15) Tomomi Ishikawa (Production I.G; ep 18) Tōru Ōkubo (Production I.G; ep 18) Toshiya Washida (4 episodes eps 10, 14, 22, 26 )Tsutomu Kikuchi (DAST; 7 episodes eps 2-3, 8, 13, 17, 22, 25 )Tsuyoshi Konakawa (ep 13) Wakako Yoshida (5 episodes eps 1, 14, 19, 23, 26 )Yasuhiro Okuda (ep 20) Yasuhiro Saiki (ep 25) Yasutaka Kubota (Production I.G; ep 18) Yoshiaki Honda (4 episodes eps 4, 10, 15, 19 )Yoshiaki Tsubata (ep 25) Yoshihiro Nakamura (Anime R; eps 3, 8) Yoshihiro Taniguchi (9 episodes eps 3-4, 8-10, 14, 16, 19, 23 )Yoshinori Higuchi (eps 4-5) Yoshitaka Katō (ep 16) Yoshiyuki Kodaira (ep 17) Yūichi Maru (4 episodes eps 1, 5, 14, 22 )Yūichi Nakazawa (Anime R; eps 3, 8) Yuji Hosogoe (Production I.G; OP; eps 11, 17-18) Yuka Shibata (ep 26) Yūki Nakajima (Production I.G; ep 21) Yukie Suzuki (7 episodes eps 1, 6, 12, 15-16, 20, 24 )Yukiko Ban (ep 25) Yukiyo Komito (ep 9) Yuko Iwaoka (ep 26) Yuriko Ishii (ep 9) Mechanical animation Director: Kenji Teraoka Music Director: Masao Fukuda Music Performance: Ayano Kasahara (Cello) Photography: Daisuke Horino (eps 2-26 even) Fumiyo Baba (eps 2-24 even) Hitoshi Saito (13 episodes eps 2-24 even, 25 )Katsuaki Kamata (eps 2-26 even) Katsutoshi Ooi (eps 1-23 odd) Kōji Sawada (eps 2-26 even) Masayuki Iwata (eps 2-26 even) Mikako Kamio (eps 2-24 even) Miyuki Nagashima (eps 1-25 odd) Risa Yamagata (eps 1-23 odd) Satoshi Kunitsune (ep 25) Satoshi Morimoto (eps 1-23 odd, 26) Tadashi Ono (eps 1-25 odd) Takashi Aoki (eps 1-25 odd) Tatsuya Kikuchi (eps 1-25 odd) Planning: Shirō Sasaki Production manager: Hideaki Muraoka Kuninori Egawa Meri Kanabayashi Ryoji Maru Takafumi Kawai Tatsuya Hamamoto Teppei Tabuchi Tomomi Saitō (M.S.C.; eps 3, 8-9) Sound Producer: Tōru Nakano Sound Production Manager: Takeshi Takadera Special Effects: Masahiro Murakami | Houko Kuwashima as Kotono Mitsuishi as Aya Hisakawa as TARAKO as Ai Satō as Banjō Ginga as Eiji Maruyama as Emi Shinohara as Fumihiko Tachiki as Gorō Naya as Hideyuki Umezu as Hikaru Miyata as Hiroshi Ito as Hiroshi Kamiya as Hisao Egawa as Hisayoshi Izaki as Hōchū Ōtsuka as Kaori Tsuji as Katsumi Chō as Katsunosuke Hori as Kazuhiro Nakata as Keiichi Sonobe as Kōichi Nagano as ![]() ![]() ![]() Kōichi Sakaguchi as ![]() Kōsei Yagi as Kotono Mitsuishi as Kumiko Higa as Masaharu Satō as Masako Katsuki as Masamichi Satō as Masaru Ikeda as Masayuki Omoro as Minako Moto as Mitsuaki Hoshino as Naoko Miura as Naotsugu Yoneda as Naoya Uchida as Nobuaki Sekine as Osamu Kobayashi as Reiko Suzuki as Ryūnosuke Ōbayashi as Shigeru Ushiyama as Shinpachi Tsuji as Takashi Taniguchi as Takeshi Watabe as Takkō Ishimori as Tamio Ōki as Tarō Arakawa as Tomoyuki Kōno as ![]() Toshihiko Seki as Urara Takano as Yoshiko Asai as Yōsuke Akimoto as Yūji Fujishiro as Yumi Touma as Yuriko Yamaguchi as Yuzuru Fujimoto as | |||
Animation Production: Bee Train Backgrounds: Production ai Distributor: Victor Entertainment Editing: Morita Editing Room Film Processing: Imagica Finish: AIC Hangzhou Flying Dragon Cartoon Co., Ltd. J.C. Staff (9 episodes eps 12-13, 15-25 odd, 26 )Studio Road In-Between Animation: Anime R Anime Spot Anime World Osaka APPP Ashi Productions Bee Train D.A.S.T Corporation Kino Production M.S.C M.S.J Musashino Production Mouse Oh! Production Production I.G Radix SHAFT Studio 4°C Studio DEEN Studio Gush Studio Line Studio Mark Studio MAT Studio Mu Studio Wanpack Tamazawa Dōgasha Xebec Zero-G Key Animation: Anime R (eps 3, 8) D.A.S.T Corporation (5 episodes eps 2-3, 8, 13, 17 )Production I.G (eps 17, 21) Studio Mu (ep 24) Music Production: Victor Entertainment Original Titles: Maki Production Photography: Studio Twinkle Recording Studio: Procen Studio Sound Producer: HALF H·P STUDIO Titles: Maki Production | ||||
ADR Director: Matt Greenfield Project Translator: Shoko Oono ADR Script: Matt Greenfield Commentary: Hilary Haag (eps 15-16) Matt Greenfield (eps 15-16) Monica Rial (eps 15-16) Shelley Calene-Black (eps 15-16) Tiffany Grant (eps 15-16) DVD Coordination: Janice Williams DVD Graphics: Larry Koteff DVD Producer: David Williams European Producer: Sharon Papa (ADV Films UK release) FUNimation Re-Release Trailer: Alexis Tipton (Vocals) International Coordination: Toru Iwakami Post-Production Manager: Shelly Thomas Puppet Construction: Fumiko Chino (Noir - The Unsoled Story) Special Props: Fumiko Chino (Noir - The Unsoled Story) Subtitle Script: Andrew Kent Subtitle Timing: Andrew Kent | Monica Rial as Shelley Calene-Black as Sheri Sims as Hilary Haag as Tiffany Grant as Christine M. Auten as Christopher Patton as David LeMaster as Dean Turner as Don'l Johnson as Emily Carter-Essex as Frank Page as Heather Bryson LeMaster as James Faulkner as James Marshall as John Tyson as Kevin Charles as Kevin Corn as Laura Chapman as Laura Scott as Mandy Clark as Marcy Bannor as Marcy Rae as Matt Culpepper as Melinda DeKay as Mike Kleinhenz as Mike Vance as Nathan Parmer as Phil Ross as Randy Sparks as Ron Howald as Ross Walton as Sasha Paysinger as Scott White as Sean O'Neel as Sheri Sims as Tiffany Grant as Tiffany Terrell as | |||
ADR Production: Industrial Smoke & Mirrors Broadcaster: The Anime Network Distributor: ADV Films (UK) FUNimation Entertainment Madman Entertainment (Australia) Section23 Films (2009-2010) DVD Authoring & Encoding: M.O.F.C. Internet Streaming: Anime News Network Crunchyroll (2017) FUNimation Entertainment Hulu (Expired) YouTube Licensed by: ADV Films (expired) FUNimation Entertainment (2010) Geneon Entertainment Inc. (Soundtrack) Post Production: Monkey Boy Studios | ||||
Helene Bizot as Nathalie Bienaime as Olivia Dutron as Pascale Chemin as Christine Paris as Jacques Bernard as Marie-Annick Mahé as Philippe Roullier as | ||||
Production manager: Belkys Lezama Screen Inserts: Manu Heras (Spain dub) | Claudia Nieto as Jaione Insausti as Jhaidy Barboza as Maria Teresa Hernandez as Mónica Erdozia as Ana Begoña Eguileor as Citlalli Godoy as Maribel Legarreta as Rebeca Aponte as Alazne Erdozia as Alvaro María Sánchez as Ana Teresa Bengoetxea as Anabel Peña as Angel Balam as Aura Caamaño as Carlos Vitale as Edilu Martinez as Guillermo Martínez as Héctor Indriago as Isabel Vara as José Granadillo as Jose Manuel Vieira as Juan Guzmán as Juan Carlos Loriz as Kahiamal Martínez as Ledner Belisario as Luis Carreño as Manu Heras as Maythe Guedes as Mercedes Prato as Pedro Arrieta as Renzo Jiménez as Rolman Bastidas as Ruben Leon as Txema Moscoso as Eduardo Gorriño | |||
Distributor: Selecta Visión (Spain) Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Spain; DVD) Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (Spain; DVD) Dubbing Studio: K2000 (Spain dub) DVD Distribution: Selecta Visión (Spain) Licensed by: FUNimation Entertainment (Latin America) Locomotion (Latin America; expired) Selecta Visión (Spain) TV Distribution: Selecta Visión | ||||
Synchronregie & Dialogbuch: Susanna Sandvoss | Kathrin Filzen as Tolilah Jolas as Michele Sterr as Dieter Memel as Kathrin Simon as Manfred Trilling as Martina Dunker as Michaela Amler as Thomas Rauscher as Thorsten Münchow as | |||
Dubbing: Circle of Arts Internet Streaming: Netflix (Germany) | ||||
Production Coordination: Jeroen Schiffer | (none) | |||
Distributor: Dybex | ||||
(none) | Distributor: Mega-Anime | |||
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Dubbing Director: Wellington Lima Translation: Ednaldo Esteves | Angelica Santos as Luciana Baroli as Isabel de Sá as Letícia Quinto as Adriana Pissardini as Cecília Lemes as Elcio Sodré as Fábio Moura as Wellington Lima as | |||
(none) | Licensed by: Proware Multimedia International Co., Ltd. | |||
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