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.
Episodes
26
Aired
Spring 2001
Score
6.9
Popularity
#1942
AssassinsGunsNoirForeignCrimeFemale ProtagonistAmnesiaPrimarily Female Cast
If you like this, try
Madlax 85%26 eps · 2004
A haunted mercenary and a fragile amnesiac girl chase the same kind of buried truth, wrapped in the same moody dread.
Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom 85%26 eps · 2009
An amnesiac killer bonded to a lethal partner mirrors that same slow unraveling of memory and violence.
El Cazador de la Bruja 82%26 eps · 2007
Two women on the run across foreign roads echo that intimate partnership built on secrets and guns.
Gunslinger Girl 79%13 eps · 2003
Trade the globe-trotting duo for an ensemble of conditioned girl-assassins, but the quiet melancholy under the bullets stays intact.