 The Anti-Frenchie ROSSMANA French
assassin takes a young, naive protégé under his
wing and together they kill many people to the delight of the
audience, but just not to the pleasure of those getting "hit".
Think I'm talking about Luc Besson's Leon: The Professional?
Nope. Though instead of saying "his" I should have
said "her" and mentioned that the older killer had
a set of big boobies. Yup, that's right, I'm talking about
the
anime TV show Noir. Is it as good as Leon? No,
but what really is.
Noir
has a lot of things going for it though. It's all about this
hot French (really she's Corsican) chick who kills people for
a living and wears tight, short skirts and sexy boots. She's
pretty good at what she does, but soon she meets up with a young
Asian girl with amnesia who turns out to be even better and
snuffing out life than the French girl! Mireille, the Frenchie,
agrees to team up with Kirika, the amnesiac Asian, and together
they wipe out what must be half of the European underworld with
all of the assignments that they take.
It starts
out really cool (with incredible muzak and sweet
choreography for all the fight and assassination scenes), but
kinda drags for a few early episodes while we just lather,
rinse
and repeat the plot to a generic "job of the week"
storyline. But in the end, those episodes are very important.
They set up how Kirika and Mireille (who take the well known
and ancient name "Noir" as their working title) gell
together and learn to trust eachother. Plus the music rocks!
Soon though,
we get to meet the enigmatic Chloe. Chloe is a total badass
who lets her flying daggers do most of her talking. She also
claims to be the real and official Noir. Then we get tons of
revelations. There's talk about Soldats, a kind of Illuminati
(or secret world government), and their role in the Noir mythos.
We also get introduced to Altena (the woman I'd most like to
slap if I ever slapped women) and some of Mireille's still living
family. Plus the music is kickin' in all the right places and
sweeping in all the rest.
I always
like to play the soundtrack on a portable cd player when I'm
out in the neighborhood avoiding and attempting to shoot the
many ninja and hired assassins that always end up trying to
track me down for the mullah that Robot Pedro put on my head
a few months ago. But since it's just so much damn fun taking
them out left and right with my personal stash of throwing stars
and uzis while listening to the Noir symphony and chorus
belt it into high gear, I've just never had the heart to tell
any of them that Robot Pedro doesn't even have the $12.67 that
he said he'd pay them if they ever did decapitate my ass.
What did
I think of Noir? T'is a damn fine show. DAMN fine. See
it now. Cheer for the main heroines. Dance dance to the musical
revolutions! And feel confidant that I gave it a 6.5
out of 7 Golden Nuggets of Rossman Power and Principle! What
I liked most about Noir is that the ending is a great ending,
but it's also left wide open for the inevitable Noir 2.
God bless commercialism!
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