List of Noir characters
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Noir (ノワール Nowaru?) has a small cast of characters, and it primary follows the two protogonists Kirika Yuumura and Mireille Bouquet. Other characters, except Chloe and Altena, usually only appear in a single episode.
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[edit] Main characters
[edit] Kirika Yuumura
Kirika Yuumura[1] (夕叢霧香 Yūmura Kirika?) is a schoolgirl who has lost all memories of her past, knowing only that her true name is Noir. It is not known whether her real name is Kirika Yuumura, as the only thing that links her to this name is a student ID card with her photo and that name on it. She meets up with Mireille in the first episode with an offer to make a pilgrimage to the past. Before dying, Mireille's mother asked Kirika to take care of Mireille. She is an excellent markswoman and uses a Beretta M1934, but can also use a great variety of mundane objects as well. Kirika's theme music is 'Canta Per Me', Italian for 'Sing for Me'.
Voiced by: Houko Kuwashima (Japanese), Monica Rial (English)
[edit] Mireille Bouquet
Mireille Bouquet (ミレイユ・ブーケ Mireiyu Būke?) is a Corsican woman born into a powerful crime family, Mireille and her uncle are the sole survivors of a brutal attack on her family. The reason behind the murder of her family was that her parents refused to have Mireille raised by the Soldats to become Noir. After her family's murder, she would later be trained by her uncle to become an assassin. Already a well-established assassin, she receives an email from Kirika with an attachment of a familiar melody. She agrees to work with Kirika because of a watch that Kirika has which is identical to one her father had. However, she tells Kirika that once the truth is revealed, she would kill Kirika. Ironically, the codename Mireille chooses to work under, after teaming up with Kirika, is Noir, assuming the role that her parents wished for Mireille not to have. Mireille uses a Walther P99, a modern firearm developed in the 1990s. Mireille's theme music is 'Corsican Corridor' and 'Salva Nos'.
Voiced by: Kotono Mitsuishi (Japanese), Shelley Calene-Black (English)
[edit] Chloe
Chloe (クロエ Kuroe?) is a mysterious figure that appears about halfway through the series, she claims to be the True Noir (her name may be significant, given the similarity in pronunciation between "Chloe" and "Kuroi", the Japanese word for black). Though she is about Kirika's age, she is extremely skilled as an assassin, a quite remarkable fact since she uses throwing knives instead of using guns. Chloe is very faithful to Altena and works for the Soldats, enjoying a position of considerable authority. She was witness to the murder of the Bouquet family by Kirika, an event which caused her to look up to Kirika. There are also strong suggestions later in the series that Chloe's feelings for Kirika are actually romantic. Chloe's theme music is 'Secret Game' (in addition to the instrumental song 'Chloe').
Voiced by: Aya Hisakawa (Japanese), Hilary Haag (English)
[edit] Altena
Altena (アルテナ Arutena?) is a motherly figure who is high-ranking in Soldats, who seems to be working for "Le Grand Retour" (The Great Return). She resides in a place called "The Manor" which is a vineyard run with medieval technology. The Manor is between the border of France and Spain, and is a "forgotten place" to the world. (This is possibly inspired by the microstate Andorra.) She was orphaned during a war and was raped by a soldier. This trauma led her to believe that if excessive love could destroy, excessive hate could perhaps save. Altena's theme music is 'Lullaby'.
Voiced by: Tarako (Japanese), Tiffany Grant (English)
[edit] Supporting characters
[edit] Les Soldats
Les Soldats (French for "The Soldiers") is an organisation which has a central role in the story. According to Altena, "Les Soldats" was founded by a group of people about a thousand years ago. They had survived a great war which had cost the lives of numerous people. The first members of "Les Soldats" swore to protect the innocent and defeat evil. Both Altena and Chloe are members of this organisation.
It is revealed in the anime that "Les Soldats" was responsible for the killing of Mireille's family, and also for the chase attempting to kill Mireille and Kirika during their quest. Altena's fraction of the organisation is striving for an event known as the "Grand Retour" ("The Great Return"); however, a conflict has arisen between Altena and the very core of "Les Soldats", apparently about how to initiate the plan of realising the "Grand Retour". Altena states that "Les Soldats" has been consumed by the very greed it once swore to undo, and her goal apparently is to revert this situation.
[edit] Odette Bouquet
Odette Bouquet (オデット・ブーケ Odetto Būke?) is Mireille's mother, but nothing is known much about her except that she is the spitting image of Mireille. After witnessing the deaths of her husband and son and before Kirika kills her, she asks Kirika to take care of Mireille as she believes they will share the same fate in the future.
Voiced by: Houko Kuwashima (Japanese), Sheri Sims (English)
[edit] Claude Feyder
Claude Feyder (クロード・フェデー Kurōdo Fedē?) is Mireille's uncle. Following the death of Mireille’s parents, Claude evacuated young Mireille from Corsica in hopes of helping her escape a similar fate. An excellent assassin in his own right, Claude taught Mireille the killing arts and made her the talented assassin she is in the series. When he visits France, Claude decides to pay his niece a visit. He advises Mireille not to make the same mistake her father did - namely, speaking out against the Soldats. However, Mireille believes the Soldats are her archenemy and still fights them, which later leads to his death.
Voiced by: Yoshitada Otsuka (Japanese), Jason Douglas (English)
[edit] Silvana Greone "Intoccabile"
Silvana Greone (シルヴァーナ・グレオーネ Shiruvana Gureōne?) is known as the world's most brutal princess, and also the person Mireille fears the most. She once friended with Mireille, and taught her a lesson about fear and courage. Silvana has purple hair and eyes, she mainly dresses in purple; she uses a dagger in melee combat.
Silvana lives peacefully in Sicily just before her grandfather summons her to take control of the syndicate. She kills her father because he broke the code of silence. Silvana quickly learns that Noir is behind the assassination of Don Greone, and takes the contract which links to Soldats. After her encouter with Mireille at her manor, Silvana decides to go Sicily to defeat them.
She fights and tries to stabs Mireille with her own dagger, but it is shot and broken by Kirika. She then takes Mireille's gun but was trembling. Mireille, seeing this, immediately stabs Silvana with her own dagger. Before dying, she gives them the contract and congratulates Mireille for overcoming her fear.
Voiced by: Yumi Touma (Japanese), Heather LeMaster (English)
[edit] Shaoli
Shaoli (シャオリー Shaorī?) is a cunning, professional assassin who uses deadly poisons to kill her enemies. Shaoli was hired by a Hong Kong crime boss named Hong Yiban to fight against the Soldats and Noir. However, when she finds out a Soldats' messenger leaked their information out, she betrays Yiban and decides to join Soldats by killing the mole.
Shaoli later meets Chloe and asks her if she can join Soldats, but Chloe says they do not need her. Angered by this, Shaoli rushs to kill her, but before she could get her chance, she is killed by Chloe.
Voiced by: Urara Takano (Japanese), Kelly Manison (English)
[edit] Remy Brefford
Remy Brefford (レミ・ブレフォール Remi Burefōdo?) is one of the Council members of the Soldats. After Kirika entered the Manor, he requests that Mireille join them but is rejected. He then gives her the location of the Manor and wishs her best luck. At the end of the series, he is still with the Soldats, and he says to Mireille that Altena's death does not mean anything has ended.
Voiced by: Banjo Ginga (Japanese), Andy McAvin (English)
[edit] Borne
Borne (ボルヌ Borune?) is a Soldats priestess who fights with guns. When Noir turns against them, she declares Altena as a traitor and tries to subdue her, but fails.
Voiced by: Masako Matsuki
[edit] Marenne
Marenne (マレンヌ Marenne?) is a Soldats priestess who fights with swords. She fights Noir when they turn against them and killed by Kirika.
Voiced by: Emi Shinohara
[edit] Minor characters
[edit] President Hammond
President Hammond is a corrupt business man who does not spend much time with family, which later leads to divorce. Noir was hired to assassinate him when his daughter visits. In the end, Hammond, knowing he would not live to see his daughter's birthday, decides to be killed by Kirika.
Voiced by: Naoya Uchida (Japanese), Mike Vance (English)
[edit] Rosaly Hammond
Rosaly is President Hammond's daughter. Before her sixteenth birthday, she decides to visit her father. She encounters Kirika after her father is killed.
Voiced by: Mika Itoh (Japanese), Mandy Clark (English)
[edit] Albert Dux
Albert Dux is a ruthless businessman who was hired to assassinate Noir. On the other hand, Noir is also contracted to assassinate him. Dux was killed by Kirika why she fights him and his men in the dark.
Voiced by: Ryunosuke Ohsayashi (Japanese), John Swasey (English)
[edit] Belladonna Lily Woman
Not much is known about her except she is a widow. She meets and contracts Mireille to assassinate Albert Dux, but turns out she was with him. She tries to kill Mireille by using stealth-action, but her presence is discovered, leading to her death.
Voiced by: Fumiko Orikasa (Japanese), Christine Auten (English)
[edit] Yuri Nazarov
Yuri Nazarov is a sole survivor of a Norga massacre. Having witnessed his family's execution, Nazarov decides to spend his life revenging on the Tatar minorities. He has a pet cat named Prince Myshkin, a reference to the novel The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Noir is hired by a Tatar survivor to take out the former KGB man, but Kirika has reservations about carrying out the job. In the end, Nazarov knows he wil not live much longer, and decides to be killed by Kirika. After his death, Prince Myshkhin becomes a stray.
Voiced by: Katsunosuke Hori (Japanese), Ted Pfister (English)
[edit] The Three Mafia Saints
The Three Mafia Saints consist of three mercenaries who work under Silvana Greone: Paolo, Dominic and Francesco. When Silvana fights Noir, Francesco was killed by Mireille. Later, the remaining two fight Kirika, and eventually they were defeated.
PaoloVoiced by: Hisao Egawa (Japanese), Charles Kennedy (English)
DominicVoiced by: Hiroshi Kamiya (Japanese), Vic Mignogna (English)
FrancescoVoiced by: Katsumi Chou (Japanese), George Manley (English)
[edit] Milosh Havul
Milosh Havul is a retired member of a Foreign Legion. Kirika happens to meet him near the long riverbank. Inspired by his talents, she decides to start drawing and becomes very good at it. Milosh tells her that he will join the Legion again. When Kirika tries to gives him a parting gift, Milosh is accidentally killed by a mercenary who aiming for Kirika. It is his death that makes Kirika starts hunting the killers.
Voiced by: Toshihiko Seki (Japanese), Jay Hickman (English)
[edit] Judge D'Estaing
D'Estaing is a corrupted court official who was assisting a group of corrupt police officers carry out unlawful acts without fear of legal reprisal. He is targeted by both Noir and Chloe; Chloe, however, tells him that he is being targeted. This makes him attempt to ambush Mireille and Kirika. However, although he was warned by Chloe, he is killed in the end.
Voiced by: Taimei Suzuki (Japanese), John Kaiser (English)
[edit] General Reimann NATO Fox
Reimann is a retired general who now living peacefully in the Swiss Alps. Chloe and another group of hitmen target him, but the hitmen are killed by Chloe. Reimann soon realizes that Chloe is Noir and asks her not to hurt his comrades after his death. Later, the syndicate that is after him is terminated by Chloe.
Voiced by: Hiroshi Ito (Japanese), John Swasey (English)
[edit] References
- ^ The email Mireille receives from Kirika in episode 1 romanizes her surname as "YUUMURA" (with two U's). In addition, the Noir official English website also use this naming convention.
[edit] External links
- (English) Official character list at ADV Films website
- (Japanese) Official character list at JVC website
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