Noir (TV series)

Noir
Cover of the first ADV Films DVD volume
ノワール
Nowāru
GenreAdventure, girls with guns
Created byRyōe Tsukimura
Developed byRyōe Tsukimura
Directed byKōichi Mashimo
Voices of
Music byYuki Kajiura
Opening theme"Coppelia no Hitsugi" by Ali Project
Ending theme"Kirei na Kanjō" by Akino Arai
Country of originJapan
Original languageJapanese
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes26 (list of episodes)
Production
ProducerShigeru Kitayama
Cinematography
  • Kenji Takehara
  • Seiichi Morishita
Editors
  • Chieko Takayama
  • Seiji Morita
  • Yukie Oikawa
Production companies
Original release
NetworkTV Tokyo
ReleaseApril 6 (2001-04-06) –
September 28, 2001 (2001-09-28)
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Noir (Japanese: ノワール, Hepburn: Nowāru) is a 26-episode Japanese anime television series created and written by Ryōe Tsukimura and produced by Victor Entertainment and Bee Train. The series was directed by Kōichi Mashimo, with Yoko Kikuchi, Minako Shiba and Satoko Miyachi in charge of character designs, Kenji Teraoka in charge of mechanical design, and Yuki Kajiura composing the music.

Noir was followed by two spiritual successors, Madlax and El Cazador de la Bruja. Together, these series constitute a trilogy exploring the "girls-with-guns" genre.

Outside of Japan, Noir has been released on DVD by ADV Films in North America and the United Kingdom and by Madman Entertainment in Australia and New Zealand. After ADV closed, Funimation Entertainment acquired the North American rights to the series in 2010.