At this point you can conclude two things.
1. I really really REALLY love Noir.
2. English has taken over my mind. Someone please save me from this menace.
Without further ado, here are some interesting aspects of the 8th episode of Noir which I found just... beautiful. Yes, duh, this will be spoilers. So if you're gonna watch Noir anytime soon, don't read. If you aren't, it's not gonna hurt you, It's only gonna make you see how much I REALLY like Noir.
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Now, there are three events of interest in this show that make this one of the best episodes I've seen so far. First, the entire scene where Mirielle assassinates the Intoccible (sp?). That is one of the most beautful scenes in the history of anime, I tell you. Then there is the issue of why Kirika's hand shakes when she was being pursued by two other mafia assassins; this is a rather mysterious case that even I cannot figure out yet. Third is Kirika eating ice cream. Yes, I'll be talking about that later.
Now, in the scene where Mirielle was too petrified to fire the gun, anyone could have guessed that the Intoccible must of truamatized por Mirielle when she was young. This is interesting, as the expert assassin Mirielle shows to have a weakness, a fear, that is presented to the audience. What's most interesting about this scene is how she overcomes this fear and reverses it in the Intoccible. This leads to the symbolism in the gun and dagger. One recognizes that you must be calm and focused when using a gun to aim and kill. In contrast, a blade can be used in complete rage and kill off the opponent aggressively. This is why Mirielle couldn't fire the gun; her composure was not calm and focused because of the way the Intoccible intimidated her. Now, why does she go for the blade, while the Intoccible went for the gun? The surface explanation would be that Intoccible thought Mirielle would go for the gun so she went for it, and Mirielle, in seeing this, went for the blade. However, there is meaning in this. By passing on the gun to the Intoccible and instead picking up the blade, Mirielle was able to transfer her fear into rage. While holding the gun, she felt petrified and could not do anything. But with the blade in her hand, there was a sense of power; even when the gun could kill her faster, the dagger was the enzyme that transformed her fear into rage. This, in turn, surprised the Intoccible, and for once, in her whole life when she lived by the words " I know no fear", she felt fear. It is BECAUSE she felt fear that she died, because she failed in her own aspect by picking up the gun instead of the blade, and instead of using the anger that would be expressed through the blade, she picked up a gun, which cannot be used in blind rage OR fear. And to see someone who was once below and once afraid of her suddenly turn and lunge for her... that was all the fear and surprise she needed to go down. This is why she wants to crown Mirielle as she was dying, because Mirielle was the one to defeat Intoccible not physically, but mentally and emotionally. She made the Intoccible feel fear, and by that she defeated her. But Mirielle does not accept. On one hand, one person can say this is the case because she is mourning over what she has done, to a supposed childhood friend. On the other, this unacceptance from the hands of the Intoccible could be seen as the Intoccible's loss of power, how the once great and commanding woman can now longer hold any power over anyone, until she finally dies, and Kirika takes the paper.
Kirika is an interesting character in herself in that show. First off, why does her hand shake when she was fighting off those two assassins? She has faced off many skilled assassins and been in much worse situations, yet she shakes. My theory is that this could be her synchronization with Mirielle's fear, showing an inner connection between the two. It is further supported when she shoots and breaks the blade that the Intoccible was holding and about to kill Mirielle with. Her instinct to not kill the Intoccible but break the blade was because of her connection with Mirielle; had she killed the Intoccible, she would have just been another assassin helping her partner. But by shooting the blade, Kirika demonstrates that she has another connection with Mirielle, she, somehow, feels what Mirielle feels, and for all the lack of emotion that she seems to show, she has some deep within that are intertwined with Mirielle's emotions.
Last but not least, Kirika eating ice cream in episode 7. Strange. Very strange, as this is supposed to be a very serious anime, but some reason her utter cuteness is shone through her eating down the cone and all of ice cream. Why is this there? Why not just show her in her typical monotonous and meloncholy expression? It is probably to elaborate the irony, just as a typical 14 year old girl should not be such a brutal assassin. And so, they top it off with her eating ice cream to the most utter kawaiiness possible in the whole snow. Awwwwwwww.... Kawaiiiiiiiiiii.... *gets killed with a fork X.x*
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