Noir (anime)/YMMV

• Awesome Music
• Complete Monster: The show plays with this trope. Mireille, by the end of the series, thinks of Big Bad Altena as a Complete Monster, actually explicitly stating this to Altena's face. However, part of the point of the series precisely is that Altena is not this trope. The true horror is that she seems to genuinely love all her wards and followers (especially her right hand and adoptive daughter, Chloe), but doesn't hesitate for a moment to use them like chess pawns. Even when she has the entire population of a Basque village lie down and die to prove a point to Kirika, her preternatural motherliness prevents her from becoming this. She also sacrifices her life at the end to save Kirika, despite the fact that Kirika and Mireille rejected becoming the "True Noir" and ruined her plan. Altena exists to answer the question "is it possible to act like a Complete Monster without being a Complete Monster"? IT IS.
• Foe Yay: Lady Silvana, aka the Intoccabile, gives Mireille an excessively long (and open-mouthed) Kiss of Death. And beforehand, when they were children, she was very obsessed with Mireille, traumatizing her for life. Her behavior did not seem to be so much of an obsession with Mireille herself, as much as an obsession with domination and control. The kiss seemed to be more about putting fear into Mireille by confusing her and establishing dominance.
• Growing the Beard: The show improves quite dramatically after the St Petersburg episode.
• Jerkass Woobie: Oh, Chloe.
• Les Yay: Complete with the "sharing-one-bed" routine, and the pushed together hotel beds sequence.
  • Much of Kirika and Mireille's prominent actions can be interpreted as such: ( Mireille not being able to kill Kirika after their "contract" was up as promised, even after finding out Kirika was the one to kill her family, Mireille killing her only remaining family member for Kirika's sake - the one who raised her after the demise of her parents, and the letter Kirika left for Mireille can very much be seen as a love letter.)
    • In addition to the Les Yay between Kirika and Mireille, there are also significantly less subtle examples between Kirika and Chloe and Mireille and Lady Silvana.
• Moe: Poor Kirika-chan.
• Moment of Awesome: Every single episode is basically designed to climax with a Moment for Kirika or, occasionally, Chloe or Mireille. But usually Kirika gets one too just because.
• Narm: Altena's scene in front of the volcanic vent with her hair and skirt blowing around made more fans laugh than think it to be dramatic as intended and spawned comments of "Octopus!" and parody fan art of her imitating Marilyn Monroe.
• Tear Jerker: Chloe's death
  • Also Nazarov's death in "Lost Kitten."
• The Woobie: Kirika practically holds up a sign that says "Please Hug Me!!" whenever she is crying. Chloe also gets in on the Woobiedom in the final arc, and even somewhat before that.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Kirika. Holy shit, Kirika.

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