![]() ![]() Noir is probably the most consistent in terms of tone and animation. And unless you’re a Bee Train/Mashimo fan (like I am), you’ll probably prefer a specific one from the trilogy over the others. ( Noir is predominantly grounded in “reality”, while Madlax and El Cazador de la Bruja are firmly in supernatural territory.) Oh, and a secret, shadowy organization is in there too.Īll of the above is just window dressing, though, and each of the series is actually quite different. There’s also usually some mysticism involved, though the degree varies depending on the series. At least one of the girls also suffers from some sort of amnesia in each of the trilogy, and the story is always, in part, about recovering the lost bits of their memories. Generally, one of the girls works as a professional gun-for-hire (assassin, bodyguard, bounty hunter), while the second one is more “innocent” (though still wields a gun at some point). They all earned a fairly solid 8/10 on my MAL.Īs a whole, the trilogy all have the same basic premise in that they center on two girls, both with mysterious pasts, and there are guns involved. I, for one, enjoyed them all, though in completely different ways. Enjoyment of the series varies, mainly due to the infamous “Bee Train pacing”, though Noir is probably the most famous one, being a cult classic that people still remember today. None of the series are related to each other, but they all feature two girls as dual protagonists, lots of fancy gun-wielding, and a western setting. So I’ve been working through Bee Train’s “girls-with-guns” trilogy in reverse order recently, and I apparently have a lot of Mashimo thoughts, so here’s a review of both the trilogy as a whole and each series independently.įor those who are unaware, the “girls-with-guns” trilogy are Noir (2001), Madlax (2004), and El Cazador de la Bruja (2007), all directed by Bee Train’s Mashimo Kouichi and featuring a soundtrack by Kajiura Yuki. ![]()
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