{"id":17,"date":"2004-03-28T15:04:22","date_gmt":"2004-03-28T23:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=17"},"modified":"2004-03-28T15:04:22","modified_gmt":"2004-03-28T23:04:22","slug":"noir-episodes-17-to-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Noir &#8211; episodes 17 to 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Noir<\/i> was one of the most thrilling, twisting anime series that I have seen since <i>Vision of Escaflowne<\/i> &#8211; in fact, I can&#8217;t remember how long it has been since I&#8217;ve seen something so surprising. Many series get their dramatic impact from the characters finding out something that the audience has known all along &#8211; for example, that Misao was Pixy Misa.<br \/>\n<i>Noir<\/i> is one that keeps everyone guessing all along.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAs before, despite the intrusion of Chloe and Altena, Mireille and Kirika are definitely the most important characters &#8211; and with each of these last ten episodes entirely about their relation to the Soldats, they&#8217;re the most pertinent of them all. At some point, Mireille says to Kirika &#8216;Where do I fit into all of this?&#8217; This question is so important because Mireille becomes increasingly distanced from the proceedings and begins to wonder why she is even there.<br \/>\nFortunately, all of these questions are answered and several gasping moments occur, as well as those charged by pure excitement.<br \/>\n<i>Noir<\/i> is hard to put into words because so much of it is dependent on having seen it. A more than satisfactory series steeped in mystery that all comes clear &#8230; right down to the last moment, the most divisive of them all.<\/p>\n<p><i>Noir<\/i> is a very important series that grew from its dirty past genuine human emotion. The production staff asked a very important question at the end, and the only suitable question for a program that touched its audience as it did:<br \/>\n&#8220;What was <i>Noir<\/I> to you?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noir was one of the most thrilling, twisting anime series that I have seen since Vision of Escaflowne &#8211; in fact, I can&#8217;t remember how long it has been since I&#8217;ve seen something so surprising. Many series get their dramatic impact from the characters finding out something that the audience has known all along &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}