Editing Noir (TV series) (section)

==Characters==
[[File:NoirFourWomen.jpg|thumb|The main characters; clockwise from top: Altena, Chloe, Kirika, and Mireille]]

; {{nihongo|{{visible anchor|Kirika Yuumura}}<ref name="Yuumura" group="n">The email Mireille receives from Kirika in episode 1 romanizes her surname as "Yuumura" (with two ''u''{{'}}s). In addition, the [http://www.projectnoir.com/characters/kirika.shtml official English ''Noir'' website] ({{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030408002420/http://www.projectnoir.com/characters/kirika.shtml |date=April 8, 2003 }}) also used this naming convention.</ref>|夕叢 霧香|Yūmura Kirika}}
: {{anime voices|[[Hōko Kuwashima]]|[[Monica Rial]]}}
: Kirika is a teenage high school girl with [[amnesia]] who lives in Japan, however during her journey she goes to stay with Mireille in her apartment which resides in Paris; the only things she remembers are the word ''Noir'' and her instinctual killing abilities. When creating the characters for ''Noir'', producer [[Shigeru Kitayama]] wanted the image of Kirika to be "sweet and fragile".<ref name="pnep2">{{Cite web |url=http://www.projectnoir.com/episodes/episode02.shtml |title=Project Noir - Episodes - Episode 2 |work=Project Noir |publisher=[[ADV Films]] |access-date=October 5, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030408011057/http://www.projectnoir.com/episodes/episode02.shtml |archive-date=April 8, 2003 }}</ref>

; {{nihongo|{{visible anchor|Mireille Bouquet}}|ミレイユ・ブーケ|Mireiyu Būke}}
: {{anime voices|[[Kotono Mitsuishi]]|[[Shelley Calene-Black]]}}
: Mireille is a [[Corsica]]n woman born into a powerful crime family. Mireille and her uncle are the sole survivors of a brutal attack on her family, whereafter he trained her to become an assassin.{{ref|4|ep. 14}} When creating the character for ''Noir'', [[Shigeru Kitayama]] imagined Mireille as "a lithe female panther".<ref name="pnep2"/> Mitsuishi, the Japanese voice of Mireille, previously worked with Kitayama on ''[[Excel Saga]]'', where she voiced the protagonist Excel; the first thing she was told was that Excel and Mireille are completely opposite characters.<ref name="pnep2"/> In the English dub, ADV Films decided against giving Mireille a [[Corsican language|Corsican]] accent so as to avoid confusion among viewers unfamiliar with the language.<ref name="ADV Films">{{Cite web |url=http://www.projectnoir.com/episodes/index.shtml |title=Project Noir - Episodes - Episode 1 |work=Project Noir |publisher=[[ADV Films]] |access-date=October 5, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031208060056/http://www.projectnoir.com/episodes/index.shtml |archive-date=December 8, 2003 }}</ref>

;{{nihongo| {{visible anchor|Chloe}} |クロエ|Kuroe<ref name="Kuroe" group="n">Note the homophony to "kuroi", the Japanese word for "black".</ref>}}
: {{anime voices|[[Aya Hisakawa]]|[[Hilary Haag]]}}
: Chloe is a skilled assassin who uses throwing and handheld knives instead of guns. Like Kirika and Mireille, Chloe is a candidate to become Noir. Chloe idolizes Kirika for her exceptional killing skills, and she believes that she and Kirika are destined to become Noir together. She is the personal favorite character of ''Noir''{{'}}s composer [[Yuki Kajiura]].<ref>{{cite AV media notes|title=Noir: Original Soundtrack I|title-link=Noir (anime)#Soundtrack|others=Composed by [[Yuki Kajiura]]|year=2001|chapter=More Melody!|type=CD booklet|publisher=[[Victor Entertainment]]}}</ref>

;{{nihongo| {{visible anchor|Altena}}|アルテナ|Arutena}}
: {{anime voices|[[Tarako (singer)|Tarako]]|[[Tiffany Grant]]}}
: Altena is the high priestess of the Soldats. She believes that the Soldats have been corrupted by power and greed, and she attempts to return the Soldats to its "original state" by reviving Noir. She lives a medieval lifestyle in a place the Soldats consider as their holy site called "The Manor", located somewhere on the border between France and Spain, where she raised and trained Chloe.