Mireille Bouquet

Infobox animanga character
name = Mireille Bouquet
series = Noir


caption = Mireille's portrait
first = Episode 1
last = Episode 26
creator =
voiced by = Kotono Mitsuishi (Japanese)
Shelley Calene-Black (English)
Sheri Sims (Young Mireille, English)
nickname = Noir
The Corsican daughter (By Soldats)
Her (Kirika's) friend (By Chloe)
alias =
age = 20
gender = Female
blood type = O
born = 1989-1990 (?)"Noir", episode 04: The profile of Rosaly Hammond.]
death =
occupation = Assassin
title =
relatives = Laurent Bouquet (Father, deceased)
Odette Bouquet (Mother, deceased)
Claude Feyder (Uncle, deceased)
Brother (unnamed, deceased)
divider = yes
aux1 name = Theme music
aux1 = Corsican Corridor
Salva Nos
aux2 name = Weapons
aux2 = Walther P99

Mireille Bouquet (ミレイユ・ブーケ "Mireiyu Būke") is one of the two protagonists in the 26-episode anime "Noir" created by Bee Train. Mireille is a professional assassin, who adopts "Noir" as her codename. One day, she receives an email of her next target, Kirika Yuumura, and decides to go to Japan and meet her. Eventually, the duo team up and embark together on a journey to discover their past and also to learn the history of Noir.

Appearance and Personality

Mireille is a beautiful blonde-haired and blue-eyed Corsican young woman; her blood type is O [ [http://www.animefu.com/index.pl?node_id=6836/ http://www.animefu.com/index.pl?node_id=6836] .] Mireille is an assassin, she lives in an apartment in Paris. She has a billiard table and a laptop computer in her room. In business, Mireille's clients contact her through emails they send to Noir. She appears to like shopping, jewels, flowers, cutting Kirika's hair, and hates keeping pets.

When training, Mireille hones her shooting skills in the sewer. Mireille's primary weapon is a Walther P99. Mireille was trained personally by her uncle Claude. [ [http://www.projectnoir.com/characters/index.shtml/ Mireille's profile] ]

While searching for their past, Mireille also teaches Kirika how to live a social life. Despite their promise of ending Kirika's life after discovering the truth, Kirika risks her life to save Mireille many times through out the series, which is Mireille sometimes calls her stupid for doing that, and reminds her about their promise. This however, when she learned the truth, her reaction of this is to let Kirika goes and later fell into confusion, but then she seeks out to free Kirika after being teased by reading her letter.

Profile

Past

Mireille was born into a Corsican crime family. She appears to have been a very innocent and cheerful young girl at the age of ten. When Mireille and her father Laurent came to Sicily, she crossed paths with Silvana Greone, who later became the person she feared the most. Mireille was destined to become one of the "Noir", but her parents refused to give her to "Les Soldats" which later lead to their execution by Kirika Yuumura. Mireille, having witnessed her parents' and brother's death, left Corsica with her uncle Claude Feyder; Corsica falls into the hands of a rival syndicate "Noir", episode 17: Return to Corsica.] .

Meeting Kirika

Ten years later, Mireille becomes a well-known assassin, and her reputation has earned her great notoriety throughout the underworld of Europe. In one of her ordinary days, she receives an email from Kirika with the title::"Make a pilgrimage for the past with me."

At first, Mireille thinks it is stupid and ignores it, but after hearing her father's watch's melody, she decides to go to Japan and searchs for its sender. Mireille encounters the silent, but formidable and deadly Kirika Yuumura and Soldats men in a construction building; Kirika saves Mireille's life the first time there. After hearing Kirika's story, she decides that they will find the truth. However, she tells Kirika that once the truth is revealed, she would kill Kirika. Ironically, they come to have feelings for each other through the series.

earch for the truth

At the beginning of the series, Mireille and Kirika team up and work through their requests though they have been targeted by Soldats. In episode five, Mireille receives a photocopy from a book the Soldats hold. Since then, they intend to find all the photocopies of the book or the book itself.

Intoccabile Act

Mireille and Kirika are requested to assassinate Don Greone in return for one of the copies; the assassination later leads to Don Salvatore summoning Silvana Greone from Sicily to take revenge and take control the family. Silvana later has the copies, and Mireille and Kirika then go to her manor to take them back.

Silvana, who was friends with Mireille in the past, taugth her a lesson about fear ten years ago, which makes her the one Mireille fears the most. Mireille is trembling when pointing her gun at Silvana when they meet again in the present timeline.

Silvana then goes to Sicily to take Noir on. Kirika fights the "Three Mafia Saints" while Mireille encounters Silvana. In the end, Silvana tries to stab Mireille with her dagger, but the dagger was shot and broken by Kirika. Seeing Silvana trembling, Mireille stabs her with her own dagger. As she lays dying, Silvana gives them the copies and congratulates Mireille the last and probably the first time.

The truth

Noir first encounters Chloe in episode ten, and Chloe tells them that she and Kirika are special. The encounter later makes Mireille wants to find the truth more. She learns her parents were members of the Soldats from Claude; after returning to Corsica, she meets Chloe, and Chloe tells her to stay out of Altena's plan or she will kill her.

At the end of episode twenty, Soldats men are requested to kill Noir. After the battle, Chloe shows up and nearly shoots Kirika, who then finally learns the truth about the death of Mireille's family. Chloe then tells Mireille the name of her parents's killer, and Kirika wants Mireille to kill her. However, she is rejected and is told that the next time they meet, Mireille will kill her.

The battle at the manor

Mireille and Kirika part, and Mireille returns to her apartment and soon receives a request from one of the Soldats Council members, Remy Brefford, to join their ranks. Mireille returns again to her ruined apartment and finds Kirika's letter, in which Kirika confesses that she has been alone for a long time and thanks Mireille for being with her. Mireille then receives the location of the Manor, and she intends to head there and free Kirika.

She encounters Chloe and Kirika (in her True Noir self) at the Manor's yard, and the former friends battle there. When Mireille is almost killed, Kirika hears the watch's melody and returned to her usual self. Chloe then tries to kill Mireille because of jealousy, but was stabbed by Kirika instead. After burying Chloe, they enter the Manor to stop Altena and to end the tragedy.

With Chloe's death, Altena convinced the priestesses that Mireille would replace Chloe. Mireille and Kirika encounter Altena at the Manor's dungeon, a volcano. Altena then injures Mireille and tries to kill her. However, Kirika pushed both herself and Altena into the edges of the lava pit, Altena fall off and disappears in the river of lava. Kirika wants Mireille to let her die, but Mireille is crying and begging Kirika to stay and thus saves Kirika from falling into the lava. They leave the Manor and return to Paris together. The series ends with a short conversation between them, Mireille prefers to have a cup of tea and she wants Kirika to make it.

Trivia

*Unlike Kirika, through the series, Mireille only uses her Walther when Kirika uses other weapons like rifles.
*Mireille and Kirika are voted as two of the top ten female anime characters by Newtype Japan in 2001. [ [http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2001-08-12/newtype-top-10-anime Newtype top 10 Anime - Anime News Network ] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.projectnoir.com/characters/index.shtml/ Mireille's profile] (ADV Films)