Noir… it is the name of an ancient fate.. it’s also a pretty good anime, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen antagonists who were quite so poorly equipped to deal with, well, anything really. Everyone in the Noirverse acts as if Noir had incredibly elite skills. They’re impressive, no doubt, but most of the people they face are, frankly, stupid.
[Spoilers follow]
It doesn’t take a hardened criminal or Sean Connery to know that if you bring nothing but a dagger to a gun fight, you’re probably not going to do so well. This is especially true when you’re standing around in the open and your opponent is at a significant distance. It takes a special something, however, to die in such a situation by being stabbed instead of shot.
In yet another scene, a group of Triads show that they’re apparently affected by the Inverse Ninja Rule. Kirika is approaching a very, very large group of them. She’s apparently unarmed, but surrounded by dead bodies.
Advice for you: If you are ever in a situation where you are being approached, very slowly, by an elite assassin, and your mission is to kill her, and you are at an obvious advantage, do not stand still and do nothing at all. Fire. Run away. Tell her to stop. Do something. Just don’t stand there. If the real world worked the way the Noirverse world did, there would be no need or use for armies. Each country would have a single, poorly equipped sniper, capable of taking on an entire brigade of tanks and winning in less than five minutes as people pour out of their tanks for a better view (which, as I recall, is the AI’s strategy in at least on FPS I’ve heard of).
Oh well, at least it’s fun.