An interesting Anime follow to the amazing hit anime NOIR, and again featuring women and guns, but this one is quite different, and not completely in a good way. While I liked the main characters a lot, and I really wanted to find out what was happening with the story, as you are kept in the dark throughout the story, and the final explanation is, uh well out there, and really not that great. And the bad guy in this is the worst I have ever seen, I mean an evil dude with a mask, that can make people go crazy, and his name is Friday Monday. I mean it was OK, but mostly pretty weird.

This is a dual story of a 2 17 year old women with missing pasts, one a student in the calm peaceful country of Nafrece, and one a killer in the worn torn country of Gazth-Sonika. Both women lost their memory 12 years ago, and you are finding out how they are connected as things go on. The innocent one is Margaret Burton (Kuwashima Houka), who is served by her long time maid Elenore Baker (Uchikawa Ai), and her former tutor and next door neighbor Vanessa Rene (Yukino Satsuki) who works for a large corporation with ties to Gazth-Sonika. Madlax (Kobayashi Sanae) is an agent in Gazth-Sonika, and the best their is. They both end up being hunted by an evil organization known as Enfant, led by Friday Monday (Ebara Masashi), with his right hand who works at the same company as Vanessa, Corrossea Doon (Morikawa Toshiyuki) , who also has his own agenda, and a sniper he gets to go after Madlaz named Limedla Jorg (Hisakawa Aya).

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There are also 2 children in a strange war zone, with 2 moons, and connected to Margaret and Madlax, a girl named Laetitia (Kaneda Tomoko) and a young boy.

Eventually Vanessa realizes her company is connected to Enfant, and heads to Gazth-Sonika to retrieve data that will prove that Enfant engineered the 12 year civil war. She is helped by Madlax, who is brain washed when she sees the data, and almost loses herself, but she manages to come back in order to save her new friend Vanessa from her enemy Limedla, who she is linked to, even though Limedla wants to kill her.

Margaret meanwhile has a powerful book named Secondari that Friday Monday wants and needs, and Madlax has one page of it from her childhood, in which the two were connected. ANd Carossea Doon realizes it, but doesn’t take it from her, because he realizes she also has the gift because she was in the incident 12 years ago. There is also a watcher named Quanzitta Marison (Hyodo Mako) and her follower Nakhl (Nakano Chikayo) who are not supposed to interfere, and who posses thirdari, but Nakhl eventually does give help. ANd Margaret heads to Gazth-Sonika to find Margaret.

Eventually they find each other, and want to go after Enfant, but instead they find the 3 books, and Margaret is able to open a door to another realm, where Laetitia is located, but she doesn’t open the door, but Doon does, and finds out his past, where he found Margaret as a child and saved her, and was shot trying to save her, but his will made him survive, but once he knew he could no longer survive. Margaret doesn’t open the door, but is taken with the books by Friday Monday, who brainwashes her.

Madlax, Elenore and Vanessa head into the war zone to find Margaret, and Vanessa is killed by Limelda, and Madlax shot by Margaret, but she heals, and she realizes what she is, and basically becomes the perfect killing machine. Elenore is also killed, but just makes it to Margaret before she dies.

Margaret opens the door for Friday Monday, and he uses it to send madness to the world and create more war, and destruction, just as he wanted to do 12 years before, but Madlax comes to help, and Margaret and her remember their past. That Friday Monday made Margaret’s father go mad with the magic words, and his codename was madlax, and he was going to kill Margaret, but she killed him, and because the door was open she split into 2, Madlax and herself with no memories, so they are on person, and Margaret manages to save the world from the madness, and she does not rejoin with Madlax and Letitia, but lets them live in the world as her little sister and her friend.

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PRETTY DAMN WEIRD IF YOU ASK ME!!!!