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[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/6NlPv.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/6NlPv.jpg)

I found this image on an AMV called ♪ Clarissa ♪ at
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gje-xf8liWM>. The girl appears at 1:43 in the
video. I think she might be from _Kiddy Grade_ , but I'm not sure.


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What anime is this girl kicking someone from?


Wow, this was (and is) a hard one to find but you made me curious!

TL;DR: It's Kiddy Grade.

The character pictured is indeed Éclair from Kiddy Grade. She normally looks
like this.

[![She looks quite
different!](https://i.stack.imgur.com/hKNAN.gif)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/hKNAN.gif)

However, this is a younger version of her, and it's really hard to find
information on where she comes from - I wanted to find an episode number she
appears in, but couldn't track one down, or even a proper screenshot.

This was the best I could do: via some reverse-image searching with various
terms, I found this image, which has a filename equating to 'Éclair in Star
Year 0318 - Kiddy Grade'.

[![Without the filename I'd still be so
lost](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Q1J7D.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Q1J7D.jpg)

It's pretty believable that this is the same character as in the screenshot,
and you can see from the earrings that she may well have some relation to
Éclair. I tried to find more pictures similar to this one that would provide
more information, but though there are a few, they don't really help much.

On a whim, I went on pixiv and was able to find this in the Kiddy Grade tag:

[![By
Aoko](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iDOim.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iDOim.jpg)

Credit to [this artist](http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=853637). I think
you'll agree this is the same character. The picture is entitled '幼エクレール', or,
in English, 'Young Éclair'.

Anyway, I think this has to be from Kiddy Grade, and hope this clears up why.
She definitely doesn't look like this for most of the series though! If
anybody who's actually watched the series would like to provide more details
that would be great, but anyway, hope this helped.


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This is _indeed_ an interesting question, especially because **the appearance
of characters in the KG-universe can change dramatically** , even within the
show. ([1](http://kiddygrade.wikia.com/wiki/Lumi%C3%A8re),
[2](http://kiddygrade.wikia.com/wiki/%C3%89clair))

> Cutbacks, clones and implanted false memories make it even harder.

First, did you notice that most of the material in the video is in 4:3 aspect
ratio? The material we suspect to be from _Kiddy Grade_ (KG) is in 16:9,
though it aired in 4:3.

I asked myself, could it be from the sequel _[Kiddy Girl-
and](http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=4999)_ (KG-a) then?
So I roughly skimmed through the episodes of KG-a in 10 second steps¹ and
looked closer at sections that _weren't_ about the main characters of KG-a,
but I found nothing. Oh well, I could have avoided that by looking at the date
when this video was uploaded, in 2008 and KG-a just aired a year later in
2009. However while investigating I found some scenes of Trixie that looked
similar.

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vXNNZ.jpg) Trixie
and Troisienne in episode 15 of KG-a

I also noticed that the animation quality is a bit better than in the original
Kiddy Grade series. So what could it be? The compilation movies? No, these are
4:3, but let's not jump to conclusions. So I skimmed through these too.
Nothing there.

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/g8Vv9.png)

Now watching the video more carefully there is this frame from what reminded
me of an announcement of what would never be released as **_KG2_**. I now
remember this because of [this
wallpaper](http://www.nattoli.net/art/546/kiddy-girl-and) on Ningen/Nattoli
from back in the days.

There exists a KG2 "pilot trailer" of about 5-7 minutes playtime that was also
released on DVD and Bluray of the compilation movies. I didn't care too much
about this because it has no consistent story and at some point in time the
announcement of KG2 on the official KG website just linked to KG-a, something
that was at first glance not closely related to KG, but with reused material
from KG2 concepts.

Before KG-a was released I mistook the girls in the picture above as Eclair
and Lumiere, but the one on the right became _Q-feuille_ ² from KG-a, the
other never appears in the anime and apparently was replaced with or restyled
to become _Ascoeur_ in KG-a. Coparing the KG2 trailer and KG-a both characters
use similar weapons, have the same birthmark, fight what became the
antagonists of KG-a and their clothes are also very similar.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8YmtO.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8YmtO.jpg)

**Summary:** The scene is from around 0:55 to 1:00 of the KG2 "pilot trailer"
and the next frame shows what appears to be a more mature(!) Lumiere. You can
already see parts of her on the left in the picture. The AMV also shows the
younger Lumiere holding a 4-barreled gun which is in the trailer, too. I
assume that all the KG scenes in the AMV are from the trailer. lord-
trashheart's investigation was on the right track and _very_ close.

Here is the complete scene:

<http://webm.host/9ace3/vid.webm>

size: 2,11 MB; resolution: 720p; duration: 10 s; audio: muted; codec: vp9;
bitrate: crf16

* * *

¹ Could someone implement [this](https://stackoverflow.com/a/31062885/2010467)
please?

² I forgot to take a screenshot of the computer screen that displays
Q-feuille's name in full.


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