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Brigadoon

Brigadoon

Alternative Titles

Synonyms: Brigadoon - Marin and Melan, Brigadoon Marin to Melan, MariMera
Japanese: ブリガドーン まりんとメラン

Information

Type: TV
Episodes: 26
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Jul 21, 2000 to Feb 9, 2001
Duration: 24 min. per episode
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
L represents licensing company

Statistics

Score: 7.381 (scored by 717 users)
Ranked: #17392
Popularity: #2907
Members: 2,463
Favorites: 30
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Synopsis

Marin is a typical junior high school girl with a sunny disposition and a loving adoptive family. Her life takes a drastic change when an mysterious mirage is seen in the sky above the entire earth. Killer androids called Monomakia descend to earth from the formation in the sky called Brigadoon and begin to hunt down little Marin. She discovers a blue bottle in a shrine as she seeks escape and from the bottle comes a protector, a sword carrying gun slinging alien called Melan Blue, together they must save the earth and deal with family crisis, school prejudice and the police and come to an understanding of Marins past and Melans unexplained mission, as well as learn to trust each other. Set in 1969 Japan with a colorful cast of friends and enemies.

(Source: ANN)

Related Anime

Adaptation: Brigadoon

Characters & Voice Actors

Lolo
Lolo
Main
Lee, Wendee
English
Lee, Wendee
Shintani, Mayumi
Japanese
Shintani, Mayumi
Asagi, Marin
Asagi, Marin
Main
Lee, Wendee
English
Lee, Wendee
Kawana, Midori
Japanese
Kawana, Midori
Blue, Melan
Blue, Melan
Main
Otsuka, Houchuu
Japanese
Otsuka, Houchuu
Oliver, Tony
English
Oliver, Tony
Alo, Makota
Alo, Makota
Supporting
Midorikawa, Hikaru
Japanese
Midorikawa, Hikaru
Wittenberg, Dave
English
Wittenberg, Dave

Staff

Yonetani, Yoshitomo
Director
Takamatsu, Shinji
Storyboard
Ueno, Yoko
Theme Song Performance, Theme Song Arrangement, Music
Kawana, Midori
Theme Song Performance



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Sep 21, 2009
ChillWinterheart
Most anime series can be neatly categorized into some kind of cliche-ridden group or another: magical girls, mecha, sports, slice of life, ecchi. "Magical girl" series, for example, will always have prepubescent girls with colorful wands, long transformation sequences and brains the size of a Chinese dumpling. That, my dear kiddies, is "cliche". It causes cancer.

Brigadoon, I am happy to report, does not suffer the cliches usually associated with certain anime categories or genres. It simply doesn't belong to any. In fact, It will quietly defy all attempts at categorization and will summarily step on your face if you attempt it.

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Sep 15, 2010
Maverynthia
As others have reviewed before, this anime is very hard to categorize and it's due to that, which makes this anime shine. It's not simply a clone of another series. It's what every anime should aspire to be.

First of all, it has the human weapon as male (a rather good looking one at that) rather than female as seems to be the standard in anime, seemingly push this from an ecchi shounen aspect to a more shoujo one. Most series if they want to reverse it, either make the human weapon as some ugly robot, as some monster hybrid or some female cute monster. That's read more
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Recommendations

Both look like generic, light-hearted shows at the beginning... until the plot really begins to kick in. Both also involve a young girl living through quite a bit of hardship.
In a world of another planet in which only men reside, Otaru is the main character who wants to prove himself regardless of what others think of him. He accidentally encounters the marionettes who seem to have a few circuits and bolts short from all the other normal marionettes-they seem to actually think and feel. Meanwhile, evil arises that calls Otaru and the Marionettes to fight to save the world at all costs...In Brigadoon it's Humanoid Mecha meets Human...only the roles are reversed (in a way) Marin is a young girl who accidentally encounters Melan Blue, a Monomakia from a place called Brigadoon, as she ran to save her life from another Monomakia. He sticks by her side under some kind of secret mission stating that he would protect her from the other Monomakias that are seeking her life. This contains the same kind of nostalgia as SMJ since Marin encounters great adventures and, like Otaru, goes has to fight the human public's eye on who she really is and how little they think she is worth.

Opening Theme

"Blue of Wind, Green of Sea (Kaze no Ao, Umi no Midori) " by Ikuko

Ending Theme

"Rainbow Colored Treasure (Niji Iro no Takaramono)" by KAORI

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