Brigadoon: Marin to Melan (Brigadoon)

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Synonyms: Brigadoon Marin and Melan, MariMera

Japanese: ブリガドーンまりんとメラン

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Type: TV

Episodes: 26

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jul 21, 2000 to Feb 9, 2001

Premiered: Summer 2000

Broadcast: Unknown

Producers: Bandai Visual

Licensors: Tokyopop

Studios: Sunrise

Source: Original

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

Theme: Mecha

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 7.30¹ (scored by 3,573 users)

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Ranked: #2730²

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Popularity: #5608

Members: 13,800

Favorites: 150

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Marin is a typical junior high school girl with a sunny disposition and a loving adoptive family. Her life takes a drastic change when a 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.

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Blue, Melan

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Ootsuka, Houchuu
Japanese

Asagi, Marin

Main

Kawana, Midori
Japanese

Lolo

Main

Shintani, Mayumi
Japanese

Kisaragi, Moe

Supporting

Saitou, Ayaka
Japanese

Mano, Midori

Supporting

Yuzuki, Ryouka
Japanese

Asagi, Moto

Supporting

Aikawa, Rikako
Japanese

Lele

Supporting

Itou, Kentarou
Japanese

Kurihara, Chiasa

Supporting

Yuzuki, Ryouka
Japanese

Principal

Supporting

Nagasako, Takashi
Japanese

Chroma

Supporting

Tanonaka, Isamu
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Kouchiyama, Takashi

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Yonetani, Yoshitomo

Director, Episode Director, Storyboard, Theme Song Lyrics, Original Creator, Planning

Ookuma, Akira

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Yamada, Hirokazu

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Opening Theme

"Kaze no Ao, Umi no Midori (風の碧, 海の翠)" by Ikuko

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Ending Theme

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

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Sep 14, 2023

ThatAnimeSnobRE

Recommended

Brigadoon combines childish naivety with dark and depressing stories, and it’s easy to misunderstand what it’s going for because of its cartoonish bright colored artstyle. Almost everyone will assume it’s kidstuff and will not bother with it. The few who will try it out will be confused with what it’s trying to be, since it is full of nudity, mass destruction, and tragedy, while also playing out like a cheesy shojo romance. It’s a great blender of ideas that did not found a way to mesh properly. It constantly jumps genres, and does not have a certain age group, meaning it’s not trying to be ... mainstream and has constant mood whiplashes. The complete lack of mention by retro fans and the mediocre average score are only adding to its obscurity.

Despite its many issues, it’s worth a shot just to witness its creativity. It’s unconventional in many ways, having a wide scope, and likable main characters, and enemies with various types of powers, and a mystery in the background, while mentally torturing everyone. It keeps the stakes high, it is brimming with cool ideas, and it never stays the same for too long. It was made for people who got fed up with typical anime and are about to give up on them. At the same time, it can make people drop anime because of how offending it is with its constant lolicon and yuri overtones, cringy comedy, and crazy amounts of plot armor for the main characters who never die no matter the ridiculous amounts of damage they receive. Yes, it is that eccentric.

It still tries a lot harder to be more than just loli torture porn ala Elfen Lied, and it’s not random bullshit strategies ala Code Geass. There are robots, and explosions, mass destruction, most of which need tactics instead of raw power. It never feels pretentious in its themes, or begs of you to take it seriously. The cartoony artstyle is giving an extra punch to the jokes, assuming you dig their style, and at the same time nobody is just repeating the exact same joke without offering something more to the plot. There are even many scenes of calm everyday life, with many locations and events being based on actual places and actual historical events. It feels holistic, since as a whole it is not neglecting something in favor of something else.

It’s the transitions from one genre to another that can be hard to swallow, or the animation not always being on point, and the creepy fan service could have easily been toned down without damaging the narrative. You need a very specific mindset to get into it, which is something most viewers cannot do. It is not generic nonsense with predictable outcomes and it can get very confusing to get what it’s going for. And I am not trying to sell the show like some sort of underrated avant garde piece of fine art. It’s no Fooli Cooli or Tatami Galaxy. It has lots of issues, yet as a whole it doesn’t feel forgettable as most other series, or that offending as most light novels which are full of deviance yet try to sound serious and deep.

It’s a jewel in the rough, which I will always adore for how different it was, for its mesmerizing opening song, and the broad scope of themes and characters. It’s unpolished, but it’s no train wreck. It’s partially sleazy, but it’s also packed with a lot of creativity. Its characters look cartoony and there is a lot of slapstick comedy, but they are not one dimensional and there is more than throwaway jokes. It’s very hard to recommend it to anyone, and it has way too many highs and lows to be considered a great series, but for those who seek something special, this is a fine choice.

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Feb 1, 2021

CUM_enjoyer

Recommended

I constantly have fever dreams of this fucking show that I accidentally came across and watched on youtube when I was like 13. I can't remember anything that happened other than it being some fucking fest of the little childs ass getting compromised by a variety of situations that would vitally include her ass for plot reasons of course. I remember this fucking blue piece of shit grooming this girl, and other such things, ageless mother fucker likes them young, and there was one part where the main characters loli friend fucking grows huge and gets shot at lmao! Other than that, it's all hallucinations, ...

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Mar 23, 2023

Galletita

Mixed Feelings

Mecha anime is often known by the majority of anime fans as a visually impressive yet formulaic genre, having little to no variety of settings and plot points among its many related series. Brigadoon, a series made by the quintessential mecha studio Sunrise, breaks nearly every single established rule of the genre.

With a premise similar to shoujo anime (young girl meets a mysterious companion with special powers) and a female protagonist, Brigadoon might seem similar to magical girl anime during the first episodes. This is soon proven wrong, due the unusual post war setting and its high stakes, the protagonist Marin needing robot Melan´s power ...

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