Brigadoon: Marin & Melan
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BRIGADOON まりんとメラン (Brigadoon: Marin to Melan) |
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| Genre | Science fiction |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Yoshitomo Yonetani |
| Produced by | Takashi Kochiyama |
| Written by | Hideyuki Kurata |
| Music by |
Yoko Ueno Yuji Yoshino |
| Studio | Sunrise |
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| Original network | WOWOW |
| Original run | July 21, 2000 – February 9, 2001 |
| Episodes | 26 |
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| Brigadoon | |
| Written by | Nozomi Watase |
| Published by | Kadokawa |
| English publisher | |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Shōnen Ace |
| Original run | 2000 – 2001 |
| Volumes | 2 |
BRIGADOON: marin & μελαν (BRIGADOON まりんとメラン Burigadōn Marin to Meran?) is a science fiction anime that ran from 2000 to 2001, produced by the Sunrise company, and was adapted as a manga by Nozomi Watase. Its story takes place in Japan in 1969 and it is about an orphan girl named Marin Asagi who befriends an alien being called Melan Blue. Brigadoon was directed by Yoshitomo Yonetani and the characters were designed by Takahiro Kimura, both of whom worked on The King of Braves GaoGaiGar and Betterman. The show's setting in Yayoi, Tokyo was based on the neighborhoods that director Yonetani and art director Takashi Nakamura once lived in. Color is a recurring theme in the series as well. Most if not all of the episodes have a color in the title, and nearly everyone in the cast is named after a color in one way or another. Likewise, the rainbow is an important image.
Marin Asagi is a typical junior high school girl with a loving adoptive family. Her life takes a drastic change when a mysterious mirage is seen in the sky above the entire Earth. The mirage is actually another world called Brigadoon (named after a town in the musical of the same name, that only appears at certain times). Soon alien creatures called Monomakia descend from the formation in the sky and hunt down Marin, but she is saved by another Monomakia named Melan Blue, a flying, sword-wielding, gun-slinging alien who becomes her protector. Together Marin and Melan must save the Earth and deal with family crises, school prejudice and the police, and come to an understanding of Marin's past and Melan's unexplained mission, as well as learn to trust each other.
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