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ブリガドーン まりんとメラン

Brigadoon

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. (Source: Anime News Network)

Names

Originalブリガドーン まりんとメラン (japanese)
RomajiBrigadoon: Marin to Melan
EnglishBrigadoon
Chinese深藍救兵 (traditional · via wikidata)
Also known asBrigadoon - Marin and Melan · MariMera

Facts

FormatTV series · 26 ep · 25 min · 11h total
Aired2000-07-21 → 2001-02-09 (Summer 2000)
StatusFINISHED
StudioSunrise
SourceOriginal work
OriginJapan (Anime)
GenresAdventureComedyDramaMechaSci-Fi
ThemesSuper RobotFound FamilyFemale ProtagonistHistoricalAliensRobotsSlapstickSchoolBullyingAdoptionOrphanIsekaiGunsTwins

Reception

Community score7.05 / 10
Bayesian score7.35 / 10
Composite52.0
On lists5,985
Favourited121 (2.0%)
Completion70.9%
Drop rate8.3%
In backlog64.3%
Score spread σ2.01

Score distribution

1172173384575117615472708220918810119

Where it places

CohortValueTierRank
Broadcast seasonSummer 20004 of 21
Year2000C27 of 92
StudioSunriseC90 of 254
GenreMechaB121 of 484
EraEarly 2000sC200 of 687
LengthTwo-courD359 of 699
GenreSci-FiC456 of 1,409
Source materialOriginal workC546 of 1,732
Season (all years)SummerC554 of 1,662
GenreAdventureC618 of 1,534
GenreDramaD1,014 of 1,917
GenreComedyC1,212 of 3,488
FormatTV seriesC1,377 of 3,322
OriginJapanC2,524 of 7,157

Key staff

DirectorYoshitomo Yonetani, Akira Ookuma, Takahiro Kimura
Character designTakahiro Kimura
MusicYuuji Yoshino, Youko Ueno

AniList id 1450 · MAL id 1450 · record updated 2026-08-27