Audience reviews
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Freylizabeth
A love letter to mahou shoujo, mecha, and monster tamer alike (to sum it up in a disrespectful manner, 25-minute toy commercials) Brigadoon flip-flops between intense battles, cute slice-of-life, absurd comedy, questionable fanservice and tragic occurrences,
while not leaning completely into one of its many sides at a certain point, making it very unpredictable yet somewhat hard to get
into.
Animation/Art (8/10):
Having a childlike, alluring artstyle brought you by the late Takahiro Kimura (Known for his character designs and animation in works such as Betterman, Gaogaigar and Code Geass), the show has a very chill and comedic feel at first (akin to Kodomo shows like Sonic X and videogames like Earthbound), which allows for it hitting way harder on the darker scenes and the action, whi…
Read at the sourceHelion139
I would have probably given it 8/10 if not for all the creepy pedo fanservice, and I don't mean just panty shots , not only adult but also full on 13 year old or younger nudity (tho they do censor most of the boobs, nipples and vaginas ((I mean it's not hentai :p)) but they do show their buts quite often sometimes censored a bit sometimes uncensored) for atleast couple of episodes. Tbh if you are gonna watch it skip episodes 9,14,15 since they are worst offenders ( ep 9 is blatant loli fanservice ecchii and ep 14 and 15 are mostly recap/fillers with some added fanservice) and nothing that interesting happens and they will go back to it in later episodes (as summary).
Overall 7/10 very unique in terms of good things but sadly in terms of bad things also.
Read at the sourceThatAnimeSnobRE
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…
Read at the sourceGalletita
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 and abilities to protect her city and loved ones from an apparent alien invasion.
The relationship between Marin and Melan is the show´s biggest…
Read at the sourcebanilaiscu
I remember watching this series as an twelve year old. Now I am seventeen. When I watched Brigadoon, I watched it overnight nonstop. I was tough when I was younger to strong theme and violence so watching Brigadoon was no trouble. I can still say the series was excellent today. It really came together in a well paced story with an ending that made me smile and remember so well. It's original and complex, you'd definitely enjoy this show if you like action, mecha, and maybe a twist of romance. I understand the show has it's major flaws, but it doesn't stop me from enjoying it so much.
Read at the sourcegedata
If you were to ask me to fit Brigadoon: Marin and Melan into one dominant category, I would honestly be at a loss. This is a series that doesn’t tie itself down to any specific genre, Brigadoon instead opts to include a wide variety of elements into its grand stirring pot. You want series mech (or very mech-like) battles? Heartwarming family drama? A world endangering conspiracy? Goofy comedy? Yuri undertones? Dark psychological drama? Brigadoon brings all of these ingredients together. This type of blend will likely prove off putting to those who aren’t a fan of one or more of the aforementioned areas, an will probably end up too jarring for some folks to get into. Even then there can be little doubt that once the wheels of the plot start spinning, that Brigadoon is at the very least a hi…
Read at the sourceDonwun
This anime is certainly up there as one of the weirdest yet intriguing anime series I have ever seen. In many ways this series showcases how mixing completely different themes and genres and even animation styles has given Japanese animation such a varied and unpredictable pallet.
Storyline
Our main character is a zany 13 year old orphan girl called Marin who lives in a small town and usually just goes about her day with her head in the clouds delivering newspapers. Suddenly and without warning Marin starts being chased out of nowhere by mechanical monsters. This incident leads her to come across a tiny capsule like bottle which contains a human weapon called Melan Blue who then protects her from said monsters but for some reason will not explain the current situation they are now involv…
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Brigadoon was a series I wasn't sure what to make of it considering it doesn't entirely following a specific genre or appeal to a targeted viewer demographic. The art style, Marin's manic behavior and bizarre comedy would have one think this was a light-hearted comedy geared for children, yet the show's dabbling into some pretty dark territory with Marin's tragic past, portraying humanity at its worst in dire circumstances, the occasionally brutal violence from Monomakia and humans, Marin and other girls frequently being nude and the things Marin puts up with in both her family and her connection to the Monomakia would be things you would expect to be geared for older viewers. I found this mish-mashing to be a bit of a mixed bag throughout my watch of Brigadoon.
What I did enjoy with Brig…
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AKA watch a poor sweet orphan girl get the crap beat out of her relentlessly. sheesh
seriously. this is good, but it's like watching torture.
Read at the sourceMaverynthia
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 what attracted me to this series in the first place. I was wondering where they would go with this.
After getting hooked to Melan and wanting to see more of him, it's then that the story hits. It really doesn't pigeonhole itself int…
Read at the sourcejlutholtz
Very original story. I enjoyed it thouroughly. Thoughout the series I had no idea what was going to happen. No matter what I though the outcome would be or what I expected to happen, the story shattered it to bits. It has to be one of the top 25 animes i've seen. It is proof that not every excellent anime has to have excellent art.
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