History Anime / BrigadoonMarinAndMelan

It's based on ''Theatre/{{Brigadoon}}'', the musical starring Creator/GeneKelly, about a VanishingVillage.

* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler: Marin and Melan.]] At first, it sounds [[UnequalPairing utterly ridculous]], but watching the series from beginning to end, it lives up to this trope. [[GoFigure Go Figure]]

* ForeignCussWord: Most of the English-speaking characters exclaim "Jesus," and/or "Oh my god" at some time or another. Oddly, the latter is usually shortened to "Oh my g-!" when it is said, although there is no one interrupting. GoFigure.

* PurpleEyes: Jun has these. Moe's are a bit more on the pink side, but close enough.

* MagicPants: Averted when [[spoiler: Moe loses her clothes when she becomes a giant]]. Played straight when [[spoiler: Marin uses Cosmos to transform back to her original state.]]

* [[ABoyAndHisX A Girl and Her Gunswordsman]]

* CoolOldLady: Moto Asagi, Marin's adoptive grandmother. She's cool enough to accept Melan as a member of her household just for saving Marin's life, and will even risk her own life when Marin's in trouble. [[spoiler: All of this makes her sudden death all the more tragic.]]

* MrFanservice: Melan tends to be this for most of the girls in the audience.

* ShipperOnDeck: Jun and her father Tadashi are the first people to notice when the relationship between [[spoiler: Marin and Melan]] changes, and Erin isn't far behind. In the manga Lolo is the first to see it.

* StalkingIsLove: Parodied in Episode 22 when Marin is on the floor talking to her Moto's teddy bear only to look up and find Melan has been watching her the whole time. [[spoiler: She becomes more flustered when telling him she's feels embarassed he saw that only for him to tell her "I think you are perfect just the way you are" Squee~]]

* WhatTheHellHero: Marin angrily scolds Melan when he attacks her classmates for picking on her. Later on Melan calls Marin out (much more kindly) when she almost gives up on saving the world. The final scolding is directed towards the Creis Marine when she wants to escape to Submaton Color just when Brigadoon needs her the most.
* WhenSheSmiles: When He Smiles: Melan makes his first real smile in Episode 22.

* YourUniverseOrMine: This choice crops up in the anime, but frustratingly, the ending doesn't resolve the question. [[spoiler: In the manga, Marin and Melan opt to go separate ways.]]

** When Marin uses Cosmos for the first time, one of her transformations makes her look like Disney/MickeyMouse. All that's missing is the shorts. [[http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t350/darkcountessf/episode%2018/18-027.jpg]]

* WhenSheSmiles: When He Smiles: Melan makes his first real smile in Episode 22, and it's truly a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.

* UsefulNotes/WorldWarII: Moto and Gen Asagi survived this but lost a child [[spoiler: and Shuta worked as a scientist for the Japanese military]].

Not to be confused with ''Theatre/{{Brigadoon}}'', the musical starring Creator/GeneKelly.

* [[WhenSheSmiles When He Smiles]]: Melan makes his first real smile in Episode 22, and it's truly a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.

* JapanesePronouns: They don't show up in the subtitles, but you can hear them if you pay attention.
** Melan uses the terms "boku" and "kimi", which are both very male and casual but still polite.
** Lolo refers to himself as "oira", which is associated with being from a low-class rural area.
** Shuta uses "washi" when referring to himself, which suits him well since the term seems to be reserved for elderly men.

* EmptyEyes: Marin's eyes become like this when [[spoiler: she becomes blind from a head injury.]]
** In the manga Marin's eyes turn this way after [[spoiler: Moto dies, and they don't go back to normal until Melan comforts her.]]

* MegaManning: This is a good description of what Cosmos does for its user.

* WendeeLee: Her named roles in the dub rank in the DOUBLE DIGITS.

* TheSpaceRace: The Race to the Moon is referred to, but in this timeline the Russians landed there first because the Americans decided getting to Brigadoon was more important.

* SlidingScaleOfAnimeObscurity: The show is somewhere between Level 4 and 5, unfortunately.

* InNameOnly: The anime bears extremely superficial resemblance to the Gene Kelly film or the Broadway musical it was based on, taking just the name and concept of Brigadoon (a mysterious world that appears every 100 years) and adding alien cat creatures, mechanical warriors, political intrigue, and an apocalyptic storyline. And unlike the show/film's ending, [[spoilers:whether or not the star-crossed lovers (in this case Marin and Melan) ultimately live together is left rather ambiguous.]]

* BigEater: Melan uses rice as fuel, and eats a comically large amount of it.

*** [[BlackHoleBelly Where does all of that rice go?]]

* RedheadedHero: In colored artwork for the manga Marin's hair is more red than brown.

* InfinityPlusOneSword: Cosmos. [[spoiler: Not content with just letting her transform into anything that is around her, Cosmos rapidly heals Marin's wounds, can transmit her life force into another Monomakia to make them super powerful, and happens to cure her blindness as well. It's so powerful that it risks turning Marin into a [[MarySue Marin Sue]].]]

* [[MagicalGirlfriend Magical Boyfriend]]: [[{{Woobie}} One unlucky]] [[HeartwarmingOrphan but lovable girl]] + [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots One cybernetic]] [[KnightInShiningArmor knight in shining armor]] = The best inversion of this sub-genre!!

Taking place in [[TheSixties 1969]] Japan, Brigadoon tells the story of Marin Asagi: an ambitious, innocent, [[HeartwarmingOrphan orphaned]] 13-year-old girl. Not the most ordinary school girl, but she has an [[HappilyAdopted adoptive]] family of colorful characters who care deeply about her and a [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship school friend]] named [[MeaningfulName Moe]] Kisaragi. Everything changes one day when an unknown alien world appears in the sky sending out killer robots (called Monomakia) that target her. Luckily, she finds an alien creature named Melan who seems to be [[MysteriousProtector protecting]] her from the assassins. The series focuses on uncovering the mysteries of the alien world, as well as detailing the [[FireForgedFriends growing relationship]] between Marin and her protector.

* GenreSavvy: When Marin meets Aloma, her first reaction is to ask him if he's a history observer from the future [[spoiler: and she turns out to be more or less right.]]
** And as early as Episode 2, after she realizes that the monsters are targeting her, she leaves her house to keep her friends and family from being harmed when they attack.

** [[spoiler: Marin's similarity to the real Creis]] seems like this, even to the characters, until it's revealed last-minute that [[spoiler: she's actually the Creis's prototype.]]

* SpoiledSweet: Moe is a fine example of this, although she's also a LonelyRichKid.

* JapaneseHonorifics: Just about every human character uses honorifics on a regular basis. Characters from Brigadoon never seem to use them, though.
** Marin refers to Moe and everyone in her adoptive family with the "-chan" suffix. She's even friendly enough to call Aloma "Aloma-kun" although she barely knows him, but she's polite enough to call Midori "senpai". [[spoiler: And after befriending Erin, she politely calls her by the "-san" suffix.]]
** Interestingly, Moto calls Shuta "Shu-chan," and he calls her "Moto-chan". For two elderly unmarried people to be so informal with each other, they must be very close friends.
** Several human characters refer to Melan as "Melan-san".

** Marin sort of becomes one later in the series. [[BattleCouple She helps Melan in his battles]] and even saves his life a few times, though she [[ActualPacifist rarely ever causes real harm to the opposition.]] [[spoiler: This is all thanks to a handy power up from the legendary Monomakaia Cosmos]].