
Marin Asagi
main character



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)
Brigadoon has been met with mixed reactions, with an average AniList score of 69/100 — 44% of 1,231 ratings are 8/10 or higher.
It ranks #15 highest-rated anime of 2000, and #20 most popular anime of 2000 on AniList.
Of the 2.2K AniList users who started it, 8.2% dropped it, so it is dropped at a typical rate; 1.6K have finished it.
At about 10 h 50 min in total, plan on one to two weeks at a couple of episodes a day.
Best for viewers who enjoy Adventure, Comedy, Drama — especially super robot, found family, female protagonist, historical.
A streaming link is not listed for this title yet.
26 episodes are listed.
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Brigadoon has 26 episodes of about 25 minutes each, roughly 10 h 50 min in total.
About 10 h 50 min back to back. At two episodes a day it takes 13 days; at one hour a day, about 11 days.
Yes. Brigadoon has finished airing — the final episode aired February 9, 2001.
No sequel is listed for Brigadoon as of October 2026.
No. Brigadoon is an original anime story, not adapted from a manga or novel.
Brigadoon was animated by Sunrise and directed by Yoshitomo Yonetani.
The opening, "Kaze no Ao, Umi no Midori", is performed by an uncredited artist.