#brigadoon marin to melan tag

[pandora-the-halfling]

More Melon

[zoskas]

oh girl hold on i NEVER posted this??? melan blue doodle from like december 2020 and i still love this a lot

[achjira]

I wonder if there are any german people (or people in general, doesn't really matter) around that love robots as much as I do 🤔 (brave police, (especially) brigadoon marin to melan💕, transformers, iron leaguer...etc)

We'd be friends immediately 🌼🌈

~also fangirling is so much more fun together ^^

I could talk about my favourite characters for hours 😅

I mean I have plenty of people to talk to about anime and other things but I'd really like to meet someone someday that likes that stuff as much as I do :3

~It'd be fun c:

[neutrallyobsessed]

If you don't mind me E N T E R I N G your blog, basically i played through investigations and ace attorney 1 recently so i have been mostly just lurking the narumayo tag, instead of playing the damn games and might i ask, do you have any non ace attorney ships you're into?

Why please my dear friend~! Come in, come in! Between, between~!................

Non-ace attorney???? Ships????

sjkjsksjkas ok but i got quite a few.... tis nothing all that interesting, all straight and mostly canon.... if a show is showing me [male character] and [female character] enjoying each other's presence with a lil bit of love-teasing then I'll probably ship it lel

so ahhh mucho texto alert xd:

Of course I'll start with the funny reference above, TUGS.....

There's Hercules x Lillie of course, but Sunshine x Sally... they got something going on~, like the fact that there's little screetime between them and what they have is all very 👀👀👀 makes my imagination soar through the air ngl jsjsjk ((id say something bout the lack of content but we're talking bout tugs, thats in general xd))

On a related note, yes I am looking for some good ships in Thomas but I can't seem to find any or like, ♂ and ♀ interacted and didn't hate each other so SHIP jskjsksjks then again, tis just an adjacent fandom I'm not paying close attention to it

And for the rest of the live-action, I don't watch live-action,,,, but what i have is: Patrick x Teresa and Rigsby x Van Pelt from The Mentalist, Jim x Pam in The Office (everything else idc or dont like it) and most importantly, Carly x Freddie in iCarly. I really drop the show when they made Sam x Freddie canon lmao enemies-to-lovers my belothed </3

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I looked through my cartoon list and it's pretty much married couples and all that is canon lol: i like Fry/Leela, Shrek/Fiona, Josh/Emily, Alejo/Valentina, Bugs/Lola, Daffy/Tina, if a western magical girls show gives each girl a boy to crush on/date then imma ship it, I'm just that simple lol

but ofc it gotta be reciprocated, if it's one-sided and the other party doesn't like it then I won't like it either :/.....

That being said, western cartoon romance sucks, they're all so bad unless they're already married ksjakjskajs the fall of western civilization what the helllll

I guess Lotor x Allura or Shiro x Pidge in Voltron:LD but damn, its voltron, everybody loses when it comes to shipping there e.e

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And now what's REAL good! ANIME!!!

Starting strong with the best, the god tier, the absolute 10/10 ship of all time...

Marin x Melan from Brigadoon. The ultimate ship. Best love story ever told. No one can deny it. I can't go into much detail because it's better to go full blind but this really is the OTP of OTPs, I'd do more content of them but Melan is sooooo difficult to draw 😭

Unironic and monogamic, Light x Misa from Death Note, I do believe he could fall for her and both really are a match made in hell~♡

Kamina x Yoko from Gurren Lagann was pretty good for what it lasted lel

Gaku x Tsumugi from IDOLiSH7, what a power (and based) move to remove the otome aspect in the I7 anime but have one of the guys be purely in love with the manager of the rival boy band... they're not even "rivals" exactly, they're just co-workers in a somewhat competitive field, is the enviroment that gives it a forbiden fruit/rivals-to-lovers taste but they're actually friends all around lmao

There are many lovely married couples in JoJo, but from the non-canon that I like?? Kakyoin x Holly. For real, it's so lovely, funny and bizarre (xd) not only they should get togheter but Josuke should have been their son. Think about it, he'd still be a Joestar through Holly, have a stand through Kakyoin and it wouldn't break Joseph's character!

Alto x Ranka from Macross Frontier, I don't know/care if there's a movie that says otherwise, these two end up togheter at the end fuck you fuck you ((also Hayato x Freyja in Delta and I still don't know bout SDF xd haven't watch the movie yet... and who cares about seven???))

Lunge and Eva from Monster should have totally team up togheter and maybe fall in love with each other in the process 👉👈

Naruto x Hinata my canon beloved ♥ but..... Neji x Hinata....! aaaaaaa the story is kinda funny actually. At the time I was considering shipping it, r/dankgentina was doing like, a fuck-ton of Santiago del Estero (being the Alabama of Argentina) memes and "La prima lejana" by Los Autenticos Decadentes kept being referenced, for obvious reasons: la prima lejana means the distant cousin♀ so I think you can guess what's the song is about... point being that I thought to myself "If I like the song, Imma ship them cousins". It's a song from my childhood. La prima lejana is a song that I loved in my childhood and now I know what is about and now I ship the cousins lmao.

KawoShin? AsuShin? Kaworu x Asuka! that's where the good Evangelion shits at!!

I kinda ship Utena and Touga, but that's just to trig the libs lmao

Pleaseeee tell me that Claudio and Nicoletta get togheter in Ristorante Paradiso cmonnnnn that was like the only thing i was invested in that god forsaken anime aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa why are joseis like this??? (ok i do know but still... also you gotta bring proof, this is an mainly ace attorney blog, we're evidence-based here 😤)

fuck you fuck you fuck you, Sakura and Yukito should have get togheter, the teacher and the """she's so mature for her age!""" student are actually canon in the manga so CLAMP literally has no problem with that so why not here???.... this are the remains of lil me liking Yukito and projecting through Sakurita but I still agree and now I have more reason to...!

Protagonist x Akashi from The Tatami Galaxy~ very basic, very nice~

Very mixed with the ships of Inazuma Eleven... like, Endou x Natsumi is canon in games and anime and is sorta fun? But Endou x Fuyuka is canon in the game Rangu is playing and it's really sweet and I love it?? But Rangu himself ships Endou x Touko and he's absolutely right??? idk but Kidou x Haruna does slap tho

(and i have no idea in GO, there are so many combos and I guess there was something bout Nosaka and Anna in Ares/Orion?)

I don't really ship much in Pokemon, maybe self-shipping with some of them guys... on the other hand, Lucy actually liked and accepted Brock's advances on her? and that's epic, i love it! And then... then there's Ikarishipping (Paul x Dawn). What a fucking great ship name that is, next to JustWright, it still has that enemies-to-lovers taste I don't like but it is kinda cute and it hold my attention for more than 10 seconds, so that's something- also more fandoms should do that ______shipping naming thing xd

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welp, that was a long thing to write lol, anyways thanks for reading, asking and for your patience haha^^

in any case, this makes me consider doing an entire month dedicated to my other aa ships and another month dedicated to all my non-aa ships xd it'll be great~

[corseque]

Hello, I was going through your tags (on the recommendation of @notbecauseofvictories) and I was just curious what your favorite monster/human romance media is? Books, movies, even fanfic, I've just been trying to find some good media about it for a while now and it's hard to slog through Google results. Thank you in advance!

Hey! here’s a real incomplete list of some monster romance media:

Barbarous by Yuko Ota and Ananth Hirsh

The Ancient Magus Bride

Tales From the House of the Moon by Resmiranda

A Bed of Thorns by Nym

Studio Ghibli films (Howl’s Moving Castle, Spirited Away, The Cat Returns, etc)

Brigadoon: Marin to Melan

Brave Police J-Decker (multiple giant robot/human romances)

Gargoyles (OF COURSE)

Hellboy (all those movies)

Once Upon a Time (Season 1, episode 12: “Skin Deep”)

Strange Magic (2015)

Gu Family Book

Super Paper Mario

Bram Stoker’s Dracula / (various Dracula-in-love iterations)

Mass Effect Trilogy (Garrus + Thane romances)

Dragon Age: Inquisiton (Iron Bull + Solas romances)

and here’s an old list of Beauty and the Beast adaptions that I like

[metakit]

(Tagged by @starlesscoritz) Rules:  Tag 20 blogs you’d like to get to know better (welp) Nickname: Meta, although most people call me Titi Zodiac Sign: Aries Height: 4′9′’ (146 cm approx) Last Thing You Googled: ‘’I know he ate a cheese’’

Favourite Music Artists: Madeon, Kikuo, Porter Robinson... (the list goes on)

Songs Stuck In My Head: Sad Machine (Cover) It’s another Maze There Never Be Alone  Pure Imagination (and more)

Last Movie You Watched: Renart the fox // Le roman de Renart

What are you wearing right now: Big dark red sweater, darker red pants with black and grey spotted socks.

Why did you choose your URL: This has been my username for quite a long time. My previous URL was related to my previous username as well.

Do you have any other blogs: Quite a bunch of them, to be honest. = Metartkit (Art Blog) = teacupstar (My inactive, Starman RP blog) = justbassthings (My also inactive, Bass shitpost blog?) = peanuthoard (Bomberman OC rp blog) = uniqueintheuniverse (RP blog for Misty from Bomberman Jetters) = forgottenfarewell (RP blog for AU!Mighty from Bomberman Jetters) ((I have like 9 other blogs but they’re all inactive // don’t wish to share them)) ((Not my blog per se, but I am a mod on it: bombermemes-assemble)) What did your last relationship teach you: I don’t have any romantic past relationship but platonic wise, I’ve learned that sometimes it’s better to let go.

Religious or Spiritual: I’d prob tend more towards spiritual.

Favorite colors: Pastel yellow, Teal, shades of red, shades of blue...

Average hours of sleep: It depends. Usually, not a lot, or very interrupted/restless.

Lucky Number: I’m not sure.

Favorite Characters: ((oh sweet lord WHERE DO I EVEN START)) (Note: they’re in no particular order) ((Megaman series)): Bass, Starman, Quickman, Cutman, Zero... (all of them... they’re all good robots...) (the others are p good too) ((Bomberman series)): Mighty, Misty, MUJOE, Shirobon, the blue potato man, Birdy, Shout (from jetters)... all of the bomberman siblings... all of the bombermen-- just all of them they’re all good and also all the other characters (except mechadoc he can go eat an entire cactus) ((I’M JOKING)) ((Pokemon)): TOGEPI LINE (TOGEKISS...MY SWEET BABY....), JOLTIK... GALVANTULA IS GOOD TOo... also rockruff and lycanroc...and ... squirtle...my baby... i love... *distant sobbing* ((Other series)): Marin (Brigadoon), Melan (Brigadoon)... Pretty much all of the main cast in the first Disgaea game... also Tails((Sonic)) is a good egg... ((I could go on there`s just too many...))

How many blankets do you sleep in: too many, but there`s usually like 4 blankets in my bed at all times. Dream Job: Freelance artist. 

20 people I want to get to know better: Most people I know were already tagged on this so! Anyone who wants to do this!

[genericjunkyard]

Tagged Game

Tagged by: @anonymouslydevious65

Ya know, answering the questions you got tagged by, and then tagging others to answer these same questions... have fun if ya want reading this.

1. Are you named after someone?  -My middle name is a mix between my father’s mother’s name, and my mother’s grandmother’s name: Eloise + Yeva (…something) = Evela

2. When was the last time you cried?  -Today lol. Laughing out loads of tears

3. Do you like your handwriting? -My handwriting stays slanted right but still changes style very often. Keeps reminding me that I’ll never really know myself

4. What is your favorite lunch meat? -Salmon fillet with butter (Such high tastes with such rare occurrences)

5. Do you have kids? -I am a child are you kidding?

6. If you were another person, would you be friends with you? -I’d get quite annoyed with the previous me because she’d remind me of me.

7. Do you use sarcasm? -Yeppers.

8. Do you still have your tonsils? -Yeppers

9. Would you bungee jump?

No reason to jump so far twice in my life

10. What is your favorite kind of cereal? -Plain ole corn flakes.

11. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off? -I usually tie my shoes beforehand in a manner that doesn’t require untying, having the right amount of loose.

12. Do you think you’re a strong person?

Physically and emotionally- nope. But my eyes are quite strong in forming tears

13. What is your favorite ice cream? -Mint chocolate chip

14. What is the first thing you notice about people? -Hair usually. I have no idea why.

15. What is the least favorite physical thing you like about yourself? -My blonde hair, although it can be a pain sometimes when it poofs up.

16. What color pants and shoes are you wearing now? -Black shorts and fluffy white socks because home.

17. What are you listening to right now?  - Sufjan Stevens – Death with Dignity

18. If you were a crayon, what color would you be?  -Green is my favorite color, but I’m not really peaceful or in tune with nature so…I guess… nah this question is too hard for me. I’ve made characters based on each color, and it’s kinda conflicting now.

19. Favorite smell? -Chocolate cookies taken out of the oven

20. Who was the last person you spoke to on the phone? -Some advertiser guy

21. Favorite sport to watch? -Soccer since I’ve watched so many competitive and angry Russian kids play it when I was younger in summer camp.

22. Hair color? -Dirty blonde

23. Eye color? -Green

24. Do you wear contacts? -Nope. I’m all raw eyes with glasses shoved on. I really wanted contacts as a kid, thinking I’d somehow look prettier that way, but not so much now.

25. Favorite food to eat? - Chocolate and pastries. Like I said, still a child here.

26. Scary movies or comedy? -Comedy of course. Scaring people doesn’t impress anyone.

27. Last movie you watched? -The Black Swan (go watch it if you hadn’t.)

28. What color of shirt are you wearing?:  -A striped tank top

29. Summer or winter? -Summer only because I get to go to Russia. And also school is out.

30. Hugs or kisses? -Hugs :D

31. What book are you currently reading?:  -I gave up on reading books that I believed would’ve interested me.

32. Who do you miss right now? - Friends in Russia. Social media doesn’t really extend far enough to keep in touch with them

33. What is on your mouse pad? -It’s more or less just a flat cover that sticks to the desk.

34. What is the last TV program you watched? -Brigadoon: Marin and Melan. Does anime count?

35. What is the best sound? -Sweet tunes

36. Rolling Stones or The Beatles? -The Beatles.

37. What is the furthest you have ever traveled? -Some middle of nowhere forest nearby Moscow.

38. Do you have a special talent? -Finding unique ways in saying the same statement repeatedly

39. Where were you born? -Hell.

I tag:

@genderless-sun

@fischbones

@paladindragon

@oxnfree

[fuckyeahbrigadoonmarintomelan]

“Brigadoon: Marin to Melan” IS A PASSION PROJECT: An Overview of What the Show Collectively Is

I don’t believe that anyone who wanted to get invested in Brigadoon (presently, or back when it first aired) took the show for what it could achieve on a technical level, but more on what it ultimately is at heart. (The one thing that has expanded Brigadoon’s longevity IS it’s central heart between the main characters.)

And the one thing that isn’t often addressed when it comes to discussing this show is Brigadoon being a passion project of the /creator director--Yoshitomo Yonetani. And this essay is a breakdown of what Brigadoon ultimately IS in the eyes of it’s creator. And to shed some light on what else can be appreciated about this show beyond technical achievements. 

Brigadoon is simply an amalgamation of Yonetani’s interests and his interests alone.

By watching the series and the bonus material around it, you can most definitely pin-point Yonetani’s interests. One of the bigger ones being:

#1 Yonetani is a mecha otaku.

It’s kind of a no-brainer since Brigadoon itself has mechs in it. But even more so when you realize that his other directorial works have been on works such as Betterman, King of Braves: GaoGaiGar, and TIGER & BUNNY.

And I mention that he’s an otaku because he’s pretty flamboyant when it comes to his interests especially when it comes to his wardrobe choices, like when he donned beast-eyeball glasses in the Brigadoon featurette. (as well as the pic above.)

Yonetani certainly doesn’t hold back when it comes to his interests, and Brigadoon continues to be testament to that.

#2 He’s a pervert

It’s sort of an odd thing to mention since perversion is wide and diverse and nearly trademark to anime content, but perversion is often a consistent aspect of Yonetani’s work, only because it’s a big part of his personality and tastes.

Anyone who has watched the show will consistently ask WHY is there so much panty shot from a 13-year-old girl in this show?

WHY are there so many suggestive and often times off-putting scenes used for comedic effect among any other form of comedy?

WHY does Poikun seem to be this huge walking innuendo?

Really, all you need to understand is that being a pervert is one of Yonetani’s traits.

And honestly, when you read his body of directorial works, you will evidently see Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma listed as his more recent work.

Because of course it is.

Yonetani just likes this sort of stuff. And everything starts to click from there...

#3 Yonetani is a huge fan of food.

Shokugeki no Soma notwithstanding, if you take a couple of seconds to scroll through his twitter, most if not all of his tweets are food blogging.

All of a sudden, it’s not at all hard to understand WHY there’s a character who eats in every single scene.

Yonetani sometimes makes direct reference to his favorite foods, like the hallucinogenic chocolate flavors in episode 15 were inspired by LOOK ala mode chocolates.

#4 Yonetani is a fan of obscure art techniques.

Claymation is definitely a favorite of his, which is what made him go an extra mile for the after credits extras:

And it’s no mistake that when he went on to show/create new material in dedication to the show 12 years later, he chose to make a clay sculpture:

In relation, he spoke once via twitter that even the art direction of Brigadoon’s case design (uses of transparency and color) is inspired by the Crimson Collection:

#5 Brigadoon is set in his hometown

It’s not uncommon to have real locations as settings for a show, but Brigadoon falls into an intimate category wherein Yonetani “wrote what he knows” because he’s lived there. (More location comparisons in the #trivia tag)

The Nezu Shrine in particular is a popular pilgrimage site among the Japanese fanbase as a classic location and commemoration where Marin and Melan first meet. Fans go out of their way to visit the location even today.

#6 He’s a mythology nerd

“Brigadoon” in and of itself is a reference

but Yonetani takes it a step further with the terminology used in the anime. Names are centered around Greek characters and once translated to Japanese they create the words we see here:

パスカ(Pasca) → “Easter"（復活祭）= [Πάσχα] クレイス(Creis) → ”Key“（鍵）= [κλείς] クロマ (Chroma) → ”Color“（色）= [χρώμα] サヴマトン・カラー (Submaton Color) → ”Wonder“（ふしぎ）= [χώρα θαυμάτων]メラン (Melan) → ”Black“（黒）= [μελαν] エリュン (Erin/Eryun) → ”Red“（赤）= [ερυθρον] パイオン (Pyon) → ”Ash“（灰）= [φαιον] ポイクン (Poikun) → ”Purple“（紫）= [φοινικουν] クシャトーン (Kushatohn) → ”Yellow“（黄）= [ξανθον] クストン (Kuston) → ”Maroon“（栗色）= [κάστανο] レウコン (Reikon) → ”White“（白）= [λευκό]

(Name origins post HERE.)

There honestly is no particular reason why the names are as they are, but if Betterman’s dense allusions are any indication, it’s that Yonetani simply enjoys various forms of mythology.

I can really go on on how many other aspects of Yonetani’s interests, personality and themes fill Brigadoon to the brim, but I’m sure I mentioned most of the big ones.

tl;dr version: 

Brigadoon IS Yoshitomo Yonetani. It is a work dear to his heart and is considered to be his magnum opus when it comes to everything that makes him HIM. 

And maybe instead of viewing the series as solely a mess of tropes, allusions, characters and genres, maybe step back and appreciate or try to understand that there are some bodies of work that were never meant to appeal to a wider audience, but to instead present what is dear to a single person.

That isn’t to say that passion projects can’t be revolutionary.

Neon Genesis Evangelion is one such example that has arguably changed the scope of anime forever, but never forget that Eva is a piece of work Anno wished to be a form of communication FIRST and revolutionary anime SECOND.

But one of the more defining work Anno has done would be DAICON III, which can’t explain what a passion project is any better:

The purpose of this essay is not to defend Brigadoon’s flaws necessarily, but to provide insight on certain body of work’s goal from the perspective of the creator over the perspective of the viewers or commercial value.

So that perhaps, maybe you can form an understanding why projects such as Kung Fury are made

Or why Star Wars was never truly made as a blockbuster in mind (and can probably help you understand why Lucas may have fucked up the prequels--because Star Wars was never meant as a lasting series in his head at the time of it’s creation.)

I hope that this essay can help consumers and creators alike understand that sometimes works are made purely for self-indulgence, NOT because creators wish to tailor to the widest audience available. If anything, fame and fortune are after thoughts when creating something.

So if you’re having a hard time recommending Brigadoon because it does NOT fit in any sort of “general consensus,” as most reviewers like to cater to, consider saying that maybe...Brigadoon is what it is.

Brigadoon is a neat little time capsule passion project of a pretty neat anime director that has boiled down all his interests into a deeply flawed, but also deeply moving story between a young girl and a a mecha swordsman. 

It’s weird, but so is the creator.

But hey, it’s definitely worth checking out--maybe you’ll even learn something new. Have a fun time!

[pandora-the-halfling]

Melon :3

[pandora-the-halfling]

Human AU!Melan, Erin/Eryun, and Pyon

[pandora-the-halfling]

Spoilers for Brigadoon Marin to Melan e10

(Ik the anime is from 2000 or something but STILL)

DID THE GRANDMA JUST FUCKING DIE?!

NO DONT PLAY THE HAPPY SILLY ENDING SONG WHAT?!?!

Edit:

WHAT TEH FUCK MAN

[pandora-the-halfling]

Finished Brigadoon

(The dubbed version, I’ll watch the subbed version later on this week)