Brigadoon: marin & μελαν
As a reminder, I am covering this due to its debatable loose connection to GaoGaiGar, albeit set much earlier in the timeline. Let's take a look.
1: Blue-coloured Introduction.
Two Mechanical looking figures, one named Pyon, discuss how they face the Day of Pasca, and if Creis isn't found, Brigadoon will fall.
It's June 9th, 1969, and the papers a certain girl is delivering speak of the upcoming US Moon Rocket launch. She manages to beak the milk delivery to one house, a common occurrence to his immense frustration. With her deliveries done, she prays to grow taller, for her long sightedness to go away, for them to have enough money, and to be friends with Moe forever. She has a long tab of unpaid offerings, which she adds to, before spotting a strange green creature, which mimics her before running off, she chases it around untik it vanishes near the shrine, and sees through it's opening that it contains a strange blue item. After briefly imagining a giant snake eating her, she opts to investigate, but is stopped by an english-speaking Miko, who chases her away for the vandalism.
Our heroine is Asagi Marin, 13 years old. She returns to the Share House for breakfast, encouraging Tadashi to come in, paying her respects to her late grandfather Gen, her grandmother Moto, 68, places rice before him. Also living there is mad inventor Aian Shuta, and his American assistant, Mike White, as well as the candy store owner Momoi triplets, Hitoe, Furae and Mitsue, wood sculptor Onando Shiro, and drunkard Tokita Tadashi, whose wife left due to his drinking. After breakfast, on her way to school, Marin runs into the returning Jun, Tadashi's daughter, and a nurse who works nights.
At assembly, as the Principal delivers his speech Marin tends to her sickly best friend, Kisaragi Moe, not noticing the boys are peeking at her even when called up due to her essay about orphanhood getting a prize, the whole school unfortunately seeing. The laughter is halted by a sudden bright light, and what appears to be structures appear within an Aurora in the sky, Marin briefly imagining aliens appearing and killing Moe.
The same site is visible in New York, St Petersburgh and Kenya, and everyone at the share house reacts in various ways, Shura noting it must be a mirage of sorts as sunlight is coming through. Usuzumi Isshin, who lifted her skitt, mocks her for causing this somehow, Ayanashi Eiko, Ebicha Tamami and Konno Wakana complain she used her orphan status to win, Hanazono Sumi recommends she wear a slip, Kabamoto Tatsuya asks how she changed the sky, and Tanzen Takashi declares it doesn't matter. The teacher, Kurihara Chiasa, comes in to dismiss them for the day.
Back at home, before Marin has a chance to show off her prize, something falls from the mirage down directly into the Asagi rooms. It's first eye identifies Marin, then the second fires laser blasts, destroying her prize. She escapes to where everyone else is, they all get knocked down by the blasts, but it's clear the object is targeting her. She escapes on bike, it pursues, firing missiles from a third eye which destroy the bike at the shrine, as she runs on foot it splits and sp9ns with razor points. She manages to hide at the shrine, and is drawn in and taking the treasure, briefly imagining it electrocution her, it does have some reaction before the daruma chasing her finds her again, shining from the last eye a blinding light that threatens to burn her away in a panic she throws the treasure.
And suddenly there is a blue robotesque warrior, that uses a laser gun to blast the daruma away, before turning to Marin, identifying her by name, and introducing itself as Melan Blue. When the Daruma reappears, Melan grows wire appendages from his torso to hold Marin, and, activating a faceplate, flies into the air with her, dropping her when told, then catching her again, and accidentally destroying the fortunes. Marin complains about not knowing what's going on, then realises the purple blood on her is Melan's and apologises for causing him to be injured, but he assures her he will recover swiftly as a Monomachia, but doesn't feel inclined to explain what that is, content to protect her without explaining, but when asked tells her the daruma is the Murder Monomachia Dollon. They continue escaping Dollon's pursuit, flying through an amusement park, where a boy recognises Monomakia.
Melan deposits Marin in a gondola while he clashes with Dollon, using both his gun arm and his bayonet arm, but Dollon spots Marin and tears through her car, leaving her hanging from a wire. As it approaches her it accidentally socks up some scraps, causing it to fall, allowing Melan to tear open Dollon's head and blast out the inside to destroy it, then catches Marin, asking if she is okay.
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Translation: “Ayanashi” Chapter 12 [Final Chapter] Preview Pt 1 (Spoilers!)
Yes, you heard right. This is the final chapter of Ayanashi. So I will be doing two previews from this chapter. Spoilers ahead!
Lachao: “…hey, Holo…”
Lachao: “I…”
Lachao: “just killed a man for the first time…”
Holo: “Lachao…you..”
Lachao: “…are you scared of me?”
Lachao: “Can you not be friends…”
Lachao: “With someone like me?”
Lachao: “…go…”
Lachao: “You’re…fine now”
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