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Brigadoon, Vol. 1
By: Nozomi Watase
Whose fault: Tombolo

This is one of babby's first manga, as I recall, but I didn't like it enough to pursue past the first issue. I remember feeling offput by a fanservicey scene, and pretty much nothing else. Babby!Tombolo was a lot more prudeish than Adult!Tombolo, but I was also a lot closer to the heroine's listed age of 13 back then, so this might be....an adventure.

We cold open on a skirt flip, albeit one where nothing is shown. Off to a fantastic start we are. Isshin is mocking Marin for being too poor to afford new panties, but he is chided by a moeblob-looking girl named....Moe. This is gonna be a long day. Picking on Moe and Marin's Granny is too much for Marin, and she kicks Isshin in the face. The teacher fails to restore order, so it falls to our resident ojousama Hannah to break up the fight and reprimand everybody involved.

Time to learn about Marin's home life and family. Her biological parents couldn't afford to raise her, so she lives in the bad part of town with her adoptive family. There's Gramps (an inventor), Granny (a granny), Mike (Gramps' assistant), The Aunties Momoi (identical cooks), June (a nurse), June's alcoholic divorced dad (who needs names?), Shiro (a sculptor), and Grandpa Gen (is dead). Gramps identifies these weather patterns as similar to the ones 100 years ago in 1869 when monsters fell out of the sky and the Blue Swordsman repelled them. Marin daydreams about this "Blue Swordsman" for a bit.

Marin visits a shrine connected to that incident when there's a...storm or quake or some other excuse to bust out our photoshop tools. There's now a city in the sky, a pretty boy who looks like her concept of the Blue Swordsman, and a talking cat. Monster attacks! The cat shows her a bottle that she throws at the monster. A robot (I guess?) shows up, trashes the monster, vows to protect Marin, and comes home for dinner.

This robot can talk and stuff. He's Melan Blue, a Monomokia (living weapon?) from Brigadoon, the world in the sky. He eats fifty helpings of dinner and tells Marin to call him back when more Monomokia show up to attack her. The cat thing sneaks another bottle thing into Marin's backpack. The next day at school there are more skirtflipping shenanigans, and we meet Tanzen, the resident cool guy at the school, and Makoto, the kid from last night who is now a transfer student. Come to think of it, I have no idea what happened to him during the fight scene. Dialogue implies he might be a time traveller with a vague idea of what's going on, and Tanzen might have a thing for Marin.

Monster attack at school! Marin has use the bottle thingy to call Melan in front of everybody, and then is the only one to figure out that maybe attacking the monster in the eye instead of its regenerating slime-ish body might be a good idea. Marin introduces Melan as her boyfriend for whatever reason, then gets ostracized so bad that she gets sent home.

Moe and Makoto chat about Marin, who was the only one not to treat Moe as some sort of glass doll because of her vaguely mentioned physical limitations. Melan has no friends, but used to have comrades. He only knows how to be Marin's protector. Monster attack! Moe saves Marin and Marin takes a hit for Melan and everybody bonds a bit. Some guy gets pictures. Moe's mom doesn't want her hanging out with Marin, probably because they seem upper-class and Marin is poor.

Landmarks around the world are being destroyed because Brigadoon is still up there. The photos from last paragraph have been released, so the police press Marin for information, and Moe's mom gets pissed seeing Moe with Marin in the paper. During the interrogation, monster attack! Marin's family fights with Melan to overcome the monster. The police want to take Melan and Marin into custody, but a direct order from the White House (?!?) mandates her release.
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