Marca Brighton

 is a research assistant at the Astarian National Research Facility who has an interest in +Anima. She travels Astaria looking for +Anima, and encounters Cooro and friends on multiple occasions.

Personality
Marca loves ot learn about +Anima, and will talk about them with anyone who expresses an interest. It was reading Aaron Newt's research into +Anima that inspired her to work at the Astarian National Research Facility under Fly Greena Aight. undefined

She sometimes worries about her own demeanor as she is often clumsy but wants to be a respectable researcher like Fly.

Plot
Marca sits on a bench in Astar, reading Aaron Newt's research. She takes an interest in +Anima and closes the book with a smile.

Marca arrives in Radish, looking for +Anima. She asks the locals for any information, but doesn't get anything useful. After dropping some apples, Cooro helps her to pick them up and then talks to her about +Anima. Marca follows a claim by a young girl and heads to the outskirts of town to find what turns out to be two fugitives dressed like animals. Cooro saves her from a violent encounter, and she learns that he is in fact a +Anima.

Marca follows Cooro and his friends around Astar to towards Moss Mountain. She is unable to scale the mountain by herself, and is later caught by a Kim-un-kur and escorted off of the mountain along with Igneous Giesrieg.

Some time later at the Astarian National Research Facility, Fly informs Marca of the +Anima group's return to Astaria. She tries to rush off, but he stops her. Marca discusses with Fly about what sparked their interests in +Anima.

During the Yellow Valley Race, Marca accompanies Fly, hoping to encounter Cooro.

After Fly takes Cooro and his friends to the Astarian National Research Facility, Marca helps to prepare the children for the Anima extraction procedure. Igneous comes looking for Fly, but Marca dismisses him. She tends to Cooro after his Anima is taken, and worries when he disappears without telling anyone. Husky, Nana and Senri come looking for Cooro, and after seeing a large number of crows, Marca points them in the direction of Lilt where they suspect Cooro went.

Trivia

 * The official romanization in the Japanese Volumes 6 and 10 spell her name as "Maruka".