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Mecha are large mechanical battlesuits, often termed robots despite them being almost indiscriminately piloted by humans, which varyingly appear out of underground bases, aerial transports, huge spaceships, but most notably out of thin air. And often whatever container the mecha are in seems disproportionately small compared to the size the mecha have when they're fighting the enemy in a random city littered with skyscrapers, for instance. And then there's the giant monsters these mecha have to face in certain series. In such series, having to fight a monster of formidable size is usually the only reason why there are mecha in it to begin with.

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  • Japanese TV series centered around battles where powerful creatures are summoned using some small object that usually has a real-life equivalent of these battles in the form of a game, except in real life, you don't actually get to summon any creatures
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  • Mecha are large mechanical battlesuits, often termed robots despite them being almost indiscriminately piloted by humans, which varyingly appear out of underground bases, aerial transports, huge spaceships, but most notably out of thin air. And often whatever container the mecha are in seems disproportionately small compared to the size the mecha have when they're fighting the enemy in a random city littered with skyscrapers, for instance. And then there's the giant monsters these mecha have to face in certain series. In such series, having to fight a monster of formidable size is usually the only reason why there are mecha in it to begin with.
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  • 2012-09-16(xsd:date)
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  • Mecha are large mechanical battlesuits, often termed robots despite them being almost indiscriminately piloted by humans, which varyingly appear out of underground bases, aerial transports, huge spaceships, but most notably out of thin air. And often whatever container the mecha are in seems disproportionately small compared to the size the mecha have when they're fighting the enemy in a random city littered with skyscrapers, for instance. And then there's the giant monsters these mecha have to face in certain series. In such series, having to fight a monster of formidable size is usually the only reason why there are mecha in it to begin with. Dragon Ball was the forerunner of Japanese TV series centered around battles where powerful creatures are summoned using some small object that usually has a real-life equivalent of these battles in the form of a game, except in real life, you don't actually get to summon any creatures. It featured dragons being summoned from a collection of orange balls known as "Dragon Balls" for obvious reasons. But because the people who summon these dragons tend to be experts at martial arts and can fire energy beams from their hands and because the dragons were gifted with the godlike power to grant wishes, there was no incentive to make use of the dragons' no doubt awesome fighting abilities. Now combine all of that with insect collecting, virtual pets, cockfights and the desire to make loads of money and you get this genre.
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