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Mecha vs Mega - What's the difference?

mecha | mega |

As nouns the difference between mecha and mega

is that mecha is (anime|manga) a large armoured robot on legs, typically controlled by a pilot seated inside while mega is meg (megabyte).

As an adverb mega is

very.

mecha

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (anime, manga) A large armoured robot on legs, typically controlled by a pilot seated inside.
  • * 1997 , Helen McCarthy, The anime movie guide
  • Having deprived her of both her mecha and her lover, Masato looks set for a nasty end, but Miku arrives to save him.
  • * 2002 , Christopher Hart, Anime mania: how to draw characters for Japanese animation
  • A transformation occurs when a mecha character, vehicle, or weapon unfolds and reassembles itself in a totally new form.
  • * 2006 , Dani Cavallaro, The animé art of Hayao Miyazaki
  • Porco Rosso evinces a deep fascination with mechanical objects of all sorts but it is by no means a mecha movie...
  • * 2007 , Frenchy Lunning, Mechademia 2: Networks of Desire
  • Each week the good guys fight the bad guys and vanquish them in a mecha battle, only to have the bad guys reappear intact the following week.
  • * 2007 , Robin E. Brenner, Understanding manga and anime (page 170)
  • * 2011 , Kensuke Okabayashi, Manga For Dummies (page 275)
  • In this section, I show you mechas that are large enough to be piloted by humans from the inside. Although most of them are designed for combat, some function as transportation or construction mechas.

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    mega

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    Adjective

    (-)
  • (informal) Very large.
  • * 2004 , Nigel Coates, Collidoscope: new interior design (page 26)
  • Follow those in the know to the fifth floor of Sega's Joy Polis, a mega indoor amusement park that's part of the Odaiba Decks Tokyo Bay entertainment complex near Tange's Fuji Television building.
  • great; excellent
  • * 1998 , John Barwick, Targeting Text (page 25)
  • We had a mega time until Peter fell in the fish pond and cut his leg.

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