Mecha vs Robotic - What's the difference?
mecha | robotic |
(anime, manga) A large armoured robot on legs, typically controlled by a pilot seated inside.
* 1997 , Helen McCarthy, The anime movie guide
* 2002 , Christopher Hart, Anime mania: how to draw characters for Japanese animation
* 2006 , Dani Cavallaro, The animé art of Hayao Miyazaki
* 2007 , Frenchy Lunning, Mechademia 2: Networks of Desire
* 2007 , Robin E. Brenner, Understanding manga and anime (page 170)
* 2011 , Kensuke Okabayashi, Manga For Dummies (page 275)
Of, relating to, or resembling a robot; mechanical, lacking emotion or personality, etc.
* {{quote-magazine
, year = 1941
, date = May
, first = Isaac
, last = Asimov
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, title =
, volume = 27
, issue = 3
, page = 50
, passage = You'd cut your own nose off before you'd let me get the credit for solving robotic telepathy.
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* {{quote-news
, year = 2000
, date = August 20
, first = Caryn
, last = James
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, title = The Nation; When a Kiss Isn't Just a Kiss
, url = http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/20/weekinreview/the-nation-when-a-kiss-isn-t-just-a-kiss.html
, passage = In Vice President Al Gore's campaign to change his robotic image, nothing may have helped more than the big smooch.
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As a noun mecha
is (anime|manga) a large armoured robot on legs, typically controlled by a pilot seated inside.As an adjective robotic is
of, relating to, or resembling a robot; mechanical, lacking emotion or personality, etc.mecha
English
Noun
(en-noun)- Having deprived her of both her mecha and her lover, Masato looks set for a nasty end, but Miku arrives to save him.
- A transformation occurs when a mecha character, vehicle, or weapon unfolds and reassembles itself in a totally new form.
- Porco Rosso evinces a deep fascination with mechanical objects of all sorts but it is by no means a mecha movie...
- 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.
- 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.