

Although the mecha are cool to look at, they don't particularly do anything that the Power Trio couldn't do on their own aside from scaling up the fights (though in Season 2, they did fight another Humongous Mecha by a neighboring science-y nation and any other 'huge only' enemies). The preclimactic fight of the Soul Eater anime has Lord Death skirt the issue of being confined to Death City by turning the city into a giant fighting mecha.This is less for Rule of Cool than to show their borderline Magi Tech is very different from modern technology. Now and Then, Here and There: The humans from the apocalyptic far-future occasionally use Mini-Mecha.A few years prior, the same director had Kyosuke Date go a few rounds with giant machines in The SoulTaker.The Reflection/ Detonation duology had multiple Humongous Mecha that Iris created with her Formula powers.Though considering all the mecha references in Nanoha, it's more surprising that there aren't more.
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The finale of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha had Precia summoning an army of Mecha-Mooks, including a Humongous Mecha or ten.It's later revealed that its initial appearance was just for laughs and that it actually is an awesome machine.After the Time Skip, Franky has a Rule of Funny-based Giant Robot with a barrel-shaped body and tiny, spindly legs.3 creates one for himself out of candle wax. Although prominent in the first episode, for most of the show they are mostly absent or in the background. It also features some CG robots that serve mostly to give Shu some enemies to chop up with his weapon without having to kill anyone. It's a story that tries to show normal teenagers living under constant threat of strife and death. After a terrorist group bent on liberating Japan steals this weapon, it winds up being accidentally bonded to Ordinary High-School Student Ouma Shu. Ten years later, a new Phlebotinum known as the Void Genome has been developed, which allows its user to draw powerful items from people that reflect their personalities. Guilty Crown is a story that takes place after a major viral outbreak deemed Lost Christmas has ravaged Japan and left it under martial law and foreign occupation.'Course, 90% of the the plot is things they thrown in for the hell of it, so it doesn't stand out too much. The final battle of the School Festival arc in Negima! Magister Negi Magi throws in mecha just for the heck of it.It fights off the Mecha-Mooks with a Macross Missile Massacre while the others make their way to the ruler's chamber. In the last episode of Kaiba, three rebels break into the ruler's palace using a giant robot that the Nutty Professor had been saving for the task.Laputa: Castle in the Sky has not a trace of Humongous Mecha until about halfway through the movie.He has to call Iceland to get the fist back because The Rocket punch just kept going straight to Iceland and Iceland's head was in the way so it couldn't come back. In Hetalia: Axis Powers, Sealand asks Japan to making him like a power ranger and Sealand randomly becomes a Super Robot Mecha with a Rocket Punch.
