TL Mafia Anime Discussion - Page 11

On April 25 2015 03:05 Blazinghand wrote:
Break Blade is the only mecha anime where I feel like the mecha are adequately justified. In most mecha anime the mecha are like tanks (they have guns and are powered by some kind of power source and contain a pilot). There's no real explanation for why they're better than tanks though-- generally you'd expect treads to outperform legs and for a single axial gun to be easier to aim and use than having unnecessary arms and legs that manipulate external tools.

This gets even more ridiculous with space-based mecha, where it's like, ok, maybe you can think of some contrived reason to have arms, sure. but legs? In space? ._.

in Break Blade, it's 100% reasonable for the mecha to exist. Since mecha are basically just armor worn by Sorcerers, with motion powered by their magic, it makes sense they'd have arms and legs. The Sorcerers can probably more intuitively control their motion and weaponry with their intuitive magic when it's analogous to their biological limbs. Break Blade's Golem Armor probably was developed over time as an extension of physically worn armor, where eventually weapons, them arms and legs, became supplemented with magical strength, until they extended beyond the body of the wearer and were controlled entirely by magic and the wearer was fully enclosed (once quartz displays were developed). Break Blade's mecha actually make sense.

On April 25 2015 03:49 Rygart wrote:

Exactly!...
...ah...
This also means mine doesn't make any sense, does it?