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"ref": "1997, Helen McCarthy, The anime movie guide",
"text": "Having deprived her of both her mecha and her lover, Masato looks set for a nasty end, but Miku arrives to save him.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2002, Christopher Hart, Anime mania: how to draw characters for Japanese animation",
"text": "A transformation occurs when a mecha character, vehicle, or weapon unfolds and reassembles itself in a totally new form.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2006, Dani Cavallaro, The animé art of Hayao Miyazaki",
"text": "Porco Rosso evinces a deep fascination with mechanical objects of all sorts but it is by no means a mecha movie...",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Frenchy Lunning, Mechademia 2: Networks of Desire",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Robin E. Brenner, Understanding manga and anime, page 170",
"text": "[…] to be a “lifter”—to pilot a mecha that can also transform into an air board […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Kensuke Okabayashi, Manga For Dummies, page 275",
"text": "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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"A large armoured robot on legs, typically controlled by a pilot seated inside."
],
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"anime",
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"manga",
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"armoured",
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"(anime, manga) A large armoured robot on legs, typically controlled by a pilot seated inside."
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"media",
"publishing",
"television"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "armoured robot",
"word": "機甲"
},
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jījiǎ",
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"word": "机甲"
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"word": "메카"
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"english": "and a tinderbox, and tinder, and a candle made of wax, and a comb, and sulfur wicks, and a silk cord",
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"text": "Having deprived her of both her mecha and her lover, Masato looks set for a nasty end, but Miku arrives to save him.",
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},
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"ref": "2002, Christopher Hart, Anime mania: how to draw characters for Japanese animation",
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},
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"ref": "2006, Dani Cavallaro, The animé art of Hayao Miyazaki",
"text": "Porco Rosso evinces a deep fascination with mechanical objects of all sorts but it is by no means a mecha movie...",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "2007, Frenchy Lunning, Mechademia 2: Networks of Desire",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Robin E. Brenner, Understanding manga and anime, page 170",
"text": "[…] to be a “lifter”—to pilot a mecha that can also transform into an air board […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Kensuke Okabayashi, Manga For Dummies, page 275",
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"type": "quotation"
}
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"robot",
"robot"
],
[
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"leg"
]
],
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]
}
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"word": "메카"
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}
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