Welcome to the all-new Just Enough Trope, the podcast where we explore the reasons that your favorite media is the way it is. From movies to TV shows to literature to video games, stories are often built around repeated elements and we're here to talk about them all!

There is something decidely Japanese about the idea of a giant robot, whether it needs a little kid to control it, transforms into an impratical car, or can bring about the Biblical apocalypse. This week, we take an inventory of the great giant robot stories of anime, TV, and cartoons and ask the question, "Must there be crushing?"

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