WTF did I just find on TV Tropes?

“Eight Marbles: Ura Version is a fighting game centering around cute, anime-esque girls with lethal and explosive flatulence. Characters range from a skunk girl, to a ninja, to a bug-woman who stores gas in her abdomen, to a young girl whose super attack is a blast of flatulence that can seen from space and changes the background to a foggy wasteland.”

I’m reading Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel

This is surreal. Mecha novels tend to be either “anime as fuck” or “basically just the Vietnam War.” This is a completely generic American hard science fiction novel of big ideas and beige prose. Isaac Asimov could have written something like this, if Asimov wrote a freaking mecha novel.