>>11336583
The trouble with gts vs mech is that fundamentally, mechs are still made of steel and gun whereas giantesses will fundamendally be made out of flesh and blood and sugar and spice and everything nice. I do not think I could plausibly win a standup fight against a human sized armor reinforced gun platform even with the weakness of being piloted by a hand sized psychopathic retard if said retard happens to have good aim. Tanks are tank shaped for a reason but even a tank that isn't tank shaped will still have more gun in its gun than I can carry in my hands.
The legacyverse guy probably put more thought into this than I have and all that but to me combat giantesses only make sense if they're naturally occurring giantesses and not if science had to go out of its way to engineer them.

>>11329887
The difference between pre- and post-daikon dialog being pretty important. Chio repeats over and over again her horror at the idea of "meaningless deaths" (her direct words) spent fighting Saeko, saying that it would be abhorrent to Rin to watch someone he loves die so "meaninglessly." This cannot be taken as a horror of death itself because she is presenting death by priestly sacrifice as the alternative to death by divine judgment. The alternative of dying sequentially as sacrifices would only be better if being alive meant that it was possible for people to create an alternative meaning of their own so long as they lived. But in giving her the daikon she acknowledges the futility and meaninglessness of living sacrifice. Her blessing to Rin can be inferred from this to be hope that he can find a meaning that she cannot in the path he is choosing, rather than a hope for physical victory which is impossible.