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Well, many mecha anime have some kind of reference to the "big mecha animes" like Gundam, Evangelion and Code Geass.

For example Inaho having a "special left eye" is a reference to Code Geass (Lelouch's Geass is also on his left eye).

Also, each episode title of the second season refers to the title of a book the plot of which in some fashion describes what happens in the episode that got named after it

Episode 01: This Side of Paradise (by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Episode 02: The Beautiful and Damned (by  F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Episode 03: Toll for the Brave (by Jack Higgins)

Episode 04: Soldier's Pay (by William Faulkner)

Episode 05: The Turning wheel (by Philip K. Dick)

Episode 06: The Rose and the Ring (by William Makepeace Thackeray)