Why did the japs pronounce mobiru suitu instead of kidou senshi?(pic.

>>15797100
mobile suits are the robots in the story, kidou senshi is a made up word used in the title.

When ported to english, they realized "oh hey we can use the word mobile suit for the title"

>>15797100
kidou senshi doesn't mean "mobile suit", it means "mechanical warrior".
sort of.
kidou actually does mean "mobile" but it is a word you'd apply to a machine not a person, so it implies mechanical movement.
"Mobile Suit" is actually a leftover from the original idea where they'd be 2-3m tall power armors. That's why they call space suits "normal suits" because of the distinction between powered and non-powered space suits. The producers wanted giant robots, though, so that's what we got.