When watching *Pacific Rim* in German it didn't strike me much to hear those giant robots being called *"Jäger"* (hunters), only to be surprised by the fact that they are called *"Jaegers"* in the original, too (and the beginning of the movie, when the word's definition is given alongside *"Kaiju"*, says that this indeed derives from the German word for *"hunter"*).

But while the name *"Kaiju"* is an obvious hommage to the Japanese origin of this whole movie genre with giant monsters, the choice of the word *"Jaeger"* for those robots seems rather arbitrary while still pretty unusual. **Is there any explanation why the term *"Jaeger"* was chosen to name those giant robots** or any connection of that word to the mecha genre those things were meant as an hommage to?