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[-] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 38 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

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Confirmation bias is one hell of a bias.

[-] Chronographs@lemmy.zip 22 points 4 weeks ago

I want to say this is more of a LN thing

[-] Stern@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago

Gotta admit though, stuff with titles like "That time I got Reincarnated as a Slime" didn't exist in any notable sense back in the day due to LN adaptations not really existing.

[-] wjs018@ani.social 25 points 4 weeks ago

Others in this thread are close to the truth when they say this is a light novel thing more than a manga thing. The reality is that this is a web novel thing, even before these stories become published light novels. I am going to quote an answer I wrote previously about this:

Long, specific titles have always been somewhat of a thing. For example, did you know that the novel we typically refer to as Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, was originally titled thusly:

"The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself."

In modern light novels, the long titles come from the ease with which amateur writers can self publish to a website like syosetu. This causes tons and tons of stories within the same genre or content tags to be listed alongside each other. So, having a long, specific title helps your writing stand out by acting as a quick synopsis rather than having a website visitor click through and read the synopsis of hundreds of search results.

A lot of our modern light novels were originally self published as webnovels to these sites and have therefore inherited the long titles that helped them stand out on those sites. I just wish that the titles would be adapted and shortened as well as they transition from webnovel -> light novel -> manga -> anime. Some of them just keep the long title but pick up shorter nicknames since the Japanese language is so prone to portmanteaus (konosuba, danmachi, arifureta, etc.).

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 18 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I think most of those long names are from light novel series, being adapted into manga. (Even then there are some exceptions, like The Apothecary Diaries / Kusuriya no Hitorigoto — short and to the point.)

[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 9 points 4 weeks ago

Eventually titles like this will be necessary, because all the good short names have already been used.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

so you say, but i've already seen three statesian tv series with the same name.

no i'm not counting star trek

[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 points 4 weeks ago

Don't they get into copyright issues with that?

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

fuck if i know. one's from the sixties, one's from the eighties, one's from like ten years ago. i remember seeing it on imdb last year and thinking "huh that's neat" but i can't remember the name of the series for the life of me or i'd screenshot it here

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