Why are so many Manga titles so fucking long and needlessly descriptive? Isekais are especially guilty of this, but even SoL series have these long-ass titles that would never fly in the West.
Why are so many Manga titles so fucking long and needlessly descriptive? Isekais are especially guilty of this...
Xavier Cook
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Connor Evans
Not the case of Watamote but most manga or anime that do this are adaptations of LNs. It's common for LNs (more so if they're isekai) to have long descriptive names because, since they're all the same with one or two quirky extras to make themselves seem interesting the title has to reflect that minimal particularity well enough so dumb japs buy them. Dumb japs won't bother reading the synopsys of their shitty power trip/fap material "novels" when they can get everything they need to know from the title alone. Basic marketing from one of the shittiest froms of literature.
Then there are works that aren't really exactly like this but are just trying to use a popular trope I guess (again, I don't know if this is Watamote's case). Original manga or anime have no other reason to do the shitty long title thing, their publishing mechanisms are bastly different from those of LNs (thousands of novels with only two or three different plots and without the somewhat calming status of being backed by magazines or the fact of being seasonal anime; even at their worst manga and anime won't ever be as bad as LNs).
Wyatt Gomez
>foreign cultures don't work like your own
mind=blown guise
Mason Martinez
There's usually a reason why things are different between cultures, and I was curious to know if there was a reason here, and this user kindly gave one
Gavin Brown
>isekai
Light novels
ftfy
when your fan fiction is in a sea of similar fan fiction, one option to attract viewers is to describe the main point in the title.
And guess what? Popular series get published and adapted as manga.
The same applies with original novel and manga series, but here you have also cover and pictures that may attract attention.
John Lopez
Is the shit still going? Last time i read it the creators sold out and made the series yuri bait.
William Brown
Mason Bennett
It's a Japan thing. Since there's so many fucking pieces of media with generally the same kind of premise, they give these long-ass titles to make it very clear what the 'hook' or quirk for the LN/manga/etc. is and incentivize people to pick it up.
Watamote I think isn't a normal example of this, it's usually in LNs
Oliver Rogers
Not nearly as long as JAVs titles
Nathan Phillips
Pic related, my favorite JAV title
Kevin Turner
you had to edit the name to uncompress it didn't you?
Brayden Russell
>Is the shit still going?
Unfortunately yes, the s/u/bhumans are the only thing that keeps Watamote threads alive.
Dominic Russell
>that would never fly in the West.
This actually used to be extremely common a couple hundred years ago. Some of the modern titles we know classic novels by are shortened versions of the sentence long descriptions of the entire plot they used to be sold under. The long story short is it's just trends adapting to the market.
Carter Harris
I'm more curious as to why Anime episodes whose series have perfectly reasonable series titles give their episodes incredibly stupid and long titles. Like, every episode of Dragon Ball has a bunch of different sentences with exclamation points. For example "Revere Him! Praise Him! Fusion Zamasu's Explosive Birth!!", which also happens to be a spoiler, so what the fuck?
Aaron Cooper
I kind of find "Okaasan online" to be a better sell of the concept than "Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks?" which just seems like comedic but really explains not what it's about.
John Peterson
Yeah, why do Anime love putting very specific spoilers in theit titles?
Jeremiah Parker
It has nothing to do with being recognized in a sea of shitty media. It's just a retarded meme that mostly the LN writing community keeps afloat. Many notable creations have a simple title, and japs tend to use a short for everything anyway that's longer than a couple of words (hensuki, watamote, oreimo, danmachi, etc).
Ryder Smith
You should take a look at some LN titles.
Leo Murphy
Because they need to be descriptive to fool those who cannot read between lines.
Landon Jones
Because it takes 5,000,000,000 characters to just say "hello" in Japanese.
Blake Lopez
Since everyone uses abbreviations anyway is assume it's done for shits and giggles.
Logan Thompson
Lack of creativity
James Garcia
I think the Japanese just get hyped for spoilers. I don't know why, but they do.
I've made it a point to avoid most PVs and avoid any show/manga's advertisements in general.
Even fucking JRPGs like the new Persona 5 release I've been avoiding shit like the plague because they're not even trying to hide any new shit.
Anthony Rivera
They want children to get excited and tune in next week.
Jordan Barnes
I love how to op song manage to fit the whole tittle at the end
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