• sj_zero
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    1716 days ago

    “A Connecticut Yankee in king Arthurs court” by Mark Twain is a true isekai.

  • @[email protected]
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    4317 days ago

    Honestly, as a huge anime nerd, these names are getting a little ridiculous. It doesn’t stop me from watching them, I just don’t get it.

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      16 days ago

      Is it wRonG to Name an Anime INCREDIBLY descriptive in a Streaming Service World?? So What!!

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      It happened because people figured out putting the whole synopsis in the title on the main LN/WN site in Japan gave them more clicks and then everyone started doing it.

      It’s basically the same as YouTubers having to put their face in thumbnails to get clicks.

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      5417 days ago

      Basically, most of these animes are light novel adaptations and the market for then in Japan is extremely saturated. So by making the title as descriptive as possible, there is a chance that it will catch someone’s attention as opposed to having a nondescript title.

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      It’s only a matter of time until anime titles and wish/temu item descriptions collide.

    • Sabata
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      316 days ago

      That time I complained about long anime titles in another world where I’m the hero’s lunch box.

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      616 days ago

      Oh boy, here I go posting this again!

      The original title of Robinson Crusoe:

      “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.”

      • Lovable Sidekick
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        216 days ago

        Reminds me of a play I was in: “The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade,” an early 60s play usually abbreviated Marat/Sade.

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      617 days ago

      I consider them being ridiculous is a whole point? It’s often fun for me reading those, especially when they’re pushed ad absurdum.

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        116 days ago

        Nope, light novel readers in Japan just need the synopsis in the title or they’ll ignore whatever it is.

  • Match!!
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    8017 days ago

    anime Leela is impossibly fucking cursed

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    You’d have to gender swap all the non Fry male characters into obsessed sex addicts wanting to jump Fry.