anime titles be like

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• unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Trusted Companions Tried to Kill Me, but Thanks to the Gift of an Unlimited Gacha Got Lvl 9999 Friends and Am Out for Revenge on My Former Party Members and the World

  This is a legit title of an anime currently airing

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  • Jesus_666@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m actually cool with this. It tells me all I need to know, although a shorter title like “generic pseudo-fantasy schlock with video game mechanics #3456” would’ve worked as well.

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    • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Its also is exactly as trashy as it sounds :D

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  • remon@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I think that’s the translation of the Japanese title. They shortened the English one to “My Gift Lvl 9999 Unlimited Gacha: Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon, I’m Out for Revenge!”

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• veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s missing the “I was reborn as a […] in another world” part.

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  • curbstickle@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The Analyst: Reborn into Another World to Provide A Discourse Addressed to an Infidel Mathematician: Wherein It Is Examined Whether the Object, Principles, and Inferences of the Modern Analysis Are More Distinctly Conceived, or More Evidently Deduced, Than Religious Mysteries and Points of Faith, and Mathematical Formulae Make me Overpowered??? A Slow Life Adventure in the Dungeon

    How’s that?

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    • veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      🤌

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  • lurch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Silliest I’ve seen so far: Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon

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• scytale@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’ve wondered about this for a while and assumed it was AI slop by production companies spitting out whatever content en masse.

  Then I came across a youtube video where they explain the reason is those shows are adapted from written stories on some site in Japan. Think Wattpad or AO3 (but not fanfic). And since there are so many stories posted there, writers title them that way so readers immediately get a sense of what the story is about and hopefully choose it to read. So the anime adaptation ends up taking on the long-ass title.

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  • IdleSheep@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The site you’re referring to is almost certainly Syosetsuka ni Narou, a free-to-use Japanese web novel platform, exactly like Wattpad and AO3 as you mentioned. Super common to have a very long title to grab reader attention there, because that’s literally the only pitch you have for new readers on the front page or search pages.

    And yes I wanna say almost every modern light novel has its start there. Publishers scour that site for potential new work all the time. It’s not uncommon for you to be following a web novel there and then suddenly get an announcement about how it’s being picked up by a publisher/editor for serialization.

    The title sometimes gets slightly changed but usually it remains as is, and that’s how it ends up on anime/manga.

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  • ButteryMonkey@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’ve heard sort of the same thing but not related to some website or whatever. Idk which is truthier, so I’ll add my understanding as well.

    What I heard is It’s a category of actual books called light novels, they have a picture here and there but it’s mostly text, and they tend not to be super long. Think YA (young adult) books.

    But what I heard largely agrees; that it’s such a popular category with so many options that that’s how they are named to give you a rough idea of what you’ll be reading at a glance.

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  • lurch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Every writer of short stories knows the struggle. You can’t name them all “Nina” or “Summer Camp” 😅

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• l3enc@piefed.ee ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  the longest title i’ve ever seen was

  I Was Reincarnated as the 7th Prince so I Can Take My Time Perfecting My Magical Ability

  i really had no idea huh

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• BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You didn’t read “titles” as “titles” and we all know it

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  • Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I certainly didn’t, stopped scrolling to see if I was the only one.

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• pticrix@lemmy.ca ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  At first I was annoyed, but thinking about it this way made it more palatable to me :

  You give your new show a long-ass title. If people like it, it’ll naturally get reduced by those conversing about it.

  Having a short title thus becomes a privilege that has to be earned. I can deal with that.

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• Hawke@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Letters writ by a Turkish spy, who lived five and forty years undiscovered at Paris: giving an impartial account to the Divan at Constantinople, of the most remarkable transactions of Europe: and discovering several intrigues and secrets of the Christian courts (especially of that of France). Continued from the year 1637, to the year 1682. Written originally in Arabick, translated into Italian, from thence into English, and now published with a large historical preface and index to illustrate the whole

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• etherphon@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  JAV titles: hold my beer...

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• FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Unexpected to find common ground between anime and goregrind metal

  www.last.fm/music/55Gore/+wiki

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