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.
I mean......if you really think about it.....
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TommySoda@lemmy.world 2 days ago
SlimeKnight@lemm.ee 2 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.
Caesium@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Can’t believe Homestuck predicted this trend
k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Porn titles are like this too, and the retail store Don Quixote does this for their products and it’s hilarious.
schema@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah it’s essentially clickbait strategy in a way.
vodka@lemm.ee 2 days ago
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 (at start) and then everyone started doing it.
It’s basically the same as YouTubers having to put their face in thumbnails to get clicks.
Donebrach@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Is it wRonG to Name and Anime INCREDIBLY descriptive in a Streaming Service World?? So What!!
TommySoda@lemmy.world 2 days ago
No, I just don’t get it. :)
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 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.”
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 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.
Sabata11792@ani.social 2 days ago
That time I complained about long anime titles in another world where I’m the hero’s lunch box.
hisao@ani.social 2 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.
shani66@ani.social 1 day ago
Nope, light novel readers in Japan just need the synopsis in the title or they’ll ignore whatever it is.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’s only a meter of time until anime titles and wish/temu item descriptions collide.
sj_zero 2 days ago
"A Connecticut Yankee in king Arthurs court" by Mark Twain is a true isekai.
GraniteM@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Dante’s Inferno, or, That Time I Went to Hell and My Favorite Classic Poet Was There to Give Me a Tour and I Got to See All My Least Favorite People Being Horribly Tortured.
chetradley@lemm.ee 2 days ago
anonymous_in_atl@ani.social 2 days ago
Also I Got Strange From The Woman Who Rebuffed Me
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Who is the artist?
niktemadur@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The list of things I have seen now contains everything!
einlander@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It would probably be a Korean long strip webcomic on Line/Navier.
wampus@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
You’d have to gender swap all the non Fry characters into obsessed sex addicts wanting to jump Fry.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Boy Meets Future
AidsKitty@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Is this the live action version? With a CGI Bender?
match@pawb.social 2 days ago
anime Leela is impossibly fucking cursed
Rolder@reddthat.com 2 days ago
Her eye just needs to be bigger. Leela with a normal sized eye is what is cursed here