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0|0|0|||1||Random musing on anime|Peter Eng||18:27:48|01/14/2023|Have anime titles been steadily getting longer%2C and I just wasn%27t paying attention%3F  It feels a lot like somebody took the logic of titling clickbait articles and applied it to anime.%0D%0A%0D%0AIn any case%2C I half-expect to see %22Defeating Evil in Another World with this One Simple Trick that Heroes Don%27t Want You to Know%21%22 sooner or later.%0D%0A%0D%0APeter Eng%0D%0A--%0D%0AMy brain is a strange place.
1|1|0|||1||RE%3A Random musing on anime|Gryphon||18:56:56|01/14/2023|%3EHave anime titles been steadily getting longer%2C and I just wasn%27t %0D%0A%3Epaying attention%3F%0D%0A%0D%0AYes indeed. Somewhere around the early 2010s they started resembling Fall Out Boy song names circa %5Bi%5DFrom Under the Cork Tree%5B%2Fi%5D. The earliest one I can remember noticing was %5Bi%5DIs It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon%3F%5B%2Fi%5D%2C which is the soul of brevity compared to some of its successors. %3A%29%0D%0A%0D%0A%5Bi%5DMy Dress-Up Darling%5B%2Fi%5D %28which sort of has that kind of title in Japanese%3B the English one is much shorter%29 lampoons the trend beautifully with the name of the manga series Marin likes about a light novel author being hassled by a succubus.%0D%0A%0D%0A--G.%0D%0A-%3E%3C-%0D%0ABenjamin D. Hutchins%2C Co-Founder%2C Editor-in-Chief%2C %26 Forum Mod%0D%0AEyrie Productions%2C Unlimited  http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eyrie-productions.com%2F%0D%0Azgryphon at that email service Google has%0D%0A%5Bi%5DCeterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.%5B%2Fi%5D
2|1|0|||||RE%3A Random musing on anime|mdg1||20:37:13|01/14/2023|%3EHave anime titles been steadily getting longer%2C and I just wasn%27t %0D%0A%3Epaying attention%3F  It feels a lot like somebody took the logic of %0D%0A%3Etitling clickbait articles and applied it to anime. %0D%0A%3E%0D%0A%3EIn any case%2C I half-expect to see %22Defeating Evil in Another World %0D%0A%3Ewith this One Simple Trick that Heroes Don%27t Want You to Know%21%22 sooner %0D%0A%3Eor later. %0D%0A%3E%0D%0A%3EPeter Eng %0D%0A%3E-- %0D%0A%3EMy brain is a strange place. %0D%0A%0D%0ANot exactly.  What%27s happening is %5Bb%5DLight Novel%5B%2Fb%5D titles are getting longer%2C and more and more of those are being adapted nowadays.%0D%0A%0D%0AYou might be amused by this article %28and some of the studies linked from it%29%3A%0D%0A%0D%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fjgeekstudies.org%2F2020%2F11%2F09%2Fmy-light-novels-title-cant-be-this-short-the-evolution-of-light-novel-titles-in-another-world%2F
3|2|2|||1||RE%3A Random musing on anime|Peter Eng||21:09:42|01/14/2023|%3E%0D%0A%3ENot exactly.  What%27s happening is %5Bb%5DLight Novel%5B%2Fb%5D titles are %0D%0A%3Egetting longer%2C and more and more of those are being adapted nowadays. %0D%0A%3E%0D%0A%0D%0AOkay%2C that makes sense.%0D%0A%0D%0A%3E%0D%0A%3EYou might be amused by this article %28and some of the studies linked %0D%0A%3Efrom it%29%3A %0D%0A%3E%0D%0A%3Ehttps%3A%2F%2Fjgeekstudies.org%2F2020%2F11%2F09%2Fmy-light-novels-title-cant-be-this-short-the-evolution-of-light-novel-titles-in-another-world%2F %0D%0A%0D%0ANicely scientific%2C with subheadings that are references to anime.  Yes%2C I was amused.%0D%0A%0D%0APeter Eng%0D%0A--%0D%0AInsert humorous comment here.
4|2|2|||||RE%3A Random musing on anime|drakensis||00:47:09|01/15/2023|%3ENot exactly.  What%27s happening is %5Bb%5DLight Novel%5B%2Fb%5D titles are %0D%0A%3Egetting longer%2C and more and more of those are being adapted nowadays. %0D%0A%0D%0AThe story I heard is that a lot of light novels these days get their start on Japanese webnovel hosting sites %28similar to Royal Road%29 and that one of the major sites for these doesn%27t allow a blurb%2C just a title.%0D%0A%0D%0ASince readers have nothing to let them know what they%27re getting except the title%2C some the authors on the site simply used the concept of the story as a title%2C and here we are. It%27s now just the norm.
5|3|4|||1||RE%3A Random musing on anime|Gryphon||01:05:31|01/15/2023|%3EThe story I heard is that a lot of light novels these days get their %0D%0A%3Estart on Japanese webnovel hosting sites %28similar to Royal Road%29 and %0D%0A%3Ethat one of the major sites for these doesn%27t allow a blurb%2C just a %0D%0A%3Etitle. %0D%0A%3E%0D%0A%3ESince readers have nothing to let them know what they%27re getting %0D%0A%3Eexcept the title%2C some the authors on the site simply used the concept %0D%0A%3Eof the story as a title%2C and here we are. It%27s now just the norm. %0D%0A%0D%0A%22The street finds its own uses for things.%22%0D%0A- William Gibson%2C %22Burning Chrome%22 %28%5Bi%5DOmni%5B%2Fi%5D%2C July 1982%29%0D%0A%0D%0A-%3E%3C-%0D%0ABenjamin D. Hutchins%2C Co-Founder%2C Editor-in-Chief%2C %26 Forum Mod%0D%0AEyrie Productions%2C Unlimited  http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eyrie-productions.com%2F%0D%0Azgryphon at that email service Google has%0D%0A%5Bi%5DCeterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.%5B%2Fi%5D
6|3|4|||||RE%3A Random musing on anime|mdg1||07:24:37|01/15/2023|%3ESince readers have nothing to let them know what they%27re getting %0D%0A%3Eexcept the title%2C some the authors on the site simply used the concept %0D%0A%3Eof the story as a title%2C and here we are. It%27s now just the norm. %0D%0A%0D%0AThat%27s similar to the logic I%27ve heard%2C which is that new readers often don%27t bother reading the back cover blurb of light novels%2C so they use the title as the blurb.
7|4|6|||||RE%3A Random musing on anime|Kendra Kirai||13:54:33|01/15/2023|What makes this weird is that several of these off the top of my head almost seems to be running on %2Aearly concept%2A titles. %E2%80%9CIs It Wrong To Try To Pick Up Girls In The Dungeon%E2%80%9D for instance%2C in which aside from the guy falling in love with the the sword lady who saved him%2C has nothing to do with what the series is about%2C with him doing nothing to try to get any of the girls who surround him.
8|5|7|||||RE%3A Random musing on anime|mdg1||17:48:22|01/15/2023|Apparently%2C that%27s the editor%27s fault.  According to TVTropes%3A%0D%0A%0D%0AThe author originally wanted to call it the much shorter Familia Myth%2C but their editor insisted they go with a longer one. It%27s especially silly because the protagonist never attempts to do what the title describes.
9|6|8|||||RE%3A Random musing on anime|TsukaiStarburst||16:19:49|01/16/2023|Huh. You know that%27s weird%2C because I actually never checked out that anime because the title just made me think it was a stupid harem isekai with a pervy%2Finappropriate MC or something and I ignored it for the longest time. But if that%27s actually not true I might have a reason to look at it.%0D%0A%0D%0AJust goes to show how this thing can actually backfire sometimes.
10|7|9|||||RE%3A Random musing on anime|Kendra Kirai||12:32:03|01/17/2023|Don%E2%80%99t get me wrong%2C there%E2%80%99s a LOT of cute girls in it%2C but the main character%2C who%E2%80%99s name escapes me%2C I%E2%80%99ve been trying to think of it since I brought it up%2C doesn%E2%80%99t do anything in particular to gather them%2C or have much interest in them%2C and most of them don%E2%80%99t have much interest in him either. D%26D Love Hina this ain%E2%80%99t %3A3
11|8|10|||||RE%3A Random musing on anime|Meridias||05:11:10|01/19/2023|[updated:LAST EDITED ON Jan-19-23 AT 02:05 PM (EST)]Bell Cranel. To be fair%2C several of them wouldn%27t say no if he ever asked%2C but he%27s only really interested in one who happens to be one of the strongest adventurers around and Bell spends most of his time struggling to catch up to her. The rest of the time is spent getting the crap beat out of him for his %27always do the right thing%2C regardless of the consequences%27 mentality.
12|7|9|||||RE%3A Random musing on anime|Croaker||10:02:34|01/19/2023|%3EHuh. You know that%27s weird%2C because I actually never checked out that %0D%0A%3Eanime because the title just made me think it was a stupid harem %0D%0A%3Eisekai with a pervy%2Finappropriate MC or something and I ignored it for %0D%0A%3Ethe longest time. But if that%27s actually not true I might have a %0D%0A%3Ereason to look at it. %0D%0A%3E%0D%0A%3EJust goes to show how this thing can actually backfire sometimes. %0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AYeah. It%27s basically %22Idealistic kid goes to Adventuretown%2C Shenanigans Ensue%22. %0D%0AWorldbuilding based on %22What if the economy was %5Bi%5Dliterally%5B%2Fi%5D based on adventurers going into the dungeon and killing monsters%22.