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INTEREST: January & February's Light Novel Titles are Really Weird


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CatSword



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 7:50 am Reply with quote
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I'm a Hero, But I Started a Pizzeria in a Fantasy World with My Elf Bride


Best light novel of all time confirmed.
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TsukasaElkKite



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 7:50 am Reply with quote
Wow, all of these sound like absolute garbage.
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kgw



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 7:52 am Reply with quote
More soon than later, some of them will have an anime adaptation and we know it.

"I am getting paid for each character written, so I am starting this LN with the longest title I can think". Razz

Also, Is there so much interest in guys sent to fictional fantasy worlds or are publishers beating a dead horse with maces?

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Kadmos1



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 8:38 am Reply with quote
Doubtless some of these have or may have English-language fan translations, but any of them that are owner-approved is even better. The black gal is possibly the most controversial/racist-sounding title.
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Maize Hughes



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 9:03 am Reply with quote
Daemonblue wrote:
Cam0 wrote:
Some of these are hilarious.

Quote:
I Was Reborn as a Vending Machine and Wander the Labyrinth


lol, wtf.


It's actually fairly decent. In short and not to spoil too much, a vending machine otaku dies trying to save a vending machine from Truck-sama's ever loving embrace and then gets sent into another world as a vending machine that has to sell items to remain alive, as it were.

Ah, excellent!
This is what I love about the forums - every once in a while you get to find out something really nice.
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projectfear22



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 10:10 am Reply with quote
"On Virtual Reality Front Lines My Precious Firearm Loot Malfunctioned So I Quickly Ran To The Suspicious Nearby Merchant Only To Come Back And Find My Squad Turned Into Pigeons And A Dragon Massaging My Testicles. Oh And Before I Realized That The Log Out Button Didn't Work, The Merchant Turned Me Into Liquid For Sale. So Through His Conversations I Found Out That I'm In The Elycrovanicani Galaxy Light Years Away From Home Where Grey Beings Took My Eyes Out And Sent Me Back To Earth With More Than A Tracking Device. And Well... Now I'm Clueless But Moving On Command"


I tried..





I really like that they're writing titles like that. I hate when something seems like a rule. A way of writing or whatever. Just do your thing. So I want every kind of stuff to exist.
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DerekL1963
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 11:37 am Reply with quote
Sakagami Tomoyo wrote:
tentensan wrote:
Also, what's with all these "teleported or stuck in another game world" scenarios? I guess it's an interesting topic among light novels in japan.


"Ordinary person gets transported to another world where they are special and have an adventure" is classic escapism/wish fulfilment.


*cough* harrypotter *cough*
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Brutannica



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 12:51 pm Reply with quote
Kadmos1 wrote:
"Danshi Koukousei de Urekko Light Novel Sakka wo Shiteiru keredo, Toshishita no Classmate de Seiyuu no Onnanoko ni Kubi wo Shimerareteiru" 137 characters with spaces.


It's counted by the original Japanese characters, which take up less "space." This title is 54 characters with punctuation.
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FilthyCasual



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 12:58 pm Reply with quote
If your light novel title can fit in a single tweet without at least three abbreviations you're doing it wrong.
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whiskeyii



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Paiprince wrote:
Way to kill the concept before it even became a thing. No red blooded male wants "real" moms in their fiction.


I try my best. Laughing
Though in all honesty, I think it'd be interesting to read a coming of age story about a kid living in a world that neither he nor his parent are really equipped to handle and how to navigate that fine line between learning to be independent and learning when and how to ask for help.
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Mikasa_su_casa



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 1:22 pm Reply with quote
Man, these titles. I had a good laugh from this list.
Quote:
They Say You Can't Get Reincarnated in a Fantasy World If You Get Hit by a Truck, So I Decided to Work with a Pretty Girl

Obviously, this guy is a realist.
whiskeyii wrote:
I'll be honest, if I wasn't almost 99% the mom gimmick was just there for the MILF aspect, I think I'd get a kick out of the idea of some high school kid being dogged by his mom who keeps nagging him and doing embarrassing parent things even in a fantasy world while also saving his life from time to time a la Momma Bear mode.

Why not both?
Kadmos1 wrote:
The black gal is possibly the most controversial/racist-sounding title.

To Americans maybe, but the title is referring to ganguro.
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maximilianjenus



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 2:40 pm Reply with quote
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A Black Gal Was Transported to a Fantasy World and Mistaken for a Dark Elf


so that's what happens after emergence
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ajr



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 3:53 pm Reply with quote
Having read a decent chunk of Vending Machine via machine translation and a fan translation, I'll second the take on Vending Machine; it's not bad. Relative to many web novels I'm tempted to say it might even be kinda good, but I haven't really far enough to make that call yet.

While the long titles are kind of ridiculous and artistically impoverished, I feel they are functionally helpful. "Ender's Game" or "Gone With The Wind" don't tell me much about what to expect.
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Brutannica



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 6:04 pm Reply with quote
John Thacker wrote:
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I Couldn't Get Real Satisfaction [a Girlfriend] So I Became a Kindred Spirit to a Revolutionary


This should 100% be translated as "Comrade," especially since the kanji are 同志 instead of 同士. Both are pronounced doushi, but the former has more of the implication of "Comrade" to a revolutionary socialist/Communist.


You're right. The translation has been corrected.
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BlueAlf



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 12, 2017 1:35 am Reply with quote
ajr wrote:

While the long titles are kind of ridiculous and artistically impoverished, I feel they are functionally helpful. "Ender's Game" or "Gone With The Wind" don't tell me much about what to expect.


This. I really agree with this.

Considering how most of them end up being submitted for light novel contests, I guess these kind of titles actually contribute to its success.
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