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[–] [email protected] 138 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I heard it's bc the most popular novel site only shows the title so they started packing the entire description onto the title to try and get attention, which led to this mess

[–] [email protected] 53 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Time to show only the first 3 words of the title.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago (1 children)

German writers: It's my time to shine

[–] [email protected] 54 points 11 months ago (2 children)

ℜ𝔢𝔦𝔫𝔠𝔞𝔯𝔫𝔞𝔱𝔢𝔡 𝔞𝔰 ℜ𝔦𝔫𝔡𝔣𝔩𝔢𝔦𝔰𝔠𝔥𝔢𝔱𝔦𝔨𝔢𝔱𝔱𝔦𝔢𝔯𝔲𝔫𝔤𝔰𝔲𝔢𝔟𝔢𝔯𝔴𝔞𝔠𝔥𝔲𝔫𝔤𝔰𝔞𝔲𝔣𝔤𝔞𝔟𝔢𝔫𝔲𝔢𝔟𝔢𝔯𝔱𝔯𝔞𝔤𝔲𝔫𝔤𝔰𝔤𝔢𝔰𝔢𝔱𝔷

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It started with a truck loaded with wrongly labelled veal. (Let’s write the light novel now! Reply to this comment with the next sentence!)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

So the shop called the butcher. "You guys get it all wrong!" The butcher replied "I have no workers for these, as it takes too long!"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Ach du Scheiße...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hemingway: "hold my shotgun"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

IMHO, Hold My Shotgun was a vastly underrated part of his oeuvre.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Character limit would work better since some languages need more words and some need fewer words to get the same meaning across

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

The Amazon strategy

[–] [email protected] 82 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The opening for the Blood Joe anime is just 8 guitars wailing

[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Dude that was the Funimation dub. The original Japanese opening was a city pop song.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've never wanted to watch something that doesn't exist so badly.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Go watch Megalo Box, might as well be called Blood Joe.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago

Thats mostly to do with more and more manga being adapted form lightnovels and then that style of titling starting to affect manga original titles as well. Although as soon as you filter out the generic Isekai garbage you'll find most mangas have decent names.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Mangas on my todo list are

  • The former top 1‘s sub-character training diary: A dedicated player is currently conquering another world

  • My entire class was summoned to another world except for me

  • problem children are coming from another world, aren’t they?

  • Overgeared

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Title quality improved a lot with that last one. And content quality is a bit better too imo.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

For some reason i was expecting a sci-fantasy instead of a crappy, generic mmo isekai, I'm very disappointed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I think I read all the good isekai already. Putting anything on my to-read list where people get to other worlds or are levelling.

Sorry for the disappointment 😅

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The rest are just worse generic isekais.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I like generic isekais. I think I am through with all the good ones..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Overgeared is overrated imo. Mc just keeps getting stronger and winning by pure luck is kind of boring me with time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I have enjoyed the training diary, but I'm seriously addicted and have tons I'm reading. So the actual quality is both suspect because of how much I read between each chapter and how low my bar for reading is.

It did feel like the recent arc of taming this one monster was a little dragged out, and then I was a little disappointed by the actual result of it.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It's been like that for a while. "No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular!" (aka Watamote) has been going since 2013, and I guarantee there's earlier examples.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago

What do you mean 2013 was like 3 years ago- turns to dust

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Back when MCs were filled with personalty instead of being a generic blank slate for the reader to self insert as

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But why would someone read a novel about dating two slime stepsister, if the main character is totally unrelateable?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

If it says something meaningful about the human condition

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

back when MCs were filled with blood