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
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
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.
Its also is exactly as trashy as it sounds :D
Maybe a hot take, but having read the manga and novels, I would describe this as one of the lesser trashy series of this type. Its geopolitics, world history, and artifact/weapon systems are expanded way, way, waaaay beyond what is normal for trashy fantasy slop.
It also doesn’t even have romance, which is rather uncommon when you have an OP protagonist in a fantasy setting. The protagonist has zero interest in dating anyone despite the endless number of cute women around him who are desperate to pounce on him (it’s got plenty of great male side characters too btw, shout-out to my man Gold).His objectives and his focus remain consistent throughout: plan out his revenge to the most minute detail, expand his political influence to liberate humanity, and discover the truth of the world.
Obviously I’m not saying this is a 10/10 underrated masterpiece, I know this is still a revenge power fantasy at the end of the day, but damn does the lore and the development go above and beyond what you’d expect for something like it.
(spoilers if you want more details)
Spoiler
I think the first moment where I felt really enthralled with its lore was when it was shown that weapons and other magical artifacts are integrated in a universal hierarchical power system that ranks from basic weapons with little to no special properties, to weapons that can literally rewrite the laws of the universe (a class that is at first thought to not be real but is later revealed that the protagonist has one, and it’s so powerful he sealed it because he can’t control it).
There is also an overarching mystery revolving around the world, as we later discover there was a whole advanced civilization with the modern technology of our world in the past that somehow went extinct, and this all ties back so some mysterious personality (or personalities, we don’t know the number yet) only referred to as “C”, who the protagonist could theoretically be.
And amidst all this there is the geopolitical game to gain influence across the difference race factions/nations, which the protagonist enters as a way to finally liberate humans from literal slavery. There are treaties, coercion, backdoor deals, and all sorts of stuff that’s discussed in much more detail than you’d expect.
All this to say that I hope people give it a try. I have not watched the anime because the source material is so far ahead, but if it follows the source even remotely closely, it should be on par in terms of entertainment.
Ive only watched the first few episodes of the anime and they really bungled some stuff. My biggest complaint is probably the intro. It makes me cringe so hard because the vocals are just completely out of tune. Whoever approved that should find a different job.
But story wise im just annoyed by the harem filler stuff. The base plot would be entertaining enough, so it just feels like cheap filler to add all this gushing over the MC.
The absurd amounts of large time skips, not just at the start but also later on too, also makes it pretty jarring.
Ah, that’s a shame. Seems like they cut corners, which isn’t uncommon with these things.
Regarding the harem elements, in the source material the girls do gush over him a lot as well, but he does not reciprocate at all, so I just ended up automatically filtering it out because it’s inconsequential, but I do get how some might find their eternal subservience off-putting, especially since with anime it’s harder to brush that aside VS words in a novel.
I just found the series interesting when looking at the broader main plot, which thankfully is the majority of the focus after a certain point. I do also remember the girls being a tad more annoying early on, but once the focus shifts more to politics and all the factions involved, the harem antics get dialed down a lot to make room for it.
I think that’s the literal 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!”
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 shortened by those conversing about it.
Having a short title thus becomes a privilege that has to be earned. I can deal with that.
It’s missing the “I was reborn as a […] in another world” part.
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?
🤌
Silliest I’ve seen so far: Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon
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.
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.
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.
Every writer of short stories knows the struggle. You can’t name them all “Nina” or “Summer Camp” 😅
JAV titles: hold my beer…
You didn’t read “titles” as “titles” and we all know it
I certainly didn’t, stopped scrolling to see if I was the only one.
Unexpected to find common ground between anime and goregrind metal
