[ SECRET POST #3348 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3348 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Dr. Who]


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[Babylon 5, Susan/Talia]


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[Neverending Story]


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[Maximilian Dood and Benny]


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14. [SPOILERS for Avatar: the Last Airbender/Legend of Korra]






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15. [SPOILERS for Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]





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16. [SPOILERS for The 100]





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17. [SPOILERS for Legacy of the Force]





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Comments

[fscom]

05. http://i.imgur.com/Vb1xT25.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

I like that style of title, too! It'd be especially useful in the YA climate, where lots of books have very similar cover styles.

[(Anonymous)]

Uhhhh. Japan? We need to talk.

[(Anonymous)]

That actually was a bit of a trend in the 70's and 80's. Most of those books that are still being published got new short titles, though.

[dahli]

Those sound more like summaries of the novel rather than titles, but I guess they are really trying to get the point across.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I watched a video by a guy who knows a lot about anime (honestly, I watched his videos because of his accent - he's Australian) and that is exactly the reason behind those titles - they are basically a blurb.

[ibbity]

Lengthy descriptive titles used to be pretty common in the West till the early-mid 19th century, actually. I think it was because back-cover blurbs weren't really a thing back then.

[(Anonymous)]

Some examples:

http://the-toast.net/2014/08/06/100-actual-titles-real-eighteenth-century-novels/

This is one of my favorites.

"The Egg, Or The Memoirs Of Gregory Giddy, Esq: With The Lucubrations Of Messrs. Francis Flimsy, Frederick Florid, And Ben Bombast. To Which Are Added, The Private Opinions Of Patty Pout, Lucy Luscious, And Priscilla Positive. Also The Memoirs Of A Right Honourable Puppy. Conceived By A Celebrated Hen, And Laid Before The Public By A Famous Cock-Feeder."

[(Anonymous)]

These don't sound like YA. They sound like porn.

[bigpaw]

I mean, I think they are...I'm actually kind of surprised everyone's so unfazed by this??

[(Anonymous)]

I'm unfazed because I didn't think the secret was saying those examples were YA. It sounds like they're just saying they like the title format and want to see it in YA.

[bigpaw]

No I know, but they just seemed like really intense examples for what they were trying to say, haha.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not unfazed, and I was surprised too. Is this the new normal? These look repulsive.

[iggy]

These ones do, but the lengthy title trend exists even in non-porny light novels.

[(Anonymous)]

The one about hemorrhoids is porn, but the other one is a rom-com according to Amazonm I don't think it's porn.

[loracarol]

You may like Patricia C. Wrede books? Her books with Caroline Stevermer have titles like "Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot: Being the Correspondence of Two Young Ladies of Quality Regarding Various Magical Scandals in London and the Country" and "The Grand Tour or The Purloined Coronation Regalia: Being a Revelation of Matters of High Confidentiality and Greatest Importance, Including Extracts from the Intimate Diary of a Noblewoman and the Sworn Testimony of a Lady of Quality".

Her dragon books don't have as descriptive titles, but they do have descriptively fun chapter titles.

[(Anonymous)]

sounds like a homestuck troll movie title

[diet_poison]

haha, yes!

[(Anonymous)]

That's exactly what I thought.

[blitzwing]

To be fair it's a lot easier with Japanese. Kanji take up way less room, so it fits on book spines and DVD covers better than it would in English.

[(Anonymous)]

You sure that's YA and not Eroctica?

[juliamon]

It's so bizarre to me that there's no longer any middle ground between the overlong titles in Japanese LN and the one-word titles in western YA. Why have we gone to such opposite extremes?

[(Anonymous)]

You might like this, OP.

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2667.Books_with_Really_Long_Titles

[(Anonymous)]

ew @ these titles

[(Anonymous)]

im fascinated by the hemmoroid one, how is that even a full story