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⌈ Secret Post #6964 ⌋

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[fscom]

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Transcript by OP

[fscom]

I've been reading and loving manga for decades, but in the past few years I've had to impose a couple of rules for myself before starting a new series:

1. If the title has more than four, max five words, skip. I am not picking up "Served Dinner?! I was stolen from my elf kingdom to be a bodyguard to a troll princess who is naughty and also I have special ostrich powers?!" I know that the industry runs trends like long titles into the ground, but I am not having it.

2. If there are more than two creators listed, skip. It almost always means a manga adapted from a light novel (which I don't read), and I assume mangaka who adapt light novels have to do so because their own work isn't good enough.

Re: Transcript by OP

[(Anonymous)]

remember when manga were all about the short funky english names like banana fish and angel sanctuary instead of a 2006 patd song :(

[(Anonymous)]

I couldn't agree more with the first one - my only exception has been the green yuri manga (The Guy I Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All), but that's because I usually make an exception for yaoi and yuri if it interest me enough. I have no time for it with the hetro manga \o/

[(Anonymous)]

The Guy I Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All is so cute!!!

[(Anonymous)]

I'm reluctant to try that series because of its title, but not because it's long. It's because I've heard it has no relevance to the plot because the girl finds out the "guy" she likes isn't a guy really early on and then just accepts she's another girl and that's it, it's never mentioned again. I like slice of life and f/f but if a series has a name like that, I'd expect something interesting involving gender nonconformity and questioning one's sexuality.

[(Anonymous)]

smart, but you know your points are the same? the absurdly long titles are light novel titles, that's a manga adapted from a light novel just as much as the multiple authors.

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly those both sound incredibly fair. I haven't been able to find a manga in since I took a break since Haikyuu!. This might be a good guideline for me if I find myself venturing back into the scene, tbh.

[larathia]

I used to feel the same way, until I found out a common thread in all those long titles is they're basically telling you the things they don't really want to spend time on. The ultra long titles are like unavoidable "story to date" prologues; they tell a prospective reader the broad strokes of the setting before they ever pick up the book.

And then the writer almost always goes "Now that we've established that, THIS OTHER DEVELOPMENT that comes from those givens is what the story actually is."

Sometimes it's good. Sometimes it's awful. But I'll give them credit for at least putting the AO3 summary on the cover, at least.