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[–] jjagaimo@lemmy.ca 138 points 1 year 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

[–] TheEntity@kbin.social 53 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

German writers: It's my time to shine

[–] onion@feddit.de 54 points 1 year ago (2 children)

ℜ𝔢𝔦𝔫𝔠𝔞𝔯𝔫𝔞𝔱𝔢𝔡 𝔞𝔰 ℜ𝔦𝔫𝔡𝔣𝔩𝔢𝔦𝔰𝔠𝔥𝔢𝔱𝔦𝔨𝔢𝔱𝔱𝔦𝔢𝔯𝔲𝔫𝔤𝔰𝔲𝔢𝔟𝔢𝔯𝔴𝔞𝔠𝔥𝔲𝔫𝔤𝔰𝔞𝔲𝔣𝔤𝔞𝔟𝔢𝔫𝔲𝔢𝔟𝔢𝔯𝔱𝔯𝔞𝔤𝔲𝔫𝔤𝔰𝔤𝔢𝔰𝔢𝔱𝔷

[–] SnuggleSnail@ani.social 19 points 1 year 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!)

[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 8 points 1 year 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!"

[–] SternburgExport@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

Ach du Scheiße...

[–] Muffi@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hemingway: "hold my shotgun"

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

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

[–] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago

The Amazon strategy

[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world 82 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] embed_me@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago
[–] OctopusKurwa@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Aaroncvx@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year 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.

[–] SnuggleSnail@ani.social 34 points 1 year 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

[–] odium@programming.dev 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] shani66@lemmy.comfysnug.space 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] SnuggleSnail@ani.social 4 points 1 year 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 😅

[–] odium@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The rest are just worse generic isekais.

[–] SnuggleSnail@ani.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Todesschnitzel@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

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

[–] PennyJim@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] ichmagrum@feddit.de 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 21 points 1 year ago

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

[–] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago

If it says something meaningful about the human condition

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago

back when MCs were filled with blood