A reason I've heard for the long titles, is that one of the major self-publishing webnovel sites (think AO3 but not specifically for fan works) in Japan during their written media boom, didn't have a place to put synopses. All the author had available in order to hook a potential reader was the title. So they essentially used the title as a synopsis to let the readers know what a story was about. Because the pipeline of [webnovel => light novel => manga => anime] was/is so common, a lot of these works found their way into other media without changing their titles. And then because it was so common, it became a Thing That Is Done.
Jesus Christ.....some of these are cursed. Ngl "something is rising but it's not the shield hero" is the funniest title for that manga's first chapter.
ill never get over: "Though Young People Recoil From Entering The Black Magic Industry, I Found Its Treatment Of Employees Quite Good When I Entered It, And The President And Familiar Are Cute Too So Everything Is Awesome"
The title of a light novel I came across…: “I’m Aware That I’m a Burden, but I’m Not Allowed to Leave the Party, so I Tried to Disappear by Pretending to Jump off Into the Abyss, but I Really Fell ~I Become Deadly Strong in the Abyss While the Girls in the Party Are Sick With Despair~”
This title instantly made me think of “I’ll be taking a break for personal reasons” The title is so bad that the first line of the synopsis have to be “Note: This is the manhwa’s title, we are not taking an actual break”
That is genuinely the *one* story I literally got so sick of I couldn't read anymore, lol Maybe it's good but like... Idk, I didn't like it. Felt too generic, lmao
Friendly reminder that a good title needs to be punchy, short, memorable, and get across the idea of the story within prior criteria. Let's take these as examoles as what NOT to do.
although you are 100% correct, this new trend among japanese literacy to have a giant title is something that has an actual reason, basically people there almost never read the backside of the book which has the synopsis, so EVERYBODY judged books for their cover, authors were fed up with their work failing due to that and started a movement to make their titles THEMSELVES the description, so when in the video he says that "those books can be judged by its cover" its ironic, because thats the whole purpose and objective of it now most of them are just authors following the trend, knowing or not its reason edit: he already said it in the video lmao, although partially
I swear, most mangas and animes have the longest names of all times like “I Shit My Pants at the Skibidi Toilet and Now I’ve created the biggest shit of the century known to mankind”.
Rascal Does not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai was probably the only one that wasn't as damn bad the title suggested, I only watched it because the person who knew I hate fanservice said it's a decent show
Decent is an understatement. It's great, despite what the title suggests. Unfortunately, that makes it hard to recommend. Anyone who's saying it's boring obviously didn't give it much thought. It isn't your basic Ecchi anime, you need to have at least some IQ points for it lol
Except that he is not breaking containment since there is no scp foundation and the government basically gave up. With that premise, it honestly would be a good manga if not for the isekai part. I've read it and the more chapter the more disconnected the mc to the plot. Probably the author knew the mc is too op so they had to distance the mc from the conflict to make a longer arc
@cefrinaldi8060 I mean, that's just a standard. If you have an OP character, then the focus of the story's action should not be on the main character. Obviously, One Punch Man is a lot better, but that story also pushes Saitama away from the conflict a lot too. Overlord is also similar too, even if there are still some stakes mixed in. Story's where the MC is SUPPOSED to be redicously OP are just stories that focus on world buildings and side character. That's not a flaw; its a different form of story telling.
@@soulsmanipulatedinc.1682 him being op isn't really much of a focus. Like his power is no shit he's strong but the way the author goes about it is actually fairly interesting
@@brutalnobody5240 I agree. The way the story arcs bend around, converge, and the creative powers that are displayed is, in my opinion, what sold the story for me. Again, it's no masterpiece, but gosh darn is it intriguing.
@@soulsmanipulatedinc.1682 same opinion for me. It slowly turned form an average op mc isekai into a lovecraftian horror, with cosmic beings toying with worlds and all that other shiz.
I swear, the content of Dungeon Toilet is what people picture when I mention Dungeon Meshi or Toilet Bound Hanako-kun and they've never heard of those so all they have to go off of is the titles
@@RealSunArtI did the same at first! I thought it was about a kid who had IBS or something and was like, bound for the toilet. But they spend almost zero time on the toilet thing. XD The title is a reference to the urban legend of Hanako-san, a girl who was said to have died in a school bathroom and now haunts it. TBHK takes place in a school that is very haunted, and most of the ghosts/entities are bound to a location (like the library or the stairs). The area Hanako is bound to is the girls' bathroom because of the urban legend he's based on. It's got absolutely gorgeous art, an intriguing plot, an immersive setting, supernatural/light horror elements, cute and loveable characters, humor, some romance, and characters that are doomed by the narrative, so if any of those sound good to you, I definitely recommend checking it out. The anime is fun, but it cuts some really good early parts, and the manga art is beautiful, so I either recommend watching the anime and then moving on to the manga if you like it, or just starting with the manga.
@@Dr.PicklePh.D. well that explains the title sooo much more! You know I think you may have convinced me to start reading the manga haha. Not sure when I’ll be able to purchase the book myself, but I will for sure give it a try. Seems cool, Thank you!
@@jademonass2954 Ooh! I saw a Tumblr post arguing for that translation, and while I see the point and I do think it's more palatable to an English-speaking audience, I don't think it's entirely accurate either. The 地 in 地縛 does mean “earth” on its own, but the phrase 地縛霊 that it comes from refers to a ghost that's tied to a location or place of death, not ground or the earth. If you translate it as “earth-bound,” that would be like translating the English word “mortify” as “to become dead” just because the root “mort” means “death” and “-ify” means “to become,” even though the modern word means “to embarrass.” It is cool to know the etymology, though, and I see how it fits thematically with the story. Hanako is a 地縛霊 that's bound to the bathroom (his boundary) or the school (which he's literally unable to leave). So “bathroom-bound,” “school-bound,” “bound ghost,” or even “ghost boy Hanako-kun” (since the current English translation drops the 少年 entirely) might be more accurate. I'm personally not a fan of any of the “[something]-bound” translations because to me it sounds like he's bound FOR whatever it is, like he's going there. XD I don't really have any better suggestions, though. And finally, as to why they called it that, translators often don't get to translate the title of a work. The author or Japanese publisher often comes up with the title and English-language distributors aren't allowed to change it. This is why a lot of anime/manga titles sound odd: they weren't translated/localized by native English speakers. I don't know if that's the case with TBHK, but I think it's entirely possible. Hope this wasn't too long and didn't come off as passive-aggressive! I think about this a lot and I have a lot of fun talking about Japanese and translation. :D
I swear to God, sometimes im scrolling through something, wanting to find a good anime to watch and the titles are like: "Im a nerd that was teleported to a fantasy world full of slime girls who want me to help them in an adventure to destroy the king of darkness!?!?" Anime titles are getting more specific and lengthier as more time passes
The instant death novel was actually made to mock most Isekai manga, and although the beginning isn’t the greatest, I personally believe the loss of character conflict with the main character is made up mostly by the sheer ridiculousness and randomness of the plot
Even still the ridiculousness can only take you so far and the worldbuilding character development and plot are almost nonexistent and the mc has almost no reason to ever engage in it (so far in the anime)
“Reincarnated as a vending machine; now I wander the dungeon” shouldve been here. And maybe as an honorable mention since it doesnt have a manga i dont think you shouldve had reincarnated as a dummy head mic.
reincarnated as a dummy head mic is so weird that it's pretty funny. I love the episode where he becomes an atom in space. The episodes are so short that you can finish the series in like 20 minutes, so you might as well watch it.
For some reason, the idea of an invincible shovel is really funny to me. It's like the macguffin version of one punch man in that it satirizes the idea of "we need to go find this uber ancient artifact that'll solve all our problems" except in this case, it's always the shovel, and it takes two seconds for the character to find (because it's in his backpack already).
One reason typically cited for the long titles is that a lot of light novels started out in Japan on forums and AO3 type sites. Back in the day, those sites didn’t have a place to put plot synopses, so the best way to hook people scrolling on the website was to include the premise in the title which was easily visible.
We need a free birds isekai manga series called "We're going back in time to the first thanksgiving to get turkeys off the menu! That's right! We're going back in time to the first thanksgiving to get turkeys off the menu!"
I'm pretty sure the instant death manga actually just got an adaptation, literally this season. That or an almost identical premise. Which wouldn't be too shocking.
@@blakecook9266 giving that am watching it on hidive am very sure that they are the same story. So far from what i gather from watching it the story isnt about the protog. its about the universe around him trying to survive the protog and discover how to defeat him.
The "instant death" Manga was actually kinda interesting later Spoilers The power he has wasn't given to him after traveling to the fantasy world, he actually had it since birth in the modern world, making him a threat to society and being secured by the government and investigated, later on he gets a teacher that takes care of him and acts kinda like a mother to him, teaching him morals and kindness That's what made me interested on the story and what would happen. Also, there were also some cults that started worshipping him as the god of death, and also, i read from the comment of a novel reader that he is actually the manifestation of the end, explaining why he can kill everything and anything, but i don't know if it's true because the manga hasn't reached that point.
the manga did reach the point there's a girl that can see fate she looks at MC and there's a big dialogue about how he has no fate because he's what's at the end of fate, and how the demon villainess instinctively avoided the MC out of fear, and how nothing can stop mc
Damn you've sponsored some really epic figurama statues before, but those might be my favourite yet, and these titles leave me in pieces from laughing so hard or make my blood vessels burst lol
Some more series with insanely long titles *Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Trusted Companions Tried to Kill Me, but Thanks to the Gift of an Unlimited Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out for Revenge on My Former Party Members and the World
I have read what others have heard to be the reason of stories with long titles, but what I've heard before is that on wattpad-type sites the authors basically started clickbaiting readers like they'd be on youtube, where they explain the whole premise to convince people to read them. Some have said that the sites don't let people add a synopsis, but I never heard of that reason before, still might be true. Either way, it's been clear that some books cannot be judged by their titles, even if they are batshit insane or repetitive. Edit: also came here expecting a certain manga about a dog that is a human... that's one hell of a title... xD But good video. Any isekai, recent fantasy, or some newgen romance series qualify for the title of worst title (xD). There are some really bad manwa titles out there also, everything about gaming has one of the keywords: "impossible skill, ultimate ability, level 999999999999, the hero, respawn, S-rank, player, Demon lord" and many, many more. I wouldn't be able to keep track of so many series if I would actually read them...
found it while searching for the shield hero one, one, i was laughing my ass off, but that must have been the immature gal inside me, I also laughed like a schoolgirl to the "master of the twin peaks" manga.
The instant death manga has a anime that currently airing right now. The story starts generic but becomes more unique and Interesting the farther the story progresses.
Some cool low key manga 1)Make the exorcist fall in love 2) Shaman of hellfire (axed after 105 chapters) 3)Old man from the countryside becomes the sword saint 4) The middle aged newbie adventurer trained to death and became unbeatable.
It makes me happy you pronounced the name at 3:08 correctly. I've been watching some anime in English dub recently, and they always put the emphasis on the wrong place and it BUGS ME
Wtf......i was literally binging your 2 year old "mangas i dropped" and top 100 manga videos......and bro drop this......man.....the timing was so impeccable......gotta love it mate 😂
The quality of the videos just keeps getting better and better. Also I am surprised by the fact that mask managed to retain his mental sanity after all that. These days it has become a trend to have lengthy names or just insert the synopsis into the light novel title even one of the most popular lite novels rezero has a name that is easily more than a sentence.
I legitimately love my instantability, and I recommend you go a little bit more into the story it’s not for everybody, but I liked it The scenes of his past were really great
My favorite long winded title is "I Reincarnated as the Little Sister of a Death Game Manga's Murder Mastermind and Failed", it's a pretty good read, I read both the web novel and the manga.
Can you check out a manga call "Make the exorcist fall in love". It not a wholesome romance manga. It an insanely fuck up manga about Sexual Assault, True love and Finding a normal live. I will say it similar to Chainsaw man in term of story and MC.
The sad thing is that some of these could be good. The instant death story could be a story about someone like Ulla Euleus Hecmatika from Sunday Without God who kills anyone that she sees or touches even if she doesn't want to. They could use that to tell a story of someone who has been shut off due to their curse, but they meet someone who is willing to get to know them. It then could go into an issue like the story of Orpheus and Eurydice that makes the character wonder if their love for that person is invalid because they've never seen or touched them, and it makes them want to see them at the risk of them losing the only close connection that they've ever had. OR It could be that have a trial like the one that is in the series, but it could be team based. The main character could have an ability that indiscriminately kills anyone within a set radius, but they have to strategize on how to use it without harming their teammates since they can't clear out the whole enemy army without killing their own teammates and losing. That could lead to interesting problem solving and strategizing.
Im reincarnated as a dying man & then reincarnated as a level 999 warrior in mmorpg but i trapped inside the game so i have to kill the king & i should be die in 69 episode but i have plot armor so another character is die for me skip 3 years later become stronger out of nowhere then i get netorare - the animation Every anime 2022-2024
this is hilarious because you'll see a book with cute manga characters on the cover and look at what it's called and itll be "My son's cousin's girlfriend was the most powerful goddess of this secret fantasy world that I discovered inside my kitchen cabinet, so now I have to m*lest my son in order to become her true successor, and things aren't going quite according to plan because of the sentient tupperware that followed me into the fantasy world through the cabinet, and now I think I'm turning into a fork too!"
full title is: My Life Is Just As Wrong As I Expected After Traveling to Another World Where I’m Surrounded By Cute Girls At A Magical High School And Am Also The Fabled Hero of Legend, But Before I Tell You That Story I Have To Tell You This Story, In Which I Was Walking Along With My Unbelievably, Impossibly Cute Younger Sister Who Doesn’t Like Me At All, And She Said To Me It Was My Fault She Wasn’t Popular No Matter How She Looked At It As We Walked To School Together, And We Stopped To Look At A Garden, Which Had A Flower Whose Name I Don’t Remember, When Suddenly A Portal Opened Up To Another World And When I Landed In A Field And My Face Was Buried In The Largest Pair of Boobs I’d Ever Seen, And My Sister Hit Me And Called Me An Idiot While Blushing, But Then The Girl I Landed On Saw The Birthmark On My Hand And Gasped And She Grabbed My Hand And I Blushed But She Started Dragging Me Away And My Sister Got Mad And Chased After Us And I Asked Where We Were Going, And She Said She Was Taking Us To Grimheart Magic School, Where She Was The School President, And Then I Gasped Because I Was Now In A Magical World, And When We Got To The School Which Was A Giant Castle I Asked The Girl What Her Name Was And She Said It Was Akane Yuusha, Which I Thought Was A Tad Strange Since She Had Blonde Hair And Blue Eyes And The Entire Aesthetic Of The School Seemed Very Ancient European, But I Forgot About All Of That When She Told Me We Needed To See The Headmaster Because She Had Been Taught That The Mark On My Hand Was The Symbol Of The Reincarnation Of The Legendary Dragon Hero Of Legendary Literature, And I Said That Was A Cool Thing To Be Taught Because At Our School The Only Book We Learned Was Atlas Shrugged, And She Asked What That Was And I Told Her I Was The Book Our Society Based Its Philosophy On A Speech From, And She Asked Me To Recite The Speech, Which I Did, And The Speech Went “For Twelve Years You Have Been Asking…
"My instant death ability is so overpowered..." Was a title put as a joke, the light novel is kinda-good and I'm a rare type of person that reads author words at the end a book
the instant death ability one was meant to be a satire on how oversaturated the op isekai character trope is and if you go in with that knowledge its a really good show/ book
may i suggest the weakest tamer began a journey to pick up trash. i know its a weird name but its pretty good. pretty much little girl goes on a journey to escape the village that just sucks because the only person who cared for her told her to go out and explore the world to find true friends
I actually recommended you some isekai manga in this video. Also definitely check hero is dead ,The Hero Who Seeks Revenge Shall Exterminate with Darkness (guro)
I thought the Instant death isekai manga was pretty good. It's been a while since I've read it but I enjoyed it. I think the title might have got screwed over in the official translation because on mangakakalot it's called "The Other World Doesn't Stand A Chance Against The Power Of Instant Death" which is, while still long, a better title. I'd suggest reading it honestly because I found it pretty interesting. It's similar to one punch man but in a fantasy setting.
"The Invincible Shovel" sounds like if you tasked a Krieger Guardsman from 40k to write a manga. "Oh no, what will be the resolution to our situation? Shovel."
5:30 actually a pretty decent manga, with one of the better world building setups - I enjoyed reading it greatly and I highly recommend it. (also it's getting anime adaptation, but it's severely missing on the explanation part...) It's kinda like one-punch man, with epic settings / fights / etc, except for MC being death incarnate who just wants to get back to the original world.
If you ever plan to make a part 2, there's a few manga I'd like to recommend, with varying degrees of weirdness and quality: Dad, the Beard Gorilla and I Between Smooth and Rough (Tsurutsuru to Zarazara no Aida) My Balls (Oretama) Deep S*x (had to censor it, you can figure the title out) Asumi-chan Is Interested in Lesbian Brothels! The Private Report on My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer
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Masked: “Now reality can be whatever I want”
A reason I've heard for the long titles, is that one of the major self-publishing webnovel sites (think AO3 but not specifically for fan works) in Japan during their written media boom, didn't have a place to put synopses. All the author had available in order to hook a potential reader was the title. So they essentially used the title as a synopsis to let the readers know what a story was about.
Because the pipeline of [webnovel => light novel => manga => anime] was/is so common, a lot of these works found their way into other media without changing their titles. And then because it was so common, it became a Thing That Is Done.
Narou(the website in question) also happens to be the reason for copypaste isekai as the main birthing ground
this is so interesting and makes so much sense!! thank you for sharing this lol
@@crimsondemonmeguminthe main reason wasnt the popularity of SAO?
I hate that this is a style of naming now
Jesus Christ.....some of these are cursed.
Ngl "something is rising but it's not the shield hero" is the funniest title for that manga's first chapter.
ain't no way...
Yeah I actually thought that was kinda funny. xD
ill never get over: "Though Young People Recoil From Entering The Black Magic Industry, I Found Its Treatment Of Employees Quite Good When I Entered It, And The President And Familiar Are Cute Too So Everything Is Awesome"
I would legit read this XD
its porn, its legit just porn @@MaxEllSibSwe
its just p0r n, a decent one but just p0r n@@MaxEllSibSwe
bruh they keep deleting my comments but the manga is really just 18+, at least the story is decent but its just 18+@@MaxEllSibSwe
My generic ass would actually read this 😭😭😭
That part where Masked said “I am the Dog Ningen Now” is easily in my top 3 coldest moments in all of manga.
@@diamondhamster4320 Yeah, that's why he said he's the Dog *Ningen*
HE SAID WHAT? IN FEBRUARY?
@@diamondhamster4320 He is
@@diamondhamster4320 that aint the nigga-word tho???
@@IPODsifyMLK died so we could have this
The fucking line "An average high school student, with an un-average love for toilets" is comedy gold.
even Shakespeare looks like a toddler compared to these words of wisdom
The title of a light novel I came across…: “I’m Aware That I’m a Burden, but I’m Not Allowed to Leave the Party, so I Tried to Disappear by Pretending to Jump off Into the Abyss, but I Really Fell ~I Become Deadly Strong in the Abyss While the Girls in the Party Are Sick With Despair~”
what
That’s a whole ass summary
I think you mean light novel of a title cause jesus that's a bit too long.
@@NEEDbacon lmao
i’m terribly sorry even tho i heavn’t anything
your good dont do just again
What are you talking?
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Why does this have 90 likes?
@@pianopp1 I literally just noticed how i didn’t writw “i heavn’t RECOMAND anything” i’m just so dumb man😭
warning: the mom and son in the "multi-hit attacks" manga do in fact get closer at the end of the story... but not in a familial way
god damn it japan
Oh yay let me find my will to live again
They Usagi Dropped us right on our heads
@@spooky6703i pity myself so much for understanding that reference
Thanks! Now if you excuse me, I gotta search for my love for reading again.
This title instantly made me think of “I’ll be taking a break for personal reasons” The title is so bad that the first line of the synopsis have to be “Note: This is the manhwa’s title, we are not taking an actual break”
That is genuinely the *one* story I literally got so sick of I couldn't read anymore, lol
Maybe it's good but like...
Idk, I didn't like it. Felt too generic, lmao
@@Nameless_FaceNahh, it's just plain bad. The manhwa is just dumb. Ur not missing anything dw.
But It is a good joke
8:18
"When all seven of the magical orbs are gathered... whatever wish you have will be granted."
why does that sound so familiar?
I don't know. But hey, maybe the story involves a dragon or something.
Friendly reminder that a good title needs to be punchy, short, memorable, and get across the idea of the story within prior criteria. Let's take these as examoles as what NOT to do.
i mean that last one seems to fullfill those criterias.
Never seen someone misspell Example so bad
@@Jerrremy Fast typing on mobile is an unfortunate foible I've yet to truly overcome. Especially when I only use one thumb.
@@Jerrremy In reality it's just accidentally pressing o instead of p. They knew how to spell the word.
although you are 100% correct, this new trend among japanese literacy to have a giant title is something that has an actual reason, basically people there almost never read the backside of the book which has the synopsis, so EVERYBODY judged books for their cover, authors were fed up with their work failing due to that and started a movement to make their titles THEMSELVES the description, so when in the video he says that "those books can be judged by its cover" its ironic, because thats the whole purpose and objective of it
now most of them are just authors following the trend, knowing or not its reason
edit: he already said it in the video lmao, although partially
I swear, most mangas and animes have the longest names of all times
like “I Shit My Pants at the Skibidi Toilet and Now I’ve created the biggest shit of the century known to mankind”.
I would lowkey read this
@@Microstands i mean the title sounds 🔥
@0rpheus.mp4 real
Rascal Does not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai was probably the only one that wasn't as damn bad the title suggested, I only watched it because the person who knew I hate fanservice said it's a decent show
I hate this title because it makes this anime so hard to recommend
It’s so confusing and boring to me personally 😭
@@stitchgor3It's definitely confusing but I personally never found it boring, it does pick up after a few ep though
i watched it with my friend and we both feel asleep
Decent is an understatement. It's great, despite what the title suggests. Unfortunately, that makes it hard to recommend.
Anyone who's saying it's boring obviously didn't give it much thought. It isn't your basic Ecchi anime, you need to have at least some IQ points for it lol
my ista death is actually very interesting. As it turns out the mc is literally an SCP that breaked conrainment
Except that he is not breaking containment since there is no scp foundation and the government basically gave up. With that premise, it honestly would be a good manga if not for the isekai part. I've read it and the more chapter the more disconnected the mc to the plot. Probably the author knew the mc is too op so they had to distance the mc from the conflict to make a longer arc
@cefrinaldi8060 I mean, that's just a standard. If you have an OP character, then the focus of the story's action should not be on the main character.
Obviously, One Punch Man is a lot better, but that story also pushes Saitama away from the conflict a lot too. Overlord is also similar too, even if there are still some stakes mixed in.
Story's where the MC is SUPPOSED to be redicously OP are just stories that focus on world buildings and side character. That's not a flaw; its a different form of story telling.
@@soulsmanipulatedinc.1682 him being op isn't really much of a focus. Like his power is no shit he's strong but the way the author goes about it is actually fairly interesting
@@brutalnobody5240 I agree. The way the story arcs bend around, converge, and the creative powers that are displayed is, in my opinion, what sold the story for me.
Again, it's no masterpiece, but gosh darn is it intriguing.
@@soulsmanipulatedinc.1682 same opinion for me. It slowly turned form an average op mc isekai into a lovecraftian horror, with cosmic beings toying with worlds and all that other shiz.
I swear, the content of Dungeon Toilet is what people picture when I mention Dungeon Meshi or Toilet Bound Hanako-kun and they've never heard of those so all they have to go off of is the titles
Is toilet bouncy Hanako kun good because I’ve always stayed away from it because of the title 😂 is he actually toilet bound
@@RealSunArtI did the same at first! I thought it was about a kid who had IBS or something and was like, bound for the toilet. But they spend almost zero time on the toilet thing. XD The title is a reference to the urban legend of Hanako-san, a girl who was said to have died in a school bathroom and now haunts it. TBHK takes place in a school that is very haunted, and most of the ghosts/entities are bound to a location (like the library or the stairs). The area Hanako is bound to is the girls' bathroom because of the urban legend he's based on.
It's got absolutely gorgeous art, an intriguing plot, an immersive setting, supernatural/light horror elements, cute and loveable characters, humor, some romance, and characters that are doomed by the narrative, so if any of those sound good to you, I definitely recommend checking it out. The anime is fun, but it cuts some really good early parts, and the manga art is beautiful, so I either recommend watching the anime and then moving on to the manga if you like it, or just starting with the manga.
@@Dr.PicklePh.D. well that explains the title sooo much more! You know I think you may have convinced me to start reading the manga haha. Not sure when I’ll be able to purchase the book myself, but I will for sure give it a try. Seems cool, Thank you!
hanako kun is SO good but i swear, who decided on that translation 😭😭 its earth-bound hanako kun
@@jademonass2954 Ooh! I saw a Tumblr post arguing for that translation, and while I see the point and I do think it's more palatable to an English-speaking audience, I don't think it's entirely accurate either.
The 地 in 地縛 does mean “earth” on its own, but the phrase 地縛霊 that it comes from refers to a ghost that's tied to a location or place of death, not ground or the earth. If you translate it as “earth-bound,” that would be like translating the English word “mortify” as “to become dead” just because the root “mort” means “death” and “-ify” means “to become,” even though the modern word means “to embarrass.” It is cool to know the etymology, though, and I see how it fits thematically with the story.
Hanako is a 地縛霊 that's bound to the bathroom (his boundary) or the school (which he's literally unable to leave). So “bathroom-bound,” “school-bound,” “bound ghost,” or even “ghost boy Hanako-kun” (since the current English translation drops the 少年 entirely) might be more accurate. I'm personally not a fan of any of the “[something]-bound” translations because to me it sounds like he's bound FOR whatever it is, like he's going there. XD I don't really have any better suggestions, though.
And finally, as to why they called it that, translators often don't get to translate the title of a work. The author or Japanese publisher often comes up with the title and English-language distributors aren't allowed to change it. This is why a lot of anime/manga titles sound odd: they weren't translated/localized by native English speakers. I don't know if that's the case with TBHK, but I think it's entirely possible.
Hope this wasn't too long and didn't come off as passive-aggressive! I think about this a lot and I have a lot of fun talking about Japanese and translation. :D
I swear to God, sometimes im scrolling through something, wanting to find a good anime to watch and the titles are like:
"Im a nerd that was teleported to a fantasy world full of slime girls who want me to help them in an adventure to destroy the king of darkness!?!?"
Anime titles are getting more specific and lengthier as more time passes
"..unsubscribe, i wouldn't even blame you." LMAO
also very nice editing and video man :)
The instant death novel was actually made to mock most Isekai manga, and although the beginning isn’t the greatest, I personally believe the loss of character conflict with the main character is made up mostly by the sheer ridiculousness and randomness of the plot
Even still the ridiculousness can only take you so far and the worldbuilding character development and plot are almost nonexistent and the mc has almost no reason to ever engage in it (so far in the anime)
They also made an anime about it
@@hiftycringe4509character development for the mc is actually good in the manga, didn't watch the anime so i wouldn't know about that version
“Reincarnated as a vending machine; now I wander the dungeon” shouldve been here.
And maybe as an honorable mention since it doesnt have a manga i dont think you shouldve had reincarnated as a dummy head mic.
reincarnated as a dummy head mic is so weird that it's pretty funny. I love the episode where he becomes an atom in space. The episodes are so short that you can finish the series in like 20 minutes, so you might as well watch it.
I remember getting recommended an anime recap video of this end needless to say i was like (what the hell am i looking at?)
What@@Moocow2003
For some reason, the idea of an invincible shovel is really funny to me. It's like the macguffin version of one punch man in that it satirizes the idea of "we need to go find this uber ancient artifact that'll solve all our problems" except in this case, it's always the shovel, and it takes two seconds for the character to find (because it's in his backpack already).
Some of these authors belong on a list i swear to god
the 3rd one and the last one are the worst
I mean, they’re on this list, right? (Jk, jk)
Does that list happen to be the name of another Light Novel?
the editing in these videos have been insanely good lately!
One reason typically cited for the long titles is that a lot of light novels started out in Japan on forums and AO3 type sites. Back in the day, those sites didn’t have a place to put plot synopses, so the best way to hook people scrolling on the website was to include the premise in the title which was easily visible.
We need a free birds isekai manga series called "We're going back in time to the first thanksgiving to get turkeys off the menu! That's right! We're going back in time to the first thanksgiving to get turkeys off the menu!"
The editing is so masterful dude holy-
finish yo sentences mf!!
I'm pretty sure the instant death manga actually just got an adaptation, literally this season. That or an almost identical premise. Which wouldn't be too shocking.
it was that one specifically, yeah
@@blakecook9266 giving that am watching it on hidive am very sure that they are the same story. So far from what i gather from watching it the story isnt about the protog. its about the universe around him trying to survive the protog and discover how to defeat him.
The "instant death" Manga was actually kinda interesting later
Spoilers
The power he has wasn't given to him after traveling to the fantasy world, he actually had it since birth in the modern world, making him a threat to society and being secured by the government and investigated, later on he gets a teacher that takes care of him and acts kinda like a mother to him, teaching him morals and kindness
That's what made me interested on the story and what would happen.
Also, there were also some cults that started worshipping him as the god of death, and also, i read from the comment of a novel reader that he is actually the manifestation of the end, explaining why he can kill everything and anything, but i don't know if it's true because the manga hasn't reached that point.
the manga did reach the point there's a girl that can see fate she looks at MC and there's a big dialogue about how he has no fate because he's what's at the end of fate, and how the demon villainess instinctively avoided the MC out of fear, and how nothing can stop mc
@@thechosenone5421 oh yeah, I forgot about that
It's basically a very shitty isekai about an scp.
meh, it's not that bad, it's passable@@ZetroFox9274
@@ZetroFox9274 not shitty but yeah
bro thats 55 chapters of letting it crust he aint wiping that shit☠️
Damn you've sponsored some really epic figurama statues before, but those might be my favourite yet, and these titles leave me in pieces from laughing so hard or make my blood vessels burst lol
The quality of these vids man
Imagine a manga where the entire plot is explained in its title, complete with plot twists and character development
I’ve lost hope in humanity because my insta death ability got an adaptation before 20th Century Boys and a good Berserk adaptation.
its not bad actually
Love to the new editing style. KEEP IT GOING!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Some more series with insanely long titles
*Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Trusted Companions Tried to Kill Me, but Thanks to the Gift of an Unlimited Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out for Revenge on My Former Party Members and the World
I have read what others have heard to be the reason of stories with long titles, but what I've heard before is that on wattpad-type sites the authors basically started clickbaiting readers like they'd be on youtube, where they explain the whole premise to convince people to read them. Some have said that the sites don't let people add a synopsis, but I never heard of that reason before, still might be true. Either way, it's been clear that some books cannot be judged by their titles, even if they are batshit insane or repetitive.
Edit: also came here expecting a certain manga about a dog that is a human... that's one hell of a title... xD
But good video. Any isekai, recent fantasy, or some newgen romance series qualify for the title of worst title (xD). There are some really bad manwa titles out there also, everything about gaming has one of the keywords: "impossible skill, ultimate ability, level 999999999999, the hero, respawn, S-rank, player, Demon lord" and many, many more. I wouldn't be able to keep track of so many series if I would actually read them...
omg you finally talked about viberator manga. I thought I was the only one who knew it exists.
found it while searching for the shield hero one, one, i was laughing my ass off, but that must have been the immature gal inside me, I also laughed like a schoolgirl to the "master of the twin peaks" manga.
@@Dewani90 Ah! you are a woman of culture. A very rare breed indeed. 😖
The instant death manga has a anime that currently airing right now.
The story starts generic but becomes more unique and Interesting the farther the story progresses.
Honestly that does make sense the more outlandish the title is the more it peaks peoples curiosity which sadly is true.🐱
Some cool low key manga
1)Make the exorcist fall in love
2) Shaman of hellfire (axed after 105 chapters)
3)Old man from the countryside becomes the sword saint
4) The middle aged newbie adventurer trained to death and became unbeatable.
3)… SWORD SAINT ISSHIN!?!?!??!?
Make the exorcist fall in love NEEDS an anime. It will do so well
manga with long titles are either awful generic isekais or underrated stuff that people don’t want to read due to its title.
It makes me happy you pronounced the name at 3:08 correctly. I've been watching some anime in English dub recently, and they always put the emphasis on the wrong place and it BUGS ME
Wtf......i was literally binging your 2 year old "mangas i dropped" and top 100 manga videos......and bro drop this......man.....the timing was so impeccable......gotta love it mate 😂
Thanks for the recommendations Masked, knew I could count on ya to provide the good shit.
The quality of the videos just keeps getting better and better. Also I am surprised by the fact that mask managed to retain his mental sanity after all that. These days it has become a trend to have lengthy names or just insert the synopsis into the light novel title even one of the most popular lite novels rezero has a name that is easily more than a sentence.
I legitimately love my instantability, and I recommend you go a little bit more into the story it’s not for everybody, but I liked it The scenes of his past were really great
"Oni-Chan is Into Elementary School girls." STRAIGHT CRIMINAL😭😭
13:20 apparently ch 6 here is an ACTUAL manga
My favorite long winded title is "I Reincarnated as the Little Sister of a Death Game Manga's Murder Mastermind and Failed", it's a pretty good read, I read both the web novel and the manga.
I am actually upset I didn’t come up with bitchcraft myself. That’s just too good.
Can you check out a manga call "Make the exorcist fall in love". It not a wholesome romance manga.
It an insanely fuck up manga about Sexual Assault, True love and Finding a normal live.
I will say it similar to Chainsaw man in term of story and MC.
That poor priest
But it's also got a lot of good fights and art
Agreed
So it's shit
It's OK, but it's nothing CRAZY in terms of intensity.
It doesn't feel "fucked up" at all.
@@asmodeusguys4472 maybe you're just desensitized
I pray for a lord of the mysteries review one day 🙏
YES. PRAISE THE FOOL!
PRAISE THE FOOL
Onani master is actually hella thrilling ngl. Always was on edge lol
kurosawa was edging alright
The sad thing is that some of these could be good. The instant death story could be a story about someone like Ulla Euleus Hecmatika from Sunday Without God who kills anyone that she sees or touches even if she doesn't want to. They could use that to tell a story of someone who has been shut off due to their curse, but they meet someone who is willing to get to know them. It then could go into an issue like the story of Orpheus and Eurydice that makes the character wonder if their love for that person is invalid because they've never seen or touched them, and it makes them want to see them at the risk of them losing the only close connection that they've ever had.
OR
It could be that have a trial like the one that is in the series, but it could be team based. The main character could have an ability that indiscriminately kills anyone within a set radius, but they have to strategize on how to use it without harming their teammates since they can't clear out the whole enemy army without killing their own teammates and losing. That could lead to interesting problem solving and strategizing.
great video the editing has gotten crazy better
The Story: 😊
The Title: 💀
How could you say art is dead now?
Yoou can't, this proves we are in a new era
When he said why would I rank torture devices I thought he was joking after that last one I do not
has anyone read alice in borderland? Its a masterpiece.
Hell yeah I have
@@SamTheGumMan117 hell yea
Not yet I plan to and… 500+ other series 🙃
One of my favs fr shi slaps
yeah it is
Bro this video is perfect, the humor, the editing, the way you talk, I can't stop laughthing 😂😂
Hearing you mention the amount of chapets Phatom Seer had compared to the first manga on the list made me so mad, that axe was sp unfair
Is Dungeon toilet just like a chaotic evil version of Dungeon Meshi (Delicious in Dungeon)?
(DinD is about eating fantasy monsters every chapters)
It it kind of makes me yucked out that the art style makes all the characters like kids. Seems like a pedo kink manga.
nah, it's about a guy that is dead set on using the other world as his toilet, so if you want shit, the manga is shit.
Like if you want him to do a pt 2. The suffering must continue.
Damn, the new style of vids is sick
Im reincarnated as a dying man & then reincarnated as a level 999 warrior in mmorpg but i trapped inside the game so i have to kill the king & i should be die in 69 episode but i have plot armor so another character is die for me skip 3 years later become stronger out of nowhere then i get netorare - the animation
Every anime 2022-2024
Praying for this man's brain cells
I would like you to make video comparing good and bad isekai, but I don’t think your mental sanity could maintain itself, so you decide lmao.
this is hilarious because you'll see a book with cute manga characters on the cover and look at what it's called and itll be "My son's cousin's girlfriend was the most powerful goddess of this secret fantasy world that I discovered inside my kitchen cabinet, so now I have to m*lest my son in order to become her true successor, and things aren't going quite according to plan because of the sentient tupperware that followed me into the fantasy world through the cabinet, and now I think I'm turning into a fork too!"
"do you love your mom and her two hit multi target attacks" 💀
The masked man: "I never wanna do it again"
Me: "Please do it again"
9:03 Wait, you're telling me that this shovel can help me with my failing trigonometry grade? Well hell, sign me up!
full title is: My Life Is Just As Wrong As I Expected After Traveling to Another World Where I’m Surrounded By Cute Girls At A Magical High School And Am Also The Fabled Hero of Legend, But Before I Tell You That Story I Have To Tell You This Story, In Which I Was Walking Along With My Unbelievably, Impossibly Cute Younger Sister Who Doesn’t Like Me At All, And She Said To Me It Was My Fault She Wasn’t Popular No Matter How She Looked At It As We Walked To School Together, And We Stopped To Look At A Garden, Which Had A Flower Whose Name I Don’t Remember, When Suddenly A Portal Opened Up To Another World And When I Landed In A Field And My Face Was Buried In The Largest Pair of Boobs I’d Ever Seen, And My Sister Hit Me And Called Me An Idiot While Blushing, But Then The Girl I Landed On Saw The Birthmark On My Hand And Gasped And She Grabbed My Hand And I Blushed But She Started Dragging Me Away And My Sister Got Mad And Chased After Us And I Asked Where We Were Going, And She Said She Was Taking Us To Grimheart Magic School, Where She Was The School President, And Then I Gasped Because I Was Now In A Magical World, And When We Got To The School Which Was A Giant Castle I Asked The Girl What Her Name Was And She Said It Was Akane Yuusha, Which I Thought Was A Tad Strange Since She Had Blonde Hair And Blue Eyes And The Entire Aesthetic Of The School Seemed Very Ancient European, But I Forgot About All Of That When She Told Me We Needed To See The Headmaster Because She Had Been Taught That The Mark On My Hand Was The Symbol Of The Reincarnation Of The Legendary Dragon Hero Of Legendary Literature, And I Said That Was A Cool Thing To Be Taught Because At Our School The Only Book We Learned Was Atlas Shrugged, And She Asked What That Was And I Told Her I Was The Book Our Society Based Its Philosophy On A Speech From, And She Asked Me To Recite The Speech, Which I Did, And The Speech Went “For Twelve Years You Have Been Asking…
no way this is the actual title. Is that it? Does it recite the whole speech LOL. I want to read that now.
Funniest thing is the insta die manga has an anime this season 💀
"My instant death ability is so overpowered..." Was a title put as a joke, the light novel is kinda-good and I'm a rare type of person that reads author words at the end a book
The editing style is *chef's kiss
the instant death ability one was meant to be a satire on how oversaturated the op isekai character trope is and if you go in with that knowledge its a really good show/ book
Hearing the title Black Torch upsets me to this day. Very underrated and im sad that it got axed so quickly
for the first one i thought he was gonna be isekai'd as a toilet 😭😭
saw the title and said "if dog n word isnt here i'll be pissed"
may i suggest the weakest tamer began a journey to pick up trash. i know its a weird name but its pretty good. pretty much little girl goes on a journey to escape the village that just sucks because the only person who cared for her told her to go out and explore the world to find true friends
I don't care if it IS just fiction, some of these mangaka need to be locked up.
I actually recommended you some isekai manga in this video.
Also definitely check hero is dead ,The Hero Who Seeks Revenge Shall Exterminate with Darkness (guro)
You need to do a part 2 of this please
I thought the Instant death isekai manga was pretty good. It's been a while since I've read it but I enjoyed it. I think the title might have got screwed over in the official translation because on mangakakalot it's called "The Other World Doesn't Stand A Chance Against The Power Of Instant Death" which is, while still long, a better title. I'd suggest reading it honestly because I found it pretty interesting. It's similar to one punch man but in a fantasy setting.
"The Invincible Shovel" sounds like if you tasked a Krieger Guardsman from 40k to write a manga. "Oh no, what will be the resolution to our situation? Shovel."
I just wanted to say that I love you so much
🤘🏼
this is so fucking cute
5:12 the fact this one got an anime too is hilarious!!!
5:30 actually a pretty decent manga, with one of the better world building setups - I enjoyed reading it greatly and I highly recommend it.
(also it's getting anime adaptation, but it's severely missing on the explanation part...)
It's kinda like one-punch man, with epic settings / fights / etc, except for MC being death incarnate who just wants to get back to the original world.
"Fist punch" killed me
Actually liking instant death ability anime so far, it’s a fun watch tbh
I can feel the pain from this man...The amount of pain.
kudos to masked man for going this far for the sake of our entertainment.
Dungeon Toilet is a journey 💀
That long titled multi-paragraphs title is so funny i hope thats a parody series.
Nice presentation for a new wiever, this video made me question a lot of things.
My goat is back!!!
If you ever plan to make a part 2, there's a few manga I'd like to recommend, with varying degrees of weirdness and quality:
Dad, the Beard Gorilla and I
Between Smooth and Rough (Tsurutsuru to Zarazara no Aida)
My Balls (Oretama)
Deep S*x (had to censor it, you can figure the title out)
Asumi-chan Is Interested in Lesbian Brothels!
The Private Report on My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness
Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer
"My Balls"
What.
7:52 Not a manga but the title immediately made me think of "The greatest estate developer" lol
The editing in this video is so good...
yeah….. Thanks for taking one for the team and checking out most of these (I don’t blame you for skipping that certain one)
Read Mistborn.
I like the editing style in this video.
that's a novel not a manga 😭
honestly never thought I'd hear legend of bumbo ost like ever so this was a pleasant surprise for the intro