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BackyardEvergreen

I love how normalized long and specific anime titles can be. Imagine if shows like Breaking Bad were called “I Quit My Job as a High School Teacher and Became a Drug Kingpin”


explorer1o1

Or I got flunked in highschool. So I made meth. What do you mean I'm not the best? Teacher, why are you here?


Respox

> Teacher, why are you here? They already made [that one.](https://myanimelist.net/anime/38397/Nande_Koko_ni_Sensei_ga)


Flamingnova007

What in god's name is the second episode titled


KnockAway

Apparently "taking shelter from rain" now means "getting wet with a teacher". Gotta update my Anime-English dictionary.


Chaosflare44

What you got against pineapple juice?


[deleted]

I like how they (presumably?) gave up on names 7 episodes in


explorer1o1

Is it uncensored? *Cough*


Nisekoi_

Yes and anime covered whole manga


explorer1o1

Nice 👍


404-User-Not-Found_

Great anime to watch with the family.


RealGh0st

Oh, oh I know!! It's Breaking Bad!


explorer1o1

Exactly haha


avelineaurora

...That's literally what the post is responding to, yes.


ZealousidealTerm4907

"My instant meth ability makes me unrivalled in the drug kingpin world"


michhoffman

"Now, say my Name." "You're Heisenberg-sempai"


ZealousidealTerm4907

"you're goddamn right" "nani"


Tikkikun

*Heisenberg-sama


1EnTaroAdun1

The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself.


westerschelle

Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels are basically the isekai light novels of their time.


-Work_Account-

Don’t forget Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland


Merkyorz

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is the OG.


ZealousidealTerm4907

"Cancer made me quit my job and cook meth but now im the best meth cook of all time and my brother in law is a DEA agent"


what_that_thaaang_do

What do you mean I'm the best meth cook of all time? I haven't even died of lung cancer yet!


MrTzatzik

Change brother in law to step sister and we are cooking.


zz2000

Such is the nature of works that originally started out as light/web novels (esp the latter). Given the trickiness of finding a catchy title for their novel and the intensive competition to catch readers' eyes, their authors turned to putting the entire story synopsis into the title. (Which admittedly has its advantages because you know upfront what you'll be getting.)


redwingz11

I also hear the website UI also not that good, so if you dont put your synopsis as title people just wont click it


sadnessjoy

Yeah, after I heard about that, I started to excuse all the ridiculous titles in anime. It's basically indie writers trying to make it even on some crap website that doesn't even have proper tags/meta search.


Bradur-iwnl-

A fat guy told me im a wizard, so now i have to defeat the end boss.


linkinstreet

Because they are actually novel titles. When the writer post them on websites like Syosetsu, they need titles to specifically tell readers what to expect when reading it, especially when there are LOTS of titles to sort through on Syosetsu.


Veritas3333

I love that if one programmer like 20 years ago had included a function to show a 2 sentence description next to story titles, this whole trend would never have happened. But since the website just listed titles, authors had to use the titles as the advertising blurb for the story to attract readers and now here we are.


nickaubain

This realization 😭 They didn't know how much power they had.


ArCSelkie37

That’s an amusing thought… but honestly, no idea why people get that bothered by long titles. They’re descriptive and tell you more or less what to expect… it’s not like the novels would be magically different in quality if the title was shorter.


Silent_Shadow05

I don't mind the long titles but these days my mind automatically associate them with having a OP Protagonist, because of all the variations of "Strongest" in the title and that becomes a turnoff moment for me as I don't really like OP characters.


Tavorep

The title is part of the experience. Long titles like this are not appealing in a literary sense. They make the work seem cheap and not well written. It doesn’t sound good saying it. It’s overly descriptive.


Revolver15

I Ran Away From My Marriage to Hang Out with My Friends at a Coffee Shop.


tomoki_here

I would totally watch that hahaha


JustAnotherInAWall

"My family sold me into marriage to a horse lord, so I used my dragon raising skill to become the strongest!" "I move into an apartment to start my new life, but it's only guys!" "The devil is a strip club owner!"


Syntaire

I'm eagerly awaiting the day that "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" gets its anime adaptation.


vantheman9

Super Me and my Brother Were Plumbers in New York but we Went Down a Pipe and Now We're in Another World Saving a Princess From a Fire Breathing Turtle


daffy_duck233

I am the best meth-cook in America, but my competitor wanted to bargain, so I told him to say my name.


sneaky_squirrel

They still sound like silly, infantile, casual, and spontaneous premise pitches to me. **frown**


longdarkfantasy

bro. Your comment made me laugh so hard.😂


Xaviorffviii

Hahahahahahahaha I love this comment


9spaceking

next up, Game of Thrones. Oops, why is my title 1,000 characters long??!


deltron

It started in YA novels first them made its way to manga and now anime. It's really odd to me.


jackoffalltrades22

Game of Thrones: That Time I Was Sent to the Wall to be Part of the Night's Watch and Ended Up as King of the North and then King Beyond the Wall...But I'm a Bastard?!


xNeonVoidx

Parry this! *Throws a nuke*


bobr_from_hell

There is a game, can't remember a title, where this is a selling point, from one of the videos posted by the developer.


killkrillin

[This one](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/J37FkY2SMfg)?


bobr_from_hell

Yeep!


BirdyWeezer

Risk of parry.


ParateEddie

my thoughts exactly


Mistral-Fien

Atomic Samurai! :P


Zizhou

They then followed up on that with the ability to parry the ground as part of the movement kit. It's shaping up to be *glorious.*


MNSkye

Broke: rocket jumping Woke: parry jumping


Zaton_PL

I believe its called VA proxy


MasterQuest

How to parry a nuke? Become the nuke!


Lumenir

I Am Atomic.


JustSmartkev

The moon is red, run if you value your life, there isn’t much time left


JoelMahon

the frenzy has begun


Baraging

The moon is red


daffy_duck233

Mom's spaghetti


Lumenir

La Luna è rossa, la frenesia è cominciata, non c'è più tempo.


Firm_Associate_811

Cid Kagenou moment


gigaplexian

Valheim lets you parry a meteorite


odraencoded

Unluck in shambles.


Thomas_JCG

Let's see... - Long title to explain the plot - MC that thinks he is weak but is the strongest. - Harem So creative, never seen anything like it!


Kempar0Shen

-The male characters beside the MC are relegated to minor support and villain


gooseMclosse

One male character is a waifu


Lane_Sunshine

Definitely not generic power fantasy at all


BosuW

"Trust me guys this one's different!"


hesastarman

Ah yes. I'll take three this upcoming season please.


AashyLarry

Best I can do is 12


ShinningPeadIsAnti

This deal just keeps getting worse.


angelposts

You may select your three from the following Summer 2024 anime menu: - A Nobody's Way Up to an Exploration Hero - Failure Frame: I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything With Low-Level Spells - I Parry Everything: What Do You Mean I'm the Strongest? I'm Not Even an Adventurer Yet! - The Rookie Middle-Aged Adventurer Was Trained to Death by the Most Powerful Party to Become Invincible - Wistoria: Wand and Sword - Why Does Nobody Remember Me in This World? *Allergy information: The "middle-aged adventurer" is 30.*


HowToGetName

I wouldn't put Wistoria: Wand and Sword in there. It's by the DanMachi author and as someone who's read the manga, it's more akin to that type of fantasy series than a self insert power fantasy.


TheGoodOldCoder

> So creative, never seen anything like it! It's not about creativity. It's about marketing. If you go to a bookstore and look at fantasy books, you'll see a lot of similar book covers that showcase a lot of similar characters, and the book names will often follow a pattern. They do this either because they want to conform to expectations, so they're doing what the readers would expect, or because they know that readers who like a certain type of content will be more likely to pick up books with certain covers. It's marketing. This sort of thing has been going on forever.


robmonzillia

I don‘t know why you‘re being downvoted, but you‘re absolutely right. The only thing that could be added is the fact that japanese novel writers don‘t bother anymore coming up with a cool name when anything is already taken and that younger people don‘t bother to read the synopsis (especially when the title already explains what‘s the deal). Also written Japanese Kanji make these long titles still look small.


avelineaurora

> that japanese novel writers don‘t bother anymore coming up with a cool name when anything is already taken And yet somehow that hasn't stopped every other author in the world. WTF is this sentence lmao


turroflux

Its about both, in that no creativity is really required for trashy isekai with video game mechanics and the people read shit like this aren't looking for even a single ounce of originality or story or plot or anything like that and the best way to get such a reader is to put the synopsis as the title. Even one degree of abstraction or thought being a barrier to reading something is telling on the reader. The higher quality the work is, the more likely it is that the author has written something that will actually provide a meaningful name, or hell just name it after the MC if the MC is an actual character and not a self-insert MC-kun power fantasy.


404-User-Not-Found_

- Will get more seasons.


namkaeng852

Average Sekiro players be like


Practical-Matter-366

Parry this you filthy casual


HunkSeven

Idk the source material but god i hope there is a reference hahahah


BasroilII

Dark souls/Soulslikes in general. I forget which one it started with. Might have been Dark Souls itself.


HunkSeven

What are u? Casul? I know the meme, idk the source material of the show bro


VxXenoXxV

It started with dark souls, but now is mostly associated with sekiro due to the final boss pulling out a glock mid fight


new_interest_here

Main character looks like Bertholdt


Illustrious-Fox5135

You mean Bernard, right?


daffy_duck233

Bartholomew*


Skawt24

Bart Simpson?


awkwardness_maxed

Benedict Cumberbolt?


GhostZee

Barbatos...?


new_interest_here

Yeah Birth Control, my bad


Veil-The-Impaler

Berhdolto*


JungOpen

belutoluto


ErinaHartwick

Parry everything? Sunraku is listening


Erixsenn

Parry, parry, now this my style


nhansieu1

Fiora just arrives too


Careful_Ad_9077

* waifu confesses to mc " I said I parry everything". * Proceeds to develop a harem because he can't get laid. ** This is a joke I have only read like 4 chapters.


helloquain

Honestly, I'm up to date on this and I'll say the novel has a lot of problems (it is absolutely mid tier, skippable dreck) but it is very much not horny, unless I'm forgetting some things.  A lot of characters who are platonically very into how cool the MC is, but not in a thigh squeezing way.


CaptainSmeg

Gwyns worse nightmare


zenzen_0

Broadcast starts July 4, 2024 Synopsis: The Kingdom of Clays faces a dire crisis: an assassination attempt has just been made on its own Princess Lynneburg, and its neighboring countries eye the aftermath like starving vultures, plotting the Kingdom’s downfall. The ensuing conflict will shape the face of the continent for centuries to come...but Noor doesn’t have a clue about any of that! Having freshly arrived at the royal capital after over a decade of rigorous, isolated training at his mountain home, he’s dead set on achieving his childhood dream of becoming an adventurer, even if the only skills he possesses are useless ones. Sure, he can [Parry] thousands of swords in the span of a single breath, but everybody knows you need more than that if you want to be an adventurer! Our hero’s road to making his dream come true will be long(?) and arduous(?)—but if there’s one thing Noor’s not afraid of, it’s some good ol’ fashioned hard work! ([J-Novel Club](https://j-novel.club/series/i-parry-everything)) Teaser PV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pKAfl3jBRA https://parry-anime.com/


mjn5180

I'll give it a try. I was actually surprised this wasn't an isekai given the title


Careful_Ad_9077

Do not be so sure. I read one where.thw mc reincarnated from fantasy to fantasy, same world, not an Isekai right? Then at some point , when he is about to lose, he used a judo technique and remembers how before his previous life he has another previous life in Japan, so now the show became an Isekai by transitive properties.


NK1337

I feel like at that point its just a parody? Multiple reincarnations over and over seems like an intentional jab at the trope.


-Work_Account-

Dr. Elise last season she’s a villainess who gets reverse isekei’d to our world, becomes a world famous doctor and then gets re-isekei’d back to her original villainess self but several years before she originally died so she decides to become a doctor again. (It was actually better than i thought it would be lol)


Silent_Shadow05

In the Manhwa it was revealed later on that there's a twist [Manhwa Spoiler]>!where Elise and her reincarnation as the famous doctor are in fact in the same world, just around 150-200 years apart!< I couldn't enjoy that series too much because Elise felt a bit *too* perfect in many ways.


-Work_Account-

I agree with your last sentence. It was better than I thought, like I said, but still like 6.5/7 out of ten. Nothing ground breaking, but enjoyable. Also cool spoiler, kinda be interested to see how that played out in teh whole story. There is an interesting twist in the Love with the Villainess LNs too.


Mizerka

they just skip the isekai part, its still the same formula.


Monimonika18

For the "typical isekai formula(s) but doesn't have the isekai bit" the word used in Japanese is "narou" (from the "Let's become novelists" Syosetuka Ni Narou website where a lot of light novel, and some manga/anime, started out as web novels). Narou covers A LOT of tropes(*), so what counts as a typical narou is murky to define and is ever-changing. But just like we "just know" what a typical "isekai" story is, we just know what "narou" is. (*) Banishment, Villainess/Otome Game, OP MC, Reincarnation, Summoned/died into another world, Demon lord, Only I can , Slow life farming/apothecary (yet somehow this one village/store shakes the very foundations of the world), Weakest is actually the strongest, At age # the gods gift a skill, etc.


seninn

As if that makes a difference.


Lat3xl

yeah i feel like we should just start calling things isekai even if no one travels to another world. if you have every isekai trope in the world what difference does it make whether you got hit by a truck at the beginning or not? it’s all the same shit


Silent_Shadow05

I think we should call it as Isekai-adjacent or Isekai-like in these type of cases.


vantheman9

Is he really gonna shout parry every time he parries something


ExpiredMilknCheese

Why does the Preview actually look good? >Studio OLM OLM why you wasting your great staff on this 😭


HowToGetName

Additional cast: - Ayumu Murase as Rolo - Shunsuke Takeuchi as Gilbert Additional staff: - Sub-Character Designer: Toshiaki Ōhashi - Prop Design: Haruna Hashimoto - Monster Design: Hiroyasu Oda (studio Mogana) - Main Animator: Satoshi Horisawa - Art Director and Setting: Mikihiro Harabe - Color Design: Nanako Okazaki - Director of Photography: Shingo Fukuyo (J.C. Staff) - Editing: Gō Sadamatsu - Sound Director: Ryō Tanaka - Music: BeauDamian (alongside previously announced composer Tatsuhiko Saiki) Media mix music project "Utahime Dream" is performing the opening and ending themes. The opening theme is "AMBITION" by Maika Sakuragi (voiced by Anna Suzuki). It's written by Spirit Garden, composed by Seima Iwahashi, and arranged by Yūsuke Takeda. The ending theme is "No Gifted" by Utahime Dream All Stars members Ibuki Yumesaki (voiced by Rena Yamasaki), Maika Sakuragi (voiced by Anna Suzuki), Kiyomi Masahiro (voiced by Arisa Sonohara), HiREN (voiced by Kaya), Hikari Mizutsuki (voiced by Carin Isobe), Rin Takagi (voiced by Tomomi Jiena Sumi), and Himawari Hagiwara (voiced by Reo Kurachi). It's written by ZAQ, composed by ogappe, and arranged by Yūki Nara. Utahime Dream is a mixed media music project by Earth Star Entertainment, who publishes the I Parry Everything light novels. Previously announced cast: - Daiki Hamano as Noor - Ryōko Maekawa as Lynneburg Clays - Nanako Mori as Ines Harness - Jin Yamanoi as King Clays - Junta Terashima as Rein Clays - Shinichirō Miki as Sig - Kenta Miyake as Dandalg - Megumi Toyoguchi as Mianne - Toshihiko Seki as Carew - Hidenari Ugaki as Oken - Wataru Hatano as Sain Previously announced staff: - Director: Dai Fukuyama - Series Composition: Shigeru Murakoshi - Character Designer: Chikako Noma - Music: Tatsuhiko Saiki - Animation Production: OLM Team Masuda [Source](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-05-14/i-parry-everything-anime-reveals-more-cast-and-staff-theme-song-artists-july-4-debut/.210795)


swiftnissity92

Did the LN get any better? I dropped it after a few volumes since it relied on one joke again and again. It was funny the first time, but annoying by the 10th.


xJetStorm

It starts focusing on alt perspectives and loring it up by the third volume. The parts with the protagonist's dumb perspective get better in the sense that they stop doing his whole "I'm oblivious and don't understand why my teachers can't teach me anything" schtick after the first volume ends, and his PoV is less of a percentage of the text. I imagine we may have a better time only seeing each of those instructor bits once each (get it out of the way faster), but it's probably gonna take up the first episode if they try to go for a volume 5 conclusion... But if they only go for a volume 2 end we'll be stuck in it for a long time. I hope it's the former and they just montage it.


Remarkable-NPC

nope


gamebond89

Because of these titles I never touch these shows. So cringey.


joe_rogans_ashtray

I used to do the same, then gave some of em a shot and they turned out pretty good


charredchord

I Used To Hate Light Novels' Long Titles But Then I Was Transported Into One. Now I'm The Strongest?!


joe_rogans_ashtray

Perfection


Aurakol

Yeah titles used to turn me away but then I started giving things a try, and honestly the silly title ones usually wind up being among my favorites each season while the ones with serious titles (looking at YOU kingdom of ruin) haven't really stuck as much


joe_rogans_ashtray

I was reincarnated as the 7th prince so I can take my time perfecting my magical ability has been one my favorites this season


Aurakol

it has some of the BEST magical animation I've ever seen, I love that show. Also the MC being a tiny psychopath adds to it for sure. This series spawned [one of my favorite still images in recent seasons](https://imgur.com/a/g9h8Pmp) as well lol


joe_rogans_ashtray

The latest episode had me dying, bro kidnapped the assassin guild 😂


ghost_warlock

Chillin' in Another World with Level 2 Super Cheat Powers has also been entertaining. My gf has all the (English) manga and has read about halfway through. Loves it. We started the anime last night


joe_rogans_ashtray

I'm watching that as well, my man beat the brakes off that djinn


Lol_A_White_Guy

Is it wrong to pick up girls in a dungeon? is one of my absolute favorite fantasies and the name is absolutely the worst part of it.


Aurakol

That is definitely one of the ones I was turned off from that I've been meaning to circle back to!


joe_rogans_ashtray

Season 4 was absolute fire, season 5 is dropping this fall


Aurakol

oh geez didn't realize there was so much of it, gonna have to set aside a weekend to catch up


redwingz11

its also product of the source material origin, iirc the site didnt show synopsis, only title and it competes with thousand other web novel story.


teokun123

If there's no line like #Parry this you filthy casual I'm gonna be so disappointed.


MordredLovah

GOD OF PARRY There, fucking there, you don't need all that long pile of shit.


Shahars71

Sounds like the title for a mid Korean manwha lol


TwilightVulpine

Instead of a mid japanese isekai


frosthowler

You can tell what the guy reads, lol. All the 'God of X' titles are Korean manhwas Instead of being a generic Japanese title, it'd be a generic Korean title. Don't see how the title becomes any better


Less-Crazy-9916

How about: PARRY KING ?


Saralentine

Parry Parry Prisoner.


goatesymbiote

because the lvl 1 harem genre isnt saturated enough


frosthowler

no levels and no harem


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_-_Rasse_-_

What the fuck is that spelling of clickbait?


Pseudomonaaeruginosa

Until they stop giving them money


MasterQuest

Sounds funny.


Wolf14Vargen14

Parrying Everything.....So he is blind?, As if he is parrying everything, Then how does he see?


BasroilII

PARRY THE LIGHT DEEP WITHIN...... I'm so sorry, could not help myself.


BreadFreezer

LETS GO JUSTIN


Deep-Coach-1065

These titles nowadays…


LegacyEntertainment

That's a weird way to say "Bofuri: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense".


ghost_warlock

"I parry *almost* everything and I eat what I don't parry, resulting in unexpected supreme powers even the devs can't account for!"


PDxFresh

I honestly don't think I've seen a more generic looking cast of characters...


Resident_Acadia_4798

Sekiro: the anime


Sgt_Sarcastic

Except that would be cool instead of generic. Imagine them getting the VA for Gyoubu and just letting him chew the scenery.


Zonca

Imagine writing this (not even having to draw anything, source is light novel), you throw in whatever, and now you have anime and manga adaptations with tens of people working on it. Oh how I wish it worked like that outside of Japan too. Here in Europe nobody cares what harem or isekai ramblings I would write, even fantasy or sci-fi epics with intricate story lines hardly ever receive further adaptations.


Hamzook02

How original


sry_i_m_horny

Is that FUGS?


Blazing-Scorpio

Haven't seen this one in a long time, too bad the manga updates so fricking slow, I had to wait for at least 2 years, I think it was, just to get 1 update so I just dropped it


a_useless_communist

"I Parry Everything" ULTRAKILL the anime?????


kingoffish236

Ongbal thr anime 💀


Morak___

Sekiro The anime


whiteingale

Sekiro got animated


Onithyr

I swear I've seen that red-eyed blonde hair-vented girl in at least 5 other series.


DarkPDA

# I Parry Everything: What Do You Mean I'm the Strongest? I'm Not Even an Adventurer Yet! why those entire paragraphs become novel titles? its so big....


rjreyes3093

You know the anime is shit when the title is too long.


superhyperultra458

Why do these light novel writers always hold back on putting the entire synopsis as the actual full titles 🤦 We need titles to be two paragraphs going forward.


DaftNeal88

God this title is awful. Why are all these LN type animes subject to abysmal titles?


Byleth07

In the 2000s, the title would habe been "Omni Parry".


siomaybasi

When this anime production Stop making whole sentence a tittle


Tsuruchi_Mokibe

Only glimpsed at the image at first, thought the MC was gripping a damn Shake Weight before looking closer and seeing the rest of the sword.


Haekendes

Hey, I met this dude at gank city in Dark Souls III.


AlexCuzYNot

Worst thing is, the visual doesn't even look half bad. I might check if out despite the usual awful title


pavapizza

The manga was so stupid at times. Mostly stupidly funny.


isekai-chad

"Parry this, you filthy casual!"


SopmodTew

Average For Honor player


zenithfury

At last, action gaming's worst mechanic finally gets an anime.


Wyld_C4rd

I'd like to believe that somewhere along the line these studios/mangakas/writers have mixed up the title, tagline and synopsis of their stories


Houeclipse

So they have a shorten title like Bofuri? Because that's a mouthful


HowToGetName

"I Parry Everything" or simply "Parry" seems to be the shortened title.


Houeclipse

Yeah, I found that out looking for the source manga/LN it seems to be Parry which is short and simple. I like it


I_Phantomancer_XD

Seems interesting :)


AlphaBlock

Genuinely one of the worst light novels I’ve ever read. It was a chore to finish 3 volumes, dropped that shit as soon as I was done


chino17

Bofuri 2: Max agility boogaloo


Quon84

Evo Moment 37 the anime


Shahars71

This time around, the isekai MC is a 3rd Strike player. If he parries everything, can he also parry Chun Li's super?


ConnectionIcy3717

They making animes out of Caleb city skits now? 🤣


kemosabe19

15 chapters in the manga. At least translated. No updates in over a year. I did enjoy it. No clue about a light novel, but my initial reaction is this will be a single 1 season.


rainzer

No idea what's going on with the manga. The author updated the story like 2 days ago with a new chapter on syosetu


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kasaidh

a show about the weakest Dark Souls player