Long Title Names That Exist Commonly Nowadays

[Deleted member 20302]

It's common that title names are getting longer. It's the trend that somehow, Japanese and sometimes, international authors have a tendency to do this way.

Today, I just randomly tried writing gibberish in the "Create" section and realise that there was a limit.

My question is...

Why is there a limit of characters on this site?

Why are we not letting readers putting the entire synopsis in the title?!
Why are we limiting ourselves on what we can name our title?!
It's restricting our imagination!

Screw this. I want to have the world longest novel title in ScribbleHub.

For the rest of you peasants, what do you all think of this? Is it a bad thing that novels are having longer and unmemorable titles? Is there an upside to this?
Tony don't lock this, the middle portion is just a joke.

 

[High-in-the-skys]

Simple problems require simple solutions.
If the readers don't bother to read the sypnosis and looks at the cover and title when finding, put the everything in the cover and title.

Or maybe they can't find a decent title. After all, lots of one word titles are taken by earlier books.

Or maybe the author is lazy. Who knows...

 

[BenJepheneT]

You got it, but it has a certain cut-off point for accessibility's sake and you can only view the whole title when you scroll your mouse over.

Say if your title is
I have a big sword and a big assassin girlfriend who I'm married with but my sword became a bigger girl and now I can't choose between the two!!!

It's cut off at
I have a big sword and a big ass..

 

[Deleted member 20302]

Simple problems require simple solutions.
If the readers don't bother to read the sypnosis and looks at the cover and title when finding, put the everything in the cover and title.

Or maybe they can't find a decent title. After all, lots of one word titles are taken by earlier books.

Or maybe the author is lazy. Who knows...

Still, there's must be a reason why it's now preferred nowadays. That's something I'm curious about.
The synopsis is there for a reason. If the reader doesn't read, that's on them, not the authors.

You got it, but it has a certain cut-off point for accessibility's sake and you can only view the whole title when you scroll your mouse over.

Say if your title is
I have a big sword and a big assassin girlfriend who I'm married with but my sword became a bigger girl and now I can't choose between the two!!!

It's cut off at
I have a big sword and a big ass..

In a way, you making curious readers might go and look at your novel. Now you giving me ideas of how to play around with titles.

 

[Reisinling]

You got it, but it has a certain cut-off point for accessibility's sake and you can only view the whole title when you scroll your mouse over.

Say if your title is
I have a big sword and a big assassin girlfriend who I'm married with but my sword became a bigger girl and now I can't choose between the two!!!

It's cut off at
I have a big sword and a big ass..

Personally I preffer the sequel,

Horny swordsmen duel in my assassin guild, which I created after retiring due to being kicked out of the heroes party,
Also known as
Horny swordsmen duel in my ass...

i find it easier to identify with the hero.

 

[Jemini]

This is a trend, but it is still the case that the best series out there often have a maximum of 3 or 4 words in the title. The longest title I've ever seen get ACTUALLY highly rated and praised was Re:Zero. (Full title, "Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu." (Starting life in another world from zero) So, that's a 6 word title in Japanese, or 7 in English. That's the one that managed to push past the upper limit and still be successful, but it still has an easy to understand name at the very least.

Mind you, this is talking about the main title. You can get a little more lengthy with the subtitle. For instance...

"Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu" (Jobless Reincarnation: I Will Seriously Try If I Go to Another World)

That's 2 words in the main title (before the : ) in both English and Japanese alike, and 4 words in the Japanese subtitle or 10 in the English subtitle. (Notice almost no one ever says the English subtitle of that series unless they are a reviewer of some kind just saying the entire title for the sake of proper presentation.)

 

[BenJepheneT]

but it still has an easy to understand name at the very least.

So what you're saying is that you can have a giant fucking ass name but if you got identifiable traits to it, it'll still be memorable title-wise.

 

[NotaNuffian]

...I think I am an antithesis of this thread. I hate authors with their longass names, just a three or four words to fully encompass the main character or plot is good enough. If the name is damn long, I would assume the author lacks in writing skills and what I will be reading is just some generic hogwash, which FYI turns out to be untrue one out of four times.

Keep it short, simple and sensational and let that anime porn girl cover pic that you choose to attract the hornballs. Then put enough porn into it to either suck the poor sod dry and make him wonder why is this work not in Ao3 or Storiesonline or scare the sod off.

 

[Farok]

One of the main reasons behind long-ass titles is the overabundance of new light novels coming each month in Japan. When you go into a konbini or a library with hundreds or thousands of light novels, you don't have the time to read their synopsis, so you read the title and look at the cover.

Hence; the title needs to explain everything there is to the story: Re:Zero, Mushoku Tensei, and literally 90% of light novels coming out these last couple of years do that, not because it's THE title they want, but because it's the title they need.

When all you have is a couple of seconds, you better have an interesting title, or you're going to get skipped.

 

[Agentt]

I think we are missing the author's point. Tell me the limit and I shall creat the longest title possible.

 

[DubstheDuke]

I mean in my opinion, people with long description like titles are just using the system to their advantage. By doing this, they are allowing the viewers to know the plot of the story before even clicking on it, thus attracting more attention than those shorter and less descriptive titles right off the bat. I feel like it's really just webnovel authors trying to be one step ahead of the competition, and it's pretty cheap. But, I can't stop them from doing this, and if I really wanted to I could do it myself, so I suppose I can't really complain.

 

[DarkGodEM]

Limit is 150 Characters.
Go for it

 

[BenJepheneT]

One of the main reasons behind long-ass titles is the overabundance of new light novels coming each month in Japan. When you go into a konbini or a library with hundreds or thousands of light novels, you don't have the time to read their synopsis, so you read the title and look at the cover.

Hence; the title needs to explain everything there is to the story: Re:Zero, Mushoku Tensei, and literally 90% of light novels coming out these last couple of years do that, not because it's THE title they want, but because it's the title they need.

When all you have is a couple of seconds, you better have an interesting title, or you're going to get skipped.

Huh, never thought they had a REASON for it. I always thought the author just went "fuck it, Tenma, pull out the dictionary, we're playing darts"

 

[Localforeigner]

One of the main reasons behind long-ass titles is the overabundance of new light novels coming each month in Japan. When you go into a konbini or a library with hundreds or thousands of light novels, you don't have the time to read their synopsis, so you read the title and look at the cover.

Hence; the title needs to explain everything there is to the story: Re:Zero, Mushoku Tensei, and literally 90% of light novels coming out these last couple of years do that, not because it's THE title they want, but because it's the title they need.

When all you have is a couple of seconds, you better have an interesting title, or you're going to get skipped.

Thank you! The titles have been driving me insane. I'm glad to know there is a reason for them.

 

[LostLibrarian]

Time for the usual:
Danshi Koukousei de Urekko Light Novel Sakka wo Shiteiru keredo, Toshishita no Classmate de Seiyuu no Onnanoko ni Kubi wo Shimerareteiru.

That said, the "overly long names" are just part of the industry, but they are highlighted for fun. There are just as many series with short names and their names don't have any real impact on their success/failure. Especially nowadays where a lot of new stories are either marketed as "from the writer who wrote:" or "from the webnovel with the giant following". For most story, the time of "getting discovered by accident" is already over.

So honestly, long titles nowadays are often also authors making a joke and more often found in light-hearted stories or commentary... and are often shortened anyway.

 

[Deleted member 20302]

One of the main reasons behind long-ass titles is the overabundance of new light novels coming each month in Japan. When you go into a konbini or a library with hundreds or thousands of light novels, you don't have the time to read their synopsis, so you read the title and look at the cover.

Hence; the title needs to explain everything there is to the story: Re:Zero, Mushoku Tensei, and literally 90% of light novels coming out these last couple of years do that, not because it's THE title they want, but because it's the title they need.

When all you have is a couple of seconds, you better have an interesting title, or you're going to get skipped.

That actually makes a lot of sense. Still, I suppose if it's in English, unlike Japanese where it's written in characters, it's far harder to read those long titles.

 

[Agentt]

Limit is 150 Characters.
Go for it

I was reincarnated as a young king but I am just a STEM student who knows nothing about history, but I suppose I'll live a leisure life in this world.

I was reincarnated as a young king but I am just a STEM student who knows nothing about history, but I suppose I'll live a leisure life in this world.

150 characters if I counted right.

It's common that title names are getting longer. It's the trend that somehow, Japanese and sometimes, international authors have a tendency to do this way.

Today, I just randomly tried writing gibberish in the "Create" section and realise that there was a limit.

My question is...

Why is there a limit of characters on this site?

Why are we not letting readers putting the entire synopsis in the title?!
Why are we limiting ourselves on what we can name our title?!
It's restricting our imagination!

Screw this. I want to have the world longest novel title in ScribbleHub.

For the rest of you peasants, what do you all think of this? Is it a bad thing that novels are having longer and unmemorable titles? Is there an upside to this?
Tony don't lock this, the middle portion is just a joke.

I was reincarnated as a young king but I am just a STEM student who knows nothing about history, but I suppose I'll live a leisure life in this world.
The longest title possible

 

[LinMeili]

Hey, now! My title:

I’m Overpowered but I’ll Let the Hero Do His Thing While I Save the Last Boss

Stats: 16 words, 77 characters

...is perfectly in keeping with classical literature titles. The trend of having extremely short titles must be eradicated. Back in the day, people would buy books with titles like:

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; ... Written by himself.

Stats: 42 words, 247 characters

It's not my fault that people these days have a short attention span.

Books traditionally have these long, descriptive titles so that it's Exactly What It Says on the Tin (warning: Tv Tropes link).

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Containing a Faithful Record of the Perambulations, Perils, Travels, Adventures and Sporting Transactions of the Corresponding Members

The Academy of pleasure furnished with all kinds of complementall letters, discourses and dialogues : with variety of new songs, sonets and witty inventions : teaching all sorts of men, maids, widows, &c. to speak and write wittily and to bear themselves gracefully for the attaining of their desired ends : how to discourse and demean themselves at feasts and marry-meetings at home and abroad in the company of friends or strangers : how to retort, quibble, jest or joke and to return an ingenious answer upon any occision whatsoever : also a dictionary of all the hard English words expounded : with a poeticall dictionary : with other concests very pleaiant and delightfull, never before extant.

 

[CadmarLegend]

I was reincarnated as a young king but I am just a STEM student who knows nothing about history, but I suppose I'll live a leisure life in this world.

150 characters if I counted right.

I was reincarnated as a young king but I am just a STEM student who knows nothing about history, but I suppose I'll live a leisure life in this world.
The longest title possible

You must have had to take some time to create a title that includes exactly 150 characters....

 

[Agentt]

You must have had to take some time to create a title that includes exactly 150 characters....

No actually. I just opened sh. The first novel I saw in front of me was a kingdom building one. Then I wrote it. I over shooted it sometimes but it took barely a minute.