For friends who grew up watching anime and seeing big, the cliché setting seems to be an inevitable existence, especially when our two-dimensional experience has become more and more abundant, and similar "routines" have become more and more common.
For example, in the various "rebirths and other worlds that appear in clusters", the protagonist living in the real world suddenly dies unexpectedly, and the consciousness is extradited to the other world before death, thus reincarnating to open the second life of the Dragon Auror mode.
However, it is precisely because this routine has appeared too much earlier, and some anti-routine otherworldly themes have begun to emerge on the market.
But even so, there are still some "traditional routines" in today's New Manga that are still being used, and there is no corresponding anti-routine means for the time being.
The routine I'm talking about is the title of those long, smelly works!
01. "I heard that the longer the title of the work, the more popular it will be"
When did you first see those works with particularly long titles? Didn't it feel a little novel when you saw a title like that?
In the past, people paid attention to a concise and clear title, and a simple few words could summarize a work, such as "Dragon Ball", "Three-Body Problem", "Star Wars" and the like.
If you have that kind of long headline, everyone will definitely look at it and be disgusted.
And if this situation happens in today's Nichiman Xinfanli, then the situation is just the opposite...
Far from it, take the new April fan this year, there is a comic book to change the other world animation called "This Doctor Is Super Troublesome", from the content point of view, this fan is just a common adventure comedy daily.
But who would have thought that the length of the title of the animated series would surprise everyone... Without further ado, let's take a feel for it!
"In a world full of monsters and monsters, Aruvi (the male protagonist/armored swordsman) who embarked on an adventurer's journey was lucky to meet the healing dark elf girl Carla (heroine/dark elf) in the critical moment of fighting with the bear, but Carla loved to fight with people, and the two quarreled until even the bear was confused, and was later taken to the bear's house, this kind of plot that is not in the original comic, the original fans may have doubtful thoughts, but this is published on the Internet before the magazine serial is published as 'What kind of story is this?' And with the same worldview based content, so please understand the intentions of the staff and the original party, please let us explain it here, and then because this long title does not have a line feed or a quick glance such a device, so simply do not do such a very embarrassing first episode. ”
Yes, you read that right, that's the title of the first episode!
Looking at the length and content of the title of this episode, the staff obviously stuffed a whole episode of content into the title, afraid that the audience would not understand the plot.
What's more, not only did the production team and the original author's ideas be introduced later, but also preemptively spit out those words that should have been spit by the audience in advance, which simply made people not know how to talk about it, and could only be speechless.
It is worth mentioning that the title of the second episode of the animation also continues to follow this super-long format, according to this setting, it is not surprising that the titles of the subsequent episodes are inherited from this feature.
According to the evaluation of many netizens, the heroine in the animation itself is quite underwhelming because of her words and deeds, which makes people watch the blood pressure rise, and even the title of the episode is so outrageous that it feels like high blood pressure is about to attack.
And this phenomenon fire can't help but make everyone think back to the days when they were dominated by long-title dramas...
For example, this "My Youth Love Story" starring "Big Teacher" is indeed problematic, the word count is as long as 13 words, and the story is widely known because its protagonist is more "frequent than the golden sentences" of Kitani Hachiman, and the past animation will be so dark and deep in describing the theme of youth.
The anime's original novel won the title "This light novel is so great!" for three consecutive years. "The top of the list is one of the models of light animation.
In the current drama, there are many works with more than ten words like this--- the full names of works such as Sister, Widowed Girl, Unheard Flower Name, Brain Option, Morning Flower Oath, Jobless Rebirth, Dungeon Encounter, Rebirth Slime, Miss Huiye, etc., many of them are well-known representatives that everyone is familiar with.
However, a title of this length is at least relatively smooth to read, and if it is the title form of "Three Questions of doom", it will be slightly awkward.
What is the End of the Day? Is there any availability? Can I come to the rescue? The first time I saw the title, everyone must have felt a burst of curiosity, and then clicked in to see what kind of story it was.
Compared with the title, the storyline of this drama is the place where everyone pays the most attention, whether it is the male protagonist or the experience of Cordoli is very touching, or very knife.
There is also a title of the work, because its title is too long, the content is too strange, but also once caused everyone to discuss and play with the stem, that drama is "Ordinary attack is the whole two combos, such a mother do you like? 》
This 2019 broadcast of the other world crossing fan, because the name is outrageous, so everyone has to shorten the title to "Ma Ping A" when calling the work.
This is also inseparable from the setting of the work, after all, the protagonist also brought his mother when he crossed, and the key is that the mother's combat effectiveness is still strong enough to explode, and it is difficult not to be concerned.
However, today's facts also tell us that the Japanese are simply breaking through the sky in naming the title of the anime, there is no longest, only longer, and the title of the work cannot be put down, so it is placed on the title of the series.
So sometimes everyone is a little confused, why are they so keen on this kind of long name title, is it that the longer the name, the more popular the work is?
Eh, don't say, there is really a little bit of scientific basis behind this!
02. All are the heads of light novels
Speaking of the "traditional art ability" in the Japanese comic circle, we have to mention the carrier of light novels, first, most of the modern new works are lightly changed to works, and second, the trend of long titles is also led by light novels.
Some big guys have considered that the origin of this trend is likely to be inseparable from Fushimiji's 2008 book "My Sister Is So Cute".
The explosion of "Sister" not only set off a trend of popularity of sister control themes in the animation industry, but also allowed the creators of their peers to see this long and direct headline style for the first time, so they followed suit later.
For example, in the previous years, "(I have saved the world and gained wealth and power.) Happy days in the castle with female knights and female demon kings, brave people other than me) please don't come to the other world. With a length of more than 50 characters, this light novel has easily become the object of hot discussion among ACGN fans.
On the other hand, with the advent of the modern Internet era, the past era of print media has gradually been replaced, and the entertainment methods of the public have begun to tilt in the direction of the Internet, such as watching those online novels.
Similarly, Japanese light novels have also begun to enter the online market, but one way to give the public more access to their own works is to --- write as long a number of titles as possible.
This is because the title of a work with a longer title can contain more search keywords and occupy more page space, so that the reader's chance of accessing it increases, so that the browsing rate will also be greatly increased, so many light novel authors will have some particularly long titles.
Two years ago, there was a Japanese internet writer on Twitter who wanted to do an experiment one day to change the name of those long title works to the length of a line to see how users would react.
According to his understanding, the role of the super long title is to allow the reader to instantly distinguish whether the content of the work is suitable for his own taste, and the writer tries his best to point out where the work is interesting on the title, in order to let the reader understand that the work contains the elements he wants to see.
Example Nyojobe Name "Exiled Luggage Tamer Awakens to the World's Only Necromancer ~ If You Sing Freedom With The Power Of All, It Will Be The Last Or Most ~ It is a "4th insignificant" Two 轻说,The 1000th of the 1000th of the 1000-year-old desk in the presence of a totaling desk.
When he tried to change the super long title of his novel to only one line long, he found that he had a hard time clicking on the title link of the article on his mobile phone.
His own work is rushed to the second place on the day's chart, and the upper and lower works are also super long titles, and his work occupies a significant reduction in the space on the mobile phone screen, as if it is stuck in a gap.
Don't look at this phenomenon seems to be no big deal, in fact, this is very bad for the user experience, not only will make fans who want to see this work can not get in the wrong point, but also let those who casually look at or accidentally click in the number of users greatly reduced.
For writers, the latter often contains very important potential fans, fewer clicks, the popularity of the work and the author will be reduced, and the short title described above will make the online writer lose at the starting line.
After the experiment was reported by foreign media, it triggered a heated discussion among netizens, some of whom commented: This is like online advertising will be done more loudly and let people mistakenly click ah...
This situation is actually very similar to the "son-in-law" type of online text that is still popular in our country, the protagonist started in a very poor situation, and then counterattacked all the way, and finally successfully embarked on the peak of life.
Many modern people living a 996 life, there are often unpleasant things on weekdays, and every time they see the protagonists in the online articles, they can always rely on themselves and rely on heaven to avenge success in the face of injustice.
Such a routine unfolds and pokes at the cool points of many viewers, so that everyone can't help but feel the urge to continue watching, knowing that this is a routine but always looking at it very high.
As mentioned at the beginning, Japanese light novels are very homogeneous in terms of themes, and what themes are on fire, what themes will emerge in large numbers, until the next hot theme appears.
Creators who want to gain an edge in this homogenized competition can either improve their illustration level, add more gentlemanly content, or get recommendations from well-known authors in the industry, or... Take an "article-to-title" approach to engage users.
"Article title" is a unique saying in the Japanese light novel industry, which means that the title of the work basically covers the main content of the novel.
Buy light novels in Japan, the product has the contents of the outer packaging can not be opened, can not see, consumers for the new book's initial understanding can only be through the cover, title, waist, introduction and other labels to refer to, and then consider whether to buy.
If the reader knows at first glance what type of novel is, whether this genre is in line with their own tastes, in short, as long as the reader can pick up the work, buy the work and win half of it.
Like the "Three Questions of doom" mentioned earlier, the original author Kuye Noei did not like long titles when he published the work, it was because of the editor's requirements and the influence of the trend at that time, as well as the lack of characteristics in the early stage of the release that were not discovered by readers, and finally decided to use long titles.
It has also been proven that this practice has gradually gained the opportunity to animate the work through word of mouth among readers.
It is the existence of such a market factor, and the long title setting has become a tried-and-true operation in the current Japanese comic industry, and the longer the better.
03. Conclusion
In fact, the phenomenon of long titles is only popular in Japanese light novels at most, and for the traditional juvenile manga in Weekly Shonen JUMP, the titles still tend to be concise and clear.
Like the current popular new generation of comics "Chainsaw Man", "Ghost Blade", "Spell Return", etc., are the standard format of the past, and a little longer is the characteristics of "Time Paradox Ghostwriter", but basically it will not exceed ten words.
In the end, the form of the title depends on the novelty of the subject matter, the theme of the content, and the group audience.
In today's fast-paced environment, the Internet is full of massive amounts of information, and most of the friends who watch it no longer have the patience to check it one by one as before.
If an anime can let the audience understand its content theme, genre type, etc. in a short period of time, it can be more accurately captured by such fans. But the title of the work is long or short, there are not many points to see, it is just a means of diversion, and if you want to be really liked and remembered by everyone, it is always the content itself.
As long as the work is recognized as a good work, then no matter how strange and long the title is, don't care too much.