• RedArmor [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Dr. Fauci, or How I Learned To Start worrying then stop and start worrying against after we repeat cycles of infections and deaths and reopening of a country to protect the interests of the very few at the elite. The movie!

  • fairport [he/him,comrade/them]
    hexagon
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    3 years ago

    If you didn’t know, unlike western media, Japanese light novels and JAV films tend to have extremely long and descriptive titles, sometimes spanning multiple sentences.

    • Barabas [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      The silliest one I've heard is "Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks?".

      Japan is doing the inverse of Hollywood naming everything with a single word.

      • fairport [he/him,comrade/them]
        hexagon
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        3 years ago

        Is it bad that I googled the book and instantly knew who did the cover illustration?

        spoiler

        it's clearly pochi-goya, I have read some of their other work

    • nohaybanda [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Western titles used to be like that as well. Here's the fill one for Robinson Crusoe (fuck colonizer scum):

      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.

    • Bugger [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Longest one I could find is: "I'm a successful light novel author at a boy's high school, but I'm being strangled by a female classmate who's a voice actress and is younger than me "

      I remember reading something about how people never read the descriptions, so to catch someone attention you had to make a descriptive title instead.

      • ANITINSTITUTIONALISM [any]
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        3 years ago

        I uhh... was a translator for "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!"