I heard it's bc the most popular novel site only shows the title so they started packing the entire description onto the title to try and get attention, which led to this mess

[–] runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 9 months ago

The Amazon strategy

[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world 81 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The opening for the Blood Joe anime is just 8 guitars wailing

[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 33 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Dude that was the Funimation dub. The original Japanese opening was a city pop song.

[–] embed_me@programming.dev 8 points 9 months ago

shiti pop

[–] OctopusKurwa@lemm.ee 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've never wanted to watch something that doesn't exist so badly.

[–] Aaroncvx@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Go watch Megalo Box, might as well be called Blood Joe.

[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 36 points 9 months ago

Thats mostly to do with more and more manga being adapted form lightnovels and then that style of titling starting to affect manga original titles as well. Although as soon as you filter out the generic Isekai garbage you'll find most mangas have decent names.

[–] SnuggleSnail@ani.social 33 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Mangas on my todo list are

The former top 1‘s sub-character training diary: A dedicated player is currently conquering another world
My entire class was summoned to another world except for me
problem children are coming from another world, aren’t they?
Overgeared

[–] odium@programming.dev 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Title quality improved a lot with that last one. And content quality is a bit better too imo.

[–] shani66@lemmy.comfysnug.space 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

For some reason i was expecting a sci-fantasy instead of a crappy, generic mmo isekai, I'm very disappointed.

[–] SnuggleSnail@ani.social 4 points 9 months ago

I think I read all the good isekai already. Putting anything on my to-read list where people get to other worlds or are levelling.

Sorry for the disappointment 😅

[–] odium@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The rest are just worse generic isekais.

[–] SnuggleSnail@ani.social 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I like generic isekais. I think I am through with all the good ones..

[–] odium@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

Same

[–] Todesschnitzel@lemm.ee 8 points 9 months ago

Overgeared is overrated imo. Mc just keeps getting stronger and winning by pure luck is kind of boring me with time.

[–] PennyJim@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I have enjoyed the training diary, but I'm seriously addicted and have tons I'm reading. So the actual quality is both suspect because of how much I read between each chapter and how low my bar for reading is.

It did feel like the recent arc of taming this one monster was a little dragged out, and then I was a little disappointed by the actual result of it.

[–] ichmagrum@feddit.de 30 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

It's been like that for a while. "No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular!" (aka Watamote) has been going since 2013, and I guarantee there's earlier examples.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 21 points 9 months ago

What do you mean 2013 was like 3 years ago- turns to dust

[–] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I miss Blood Joe.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 23 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Back when MCs were filled with personalty instead of being a generic blank slate for the reader to self insert as

[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But why would someone read a novel about dating two slime stepsister, if the main character is totally unrelateable?

[–] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 2 points 9 months ago

If it says something meaningful about the human condition

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 9 months ago

back when MCs were filled with blood