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>>19786046
>because it sold.
That's a universal unhelpful answer to "why commercial work X got popular". I am curious about why it sold. Was there one breakthrough LN with a long-ass title that everyone imitated? I've done a little research, but there couldn't find a definitive answer to this question on the English-speaking Internet.

>>19786225
They were cheap and quick to read.

>>19785979
Go read a JAV title sometime.

>>19789134
JAVs have titles?

>>19789327
They have a mass of words all over the cover in every direction anyway. That's how titles work, right?

>>19786225
>Was there one breakthrough LN with a long-ass title that everyone imitated?
How new are you to not know which one?

>>19789134
Porn should have long descriptive titles, otherwise picking stuff that you want would be a nightmare.

LN market has ended up that way because publishers are putting out tons of trash made by unimaginative authors in the hopes of random hit sellers. Most titles are already planned with a catchy acronym in mind since nobody uses the full titles in conversations, so maybe the next trend is doing a title that sounds like an acronym but doesn't have any meaning.

>>19785979
"Kino no Tabi: the Beautiful World" isn't that short a name, honestly.

>>19791623
>Beautiful World
Done. Short for talking to others about after you say the full title once.

>>19791646
People do that with the really long name titles too. What's your point?

'member this?
https://salty-salty-studios.com/shiz/lncovers.php

>>19791990
Yes.

>>19791570
>How new are you to not know which one?
If you are implying your pic was the breakthrough LN, that's too late.

>>19785979
There are so many new LNs that nobody wants to bother to read the synopsis, so authors just put it in the title. If they are creative the name can just be abbreviated like Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai becomes OreImo or Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! becomes KonoSuba.
It sucks, but that's how it is.

On an unrelated note, what are some good LNs to read? The whole field is so much filled with trash, that it can be really hard to find good ones.

>>19791990

>>19792853
>On an unrelated note, what are some good LNs to read?
bumping for this

I'm a huge sucker for silly titles like that, so I would appreciate the trend if not for the fact LN's are worst medium known to mankind.

>>19796232
Kino and Boogiepop are enough to redeem LNs as a medium. (I'd add Welcome to the N.H.K. to that list, but apparently it is not considered a light novel despite the manga cover and being published by Kadokawa Shoten. Correct me if I'm wrong.)

I hate how LNs never finish so you get these anime fragments meant to promote a set of chapters instead of a full, finished story.

>>19785979
All the short titles were already taken.

>>19796496
Is it really worse than manga?

>>19796803
Manga end and have clear arcs so you can art least do something with them. Even then, they will presumably eventually end in most cases so you can go back and do a remake later. Imagine some company going back and doing a LN over from the start just because the final volume released.

>>19797871
>>19796803
That and manga that go on forever, besides having arcs, if they don't end, they end by being cancelled so they'll have to get some sort of ending, rushed or otherwise. LNs just stop in the middle because the author doesn't feel like writing anymore.

>>19797871
>>19797881
All fair points. I agree with you.

>>19796496
>LNs never finish
Some do.