no it's not
but the fact that you, not only know hazbin hotel well enough to pick it out based on description, but also think about it so readily that that's your first assumption
is a little gay my brother
>I threw away all my hopes and dreams to fulfill a promise I made to my parents. But with all these colorful new people in my life, can I really keep that promise?
>I'm going to restore Japan's pre-1945 constitution and borders so that Japan isn't being treated as a joke anymore and is treated seriously and is respected.
Venture bros I guess. I thought it would be more like >My father left me his fortune but all I do is go on adventures with my twin sons and body guard and there's a butterfly guy hunting me?!
>Life was hard enough when my dad remarried now my Step Mom wants me gone just because of how I look. But I'll find a way through, even if that means moving in with total strangers!
I'm just a small dog but I have to save my family from devils, demons and more but the computer is mad at me.
The Freelance Police: Can a dog and rabbit really come together to solve the case, save the world and get snacks?
The king of Halloween wants to celebrate Christmas but takes things too far when he kidnaps Santa Claus and fights the military all while the doll pines for him.
>Ever since my parents died things have been looking down for me but for the first time in forever things are turning around! Problem is my sister wants to give me the cold shoulder over the guy I just met.
>I am a brilliant scientist, but my sister keeps destroying my experiments!
>I can't keep my imaginary friend anymore, so I secretly keep him in a mansion with other imaginary friends >I wanted to create a daughter, but instead I created three superheroes? >I have a terrible life, so I got magical fairies to make my life easier >I have to protect my family from monsters, but I'm just a dog! >I got transferred to an all-animal school because of my last name
I attend a public school below my IQ level and my father who's more narcissistic than me forced a straight man into marrying him while my adopted sister can do nothing but watch
I accidentaly Broke a Crystal and I ended up in an Alternate Universe where the Bad Guys took over my Paradise! I must fix the Crystal and Save the Multiverse!!
>My brother and I are sentient porcelain who love mischief and are friends with a tap dancing ghost girl. Lucifer keeps wanting to reap us. How will we ever manage?
>I Love My Non-Existent Friend So Much That I Refuse to Let Him Go, But the Only Person I Care For More Than Him is the Overworked Redhead Who Takes Care of His Kind
>I nearly blew myself up so I could see my idols, now I get to train with them sort of! >Everything that I've known to be true is a lie! >I really want to go to the fair, but I'm too ugly to live among other people, my adoptive dad always says so!
When there are a hundred light novels coming out each week, all very similar due to various editorial and marketing reasons, you need to immediately hook an audience that is so spoiled for choice they won't take more than a second of consideration before dismissing something.
Forced the put the plot summary in the title because no one bothers to read the backs anymore. I think it really exploded in popularity with Oreimo blowing up though
Extremely long titles aren't as common as people make it seem. They are descriptive because these are basically the equivalent of pulp books, which had the same style of descriptive titles.
At this point it's part of the gag. The LN manga industry is so saturated coming up with a. Original title is probably a task into itself so making your title oddly specific is both a funny gag and a way to streamline that proccess.
>The fairies sent to fix my life are morons >How can you become a master chef when you keep eating all the food!? >My super genius sisters have made me into their guinea pig!
>One fine day with a woof and a purr a baby was born and it caused a little stir no blue buzzard, no three-eyed frog just a feline canine little CatDog
>There are seven of us, we're all small and we work for a ditzy ass queen with a butt-monkey punching bag for a jester, and the villains are widely considered to be the best parts of our entire show
>i snuck into my best-friend's lab and accidentally took a rocket to outer space... but now i'm the only human on this planet full of alien slime-creatures!! >growing up is hard enough even without battling God and my own evil, secretly-homosexual father >i'm the most powerful demonic entity in the universe, forced to live the life of the average suburban husband?
It's been a hot minute since I watched Didney Channel shit man, I don't fricking know. Apparently the frog isekai had a betrayal and a petrification too.
>How many anons actually read light novels?
I am >Which ones are you reading
Just a metric shitton of them. Most recent ones are Little Tyrant Doesn’t Want to Meet with a Bad End (technically a web novel, but who cares?) and Yuri Tama: From Third Wheel to Trifecta >and why?
They tend to be more plot dense than manga or anime, less of a chore to get through than VNs/games and you can find virtually any plot you want. Also generally less likely to be axed or just adapt an arc or 3 of a larger work (which itself will often be a light novel or web novel). >How did you find them?
Novelupdates. It's got a really good search system once you figure out how to use it. If you want licensed shit, you might have to find other sources though, either legit or pirate. A surprising number of light novels have been getting licensed and official translations are often fast as frick.
Kek this seems fun, maybe we can guess what the show is
>I never thought working in a hellish transdimensional prison with an insane lesser god for a boss would turn out like this
Superjail?
>my adoptive uncle is obsessed with becoming a demon lord and my new dad is a boxer.
you're favorite show is hazbin hotel? FAVORITE?
>you're favorite show is hazbin hotel?
He’s obviously referring to Superjail
no it's not
but the fact that you, not only know hazbin hotel well enough to pick it out based on description, but also think about it so readily that that's your first assumption
is a little gay my brother
>>my adoptive uncle is obsessed with becoming a demon lord and my new dad is a boxer.
Last Man
yeah
>see the word hell
>must be hazbin
MIND BROKEN
Alright, this one's easy. guess mine
>"I'll never be what everyone around me is; I do my job and all I get in return is a stalker of asian ethnicity"
Isn't that the plot of the emoji movie?
mlaatr
Teenage robot
Sheldon is asian????
Sheldon LEE? Yes he's asian, dumbass. He's literally bright yellow
Frick you sheldon, you will never be. asian.
My Adventures With Superman
ATLA?
> I've been unfrozen in the future by a guy with a light bulb on his head and now some alien crone wants my corkscrew
>My friends and I are unpopular with our neighbors so I guess we'll become entrepreneurs to buy candy!
EEnE
Love the word choice.
Mine:
>The gadget that fell from space gave me superhero powers and now I kick butt during my vacation but my cousin still thinks I'm lame.
>With the help of my friends, I'm going to beat the evil computer and make my virtual girlfriend real
Ben 10
Samurai Jack
Code Lyoko
Adventure Time
>I threw away all my hopes and dreams to fulfill a promise I made to my parents. But with all these colorful new people in my life, can I really keep that promise?
Ben 10
I can't believe my girlfriend has so many evil ex boyfriends!
Dude I love Shrek
Me and my best friend do cool things and try to score
Beavis and Butthead. You made it too obvious, should've said "try to flirt with girls"
>Life surrounded by violent prison inmates sure is rough but with the help of my imaginary friend we will make the best out of it
Stone Ocean!
>Cinemaphile
frick off
>The Demon Lord Cheated by Throwing Me into the Future Where He Has Already Won for a Thousand Years
This one’s actually good and sounds real.
>The story of how I moved to a new town, fell out of a dumbwaiter, and suddenly gained the ability to understand animals
>I'm going to restore Japan's pre-1945 constitution and borders so that Japan isn't being treated as a joke anymore and is treated seriously and is respected.
>Adventures in a Magical Post-apocalypse: My Unlikely Partnership with a Talking Dog, and Why We're the Best Dungeon-Crawling Duo Ever!
Great thread idea OP
> My cheat ability is acting, so I guess I'll be sheriff.
> Everyone is my enemy, so my best friend, his horrible wife, and I will get my revenge.
> My dad is a kaiju. Now I breathe fire?!
Rango
Dan vs
Firebreather
yep
hehe
>Rango and Dan vs?
>My Friends and I on the moon are all that stands between freedom and tyranny?
>I'm going to follow in my father's footsteps and become a super scientist, but wait, you're telling me and my brother are clones!?
Venture bros I guess. I thought it would be more like
>My father left me his fortune but all I do is go on adventures with my twin sons and body guard and there's a butterfly guy hunting me?!
Yeah you got it. I wanted to keep it vague so it's unsure who the brothers are in the title, just like the actual show.
>Living with my disgruntled brother and I am somewhat disgruntled too
>That time I got possessed by a tsundere snake demon and learned that everyone in the new town I moved to is also possessed by ghosts!
>I want to live a normal life but I have to inherit my family's race war instead
Ruby Gilman?
Haha yep
Still mad
damn, i was sure it was invincible.
I totally would've guessed Steven Universe
>Life was hard enough when my dad remarried now my Step Mom wants me gone just because of how I look. But I'll find a way through, even if that means moving in with total strangers!
>My Home in the Woods Got Crushed By a Giant and Now I Live in a Walled City
…hilda?
Yes
>I want to be a good dad but my son is unusual
King of the Hill
Got it in one.
Who is SpongeBob Squarepants?
Normal Words but a Horse Guy
>How I went on a journey with my dinosaur buddy to find love but it wasn't worth it.
I'm just a small dog but I have to save my family from devils, demons and more but the computer is mad at me.
The Freelance Police: Can a dog and rabbit really come together to solve the case, save the world and get snacks?
The king of Halloween wants to celebrate Christmas but takes things too far when he kidnaps Santa Claus and fights the military all while the doll pines for him.
Courage
Sam and Max
The Nightmare Before Christmas
>Ever since my parents died things have been looking down for me but for the first time in forever things are turning around! Problem is my sister wants to give me the cold shoulder over the guy I just met.
>i want to make my overlords proud by conquering this backwater planet but the local conspiracy theorist keeps stopping me
Invader Zim
>I have been trapped for 27 years because I still need to complete my instructions.
I hate fairyland
My Gym Partner's A- oh wait
My dad the rock st... damn
Help! I'm a Fis- FRICK.
>dude this job sucks dude let's slack off dude
Regular Show
Ding ding ding
Our religion is a lie so we must kill our gods in retaliation
>The new girl is in love with me so ill crush her with my monsters instead!
Making Friends
>I am a brilliant scientist, but my sister keeps destroying my experiments!
>I can't keep my imaginary friend anymore, so I secretly keep him in a mansion with other imaginary friends
>I wanted to create a daughter, but instead I created three superheroes?
>I have a terrible life, so I got magical fairies to make my life easier
>I have to protect my family from monsters, but I'm just a dog!
>I got transferred to an all-animal school because of my last name
these ones are too obvious
also its fiends not friends
>We're the pastiest white kids you've ever seen but we're also black for some reason
Man why you gotta do CotC so dirty like that
I was going for Most Offensive Video but CotC also works lol
>I'm hunky, handsome, single, and ready to pick up any chick to take back to my Mama's place.
>My abusive roommate of Mexican descent and I go on many adventures across time and space and also were a dog and a cat
>abusive
You just say that because he cucked you with Jackie
I Just Wanted to Borrow Some Books, but Got Sucked into the Digital World to Fight Evil Using Basic Math Skills (And Also the Brown Girl Is Cute)
I got unfrozen after 100 years of war and now I must save the world
Why the hell was my immediate guess Megaman X
Anyways, this Avatar: The Last Airbender
>That time the Shapeshifting Master of Darkness tore open a portal in time and flung me into the future where his evil is Law!
Oh shit, here's good one
>I'm an evil genius, but I was born to a stupid family and that impedes my plans for world domination.
Family Guy
That’s probably Doofenshmortz.
Shoutout to the most subtle banned webcomic thread in Cinemaphile history
I completely forgot that troll movies are named like light novels
Wait, Homestuck threads get deleted?
>That Time I Got Stuck In My House And The World Was Destroyed!!
>There's no way I can possibly cope with the loss of my parents so I started fighting villains at night while dressed as a bat!
I attend a public school below my IQ level and my father who's more narcissistic than me forced a straight man into marrying him while my adopted sister can do nothing but watch
allen gregory
>I was a princess until my planet was taken over by aliens. Now I have to attend high school?
Symbiotic Titan
>Superhero NTR:I sold my wife and daughter to Satan and now a little black boy has taken over my life?!
Spider-man, Sins of the Past, One More Day and anything with Miles.
I'm Working for a Conspiracy with my Silly new Worker to Rule the World but my Father who Is supposibly retired gets In my Way of Doing so!
I accidentaly Broke a Crystal and I ended up in an Alternate Universe where the Bad Guys took over my Paradise! I must fix the Crystal and Save the Multiverse!!
Hint: Its related to a videogame
I stumbled upon a Magical door and I ended up in a Fantasy world of Demons and Witches and I was chosen to work for Them!
Inside Job.
I was sent to hell by mistake, so I'll try to live a normal life.
Jimmy Two Shoes or Hooray for Hell
I just want to live a normal life, but my father is an agent and my mother works for an evil organization.
>I Woke Up After 100 Years And All My Friends Are Dead, Guess I Have To Save The World!
And the thrilling sequel:
>I'm The Avatar, And You've Got To Deal With It!
>spongebob works a chef position
>his more educated and worldly neighbor is the frick cashier
Spongebob predicted the future
Spongebob is a supernaturally talented fry cook though, he's genuinely better qualified
I hate that someone got that so fast
>I was a preteen voyeur!
uncle granpa?
>My sister is in an ice castle?!
>Born in a world where adults are all hopeless?! Now I must save them with my squad of puppies
paw patrol
frozen
>My brother and I are sentient porcelain who love mischief and are friends with a tap dancing ghost girl. Lucifer keeps wanting to reap us. How will we ever manage?
Cuphead, didn't know it got a show
Because it wasn't very good so nobody talked about it.
The boy with no name, that lives in the shadow
>That Time I Won A Bet With The Grim Reaper And Now He's My Best Friend Forever.
The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy.
That's a good one
I am a teenage RADIOACTIVE* spider mutant
*its a clue to which version I'm refering to
90's TAS Spider-man.
>I Got Sent To A Parallel Dimension Where Frogs Talk And I'm A Yummy Thai Girl With Her Cheerleader And Nerdy Shish kebab
That doesn't sound like an anime title though, it just sounds like an Australian trying to be funny
It's pretty obvious which titles were made by people familiar with light novels and which ones weren't.
Frankly, a worrying number of them are pretty on point.
Which are some good and bad ones? I'm not familiar enough
>Nya! I suddenly got big muscles on our new planet, and now a mummy wants to kill me?!?!
Foster's Home
Amphibia
>I Love My Non-Existent Friend So Much That I Refuse to Let Him Go, But the Only Person I Care For More Than Him is the Overworked Redhead Who Takes Care of His Kind
Fosters
Tying The Seatbelt: Intergender Studies of Amphibious Life in Costa Rica
My Uncle Killed My Father and Now I Have to Eat Bugs
lion king
<i woke up from a nap in giant glacier and now i have to defeat a fire man who wants me dead
I was a low level demon, but the my boss sent me to live in the hunan world
>I nearly blew myself up so I could see my idols, now I get to train with them sort of!
>Everything that I've known to be true is a lie!
>I really want to go to the fair, but I'm too ugly to live among other people, my adoptive dad always says so!
>Kung Fu Panda
>IDK could really be any movie
>Hunchback of Notre Dame
Prince of Egypt. That one line stood out to me.
>That time I had to bang demon royalty for access to the living world (because I run an interdimensional hitman service in hell)
>I'm a gay drug-addicted mafioso who died and went to hell, and now I'm in rehab I guess?
>"I Found a Giant Robot at the Dumpster Pit and Modded It To Look Badass than Your Average Mech Anime"
Megas XLR, although you could have mentioned the pretty girl from the future.
>I am a Freelance Cop and My Adorable Rabbity Partner Can't Stop Maiming Crooks
>I'm a Survivor, We're a Dying Breed
>I'm a prepubescent daredevil with a fat friend with viking parents and my brother's an obnoxious shithead
Kick Buttowski
>I can't believe I made this evil space overlord good by finding an even more evil space overlord!
Wander over yonder
>I'm a princess and the last survivor of an alien civilization, why should I be a figher pilot?
Buzz lightyear?
Voltron
>I have 98 siblings to take care of and my stepsister don't make things easier
*doesn't
Eh dunno that sounds like something that wouldn't make it past one season
101 Dalmatians
You're almost there
;_;
>Fabulous Secrets were Revealed to Me the Day I Held Aloft a Magic Sword and Now I'm the Most Powerful Man in the Universe!
Bretty gud
>I Was Warped To A Different World and Have to Protect a Princess from A Monster King and his Children
Mario super show.
>I needed to gather allies to stop the dark queen ‘s ascent and succeeded! Now I’m stuck hanging out with these bozos in their Podunk village?!
I'm just a shopkeeper, yet I end up fighting demons
All my Fears and Inhibitions are gone as soon as I put it on, but I'm now wanted by the cops and the girl I love wants the new me.
Friends save the universe with love but the bad guys have their eyes on them. Can they help everyone?
The greedy criminal has his heart softened by the nerdy magical girl but can their love truly blossom while they're being hunted?
>My future self helps me be less lonely and hook up with a ginger
>I have to do my bucket list and kiss my crush in the process
Saving Me
Hailey's on it!
My gym partner's a monkey
Helluva Boss (Ugh)
Jokes aside, how did these extremely moronic titles get popularized/normalized?
No place to show audiences a blurb or summary so they had to put the wacky premise right there in the title to get initial readers interested
When there are a hundred light novels coming out each week, all very similar due to various editorial and marketing reasons, you need to immediately hook an audience that is so spoiled for choice they won't take more than a second of consideration before dismissing something.
Forced the put the plot summary in the title because no one bothers to read the backs anymore. I think it really exploded in popularity with Oreimo blowing up though
Extremely long titles aren't as common as people make it seem. They are descriptive because these are basically the equivalent of pulp books, which had the same style of descriptive titles.
At this point it's part of the gag. The LN manga industry is so saturated coming up with a. Original title is probably a task into itself so making your title oddly specific is both a funny gag and a way to streamline that proccess.
>Me and my friends try our hands at being scummy entrepreneurs with mixed results
>I'm the most dangerous spy in the world but I work for my mother
>I am the new owner of a shack at the richest neighborhood in the city and my two new friends, my ex's nieces, and the caretaker live here as well
cabs?
Got it in one.
>Due to a clerical error I now attend an all animal school!
Funny thing is I thought of an actual anime that is basically this, but I know you’re talking about MGPAM
>The fairies sent to fix my life are morons
>How can you become a master chef when you keep eating all the food!?
>My super genius sisters have made me into their guinea pig!
Second is toriko. Which is Cinemaphile.
Cant tell if joking. But no.
FOP
Chowder
*whip crack*
Got it
>I CAN'T FRICKING STOP SEEING CARTOONS HELP MEEEEEE
Out of Jimmy's Head
>My children are farm animals and some pantless dude won't leave us alone
Cow and chicken
>Working part time is my first step to becoming a hero!
Cow and Chicken?
Correct.
My Head Got Full of the Internet, Now A Maniac Lives In It
Freakazoid.
>I held a ghost hostage until he succumbed to Stockholm Syndrome, now we're best friends
>Captcha: KJJJN
The Ghost and Molly McGee
Brown Girl didney show #3
>As Consequence for Shoplifting, I Am Trapped in a World Where the Primary Food Is Bugs
>My team of alien conquerors have fallen in love with this new planet Earth and have chosen to rebel against our empire
Butt Ugly Martians
I was trying to trick people into thinking I meant Steven Universe but yeah, BUM
It's cause the gems don't give two shits about Earth
>Juggling school and fighting monsters after my parents accidentally killed me
Danny Phantom
>Exploring external and internal threats in a collective society.
>I was a childhood hero but now I'm a scientist stuck with my two bratty sons!
Venture Bros. Or Jonny Quest, really.
Venture bros
>That Time I Was Kidnapped to Compete in a Gameshow With an Invisible Host
Which one is this? All that comes to mind is that Jimmy Neutron special
ONE
>My Dad's an idiot, my sister's a know-it-all, and I'm going to wreak havoc for no reason!
My Dad is a Rockstar.
Nope.
>I found a cat in the woods and he got adopted by my sister and now he's trying to kill me.
Kid Vs Kat
Amphibia
yep
>I wanna be a superhero but my family is composed of supervillians
>The issues of my parents and community have caused me struggle but I preserve and set a better example
Oral Morel
Think you got the name a little wrong there.
Put the mushroom in your mouth, anon.
>I'm cheering up citizens in a miserable town by a creature who's a ceo and became friends with a somewhat lazy red monster and a weird scientist.
Jimmy Two Shoes
>One fine day with a woof and a purr a baby was born and it caused a little stir no blue buzzard, no three-eyed frog just a feline canine little CatDog
Angry Beavers
>There are seven of us, we're all small and we work for a ditzy ass queen with a butt-monkey punching bag for a jester, and the villains are widely considered to be the best parts of our entire show
7D
Yep
>"Me and my hot vampire boyfriend are actually being controlled and manipulated by an eldritch being"
murder drones
>"Me, my hot vampire boyfriend, and his hot vampire girlfriend, are all being controlled and manipulated by an Eldritch being."
FTFY.
Apparently nothing matters, so me and my grandpa go on a hundred-year killing spree!
>I'm a Stupid Moron with an Ugly Face and a Big Butt and My Butt Smells and I Like to Kiss My Own Butt!
>My new part-time job might actually be a mind control experiment, so let's stay up late drinking beer instead
>We're aquatic mammals who are under the impression that we are secret agents
Penguins of Madagascar
>mammals
Yeah
>I Won a Scratch-Off Contest and Now I'm A Famous Japanese Tokusatsu Star?!
>i snuck into my best-friend's lab and accidentally took a rocket to outer space... but now i'm the only human on this planet full of alien slime-creatures!!
>growing up is hard enough even without battling God and my own evil, secretly-homosexual father
>i'm the most powerful demonic entity in the universe, forced to live the life of the average suburban husband?
We Were Betrayed by the Humans We Had Sworn to Protect, Frozen in Stone by a Magic Spell for a Thousand Years.
Finding yourself in the future is kind of like isekai
It isn't, but going to Avalon is.
Uhhh gargoyles?
No. Muppet Babies. The frick else would it be but Gargoyles?
It's been a hot minute since I watched Didney Channel shit man, I don't fricking know. Apparently the frog isekai had a betrayal and a petrification too.
You're mashing up the brown girl isekais in your head again
>I have to stop my green classmate from taking over the planet!
Zim
How many anons actually read light novels? Which ones are you reading and why? How did you find them?
>How many anons actually read light novels?
I am
>Which ones are you reading
Just a metric shitton of them. Most recent ones are Little Tyrant Doesn’t Want to Meet with a Bad End (technically a web novel, but who cares?) and Yuri Tama: From Third Wheel to Trifecta
>and why?
They tend to be more plot dense than manga or anime, less of a chore to get through than VNs/games and you can find virtually any plot you want. Also generally less likely to be axed or just adapt an arc or 3 of a larger work (which itself will often be a light novel or web novel).
>How did you find them?
Novelupdates. It's got a really good search system once you figure out how to use it. If you want licensed shit, you might have to find other sources though, either legit or pirate. A surprising number of light novels have been getting licensed and official translations are often fast as frick.
>With my Flute, I Will Travel the World and Enlighten All Who Bask in my Presence
Golden Boy is an anime/manga.
Xenoblade 3 is a video game
Bus!
I escaped from a magical carnival to fight some kids in a steampunk city with my pet crow.