Show is called trigun
Look inside
Protagonist does not have three guns
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Keeping original posters' credit intact is cool.

Read somewhere that's because the mangas in the store just show the title at the front. By putting the whole story premise into the title prospective buyers can see at a glance what the book is about without picking it up.
Give it a little time and books will be intriguing again with a mysterious short title.
That's partially true. It's because the web novel that the manga is adapted from used the premise as a title for optimized SEO so that their story can be seen by more readers.
Makes it a massive pain in the ass to find them on watch/read tracking websites, especially when they have those ~ and 《》in the title (or subtitle). As an avid Manga reader, I have started skipping those series because, more often than not, they are just as uncreative as their titles. SEO or not, a good story will be spread by word of mouth. These writers are just screaming they don't have confidence in what they are creating.
Might start a web series called "My journey into becoming a mangaka online but the evil CEO of 《SEO CORP》has stolen my creativity and now I must fight an army of robots!"
Whatever the hell people would expect from that title, it won't be that.
Exactly I've never found one of these long titles stories that weren't mid, and if they are good the fandom will come up with a short name for it so you don't have to deal with the long one
It's awesome practice. I don't read manga, but do watch the anime adaptations. It gives you exactly what it says on the tin. I love it.
Some can get a short name after some time. Like
- TenSura: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
- LasDan: Suppose a Kid from the Last Dungeon Boonies Moved to a Starter Town
And others have a short name followed by a longer one like
- Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World
- KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!
- Always a Catch!: How I Punched My Way into Marrying a Prince
- Bogus Skill "Fruitmaster": About that Time I Became Able to Eat Unlimited Numbers of Skill Fruits (That Kill You)
- The Strongest Tank's Labyrinth Raids: A Tank with a Rare 9999 Resistance Skill Got Kicked from the Hero's Party
I'm just repeating a thing I read elsewhere, but I heard it's not strictly SEO optimization in the classic Google rank sense, it's that the most popular webcomic portal in Japan doesn't include descriptions in its browse page.
"Poop Gun"
Wait, so is the gun made of poop? Does it fire poop bullets?
Then the sequal:
"Oscillating doormat"
Or the word avalanche will spread to other media

That sounds like the PG version of Chuck Tingle titles.

Of course with AI it's impossible to tell which covers are real without going to a site with a definitive list, but I confirmed this one
No way this is real
Perhaps the Mothman sexiness is too overwhelming? That's ok, you can always go with Not Pounded In The Butt By My Book 'Not Pounded In The Butt By Anything And That's Okay' And That's Okay

Or maybe you just need things to be a bit more self-referential, so there's always Pounded In The Butt By My Book "Pounded In The Butt By My Book 'Pounded In The Butt By My Book "Pounded In The Butt By My Book 'Pounded In The Butt By My Book "Pounded In The Butt By My Own Butt"'"'

I remember, didn't britaun used to do that too during the early 1900s?
Oh, is this the one that inspired Mickey 17?
Isn't Tom Cruise's Edge of Tomorrow a direct adaptation of this manga?
But if it's just inspired, I could also see the connection.
No edge of tomorrow is the movie based on this, there's also a anime adaptation I think
There is now so much manga and light novel titles that I kinda understand why they do this. It is hard to decide what to even click on, and if I can't even tell what genre it is from the title or cover picture, I'm less likely to check it out
OP left out the Adjective Noun Fred naming convention that lasted from the late 70s through the late 90s
Mobile Suit Gundam
Irresponsible Captain Tylor
Pretty (However they translated Senshi this time) Sailor Moon
Samurai Pizza Cats
Space Runaway Ideon
Devil Hunter Yohko
and on and on and on.
Trying to be unique in a largely crowded endeavor like Japanese manga is a very difficult game. Like choosing names for one's creations. So some authors have to resort to using bewildering longer titles if only to stand out, and it gets weirder in very prolific manga subgenres such as a harem romcom.
I faintly remember about Japanese creatives -- and some businessmen -- trying to find naming inspirations from practically anywhere -- a favorite movie, actor, athlete, an odd quote, a catchy phrase in French or Italian (there is heavy use of "atelier"), etc. -- for which to name their next work, not just manga but Japanese product names and trademarks in general; a girl's fashion brand over there which had taken a "Cecil McBee" as its trademark without the knowledge of the actual musician bearing that name (he was informed of it, got surprised, then tried unsuccessfully to sue in court).
The long title trend started with web novels that had to grab people's attention among a text list of other titles.
This entire post is the title of a short light novel series about anthropomorphic honeybees.
Monster would be titled "Do no harm! Unless I save the wrong life, I guess!!!"
I would read the HELL out of Blood Joe!!!
Could someone link the stepsister slime girls manga, so I can make fun of it?
Closes I could find was Killer Joe.
My favorite animes from the era remain:
Samurai Pizza Cats, City Hunter, You're Under Arrest!
Where can I watch "Blood Joe Dating Two Slime Stepsisters At The Same Time"?
I think that's because they are Korean but I could be mistaken
I think it has more to do with them being adaptations of web novels. I can only assume that at some point there was a meta that evolved around naming web novels something wordy and specific to either stand out from the crowd, let readers know what the series was about, or both.
Disclaimer: I don't read web novels, could be way off.
No, but it could be related to light novels? Since there are more and more mangas based on light novels.
Hey, give them some slack, they’ve got to stand out among the sea of mediocre titles.
Others in this thread are close to the truth when they say this is a light novel thing more than a manga thing. The reality is that this is a web novel thing, even before these stories become published light novels. I am going to quote an answer I wrote previously about this:
Long, specific titles have always been somewhat of a thing. For example, did you know that the novel we typically refer to as Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, was originally titled thusly:
"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. Written by Himself."
In modern light novels, the long titles come from the ease with which amateur writers can self publish to a website like syosetu. This causes tons and tons of stories within the same genre or content tags to be listed alongside each other. So, having a long, specific title helps your writing stand out by acting as a quick synopsis rather than having a website visitor click through and read the synopsis of hundreds of search results.
A lot of our modern light novels were originally self published as webnovels to these sites and have therefore inherited the long titles that helped them stand out on those sites. I just wish that the titles would be adapted and shortened as well as they transition from webnovel -> light novel -> manga -> anime. Some of them just keep the long title but pick up shorter nicknames since the Japanese language is so prone to portmanteaus (konosuba, danmachi, arifureta, etc.).
Chainsaw man
City
Dr. Stone
Mao
Goblin Slayer
Spy × Family
Confirmation bias is one hell of a bias.

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