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The 20 Most Ridiculous Light-Novel Titles That Actually Exist
By Kasaix • 6 years ago

The modern trend in American entertainment titles is to pick names that are as short and artisticly simple as possible; like 'Dunkirk', 'Logan', or 'Baywatch'. Japanese light-novels on the other hand have gone in the complete opposite direction; their ridicilously verbose titles are more like summaries of the most ridicilous plots imaginable, with readers having to invent nonsensical title-abbreviations like 'OreImo'  (My Little Sister) for titles like '"Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai" (My Little Sister Can't Be This Cute).

If American entertainment adopted the same conventions, I imagine we'd start seeing movies with titles like 'Dunkirk: The Great Clash!! Desparate Struggle Against Nazi's on a Cold French Beach', or 'Wolverine's Last Stand! Old-Man Logan Reluctantly Travels to North Dakota', or 'The Baywatchers: Dwyane Johnson and Zac Efron's Buddy Comedy Disaster!'.

And no, as ridiculous as these sound, we're not making these titles up and yes you can actually buy these books.

 

1. I'm a High School Boy and a Bestselling Light Novel author, Strangled by my Female Classmate Who is My Junior and a Voice Actress. by Keiiçi Sigsawa

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. My Little Sister Can't Be This Cute by Tsukasa Fushimi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? by Fujino Ōmori

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. My Mental Choices Are Completely Interfering With My School Romantic Comedy OVA by Diomedea

 

 

 

 

 

 

5. Story in Which I Was Kidnapped by a Young All-Girl School to Become a "Sample of the Common People" by Takafumi Nanatsuki

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6. When a Gun Nerd is Reincarnated to a World of Magic, He Established a Harem-Army with Modern Weapons!? by Meikyou Shisui

 

 

 

 

 

 

7. SHIMONETA: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn't Exist by Hirotaka Akagi


 

8. I'm a Brocon Little Sister That Loves Big Brother Too Much and Wants To Do "NyanNyan" But I Can't Be Honest by Ooha Maiko
In other words the title is saying she's in love with her brother and wants to have sex with him but is too shy to tell him that. Deep.

 

9. I Couldn't Become a Hero, So I Reluctantly Decided to Get a Job. by Jun Sakyou


 

10. No Matter How I Look at It, It's Your Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular! by Nico Tanigawa


 

11. I Can't Understand What My Husband Is Saying by Cool-kyō Shinja
I Can’t Understand What My Husband is Saying anime

 

12. Caught in the Battlefield Between My Girlfriend and My Childhood Friend by Yūji Yūji

 

13. What If A High School Baseball Team Manager Read Drucker's 'Management'? by Natsumi Iwasaki

 Otherwise abbreviated as 'Moshidora'.

 

14. WorldEnd: What do you do at the end of the world? Are you busy? Will you save us? by Akira Kareno

 

15. I tried training a girl who looks exactly like my student body president, hoping to make her my lover, and I turned out to be the servant

https://i.imgur.com/8HWRn4G.jpg

 

16. I was reincarnated as an evil god and my subordinate demon army is on the verge of collapsing... What should I do?

https://i.imgur.com/Aia4CqJ.jpg

 

17. I Went to School to be a Swordswoman, But My Magical Aptitude is 9999!?

https://i.imgur.com/fOnUzLd.jpg

 

18. I Defeated Slimes for 300 Years, and Before I Knew It My Levels were Maxed Out

https://i.imgur.com/fCcBkwM.jpg

 

19. Sew it up! Take it off? Change your clothes!! Because my girlfriend failed at her high school debut and became a shut-in, I decided to become a youth-fashion coordinator

https://i.imgur.com/Ajssg1G.jpg

 

20. I’ve Already Saved This World, Taken Its Wealth and Power, and I Live Happily in a Castle with a Female Knight and Demon Queen, So to All Other Heroes: Stay Out of My Fantasy World!

https://i.imgur.com/glzOkgC.jpg