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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by voodooattack@lemmy.world to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
 
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[–] saltnotsugar@lemm.ee 70 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I love needlessly long manga titles.

My cat launched a nuke and to stop it I married my plumber!

[–] Zellith@kbin.social 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Misfit Of Demon King Academy: History's Strongest Demon King Reincarnates and Goes To School With His Descendants.

[–] idogoodjob@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Googled it and this one is real in case anyone is wondering

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

And there are people like "this is the single best manga I've ever read" and it's the most generic ridiculously overspecific title and premise in history

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 years ago

Japanese web pages are like this too. If you look up articles (not really newspaper stuff, but just random web articles), the title always goes on about a sentence more than what we'd expect in the west. I just searched for "horror movie history" and got "What was the first horror movie and its origin? Try to think about works that have had a big influence", whereas we'd expect a title more like "origins of the first horror movie".

[–] nebula42@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] Syrc@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

It's from AnimeMaru, which is (was?) basically the Anime Onion.

However, "Mukuwarenakatta Murabito A, Kizoku ni Hirowarete Dekiai sareru Ue ni, Jitsu wa Motteita Densetsu-kyuu no Kami Skill mo Kakusei shita" (The Villager Who Was Abandoned, Was Picked Up by an Aristocrat and Awakened a Legendary Divine Skill) is an actual series which has an anime announced.

[–] ProtonEvoker@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

I had the idea for some Don Quixote style story where your average isekai fanboy gets summoned to another world, and it’s the job of a member of the royal guard to protect this guy. The fanboy is a delusional, socially inept, weak lech who is convinced he’s the main character of an eroge, and the knight (the actual protagonist) has to try and keep this idiot from getting himself killed (like explaining that peeping on the princess while she’s bathing would most likely result in execution, not a “meet-cute”). Hijinks ensue.

[–] Vyllenor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 years ago

Kyo Kara Maoh had the most unique transportation imo. Bullies gave MC swirlies and he got sucked into another world through toilet

[–] Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I'm actually surprised there aren't Isekai where the protagonist gets send into another in the future

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

What about an Isekai that gets thrown into our world from a fantasy one

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Devil is a Part Timer does that.

[–] SSX@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Which is especially funny because it was ahead of its time with the anime. It came out like 4 or 5 years before the isekai genre really went wild, but it took years to finally get the second season.

[–] Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

That's kinda what I meant, but I was thinking more of sci-fi/cyberpunk genre

[–] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

There's a whole subgenre called "reverse isekai" that does exactly that.

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There is one but it's getting sent to the past instead of future. Inuyasha.

Depending on how you view things however, the secondary protagonist (Inuyasha) gets sent to the future

[–] Maultasche@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Isn't that Parallel Paradise?

[–] Syrc@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

The only ones I know involve the protagonist going to a post-apocalyptic future, like 7 Seeds or in a sense Dr.Stone, or from the past to our present like Thermae Romae. I don't think there's any real series from the present to a Cyberpunk/Sci-Fi future, the only one I know of is a hentai (I heard the plot is actually decent, but it's still porn in the end).

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Neil Gaiman: nervous sideglance meme

[–] CJOtheReal@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

Would sell good.