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Why are Japanese game names so strange?
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KrazyKrelian
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feynoob
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Because it's too edgy and too fantasy.
One of the reasons why I hate current anime and manga.
I prefer Chinese and Korean manga these days. Cultivation and power fantasy with suffering is my interest nowadays. Plus the story is fun and better than "those beauty will fall for a frail like me fantasy".
One of the reasons why I hate current anime and manga.
I prefer Chinese and Korean manga these days. Cultivation and power fantasy with suffering is my interest nowadays. Plus the story is fun and better than "those beauty will fall for a frail like me fantasy".
HerjansEagleFeeder
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I'm used to Black Metal album titles so those usually don't shock me.
Guilty_AI
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feynoob
Gold Member
Bleak of forsaken faith.
Guilty_AI
Member
New Light Novel’s Title is 196 Pages Long
We've done it, folks. We've reached the pinnacle of light novels! In a world where light novel titles are getting longer and longer, one author by the name of Yuta Tanaka embraced this concept and decided to write a 196-page light novel where the entire book is the title. The best part? It was...
www.theouterhaven.net
GymWolf
Gold Member
That's a real game title.
Woopah
Member
Team Asano love doing weird names for their games:
- Bravely Default Flying Fairy
- Bravely Second End Layer
- Various Daylife
- Octopath Traveller
- Triangle Strategy
jshackles
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I'm studying Japanese, and I've found that there are a surprising number of things that just... don't translate cleanly. I've also found that Japanese companies like to put seemingly random English words and phrases on things to look/sound cool, and these are usually laughably bad for people who actually know English. I would assume that game names are no different.
"Be offensive"
Homo Sausage
"Be offensive"
Homo Sausage
Felessan
Member
This is a pun based on the another pun. Tanta probably a character from Forspoken that replaced Santa.
This has nothing to do with video game names - and there is a reason why some novel named weird.
Basically the most prominent website to selfpublish newbie novel writers dosn't really support extensive description, so your only way to gather attention and readers is to put description into name. And from there it will be passed through to side media (like light novel and games based on novel etc).
Established authors and IP originated from games doesn't really need this.
Holammer
Member
The thing OP mentions is within normal parameters. There is a silly trend where novels (that often get adapted into anime & manga) written for younger audiences have long descriptive names, sometimes without Kanji so they look like Welsh village names.
No more short and sweet titles like Appleseed or Tenchi Muyo.
No more short and sweet titles like Appleseed or Tenchi Muyo.
Fuz
Banned
Chinese names are worse. They take two english words that sound remotely fantasy and put them together in an awkward manner.
Case in point, "Blade and Soul"... and many other that I struggle to remember just because how generic they are.
But yeah, cultural differences. Also Japan is weird.
Case in point, "Blade and Soul"... and many other that I struggle to remember just because how generic they are.
But yeah, cultural differences. Also Japan is weird.
Werewolf Jones
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My favourite is still YU-GI-OH! STAIRWAY TO THE DESTINED DUELIST: WORLDWIDE EDITION
Fire game on GBA.
Fire game on GBA.
Fuz
Banned
I need to tagNew Light Novel’s Title is 196 Pages Long
We've done it, folks. We've reached the pinnacle of light novels! In a world where light novel titles are getting longer and longer, one author by the name of Yuta Tanaka embraced this concept and decided to write a 196-page light novel where the entire book is the title. The best part? It was...
Pejo
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This fucking hack.
Fuz
Banned
I'm ded
Homo Sausage
Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
You make it sound like western games are any better with their namings?
Some of the most played games right now:
Fortnite - Spelt like that
Rainbow Six Siege - Thats just 3 random words put together.
Roblox - what?
Defense of the Ancients
Unturned
Halo Infinite
DayZ
Minecraft
Player Unknowns Battlegrounds
Red Dead Redemption
I mean they arent Infinite Undiscovery but they arent gonna be winning any Pulitzer prizes.
Some of the most played games right now:
Fortnite - Spelt like that
Rainbow Six Siege - Thats just 3 random words put together.
Roblox - what?
Defense of the Ancients
Unturned
Halo Infinite
DayZ
Minecraft
Player Unknowns Battlegrounds
Red Dead Redemption
I mean they arent Infinite Undiscovery but they arent gonna be winning any Pulitzer prizes.
Drizzlehell
Banned
You should check out some of the song titles from death metal band Nile. Here's one of them:
Chapter of Obeisance Before Giving Breath to the Inert One in the Presence of the Crescent Shaped Horns
Chapter of Obeisance Before Giving Breath to the Inert One in the Presence of the Crescent Shaped Horns
Tams
Member
You engrish to good, Guilty_AI san.
Tams
Member
I'm studying Japanese, and I've found that there are a surprising number of things that just... don't translate cleanly. I've also found that Japanese companies like to put seemingly random English words and phrases on things to look/sound cool, and these are usually laughably bad for people who actually know English. I would assume that game names are no different.
"Be offensive"
Lol, 山口大学 (Yamaguchi University). That doesn't surprise me at all. I knew some people who went there.
In fact, some of my old students are probably attending there right now... oops.
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Spyxos
Gold Member
Sure, there are also strange game names in the West, but by far not so common. And isn't Player Unknown's Battlegrounds a game from Korea?
Days like these...
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Engrish that's why
Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
I'll take "What are foreign language translations for ten, please"
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nial
Gold Member
I love the Japanese titles of the Gravity Rush games.
Gravitational Dizziness: The Perturbation of Her Inner Space Caused by the Repatriation of the Upper Stratum
Gravitational Dizziness Final Chapter: The End of the Repatriation of the Upper Stratum, Choices That Converged Her Inner Space
Gravitational Dizziness Final Chapter: The End of the Repatriation of the Upper Stratum, Choices That Converged Her Inner Space
Nok Su Kow
Member
Are you telling me
"Summertime High School: A Young Man’s Notes—How a New Exchange Student Like Myself Ran Into His Childhood Friend On The School Tour, Then For Some Reason Became Super-Popular With The Girls For His Daily Scoops On The School Photography Club Even Though He Only Takes Panty Shots, And What He Thinks As He Goes On Dates During His Summer Of Island School Life."
doesn't just roll of the tongue?
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
Nothing strange about it. They just sound funny to us gaijin normies because of our reductionist top-down way of thinking in the west. Damage your brain expand your mind with anime and manga then pretty soon it’ll sound natural to you.
Loomy
Thinks Microaggressions are Real
lol, a lot of weird names out there, this is one of the least weird.
In Tanta We Trust sounds like "In God We Trust" or any other "In <thing> We trust". It's just here <thing> = Tanta.
fran.fernandez
Member
Better than western indie;
The last time I see you
I miss my mother
Goodbye volcano high school
Any amo phrase.
The last time I see you
I miss my mother
Goodbye volcano high school
Any amo phrase.
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Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
The person Brendan Green aka PlayerUnknown is from Ireland.
MayauMiao
Member
Oh man, try read some of the mangas.
The Forspoken title is nothing compared to the manga titles I read.
"Turns Out My Dick Was a Cute Girl"
Yes, that's an actual title.
Not as bad as mobile market:
"US Spider Police Stickman Rope Hero Strange Vegas"
"Spider Rope Hero Man: Crime Ciy Gangster Vegas"
Okay, these a real rip off trash games that probably nuke your phone after sending all data to Russian or Chinese companies.
On serious note on Japanese games: It's a cultural thing. From Western perspective everything is weird over there, their mangas, games, TV shows. But just try to see it from their perspective when people here watch these horrible Hot Island something something shows. Or name their video games Fortnite or Destiny. A single word that doesn't tell your anything about the game.
"US Spider Police Stickman Rope Hero Strange Vegas"
"Spider Rope Hero Man: Crime Ciy Gangster Vegas"
Okay, these a real rip off trash games that probably nuke your phone after sending all data to Russian or Chinese companies.
On serious note on Japanese games: It's a cultural thing. From Western perspective everything is weird over there, their mangas, games, TV shows. But just try to see it from their perspective when people here watch these horrible Hot Island something something shows. Or name their video games Fortnite or Destiny. A single word that doesn't tell your anything about the game.