In recent years, the light novel market has seen a hundred competing titles with a variety of names to attract readers' attention. The Japanese website "ダ? ヴィンチ电子ナビ」 recently announced the Japanese market title name ranking of the top 5 long light novel works. The following is a list of the top 5 titles in the Japanese market.
Japan's longest name light novel
The site also published the same ranking in August last year, it was by the Japanese name *** 41 words "want to lovers so try to chain into a girl with the president of the student body is very similar to the results, but I turned into her servant (tentative translation, the original name: lovers にしようと生徒). President そっくりの女の子を錬成してみたら、オレが下仆になっていました)" to win the title, in the end, this year's published ranking list will be what will happen to change it, let's look at it.
Fifth Place Japanese Characters: 31
Title: "I also had a time when I thought that girls were gentle and cute (tentative translation, the original name: 女の子は优しくて可爱いものだと考えていた时期が俺にもありました)"
Publishing House: KADOKAWA ASCII Media Works Dengeki Bunko
Author: Shuichi Ninomaru
Illustration: Mofu
Fourth Place Japanese Characters: 36
Title: "What if the head girl of a prestigious school reads Abdul? Alhazred's Book of the Dead (tentative translation, original name:名门校の女生徒会长がアブドゥル=アルハザードのネクロノミコンを読んだら)》
Publisher: Ichijhunsha
Author: Hayatsuka Katsutsuya
Illustration: Shimoushi Hiragi
Synopsis:
The president of the student council of the prestigious school, "Kudo Aeyi Gakuen," is a student of a famous school, the Nine Heads of the Dragon Academy. The president of the student council, Kudo Yayi. She has excellent grades, good motor skills, and a beautiful appearance. But she has a secret that she can't tell anyone. She doesn't realize that the student council president is the owner of the most vicious magic guide book in history, "The Book of the Dead"? And what will happen to the protagonist who knows this secret?
Third Place Japanese Characters: 41
Title: "I want to lover so try to chain into a girl who resembles the student president, but in the end I became her servant (tentative translation, the original name: lover にしようと生徒会长そっくりの女の子を錬成してみたら、ole ga 下仆になっていました)
Publisher: Ichijunsha
Author: Tsukimi Kusahira
Illustration: Sakura Neko
Synopsis:
The protagonist, who longed for the student president, wanted a girlfriend who was as good as the student president, so he carried out the forbidden human body chain formation. The story is about a man who created the body and used it as a servant.
Second Place Japanese Characters: 41
Title: "Although turned into an evil god, but under the command of the Demon King Army but a moment to die, in the end, how to do (temporary translation, the original name: the evil god に転生したら配下の魔王军がさっそく灭亡しそうなんだが、どうすればいいんだろうか)》
Publisher: AlphaPolis
Author: Natsuya Cicada
Illustrator: fzwrAym
Synopsis:
A dead office worker, "Hiranofanta," is reborn as an otherworldly evil god, and one of the 108 Demon Lords, "The Abolitionist Prince," becomes his follower. They were defeated in the battle that followed, and there were only 200 of them left.
First place Japanese characters: 54
works name: "as a male high school student best-selling light novel writer I am being younger classmates voice girls to the neck (tentative translation, the original name: men's high school students 売れっ子ライトノベル作家をしているけれど, under the year of the Claus Maitreya voice female).
Publisher: KADOKAWA ASCII Media Works Dengeki Bunko
Author: Keiichi Tokumizawa
Illustrator: Kurohoshi Kohaku
Synopsis:
The protagonist started out as a high school light novel writer and took a year off from writing, and when he resumed his studies and moved to another school, he met a woman named "Nitori Eri".
Less than half a year after the last chart was published, the new chart-topper already has more than 50 Japanese characters, and while the cover barely fits, it's curious to see how such a long word count is going to be stuffed on the side. How many readers will be able to memorize such long names as they get weirder and weirder? It's also interesting to see if there will be even longer names in the future. 2014 has just begun, so let's see if there will be even longer names this year!