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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
And others have a short name followed by a longer one like
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.
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
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.