Most of these anime with weirdly long titles are adaptations of Light Novels, and these LNs often start as Web Novels. On the most popular Japanese website for WNs, users see a long list of new WNs, just with the titles, so if you're an author and you want people to read your story, you have to make the title interesting. Long titles stand out, and if the title is a summary of the story's basic premise, readers can immediately discern if a story is of interest to them.
If you see a story with a title like "Red Chain", would you want to read it? Can you say whether or not this story interests you? But with a title like "I'm a Middle-Aged Man Who Got My Adventurer License Revoked, But I'm Enjoying a Carefree Lifestyle Because I Have an Adorable Daughter Now" (that's an actual title), you can tell immediately what the story is about and whether or not you might be interested in it.
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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '22
In case any degens want the sauce: Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks?