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pluspluspangolin:

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nuclearspaceheater:

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nostalgebraist:

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mathamaniac:

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nostalgebraist:

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well, okay, sure,

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(first, @nuclear-red-navy\u200b, tumblr\u2019s side-bar opening of links to tumblr blogs has broken the\u00a0\u201cread more\u201d functionality.)

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Second, this is the result of EY asking for covert art at a price of 125$. That\u2019s not a bad thing, but it\u2019s an interesting event in the saga of EY doing things that will piss off the internet.

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https://www.freelanced.com/job/29612/create-a-cover-for-an-english-original-light-novel-by-yudkowsky-freelance-anime-art-job

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https://www.reddit.com/r/HPMOR/comments/40d6z9/125_for_an_artist_with_anime_experience_to/

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To clarify, I wasn\u2019t intending to poke fun at the art style/quality so much as the overall goofiness of the cover, especially the title

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Given it\u2019s intended genre, it fits in with titles like No Matter How I Look at It, It\u2019s You Guys\u2019 Fault I\u2019m Not Popular! and so on.

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Yeah, this is 100% in line with how light novels tend to be named, right down to the punctuation

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The next question: what does the fandom (for such a dread beast shall doubtless arise) settle on as the\u00a0\u2018official\u2019 acronym?\u00a0

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(EY suggested Summoned Hero in a reddit thread, but that seems a bit clunky; it\u2019s a a pity that english doesn\u2019t allow for the nice and quick contractions that are regularly pulled off for light novels in japanese [eg WataMote for that which nuclearspaceheater mentioned, Haganai, DanMachi, etc])

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yeah no that\u2019s actually a very good 3/4s-ass overliteral translation of the Japanese grammatical forms that would be used to title an installment\u2019s worth of pulpy fiction. Add in the art and it\u2019s very 1999.

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