The Longest Anime Titles Ever

The title of a novel, series, or film is often used to grab the attention of its target audience, being one of the first ways the writer can communicate with potential buyers as to what is to be expected inside the box. People think of titles like Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods and can guess from those words alone what is going to happen throughout the film.

On the other hand, some Japanese anime titles are outrageous and meant to grab a viewer's attention. These titles are often far longer than what readers are accustomed to, taking nearly as long to read as the show is to watch. For the most part, these overly long titles come from light novels and their anime adaptations, which require attention-grabbing titles to grab readers. Long anime titles sometimes feel like a gimmick or silly novelty, but many fans have embraced anime with verbose names as a fun quirk of this creative industry.

Update on November 19th, 2023 by Louis Kemner: This list of the longest anime titles has been updated to adhere to CBR's current publication standards.

Some Anime, Manga, & Light Novel Titles Are Just Plain SIlly

I can't Understand What My Husband is Saying is a very short but delightful slice-of-life anime series from the same creator as Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid. This anime's eight-word title is one of the longest anime titles among all SOL anime, and it also perfectly captures this story's themes of goofy, irreverent domestic bliss.

Scores:

• MyAnimeList: 7.28
• IMDb: 6.7
• Anime Planet: 3.69/5

This anime series stars a charming married couple, including the office employee Kaoru and her easygoing otaku husband Hajime, who stays at home goofing off on most days, though he also runs a successful blog. The series ends on a wholesome note, with both Kaoru and Hajime being incredibly excited about Kaoru's unexpected pregnancy.

14 I'm the Villainess, So I'm Taming the Final Boss Makes the Bad Girl the Best Girl

I'm the Villainess, So I'm Taming the Final Boss is a seinen romance isekai anime with the same "reformed bad girl" vibes as My Next Life as a Villainess. The heroine was reborn as Aileen Lauren d'Autriche and had her engagement to prince Cedric canceled, so Aileen decided to marry the kuudere demon king Claude instead.

Scores:

• MyAnimeList: 7.23
• IMDb: 6.9
• Anime Planet: 3.81/5

This power couple will use Claude's formidable influence and Aileen's meta-knowledge to carved out a romantic niche for themselves and change the world for the better. Aileen must keep her guard up, however, because the seemingly innocent dandere Lilia Rainworth has a shocking secret. It's one that makes her a serious threat to Aileen's happiness to Claude.

13 Science Fell In Love, So I Tried to Prove It Shows Two Awkward Grad Students in Love

Science Fell in Love Has More Than One Romantic Pairing

Unlike many series with the longest anime titles, Science Fell in Love is a romantic comedy rather than an isekai series based on a light novel. The title describes the attitude of the two main characters, Ayame Himuro and Shinya Yukimura, two academically gifted but socially inept grad students at Saitama University.

Scores:

• MyAnimeList: 7.36
• IMDb: 6.9
• Anime Planet: 3.98/5

Ayame and Shinya have a strong mutual crush, but they're inexperienced with love, so they'll let science do the talking. To their friends' amusement and exasperation, Shinya and Ayame will use experiments of all kinds to quantify their feelings based on behavioral changes, heart rates, blood pressure, and more.

12 The Genius Prince's Guide To Raising A Nation Out Of Debt Stars a Clever Isekai Protagonist in a Leadership Role

Genius Prince somehow doesn't give away its entire story just by reading the title. In the Kingdom of Natra, Prince Wein Salema Arbalest has recently been granted control over the Kingdom by his father. However, Wein has no desire to rule a kingdom, and he'd rather be living an easy life somewhere else.

Scores:

• MyAnimeList: 7.39
• IMDb: 7.1
• Anime Planet: 3.80/5

His plan? Sell the entire nation and retire to live an easy life. There's just one problem: the nation is in debt, and to get all the money Wein wants, he'll have to make the country more valuable. Thus begins a series of plans that always turn out far better than he hopes, leading the rest of the land to believe he's a fantastic leader rather than a traitor.

11 My Next Life As A Villainess: All Routes Lead To Doom! Gives Katarina Claes a Delightful Isekai Harem

My Next Life As A Villainess was popular enough to start an entire sub-genre for isekai anime. When an unnamed main character hits her head as a child, she regains the memories of her past life, where she realizes she's living in the world of a video game she played, Fortune Lover.

Scores:

• MyAnimeList: 7.46
• IMDb: 7.3
• Anime Planet: 4.01/5

This would be great news, except the character she's living as happens to be the main antagonist of the game, Katarina Claes. Worse than that, in the game, there's no happy ending for her — every single route leads to her being banished or executed. Katarina is forced to come up with ways to protect herself from her in-game fate, which has immediate effects on everyone around her.

10 Is It Wrong To Try To Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon? Makes Dungeon Crawls Hilarious

Is It Wrong to Try To Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Has Some Powerful Captains

This top-tier fantasy series follows the exploits of Bell Cranel, a lone dungeon crawler working to make ends meet under the goddess Hestia in a world where dungeon crawling is a commonplace job. The gods of this series have few powers, but their main power is Blessing, which allows humans to level up their abilities in much the same way they would in a video game.

Scores:

• MyAnimeList: 7.24
• IMDb: 7.4
• Anime Planet: 4.07/5

Throughout the show, Bell struggles to gain the attention of Aiz Wallenstein, a powerful swordswoman who once saved his life from monsters. At the same time, he's blissfully unaware of the many women he encounters who develop feelings for him, human and god alike.

9 I've Been Killing Slimes For 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level Features an Isekai Witch Turned Foster Mother

The charming isekai series I've Been Killing Slimes For 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level has one of the longest anime titles of the 2020s. It also summarizes the protagonist's experiences rather well. The magical girl Azusa Aizawa got reborn as a witch, and she decided to spend her quiet, comfortable life killing slimes to slowly level up.

Scores:

• MyAnimeList: 6.93
• IMDb: 6.4
• Anime Planet: 3.61/5

Azusa wants to live in peace after her stressful office job in Japan, but she can't help making some new friends after three centuries in semi-isolation. She will adopt the slime sisters Falfa and Shalsha, then befriend dragon girls, ghosts, and even a demon girl named Beelzebub to add some color to her isekai life.

8 Suppose A Kid From The Last Dungeon Boonies Moved To A Starter Town Satirizes JRPG Conventions

Last Dungeon pokes fun at tons of classic JRPG tropes. A resident of the small town of Kunlun, Lloyd Belladonna decides he's tired of being the weakest member of his village, and leaves to visit the city to become a soldier.

Scores:

• MyAnimeList: 6.33
• IMDb: 7.83
• Anime Planet: 3.40/5

The trick though is Kunlun is a town located near the most dangerous and powerful monsters in the world. While Lloyd might be the weakest member of his town, in a city far away from those villains, he's actually the strongest person in the city. It's just too bad he lacks the common sense to realize his own power.

7 I Couldn't Become A Hero, So I Reluctantly Decided To Get A Job Pairs the Hero With the Demon Lord's Daughter

The basic premise of I Couldn't Become A Hero follows Raul Chaser, a young man who wanted to lead his own hero group. Unfortunately, the Demon Empire collapsed, causing the Hero Program to be suspended. With no backup plan, Raul decides to get a job.

Scores:

• MyAnimeList: 6.81
• IMDb: 6.3
• Anime Planet: 3.50/5

Raul's newfound career path puts him to work beside Phino Bloodstone, a new hire who happens also to be the deceased Demon Lord's daughter. It's essentially a gender-flipped The Devil is a Part-Timer!, a series that avoids fantasy world settings for reality.

6 We Still Don't Know The Name Of The Flower We Saw That Day Is a Dark Drama About Friendship & Grief

Anohana and Orange Are Both Anime That Handle Grief Well

Also known as Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day, the show follows a group of sixth-grade students, who drift apart after the death of one of their friends. The main character, Jinta, stops going to school and becomes a recluse. Five years later, he is greeted by the ghost of his dead friend, Meiko, who claims she can't move on to the afterlife until her friends' wishes are fulfilled.

Scores:

• MyAnimeList: 8.3
• IMDb: 8.2
• Anime Planet: 4.23/5

Although Jinta thinks she is merely a figment of his imagination, he reluctantly goes along with her in an effort to rid himself of the guilt surrounding her death. Eventually, the other members of their friend group all discover that Meiko is haunting Jinta and resolve with him to help her move on to the afterlife.

5 No Matter How I Look At It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular! Follows a Gloomy, Socially Anxious Girl Names Tomoko

This slice-of-life comedy series is a lesson in not relying on video game skills to get through life. Also known as WataMote, the series follows Tomoko Kuroki, a 15-year-old girl who thinks she can use her skills at dating games to become popular in high school.

Scores:

• MyAnimeList: 6.99
• IMDb: 7.2
• Anime Planet: 3.54/5

Instead, Tomoko finds the opposite to be true, as her constant gaming habits have turned her into an unsociable loner. While the manga it is based on has been well received, the anime has seen controversy for its portrayal and treatment of social anxiety.

4 Kochikame, This Is The Police Station In Front Of Kameari Park In Katsushika Ward Is One of the Oldest Anime Series Out There

KochiKame dates back to long before long anime titles were common. The series was one of the longest-running manga in Weekly Shonen Jump, getting its start back in 1976 and running all the way until 2016. While the anime wasn't quite as long, it still ran for nearly a decade and hundreds of episodes.

Scores:

• MyAnimeList: 7.78
• IMDb: 6.8
• Anime Planet: 3.70/5

The long-running gag series focused on Kankichi Ryotsu, a hardworking yet underpaid police officer. Eager to find his way out of having to work, each episode features Ryotsu coming up with a new get-rich-quick scheme. Naturally, the scheme always fails, either because he let things go too far or because the idea finally gets old with everyone.

3 Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough For Mobs Somehow Combines Otome Games With Mecha

Trapped in a Dating Sim Has Some Neat Plot Twists

Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games Is Tough For Mobs has one of the longest anime titles out there. It's a title that explains why the antihero Leon Bartfort is having such a tough time. He got teleported to an otome game world with a strict matriarchal society, and thirdborn sons like him have it even worse.

Scores:

• MyAnimeList: 7.34
• IMDb: 7.3
• Anime Planet: 3.85/5

Still, Leon won't complain. Instead, he will use his advanced mecha suit to defeat his enemies, and use his meta-knowledge and wisdom to befriend key allies like Angelica Redgrave and Olivia to form his own team. Interestingly, Leon's real-life little sister is here too under a new name, and she's determined to get in her brother's way whenever possible.

2 WorldEnd: What Do You Do At The End Of The World? Are You Busy? Will You Save Us? Shows Humanity Fighting to Stave Off Extinction

This series' title is easily one of the longest anime names in the industry, so fans often just call it WorldEnd for short. This series is set in a world where the human race was nearly wiped from existence, and are forced to live on floating islands to stay clear of the mysterious beasts who once tried to kill off humanity.

Scores:

• MyAnimeList: 7.67
• IMDb: 7.1
• Anime Planet: 3.90/5

Only a small group of girls called Leprechauns can wield weapons that can fend off the beasts' invasions of their floating cities. A mysterious man, Willem, emerges from a 500-year cursed petrifaction and becomes the girls' surrogate father. Meanwhile, he's also dealing with the fact that his family is no longer alive and the new world order that is thrust upon him.

1 The Misfit Of Demon King Academy: History's Strongest Demon King Reincarnates and Goes To School With His Descendants Is an Amusing Power Trip Series Set in High School

With a name at a whopping 18 words long, most fans just shorten the show's name to Misfit of Demon King Academy, though this still stands as the longest anime title out there. The series follows Anos Voldigoad, a man who was so powerful he chose to sacrifice himself in the hopes of bringing peace to the world.

Scores:

• MyAnimeList: 7.37
• IMDb: 7.3
• Anime Planet: 3.98/5

Several thousand years later, Anos is reincarnated, but it's into a world that's drastically weaker than the one he left. Meanwhile, his name and legend have been altered, leading him to carve a new legend for himself. So, he will start from zero, posing as an ordinary student at the school that was founded in his honor.