They include longest light novel title ever

As light novel fans (or most anime fans, given how often light novels are adapted into anime) can tell you, the current trend is towards longer and longer titles, the better for time-pressed browsers to glean the plot at a glance. The results can be pretty strange, like What If the Girl Manager of a High School Baseball Team Read Drucker's Management? ( Moshidora ) or Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? The light novel titles for the books set for publication in the next two months continue this tradition — as well as shed some light on the interests of the light novel demographic.

If that last title seems especially long, that's because it is: this novel, due for publication by Dengeki Bunko on March 10, has the longest light novel title ever at 69 characters long, including punctuation. As the title suggests, its protagonist is a giant fashionista who has to help his childhood friend out when she comes to high school overdressed.

Meanwhile, Do You Like Your Mom?, slated for publication on January 20, has won the 29th Fantasia Grand Prize, an annual award given to novels published by Fujimi Fantasia Bunko . The novel follows a high school boy who, like many others in his genre, is transported into a video game... but so is his mother, who not only is fiercely devoted to him, but is very helpful in combat.

For more long light novel titles, see the Top Five Light Novels Ranked by Title Length (as of 2014).

[Via Yaraon! and Otaku.com; Images from Amazon.co.jp, Twitter and Fantasia Bunko]