Allow a user to change a series' title for just themselves.

[HaikenEdge]

I don't like it when the title of a series I'm following gets changed to something else because it really confuses me. It's happened a couple times to series I follow; This Girl's Not Just Cute became Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie, and Hard Carry Support got retitled as Star Player Supporter (which isn't even the title the translator uses).

I'd like to be able to set the title for series for myself, without it affect everybody else. That way, if people like the new title, good for them, then can have it, but I can switch it back to the old title so I'm not confused by a new update popping up.

 

[WaterMonster29]

I 100% agree with this. I think I'd be very helpful if you could change the names.

Sometimes the title names are super long and are hard to remember so this would be useful.

 

[HelperHand]

depends, if you are asking to add your own title, I think that will be rejected, if you are asking to set a type of title as default between romaji or translated, that's a planned feature no ETA

 

[HaikenEdge]

depends, if you are asking to add your own title, I think that will be rejected, if you are asking to set a type of title as default between romaji or translated, that's a planned feature no ETA

I guess it's more "let me pick a title from the main title or the alternative titles".

 

[Mr-_-TNT]

I think we should just up-vote this information to make it reach the moderators and admins

 

[wodniobojca188]

Another example: "Ranger Reject" changed into "Go, Go, Loser Ranger!". Because official translation decided to instead translating title directly from japanese, to make up completely new one for themselves. At least someone added back "Ranger Reject" as alternative, sometime later.

 

[Akule]

I don't like it when the title of a series I'm following gets changed to something else because it really confuses me. It's happened a couple times to series I follow; This Girl's Not Just Cute became Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie, and Hard Carry Support got retitled as Star Player Supporter (which isn't even the title the translator uses).

I'd like to be able to set the title for series for myself, without it affect everybody else. That way, if people like the new title, good for them, then can have it, but I can switch it back to the old title so I'm not confused by a new update popping up.

I assume for Hard Carry Support/Star Player Supporter it's because both titles are in english, while one is just the translator's name for it (which is helpful for them in avoiding DMCA strikes) and the other is the official title.

Another example: "Ranger Reject" changed into "Go, Go, Loser Ranger!". Because official translation decided to instead translating title directly from japanese, to make up completely new one for themselves. At least someone added back "Ranger Reject" as alternative, sometime later.

Whenever the title is pretty different, I assume that they ran into some sort of copyright/trademark issue, but in this particular case, I assume it was marketing for a Power Rangers tie-in, since the theme song of Power Rangers tends to stick in your head.

 

[HaikenEdge]

I assume for Hard Carry Support/Star Player Supporter it's because both titles are in english, while one is just the translator's name for it (which is helpful for them in avoiding DMCA strikes) and the other is the official title.

I don't care what the official title is. I want to be able to pick a title out of the alternatives so that, when it shows up in my searches or my follows, I know which story it is.

 

[wallsg]

I hate what to me appear to be meaningless Title Wars where a manga changes names multiple times as if people are trying to enforce a personal preference among alternate titles.

I keep directories named as the title with information/notes about each manga. When the title changes it sometimes becomes quite difficult to track down the correct directory.

 

[kn4ll]

Good to see it's just not me struggling with this, I haven't been able to keep up with a lot of stuff because the titles change all the time.

 

[HDMI1]

Maybe make a MDList with the title you want to use and save the series to it?

 

[HaikenEdge]

Maybe make a MDList with the title you want to use and save the series to it?

There's already a follow titles option; why am I being screwed over because somebody else decides they want to force their title preference onto everybody else?

 

[cash5891]

I guess it's more "let me pick a title from the main title or the alternative titles".

This please, it's happened too many times now that I didn't notice any series updates because their English title suddenly changed to something I wasn't familiar with. It also doesn't help that the cover image can also change.

 

[erana1]

I guess it's more "let me pick a title from the main title or the alternative titles".

This would be ideal, because it kills a lot of birds with a stone. Would also help with those of us who are reading in several languages at the same time, would be fair with everyone involved, and would be basically use the same mechanics as the planned feature of choosing betwen Japanese and translated title - just with several options instead of just two.

 

[HaikenEdge]

They just did it again; Isekai Shikkaku was renamed to No Longer Allowed In Another World, which was extremely confusing for me because I didn't know what it was when it showed up in my follows until I opened a chapter.

That's why this function is necessary.