When you combine long titles with overlapping themes and motifs, certain words are bound to show up again and again, so let’s take a look at the 70 most common words found in light novel titles, starting with a text mining visual, with larger fonts for more common words.
More detailed data analysis of light novel titles can be found on @kanichi0203’s blog here.
No surprise at the top, as the most common word in light novel titles (and actually not just for nouns, but of any type), is isekai, or “alternate world.”
The titles of light novels, essentially Japan’s version of young adult fiction, are tremendously long, often sounding more like a summary of the book’s plot than just its name.