What does the title of your story mean?

[malwdark]

Mine is pretty literal, its a sage about people who survives in an hostile world
It has a little twist tho, because (spoiler) the people who suffers the infection but remains human is called 'the survivors' too.

Survivors | Tapas

[TheGentleArtist]

My comic's title, Tokyo Star Memories, actually came from a small and fun image chart where you get your anime's title from the first letter of your full, middle and last names. I liked it and kept it around; personally, I don't see it as attention grabby. I guess the only literal part is "Memories" since it is a Slice of Life Comedy.

[surenlicious]

My novel 'Jade Kingdoms' refers to the meaning of the gemstone jade and the kingdom being the metaphor to your household. Jade is believed to protect, bring luck and ward off evil/misfortune, and I truly hope anyone can feel like their home is their kingdom.

It's not a happy story, as it is a story about domestic and cultural abuse.

[Rhonder]

For 'TreasureHUNT!!':

There's not much depth to it... it's a story about treasure hunters I had some cheesy underlying thoughts about "the treasure is not only the actual treasure but also the skills and friends you make along the way", but yeah, p straightforward.

For my upcoming comic, 'Dungeons & Dinosaurs: Royal Road Trip':

This one is similarly surface level and easy to understand at a glance. It's a dungeons & dragons slice of life comic wherein our DM decided there would be more dinosaurs than usual present in the campaign.

Royal Road Trip ties into the campaign goal/premise. The heir to the throne was assassinated and the protocol for selecting a new heir is to have Nobles with teams of adventurers in-tow travel the country to compete for favor and clout with the people. Cars exist in this setting and so we're quite literally road trip-ing around and doing hijinx.

I'm absolutely convinced that the DM probably took heavy inspiration from Final Fantasy 15 when crafting the plot, but the execution is definitely different enough to stand on its own~

[pastelchan]

my main novel is pretty literal and is called Blue Moon Ritual as it was a ritual during a blue moon (a second full moon in a month) that started the whole story. Four is the Number is a tad more cyptic and hints at a 4 person poly love. and my last one (that's still at the very start and not posted yet) is inspired by a phrase from FITN (be brave, be bold) that I shorted to Brave 'n Bold to hint at the more punkish nature of the story (TBH I love this title the most).

[Dysis]

For Time Out:

Because Sandra is a mess!!

This protagonist has to save her life, her family's life, go against the authority, break laws, go gravedigging, die thrice and save the life of a man she dislikes. On top of that, she has a cheeky ghost bothering her.

This poor girl needs a break. Hence "time out".

[hellastarlis]

Mine is so simple yet obvious. The Duchess in the Library.

Recently, I've been reading reincarnation webtoons and novels about reincarnated badass Duchesses and Villainesses. That is why, I thought of different "what ifs" and then I got this simple idea of a girl that was reincarnated into the Duchess' body who was in a recent accident, and is a bookworm so that's why she ordered the Duke to made her own library. In her library, she will do investigations about the real culprit of the Duchess's accident and earn money through her talents in an anonymous name.

I know it's similar plot with reincarnation and stuff, but I thought about what would make it unique from other isekai themed novels. I thought of a 'plot twist' that might stand out from the others. Although, the start might be generic or similar from others but I'm thinking of a way to make it more unique and enjoyable to read. I also love red hair and bad ass mc, so I drew her like this.

[DasIstWunderblyat]

Karana:

• Rule #1 of fantasy titling: Make it sounds vague, cryptic, but unique and mystical. Nobody cares what the hell is that; it can be a character's name, a place, a nation, an organisation, a weapon, to the best selling alcoholic beverages brand. Freedom is yours.
• Rule #2: Derive it from a real ancient language. Preferably not Latin because many people can decipher Latin and it will erase the mystery ™️, plus it only sounds fitting for European-inspired fantasy civilization.

Serious answer: it will be spoiler to reveal what is it, but I obey rule #1 and #2.

[snailienz]

I mean mine is pretty much the title of the in universe "Game" in which the story takes place. It's sadly not that exciting, but luckily no one shares the title yet. XD

[MoseyP]

My story is called Vehementia because I'm an artsy binchhhhhh

But yeah, it basically means vehement in Latin, and vehement means an excess of emotions/emotional outbursts, which fits well into my story.

[gmaximin]

Mine is descriptive... it’s about Effy, which is a character that embodies the concept of efficiency... so:
‘Effy - The living efficiency’

[WriterLinXiaolong]

For RE:Cycle, I have few friends helping me with the title.

The story is a quick transmigration story where the mc enters several worlds which is separated by arcs. And each time, he needs to survive. RE:Cycle is just... repetition in this case. In the summary, it goes:

Faced with a choice of eternal death or a chance to survive, Shen Jiayi decided to try his chance. But he soon regret his choices as he ended up experiencing death after death with each world he visited

And then, the joke was: MC's soul is being recycled over and over again.

RE:CYCLE | Tapas

[Maps]

“Vows of the Sentinel” is pretty literal and focuses around promises of a guard. The story doesn’t mainly focus on that, but somehow it is the main bit of the story? Like, the title makes sense as the story is revealed.

And same with “A Second Chance at Fate”. Pretty literal about someone who gets a second chance at what they believed their fate to be.

[pilot-obvious]

I love your made up title examples!

My comic title Future Agents literally represents the name of the organization the comic takes place around. It's been the name of the concept since 2008. I originally thought it was a stupid sounding name but couldn't think of anything better and now we're here. It's grown on me though and I couldn't change it to anything else.

[Shredder]

Vigil Until Dawn means its definition which.

Vigil - a period of keeping awake during the time usually spent asleep, especially to keep watch or pray. (Until Dawn)

It's a Sci-fi based story where they'll spend quite a bit of time on a spaceship, however, there is no dawn in space. So much like me, I force my characters into insomnia.

[Undertaildoof34]

ohh is it novel or comic?

[JoshRaid]

They're incredibly literal.

Stick fight - Because it's about stick figures who fight.

https://tapas.io/series/Stick-Fight-

Multiverse war - Because it's about a war that spans the whole multiverse.

https://tapas.io/series/Mega-crossover

The most unstable substance in the world - Because said substance is the protagonist.

https://tapas.io/series/the-most-unstable-substance

[TheDWrek83]

Twenty Four Seven - A looooong time ago (the early 2000's) I was approached by a programmer friend who was creating a dating sim to come up with some characters for said game. The main character was going to be a woman who was obssesed with the thought of being in a relationship to the point that it was said she thought about it "twenty four seven". Back in the early 2000's we used phrases like that....

Project went belly up and I had a cast of characters which I rejiggered for my own comic purposes.

Twenty Four Seven | Tapas

[JalenET]

The title of my series is Peacemaker Chronicles. I titled it that because we are introduced to a series of different characters all with the ambition to make the world a better place in their own way. However considering they all face different struggles, they might have a different interpretation or different way of going about obtaining that peace or that better world.

Peacemaker Chronicles (2020) | Tapas

[ButterflyEmpress]

Love Me, Deity | Tapas

I think my title falls more into the artsy category since it's pretty vague. There's deities, some of them are in love with each other or about to fall in love.

If I'd gone for the super literal attention grabbing light novel esque title, it'd be:
"Am I seriously a reincarnated goddess with amnesia!?"