Randomly Generated Japanese Titles of Movies, Games, etc

Although Japanese games such as Final Fantasy VII: Advent of Children and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater are great, the titles themselves are just out of this world! I mean, what is "Metal Gear Solid" supposed to mean anyway? Anyway, after discussing this on a mailinglist I wanted to prove a point and make a Japanese title generator, and here is the result. I really must say I'm looking forward to some of these awesome titles! Have a great weekend everybody! :)

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jpname 1.1
Copyright (C) 2004-2005  Christian Stigen Larsen
Licensed under the GPL v2 or later.

COSMIC POKEMON: GREEN MIRROR
THE ROBOT OF THE PRINCESS XII
THE SAMURAI UNDER THE HELL IX
COSMIC GHOST IN HELL XVII: THE LABYRINTH
METAL EXILE UNDER COSMIC KING OVER THE EATER
COSMIC LABYRINTH AFTER THE MIRROR AFTER THE CRAFT III
THE DRAGON
NEON LIMINALITY SOUL THE FIST BEYOND FIREFLIES XVII
MASTER COMPLEX
FULLMETAL OVERFIEND OF NINJA BEYOND STAR: SILVER MACROSS
SUPER WARS GHOST THE SWORD XVIII
THE FINAL FIREFLIES BEYOND LIBERTY BEYOND PRINCESS XIV
MASKED DREAM OVER RETURN IN SEED XIII
PROJECT LABYRINTH AFTER THE DRAGON BEYOND THE SWORD VII
EXTREME FANTASY BEYOND POKEMON AFTER THE STAR
SOUL HACK: FULL SLAYERS
THE SEED XVI

Download the complete source: jpname-1.1.tar.gz
Browse the sourcecode of the final overfiend.

If you download the source, you can change some of the random weights on which words to use. That is only recommended if you're really, really bored :)

Update (2006): If you're serious about this, you should check out Markov chains, write up a big, fat file with all the titles you know about of japanese game titles, run that through a program that builds Markov-chains, and enjoy the output. If you use big enough k-grams, you shouldn't be surprised to get only existing titles. Reduring k-grams yields the funniest titles.

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