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Q&A Reusing story title as chapter title

As the other answers have stated, I don't believe re-using the story's name for the first chapter is a particularly good idea, especially if it means something different later on in your story. How...

posted 5y ago by F1Krazy‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#4: Attribution notice removed by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-12T21:42:33Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision by (deleted user) · 2019-12-08T12:41:03Z (almost 5 years ago)
As the other answers have stated, I don't believe re-using the story's name for the first chapter is a particularly good idea, especially if it means something different later on in your story. However...

> Would the answer be any different if it were the last, or any other chapter?

**Yes.**

It's not unknown for anime to name their final episode after the series itself. The example I know of off the top of my head is _Vividred Operation_ - the final episode is also named "Vividred Operation". This works because, at the climax,

> Akane and Rei fuse in order to fight the main villain, and become the titular Vividred.

So you could re-use the story title for your _last_ chapter, but in order to pull that off, your last chapter would need to explain the title to some extent.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-08-09T23:06:53Z (about 5 years ago)
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