The train man
Densha Otoko is becoming a strange phenomenon here. It began on an internet message board as one geek told his story of meeting a cute girl on a train and dating her while slowly abandonning his geeky habits.
The message board became a book which became a manga and now it’s a movie. Yes, finally, geek has become the new cool. I can finally go outside in my godzilla costume and not only feel good about myself, but also get chicks. This must be another sign of the end of days so let’s enjoy it while it last.
Now, another important side of this story is that, supposedly, the book was edited out of the most saucy bits that were originaly on the message board. One can only wonder if any bed scenes are going to be in the movie. Insert dirty joke with some kind of train metaphor here.
Probably not, this is just some romantic comedy. Go see it with you’re girlfriend and maybe she’ll understand your passion with Gundam figurines.
I don’t know leave me alone or give me some Miike’s violent porno goodness instead.
The official website is here, the trailer is here, go and do your magic.
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February 27th, 2006 at 10:29 pm
so where is this message forum, that it first began in?
April 25th, 2006 at 6:53 pm
The message board was 2ch, better know as nichannel in japan : http://www.2ch.net
It’s the japanese equivalent of SA it may even be bigger. Many japanese internet fad were born on 2ch.
You can learn more about it here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2ch
October 19th, 2006 at 5:46 am
We watched Train Man in my Japanese class room last year and I realy enjoed the movie till the end… the end was just confusing.