Train Man: Densha Otoko, Vol. 1

hitori nakano

A real-life thread on an internet forum started it all. A nerdy otaku meets a girl on a train and posts an urgent query on the web--How the heck do you talk to girls? What should he wear on the date? Where should they go? The forum's response was amazing, and the thread grew incrementally longer as the nerd's relationship with the woman developed. Eventually published in book format to become a best seller, the thread spawned a blockbuster movie, a hit TV series, as well as this heartwarming manga adaptation of an entire internet community rooting for love and romance.

Genres mangaromancegraphic novelscomicsseinenfictioncomics mangajapanhumorindonesian literature

208 pages, Paperback

First published April 5,2005

Series

電車男 / Densha Otoko

This edition

Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Published: October 17, 2006 by VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 9781421508481
ASIN: 1421508486
Language: English

About the author

hitori nakano

The name "Nakano Hitori" (中野独人) is a pun on the Japanese term "Naka no hitori", a term that refers to all the people who are part of message boards on the Internet.
This name was used as the shared pseudonym of te author(s) of "Densha Otoko": a collection/adaptation of posts on an online message board telling the story of a nerdy guy after he meets a girl on the train.