Train Man, Band 2

電車男 / Densha Otoko #2

by Hitori Nakano, Hidenori Hara (Illustrator), Nadja Stutterheim (Translator)

Wie wird aus einem schüchternen Außenseiter ein romantischer Herzensbrecher? Nachdem Tsuyoshi Yamada in der U-Bahn eine junge Frau vor einem Betrunkenen beschützt hat, ändert sich ein Leben radikal. Als schüchterner Einzelgänger, der es gerade mal schafft, sich im Elektromekka Akihabara neue PC-Spiele zu kaufen, sieht sich der Train Man plötzlich mit dem Interesse eines weiblichen Wesens konfrontiert. Was tun, ist die große Frage, die er seinen anonymen Freunden im größten japanischen Internet-Forum »2Channel« stellt - und eine gewaltige Hilfswelle in Sachen Flirten rollt an. Die ersten beiden Dates verlaufen glimpflich, die Herzfrequenz steigt, Schmetterlinge im Bauch... und ganz Japan fiebert mit!

Genres: Manga, Romance, Comics, Seinen, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Indonesian Literature

192 pages, Paperback

First published June 30, 2006

About the author

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 the 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.

Reviews

[Sara]

Definitely enjoying this series. It's so feel-good!

It's the second volume in a series about a geeky guy who meets a girl and who doesn't know what to do - how to dress, where to go, what to say. He has help from his online community which is good and bad. At least the girl really likes him so she's pretty patient.

Ready for the next volume. . . .

[Shin Donghae]

Seperti novelnya, sangat menikmati alur manga oleh Hara sesnei ini. pemilihan panel dan visualisasi para karekter berhasil disajiakn dengan baik.
Ini adalah jilid kedua dalam seri tentang seorang pria culun yang bertemu seorang gadis dan yang tidak tahu harus berbuat apa - cara berpakaian, ke mana harus pergi, apa yang harus dikatakan. Dia mendapat bantuan dari komunitas onlinenya. Setidaknya gadis itu sangat menyukainya jadi dia cukup sabar.

[Emily]

A dorky boy stops a drunk man from harassing a beautiful girl. Clueless about how to go about asking the girl out the dorky boy turns to his blog and his loyal readers. He is flooded with responses and as his relationship with the girl grows so do the number of his online followers. It's these fellow bloggers that get me to chuckle the most--sometimes their reactions are just hilarious and they also save the story from being a humdrum boy meets girl plot.

It's a simple story really, but it's hard not to root for the hapless boy as he stumbles through love and discovers himself.

There is also a live action movie version of this manga that I'll have to look for.

[Mir]

I didn't find the central story and two main characters very interesting, but I liked the interactions with all the online commentators and their reactions to the updates.

Kind of neat that it was a real-life event, then a chat thread, then a novel, then a manga. That can't happen too often.

[Chris]

Cute.

[Shae]

Living vicariously through this adventure is making me so happy! I have been so excited that I actually was screaming out loud!

[Jillian -always aspiring-]

Still cute, capturing the awkwardness of dating and falling in love.

[Uyen Phuong]

3.5🌟

[Yue]

Re-read on Dec. 17th.

OMG, this manga/story is so cute! I can't believe any of my GR friends (the kind that reads manga) did not read it yet... It is part of the Japanese culture, and it is a very poignant story.

I found #2 and #3 when I went to this store (ok, I am lying. I went there specifically looking for this series... it is a "must-have" manga). Vol. #2 had me smiling and giggling, just like Hermes is when she is text-messaging Train-man. And the netizens are seriously the funniest secondary characters in a manga (or book, for that matter).

[muse anshori]

Kali ini Si Train sudah beberapa kali makan malam dengan hermes, dia sempat ketemu temennya dan yah begitulah............

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So far masih bagus, tetep enak untuk dibaca, sayang adegan yang bikin ngakak ga sebanyak di buku pertama... ternyata baca komik itu cukup dari st Sudirman sampe Tanjung barat hahahaha.... Ternyata udah selesai satu buku.... *penting banget lho*

[Kim]

Continuation of the budding romance of "Train Man" as he is reffered to by his on-line support community. So sweet and romantic!

[Sara Galisteo]

Sigue con el nivel del primer tomo. Qué manera de terminar, dejando con la miel en los labios :P

[Carmen SP]

A ver como acaba la historia de Tren y Hermes!! Aunque de intuye!!

[Evey Morgan]

Nota: 1.5 Darle las mismas vueltas a lo mismo una y otra vez. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....

[Kittyki]

Jajj istenkém, olyan aranyos! :)