電車男

by Hitori Nakano, 中野独人

This is a novel about love, the best seller of Japanese net literature in 2004. The main an introverted comic boy falls in love with a girl, whom he saves in the electric car from an alcoholic. Eventually, he wins the love of the girl through the helps of unknown net friends in an anonymous website. This work is regarded as the classical love story in the internet age.

299 pages, Paperback

Published April 1, 2005

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.