Lotsa people keep mentioning 'Densha Otoko' 'Densha Otoko''Densha Otoko'. But I have one question, who and what the heck is Densha Otoko?
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>>4
No.
I'M DENSHA OTOKO!
KITAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Yeah right...
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>>5
Oh yes..!
http://www.crunchyroll.com/showmedia?id=62237 Movie.
Search "Densha Otoko" and you can also watch the drama series, too. It's so good. (-)
It's why I found this place, actually.
キタ━━━(゜∀゜)━━━!!!!!
None of the replies here really answer the main question though, which is... who is it?
He's a geeky guy who was riding a train home and saved a pretty girl from a drunk guy. They eventually got together, fell in love and WHEEEE! gets giddy thinking about it
... ah, Takayuki Yamada is sooooooo cute as a geek. Densha Otoko is by far my favorite movie!
>>15
The TV series is far superior to the movie.
that movie has totally inspired me- I ordered it after I watched it at a film convention earlier this month
>>15
I've been debating as to whether I want to see the TV series or not. On one hand, I do want to see it because I greatly enjoy the Densha Otoko story and I would like to see what sets it and the movie apart (besides the different actors/actresses of course), but on the other hand I don't want to see it because I'm afraid it will ruin my coughveryhighcough opinion of the movie.
Bleeeeeh, I guess it's one of those catch 22 things, ne? ^^;
>>1
who is densha otoko???
no one knows,
for he could be a he @ a she.
for he could be just a person or an amalgram of any group.
for he could be a real live, a persona or maybe just a pigment of evryone imagination.
Why am i telling you this??
cos the records which this 'man' existed from is from 2chan, an anonyomous message board where no one needs to know who you are.
So, its probly your brother, your mother or that sick psycotic killer waiting behind you!!!!!
nanchatte.
>>18
It's worth watching it.
You'll realise how much better it is than the movie.
>>20
Okies... you've convinced me. ^^ yesasia.com, HERE I COME!
Densha Otoko DX sucked. Aside from that, the entire TV series was pure gold.
Sea turtle laying eggs!
I liked DX, I was depressed after the ending of the series as I am when I watch all good anime and read good manga so I was happy to see DX... even though I was again depressed to see it end once again... lol
HE IS YOUR FATHER.
HE IS YOUR MOTHER.
Densha Otoko DX? I've never heard of that before. What is it? O__o
The one saving grace of DX was all the twitching bodies in the wake of Jinkama-san.
The movie is utter shit.
The shojo manga looks like crap too.
The shonen manga is surprisingly refreshing and pretty good.
The original novel was pretty cool, if you don't mind the 2chan speak it's written in, but then again if you're here you might not mind.
Though I don't know if it's translated in any language, and I wonder how well it would translate, with all the 2chan culture it's filled with. I just have the original and kind of am scared of any translations that might be made, since it will be hard to translate all the stuff... even if they go for 4chan equivalents.
>>22
Hahahahaha, I had forgotten all about that. I almost choked on the pizza I'm eating.
And yeah, the movie fucking sucks. All of the characters, especially the imageboard users, are incredibly uninteresting in the movie, where, in the show, there were occasional subplots for them and stuff. Each of them had their own thing. It was amazing.
Eeeeh? I love the movie - ok, mainly for Takayuki Yamada as an uber-cute geek. But still, I thought it was good. Of course, I saw the movie before I even knew about the TV series.
There's a shonen AND a shojo manga adaptation? O___o
Boku wa Densha Otoko
There's three of them.
What densha did inspired many people... That's why I hate it when I see people who is faking his stories and such.
The show dragged on for way too long. Otherwise it was great.
I came here because I started to read the CMX version of Densha Otoko. It was hilarious and really cute! I hope it was a true story.
Sea turtle laying eggs! does the motions
They're coming out! They're really coming out!
I like the CMX version the bestest :/ I dunno...i'm a bit picky with the manga styles. Anyway, it also comes out with better character devlopment imo :/
I'm not really into romantic stories, but I saw the live-action movie, and I cried. I like that movie so much!
Densha otoko is basically train man in japanese but it originated on the parent site of 2ch.it was a series of forum bulletins about a man who met a girl but couldt get up the nerves to talk to her. It actually happened back in 2004 or so.
Not long after the events played out, they decided to take the forum posts and publish them into a book.
Due to its best seller status, it was adapted into a series of managas and television episodes.
There is currently debate as to whether or not it really happened.
What is you're problem for posting that in the first place!!!
Anybody who has ever followed 2ch has heard of it...(>.<)
Clearly this person has never heard of it.
Otherwise nobody would even have bothered asking this.
plus, the explanations for the title werenmt doing it asny justice so I had to step inh and say something. If that is wrong then so be it I would rather have it in the clear That there is some actual information about the series to be handed out instead of a mixed hash of what densha otoko is.
I finished reading the original transcripts of the threads yesterday, I felt a sense of unity, despite never being there. The series is also good, Im op episode 4.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=46fmLF2sTIE
Just work your way through :3
i read the book...liked it
I'm goin' 2 buy da novel and da manga on Tuesday. I've already taken glimpse of the TV drama and movie too...it's very interestin'.
I don't bother wonderin' who he is...if he's happy rite now...let him have his privacy.
i think Train Man is a pretty cool guy
eh trains men and doesn't afraid of anything
Feed trolls LEHS
Hes using a shitty ass meme that was popular for a grand total of 5 minutes got old then failed. Other peope tried to bring it back, and they failed to generate popularity.
Good try though
I don't think it can qualify as a true meme unless scores of people all over the Internet started pretending to have similar experiences.
I ment the "eh trains men and doesn't afraid of anything" that was a popular meme for like...12 minutes on a number of the *chans
AHH Densha a hero he is. A solem nerd who loves Hermes a typical beutiful woman. hey do the make babbies man i'd smack that.. MOE./..///////////...
What if they get ugly densha genes?
well this close to 2ch and atleast people are talking bout densha and hermess
DENSHA OTOKO IS REAL!!!!
TRANSLATION FROM JAPANESE TO ENGLISH!
Read the manga and this site. COMPARE THEM! Even the names,date and time are right!
>>57
Theres also a book version of this. I read it on the train and hope hot chicks get beat up.
>>58
You could always stage it. You know, find an old guy who can play the part of the drunk, give him a bottle of scotch so he can make it more realistic, and then jump to the rescue.
Except I fear that in real life, that day would be the one day the rail security guards are actually doing their job.
I love this series. I'm watching the live action now. I wish I could experience something like those characters. They make the internet and actual "nice" place to be. (Which we know for a fact is bullshit.)
Yeah the real internet is full of assholes like >>62 who only think about sex and their own lack of style.
Though I'm not much of a reader, the book still got me engaged (since it's in the form of a forum thread, which is prolly the only thing I'll ever spend time reading in my life).
And I love the way they keep the cute AA in the book, I actually learnt to create some AA after reading it. ^^
>>1
LOL you don't know Densha??? Then GTFO this thread then! XD sarcasticism
i wonder what happen to the REAL densha otako now, it has been, what, 4 years? are they married now? lol.
>densha otako
Densha is squid??? Luls...
densha ika?
tako = octopus!
:/
Densha, O Taco! is a traditional Mexican dish composed of a rolled, folded, pliable maize or wheat tortilla that can be filled with a wide variety of edible substances.
surely i am not eating one! Yucks! Ok...next discussion...
>>69
Get the hell out.
Densha Otoko, or 'Train Man' was a 2-channer who helped out a group of ladies from being harassed from a drunk guy on the train. One of the ladies ends up sending him a thank-you present (Some pretty high-class stuff). He wants to thank her for the cups, but was having difficulty doing so, since he was quite a big geek at the time. So he ends up asking his fellow channers for advice. Over the course of around 2 months, he sheds out of his geeky shell and gets into a full blown relationship with the woman. His whole experience was then turned into a movie, tv series, manga, and novel, which I just finished reading yesterday.
>>69 There is no way you will catch me eating an octopus taco.
>>72
i want to add, the pretty girl sends him a HERMES brand cups that is considered as very pricey and classy to Densha, hence Densha call her as "Miss Hermes" (he doesn't her name that time).
So...will there be Miss Hermes around in reality? (I am gladly to be a hero hehehehe...)
>>74
I just bet there are a handful of Hermeses out there, but we just have to spot the one for us somewhere out there... I wonder if I'll be able to find mine... soon. (>_>)
Remember what the guy in one Ultraman series says:
"A hero is is always alone"
The search continues!!!
"A hero is is always alone"
Clearly said by a character who had never seen sentai shows.
I personally thought "Densha Otoko" was an extremely moving movie. It was inspired by a true story and I think that's even more impressive as he was just like some of us, just blogging here on the forum like this one. The tale was overall a bit inspiring, but I do agree that the characters lacked depth and importance because their role other than supporting "Train Man" was otherwise vague.
I'd like to smile and think people will meet their 'Hermess' someday, just like he did.
>>79
It doesn't happen like that, Kanojou.
I'd like to think of DO as an ingenious 2ch marketing ploy. If it did happen the main character would have broken up with the female lead and /wrists, explaining his disappearance.
i think densha otokos character is cute...heheh.. thats the reason how i found out about this web...
i found this Summary fr wikipedia.org
Densha Otoko (電車男, Densha Otoko? translated as Train Man) is a Japanese movie, television series, manga, novel, and other media, all based on the purportedly true story of a 23-year-old otaku (Japanese geek) who intervened when a drunk man was harassing several women on a train. The otaku ultimately begins dating one of the women.
The event, and the man's subsequent dates with the woman, who became known as "Hermès" (エルメス, Erumesu?), was chronicled on the Japanese mega-BBS 2channel. This led to the compilation of the relevant threads in a book, followed by several manga versions, a movie, a theatrical play later released as a DVD, and finally a TV series.
Densha Otoko is a popular example of the "nice guy" class of Japanese geeks who wish to lead normal lives, but are too shy to find a girlfriend, or speak openly anywhere but online. The television series uses a large number of computer-bound extras
I found an article that the real densha otoko had an interview thru email. And he mentioned that they are still dating. The interview was made at year 2006. I forgot the the month and day. The interviewer who post the article made a joke that he should be marrying the girl.