Train Man: Densha Otoko, Vol. 2

電車男 / Densha Otoko #2

by Hidenori Hara

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

179 pages, Paperback

First published June 30, 2006

About the author

HARA Hidenori
Name (in native language): 原秀則

Blood Type: A

Zodiac: Gemini

Won the 1987 Shogakukan Manga Award for shounen for his Just Meet and Fuyu Monogatari.

Was the assistant of HASHIMOTO Mitsuo.

MITSUDA Takuya and INOKUMA Shinobu were his assistants.

Reviews

[Sara · Rating 4 out of 5]

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 · Rating 4 out of 5]

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 · Rating 4 out of 5]

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 · Rating 3 out of 5]

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 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cute.

[Shae · Rating 5 out of 5]

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- · Rating 3 out of 5]

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

[Yue · Rating 5 out of 5]

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 · Rating 4 out of 5]

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 · Rating 5 out of 5]

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 · Rating 5 out of 5]

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

[Carmen SP · Rating 3 out of 5]

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

[Evey Morgan · Rating 1 out of 5]

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

[Kittyki · Rating 5 out of 5]

Jajj istenkém, olyan aranyos! :)