densha otoko
Just found this Japanese Celica XX Advertisement on youtube:
As you can hear, the music is Twilight by Electric Lights Orchestra. Apart from the fact that I'm an 80s (electronic) music fan I immediately recognized the main theme from the Densha Otoko J-Drama.
You can view the opening credits here:
Funny they used the same theme for both videos! So now there is a link between the Toyota A6 platform and Densha Otoko! ;)
Benoist!!!!
Just finished reading Densha Otoko. Amazing! Much better than the J-Drama: Train isn't such a wimp in the book as in the Drama. He's more direct to the point and the story drags less on. In the end it turns out that he's worse than an otaku (translated into anorak): he's really into Hentai Dōjinshi (translated into fan-porn) as well! If that isn't enough: his favorite is Sailor Moon and Keroro! （｀･ω･´)
For all you out there doubting whether you should buy the book or not: do buy it, it's definitely worth it!! Otherwise you can read it all here: Densha Otaku original (Japanese) or project DENSHA:The 'Densha Otoko' Translation Project. IMO the online version is better than the book, but reading the book is much easier. ━━━━━━（ﾟ∀ﾟ）━━━━━━
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Benwa!
I'm currently reading Densha Otoko (Train man) novel.
The book originated inside a thread on 2Channel which is a forum in Japan. This thread was meant for single men on the forum and the writer, later on called Densha Otoko (which mean train man, however Otoko is actually worse than Otaku), wrote that he saved some women on the train from a drunk man who was herassing them. He received two thank you gifts from the women, from which one of them was sent by a young girl. He actually meets the girl again and has dinner with her and that's the actual start of a long story of "coming to age" for an otaku.
I must say the book is very readable if you are used to read forums, and lucky enough I'm quite an expert in that. ^_^
I do find some translations very annoying, like for instance otaku gets translated into "techie" or "geek" which does not cover it at all. Ah well, you can't have everything and lucky enough I already watched the J-Drama.
