Well, I’ll post this in english so that it can be read by all.

I’ve just finished watching Densha Otoko this week (So late huh?). It’s a good J-Dorama I think, because it tell us that love relationship between man and woman can happen although they live in different world, I mean like an otaku have an affair with a normal-stylish woman (which is a very rare, LOL). The interesting point in this J-Dorama is it based on a true story, yes it’s true!
The story started in this online channel in Japan: 2ch (wikipedia version) around March 2004 when someone posted about how he saved a young woman from molester in train. The thread quickly became popular after he had given the nick Densha Otoko (train man) by other online users. Mostly, the thread told us about the progress of relationship between Densha Otoko and the young woman he saved (which later they called her Hermes).
Based on the thread, Densha Otoko is originally an Otaku, never had relationship with girl before, and somewhat, nerd. While the young woman is a normal good looking woman, stylish, and rich. The thread gathered many japanese online users to post there helping Densha to get her, that’s why when it was closed (because Densha got her to become his girlfriend) many novels, manga, and drama were published based on it.
Since I’m so curious of Densha’s story, I started to do some googling about him. I found out that there is a log of the conversations from the original thread in here: http://www.geocities.co.jp/Milkyway-Aquarius/7075/trainman.html and the translated version in here : http://www.rinji.tv/densha/ (You must read it, believe me it’s so interesting!)
But when I read it, it just some pages that consists of many important posts in the thread of Densha’s story, not all posts. So I searched again, but the result was no good. Then I joined the channel and tried to search the topic which last in 2004 about Densha’s story, the result was no good too because it was already closed (I found out that in 2ch, after 1000 posts, the thread is closed). Frustrated, I searched again in Japanese search engine and found this sites: http://www.geocities.jp/outer797/index.html (38 threads from start to end) and http://2ch-library.com/male/train/ (official log of Densha’s story from 2ch, 31 threads) Yatta! I found it!!
Both are the real conversations happened about Densha’s story. When you read it, you will be amazed that everyone posted in this thread were all helping him
Ps. Look for ASCII art there, they all are amazing!
Posted by Budi Satrio
Posted by Budi Satrio
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