Last year at Comic-Con, I sat in on various manga panels -- and at nearly every panel, one series was mentioned: Densha Otoko (Train Man). Based on a true story, the Densha Otoko story was a book, became a movie, then a TV series, and then adapted into manga (by seemingly every manga publisher under the sun).
This weekend, we watched the Train Man (Densha Otoko) movie and enjoyed it immensely. Train Man tells the story of an otaku (obsessed fanboy). In this case, Train Man is an Akiba-kei (someone who really likes Akihabara) who stops an unruly passenger on the train from harassing others on the train, and as a result, gains the admiration of those on the train, including an attractive, slightly older woman. At the police station, as the passengers involved fill out the report, the attractive woman asks for his address so she can send him a thank you gift. He posts his story on the internet, and being an otaku, has no idea what to do, and asks the members on the message board what to do.
This past February, Viz released the movie on DVD in the States with a very good job on the subtitles.
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