Uhhhm, Japanese... group name - Nakano Hitori (One of us).
So that means a whole lot of people who contributed to the subject of Train man and his attempt at romance.
Translated by Bonnie Elliott - who is a Pommie... ahem English person - so it's sort of... Britishised if that's the correct term.
Jacket illustration by Daisuke Douke.
Cover illustration by Ilya.
Rather interesting... thing.
Hmmm, it's off the net.
Saw the film - quite liked it, but the book is cool in it's own way.
You would have to read it to understand.
So it's like reading a board on a web page.
Because that's what it was.
Will type blurb in tomorrow - am at Jozilla's.
(Thursday... obviously.)
'This thread's got a magic
something-something happening...'
Train Man is lifted directly from Japan's
2-Channel chat forum, the world's largest
message board and hte most popular website
in Japan, handling a million posts every day.
On the web you can say what you feel and be
who you want, no strings attatched. But some-
times the web escapes into reality and the
truth becomes more amazing than fiction.
When a nerdy young guy saves a girl from a
drunk on a train and posts the story on the a net
forum, it's just one message among millions.
But somehow the thread keeps unwinding and
through the other messagers' enthusiasm
'Train' is spurred on to get it together with
the girl, Hermes.
Train continues to update his virtual friends as
his relationship progresses and they continue
to offer him advice - some good, some awful.
Hermes knows he's got helpful friends, but what
will happen when he reveals just who these
friends are and what he's been telling them?
Picked Patches up from the vet - a further 244 dollars.
She's had teeth pulled.
Poor girl...
More tomorrow...
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