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"Train Man"-- Must see comedy-drama
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note to birdie:
that site appears to have 1-11 softsubbed and all the raws available. they have the sub files and the raw files in different threads; use the search thingy on their site.[/quote]
I'll do a little more searching, thanks!
BTW I like this sort of thing, as opposed to today's zinger filled sitcoms where you can see the punchline coming from a mile away. "Sweet" is rare in comedy today.
Finished.
If I'm not mistaken, the orchestral soundtrack was lifted from Cinema Paradiso and... um... Empire of the Sun? Children of the Sun? It's the bit with the chorus that sounds like the Abyss but isn't.
*wait* I just checked, and I don't think it's Cinema Paradiso, but it's something either by Ennio Morricone or trying to sound like him. I feel like I've heard both those pieces before.
If anyone knows where I can get the Japanese cover of Bonnie Tyler's "Holding Out for a Hero", I would be forever in your debt.
I read some of the translated actual forum posts this was based on, and the guy comes off as a pretty normal guy. He sounds like he was nervous when he was talking to the girl, but I doubt he made faces like he was constipated whenever he talked to her.
Obviously, much of the TV series was invented, but from the supposed "real-life" parts I've read, I could believe that some guy got brave on a train, went out on a nervous first date, met some of her friends, and some of the events near the end (no spoilers).
All the rest of the stuff was hilariously staged, corny, and implausible.
A final rating of 3.5/5, and it probably would have been higher if it was just told straight without painting all the forum hounds as one-dimensional cartoons you wouldn't want to be stuck in an elevator with.
The Good: Told with general sincerity, dramatic license taken where the real story probably got really slow. Saori has the sexy schoolteacher thing down pat.
The Bad: Atrocious acting all the way around. Sakurai was funny. Yamada looks like he belongs in a stage production of Little Shop of Horrors.
The Ugly: Was it really necessary to travel back in time to 1985 and borrow some film stock, special effects, and cameras from the BBC?
Not bad. Recommended to all Japanese people and members of the 'net generation, as it fits right in with all their hopes and fears about the world around them. (a loss of personal connections with an ever-increasing immediacy of technology)
Hey, no disrespecting the Tsunami. He's my hero. And no way am I eating 50+ hotdogs in 12 minutes. Same goes for the 18 pounds of cow brains and whatever else that boy puts down.
Densha Otoko is only like 13x40 minutes. Even less when you skip the op, end, and parts that are just really awful.
Side note: I used to give every show one episode, but nowadays it's more like half an episode where I've got my finger primed on the fast forward button.
I've plowed through ~100 episode anime shows in 4 days before and 30-40 hour PS2 RPGs in a single weekend (fri afternoon to sun night). Heck, I even built the vast majority of this website in about 2-3 weeks. I don't get much sleep that way, though. (I had work and stuff to do yesterday too.)
