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Release year: 2005

Storyline

With the help of an online community, a nerdy and socially awkward man gathers the courage to start dating an attractive lady he met on a train.

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Cast

Misaki Itô — Hermes, Saori Aoyama
Atsushi Itô — Densha Otoko, Tsuyoshi Yamada
Miho Shiraishi — Misuzu Jinkama
Risa Sudou — Yuko Mizuki

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Did you know

• The show's animated title sequence is partly based on the "DAICON IV Opening Animation," a short film produced in 1983 for the annual Japan Science Fiction Convention by a group of animators who would later found the animation studio Gainax. Specific references include the character Miina's bunny-girl design, shots of trees and grassland covering the earth, a zoom-out shot of the solar system, and the use of Electric Light Orchestra's song "Twilight."

• The "Minna" figurine cost 400,000 yen and Itoh Atsushi accidentally broke one of its ears during a take.

• The businessman that subdues the old drunk in the first episode is 'Takayuki Yamada', the actor who played Atsushi Itoh(Yamada Tsuyoshi)'s character in the movie adaptation of 'Densha Otoko'.