By REBECCA P.
My thoughts
Train Man grabbed me from the get-go for some reason. The story itself is an uncliche storyline stemming from a cliché story plot. Geeky guy meets beautiful woman. Guy has no clue what to do. However, it’s not that the geeky guy with a beautiful girl is anything new in manga, but Train Man does give some interesting twists in the form of the online web. At any rate, it starts when Train Man (identity never exposed) saves a group of women from a pervert. Relieved to have been saved and have found a nice young man, the women take his contact information and one responds by sending him tea cups as a gift. By this point he has posted the story on a forum and is receiving response after response of what to do. Thanks to encouragement from members of the forum he calls her and asks her on a date. Thus, a friendship begins, but will it lead where Train Man wants it to?
My thoughts
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In volume one we’re introduced to Takuya, Minoru and their father Harumi. We’re introduced to their daily lives not long after the death of Takuya and Minoru’s mother and Harumi’s wife, who struggle to deal with raising Minoru and moving on without her. Aside from the pain of loss, we see different aspects of Takuya’s life (and how much it has changed) as well as the effect Minoru has on all their lives. Japanese culture plays a huge role and we see pressures on the boy’s father to marry as well as how their relationships with others play a role in their lives.
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“Meet Nana Komatsu and Nana Osaki, two girls with the same last name, but very different lives and personalities. Nana Komatsu is naïve, childish and not the brightest crayon in the box, but she knows about love. By moving to Tokyo, will she find happiness with Shoji?
After losing both her parents, Tohru Honda finds herself living in a tent in the woods. While most people would have a dreary position to being “kicked” out for house renovations at her grandfather’s house, and being too afraid of being a burden to stay with friends, Tohru has an unbeatable optimism. On her way to school that particular morning, she stumbles upon the Sohma house, where the “Prince” lives.
