Densha Otoko volume 3 - Hitori Nakano and Wataru Watanabe

 Back to it, the final instalment, the last 5 chapters, of this very cute manga series.

So how will the story of Train Man and Hermess San play out in the finale?  Let's find out!

As he walks her home, Train Man and Hermess San click more and more, and then suddenly one of the forum members realises she might just be a bit goofy like him.  This puts fate in Train Man, as he prepares a third date with her.  In the meantime, the girl from the forum that went to look for him in volume 2 still wants to run into to him and wish him luck, as she feels if he succeeds, she has hopes for life as well.

 

He is being invited to her house for tea, but the girl from the forum is also there as she studies with Hermess San's younger sister. She runs into him, and instead of saying she loves him she calls him a geek.  Once back home after a fun afternoon of drinking tea, he goes to the boards to relate the story and ask for further advice.

 

He sees himself having hit a wall though, content on maintaining the status quo as it stands now between him and Hermess San.  But the board tells him to take his time like a train, wether it is a high speed one or a local one.  They will be there to support him the day he decides to take action and go on in his approach to her.  This makes him decide he will tell her his feelings after she returns from a vacation planned from before they met.

When she returns, they immediatly meet up, and Train Man tries to gather all his courage to confess his love to her.  To his suprise and against all expectations, she replies by telling him she loves him too, as she thinks he can be depended on and likes his quirky sides.  Now he has to take one final step of courage, as he is forced to leave the forum board for single people and must go into the pastures of life as a couple.

A truly lovely series, with humor and romance equally spread out over the story, and this was well worth the read.

But was the story ever real?