pseudo-relationships

[Remarkableriots]

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-49343280

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There is a word in Japanese for people who are obsessed with video games and anime - otaku. An increasing number of otaku now say they have fallen in love with anime characters and given up on the idea of real-world romance, reports the BBC's Stephanie Hegarty.

Akihiko Kondo wakes up every day to the sound of his wife's voice. She calls him from across the room in her high-pitched, girlish, sing-song voice. She dances and swirls around, urging him to get out of bed.

At the same time, he's holding her in his arms on the bottom tier of their metal-framed bunk bed - and if he was more awake he could be watching an illustrated cartoon of her singing on YouTube.

This is because Akihiko's "wife" is an idea - an anime character called Miku.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

This is why two of them weren't nearly enough.

[RedSoxFan9]

the perfect broad

[TheBladeRoden]

So what happens if an otaku finds out another otaku has also claimed the same anime waifu?

[Keyser_Soze]

Dumb article. Miku isn't an anime character she's a vocaloid.

[Remarkableriots]

2 hours ago, TheBladeRoden said:

So what happens if an otaku finds out another otaku has also claimed the same anime waifu?

 

[Brian]

5 hours ago, TheBladeRoden said:

So what happens if an otaku finds out another otaku has also claimed the same anime waifu?

 

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Last year Gatebox, the company that made Akihiko's hologram of Miku, started issuing unofficial "marriage certificates" to customers; they say 3,700 people took them up on the offer.

 

[TheLeon]

 

[Remarkableriots]

5 hours ago, TheLeon said:

 

I didn't know about that movie but found it on Netflix.

[Marcelus]

Relationships with AI are wild. Siri is the first step 

[Keyser_Soze]

It’s too bad that Korean culture didn’t catch on here. We could all be worshipping our noonas instead of animes 

 

am I right @thewhyteboar?