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Submitted by Arcee on 08.31.10

You can file this next story under the WTF category. I mean, I know some of us love our video games and animes to an extent more than others. But what these people are doing overseas is just a bit more on the 5150 (involuntary psychiatric hold) side of sanity than I can personally condone.

It seems there are certain individuals who are so fed up with real 3D women and the ever complicated rules to courting that they have completely given up on reality and have taken to marrying their 2D pixilated counterparts. Think about that for a minute - these fuckers are so lonely and desperate that they are marrying video game characters. If that doesn’t fall under the WTF label then I don’t know what does.

The best example of this comes from the story of a young man in Japan just last year who married his favorite Love Plus character, Nene Anegasaki, on a trip to Guam. He apparently then hosted a wedding reception for he and his “bride” in his native country of Japan where he invited several members of his family, friends, and members of the local media. He even broadcast the entire event live on the website NicoNico Douga for any interested party to watch.

Now while his case might seem extreme to you, and maybe even a little fictitious, there is a small minority in Japan who have put out a petition they plan on delivering to the Japanese government asking them to legalize and recognize the marriage between a man and a pixilated or animated character. This seems to be a growing problem as of late for some overly obsessed fans as some of them have begun or have had divorce proceedings brought against them from jilted wives who believe that they cannot compare to the “unconditional” of a fantasy character.

Okay, seriously, what the fuck are these guys thinking? If these stories are to be believed, which is hard to not take seriously considering how many reported cases of these instances are happening in Japan, what incentive is there for a man to completely abandon the real world for the fantastical? Are their lives so shattered and unimportant that they believe no real woman can satisfy them? How lazy and self important are these guys that they believe they should be the only ones who receive any kind of satisfaction from a relationship?

I thought it was bad enough that some of these hardcore fans were celebrating the fictional birthdays of some of these characters by having actual parties for them, but apparently that was only the tip of the fucking iceberg, my friends. It is these types of fans, these otaku, that give regular fans a bad name. I like video games and comic books and anime, so much so that I love hentai, comic book swimsuit issues, and that Playboy pictorial that used to feature nude video game characters… but to take it this far beyond simple imagination - stop the fuck right there.

I really do not mean to judge anyone, but there has got to be a clear and distinct line drawn between sanity and insanity and this level of fanaticism is just way to far beyond that insanity for anyone sane enough to deal with life to condone. Yeah, life is tough and relationships can be a literal bitch, but to just give up and give in to some weird fantastical world where this makes sense is just beyond comprehension.

However, not to be outdone, a Korean man has been reported to have married his Fate Testarossa dakimajura (“hugging” pillow or body pillow), from the series Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, and has had the Korean media document all levels of this “courtship” from beginning to end. This might have been a stunt done completely for ratings, but this is pretty fucked up if you ask me.

I know somewhere, out there in the US, some crazy, whacked out fan is probably thinking this is a good idea or has even gone through with it in his or her mind, but I haven’t heard of any of this kind of behavior here just yet - and I hope I don’t either. It is odd enough that there are sex toys that allow fans to live out some pretty extreme fantasies - but to cross over into this… man, I just don’t get it.

As weird as all that is, and many of us would like to believe that these are solitary guys who are doing this, there are quite a number of hardcore otaku exhibiting these kinds of behaviors in public. So going so far as to take their “harem” of virtual girlfriends out on dates to movies, dinners, and even poolside dates. I’m telling you, stick a fucking fork in me - I’m done. If this is what extreme fanaticism is becoming, I sure as hell don’t want to ride that bus anymore. Real or fake, this is just disturbing.