In Korea, yes you can. A Korean man has married his dakimaura, a.k.a. a body pillow with a Japanese anime girl drawn on it. The girl depicted on the newlywed pillow is Fate Testarossa from the anime Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha. Recently, a man in Japan also married a character from a computer game. These two marriages to inanimate spouses has me wondering several things. Are these marriages considered legal? Do both “couples” receive marriage benefits from their respective countries if their spouses are inanimate or virtual? How does one divorce a pillow or video game character? Is sleeping on another pillow considered adultery? There are petitions in Japan to make it legal to marry their favourite characters, whether they are pillows, cartoons, or from video games. The man behind the petition is Taichi Takashita, who fell in love with the character Mikuru Asahina. He is prohibited from marrying her by law and started the petition to try and change the laws to permit marriage between the real and the virtual. Takashita said that he prefers virtual life over real. There are also many groups on Facebook that discuss marrying characters from games, comics, movies.
