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.
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Angelo
May 18, 2010 at 6:28 am
… at first this was hilarious, specially the photos… thou got me thinking… are we humans really THAT lonely???
I know it all started in Korea and Japan… literally the other side of the world for me… but how long will it take for that loneliness to reach this side?
It is indeed a disturbing idea…
Lucka
April 17, 2011 at 1:44 am
I’m not easily imerpssed. . . but that’s impressing me!
Robert Ballard
May 19, 2010 at 2:41 am
The thought of a marrage between a man and a favorite character from an anime series seems wierd but aceptable; but if you look at it from an objective point of view, you would see a man devoting his life to an inatament object being completely inadequete!
S.
July 9, 2010 at 2:08 am
I don’t mind the guy marrying the pillow, but if T.T. marries Mikuru-chan, there’s gonna be a lot of unhappy fans out there.
Or will polygamy be okay? XD