Man marries pillow
True love can take many forms. In this case, it has taken the form of a Korean man falling in love with, and eventually marrying, a large pillow with a picture of a woman on it.
Lee Jin-gyu pillow wedding Lee Jin-gyu kisses his new bride, a pillow with a picture of anime character Fate Testarossa on it
Lee Jin-gyu fell for his 'dakimakura' - a kind of large, huggable pillow from Japan, often with a picture of a popular anime character printed on the side.
In Lee's case, his beloved pillow has an image of Fate Testarossa, from the 'magical girl' anime series Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha.
Now the 28-year-old otaku (a Japanese term that roughly translates to somewhere between 'obsessive' and 'nerd') has wed the pillow in a special ceremony, after fitting it out with a wedding dress for the service in front of a local priest. Their nuptials were eagerly chronicled by the local media.
'He is completely obsessed with this pillow and takes it everywhere,' said one friend.
'They go out to the park or the funfair where it will go on all the rides with him. Then when he goes out to eat he takes it with him and it gets its own seat and its own meal,' they added.
The pillow marriage is not the first similarly-themed unusual marriage in recent times - it comes after a Japanese otaku married his virtual girlfriend Nene Anegasaki, a character who only exists in the Nintendo DS game Love Plus, last November.
Lee Jin-gyu pillow wedding Lee Jin-gyu kisses his new bride, a pillow with a picture of anime character Fate Testarossa on it
Lee Jin-gyu fell for his 'dakimakura' - a kind of large, huggable pillow from Japan, often with a picture of a popular anime character printed on the side.
In Lee's case, his beloved pillow has an image of Fate Testarossa, from the 'magical girl' anime series Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha.
Now the 28-year-old otaku (a Japanese term that roughly translates to somewhere between 'obsessive' and 'nerd') has wed the pillow in a special ceremony, after fitting it out with a wedding dress for the service in front of a local priest. Their nuptials were eagerly chronicled by the local media.
'He is completely obsessed with this pillow and takes it everywhere,' said one friend.
'They go out to the park or the funfair where it will go on all the rides with him. Then when he goes out to eat he takes it with him and it gets its own seat and its own meal,' they added.
The pillow marriage is not the first similarly-themed unusual marriage in recent times - it comes after a Japanese otaku married his virtual girlfriend Nene Anegasaki, a character who only exists in the Nintendo DS game Love Plus, last November.
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Erm....that's....uh...well...I dunno, lol.Posted 03-16-2010 at 01:53 AM by BellGoRiiing
- golly that is wonderful :rolleyes:Posted 03-16-2010 at 01:54 AM by Tan
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well, not as psychotic as the ds guy, at least u can touch this thing :O
but still VERY psychoticPosted 03-16-2010 at 01:58 AM by ProDeathblow -
@bell I know what you mean
@Tan happy fun time
@ Pro I know right. I wonder what would happen if he cheated with a blanket :SPosted 03-16-2010 at 02:00 AM by genkuro -
great. first its DS characters, now its freakin pillows. really? really?
*turns back on human race*Posted 03-16-2010 at 02:02 AM by Lord Revan - @ Revan I know. the aliens are having a field day :SPosted 03-16-2010 at 02:03 AM by genkuro
- he'd probably have to sleep on the couch roflPosted 03-16-2010 at 02:04 AM by ProDeathblow
- Wait there was something on a DS too?...A DS?! WTF?! XDPosted 03-16-2010 at 02:04 AM by BellGoRiiing
- Yep it happenQuote:Originally Posted by BellGoRiiing
Wait there was something on a DS too?...A DS?! WTF?! XD
The gamer fell in love with the virtual woman named Nene Anegasaki while playing Love Plus, a dating simulation game.
The aim of Love Plus is to court and build a relationship with one of three cartoon-style women, but virtual romance was not enough for this particular player, identified only by his username Sal9000.
Last weekend he became the first person to officially pledge his love to a video game character in a ceremony at a technology festival in Tokyo.
The couple's special day was witnessed by dozens of computer game fans and overseen by a real-life priest, although he stressed that the "wedding" was not official or legally binding.
However, some reports on computer game websites state that Sal9000 had earlier married his digital bride at a chapel on the Pacific Ocean holiday island of Guam, where wedding laws are less strict.
Japanese computer gamers are known for taking an obsessive approach to their hobby, and Love Plus is the latest game to develop a cult following.
Players are expected to spend hours with their virtual crushes – buying them flowers, taking them for dates and making future plans. The girls alter their behaviour and personality in reaction to how they are treated.
Japanese gamer 'marries' Nintendo DS character - TelegraphPosted 03-16-2010 at 02:08 AM by genkuro - yeah. some DS game. theres another blog about that somewhere on AC.
its not right... someone has to go to these guys and show them theres more to this world..
yeah... wtf is wrong here?Posted 03-16-2010 at 02:08 AM by Lord Revan - naaaah, i guess if they're happy in the little world they've set around them they should be left there, they obviously can't be happy in the real world so why change themPosted 03-16-2010 at 02:10 AM by ProDeathblow
- you see here, this attitude is the downfall of mankind.Quote:Originally Posted by ProDeathblow naaaah, i guess if they're happy in the little world they've set around them they should be left there, they obviously can't be happy in the real world so why change them
*shakes head*
then were eventually going to see this as normal and regular.Posted 03-16-2010 at 02:14 AM by Lord Revan -
ehm okay... a pillow. :OPosted 03-16-2010 at 02:18 AM by onepiece99 - Mothers everywhere are taking away the game from their sons and turning off Mahou Shoujo whenever it's on...Posted 03-16-2010 at 02:25 AM by jumbojer
- my 'attitude' is that if that's the only way for these people to be happy who the **** am i to tell them otherwise? they obviously can't cope with real life and created a fantasy world for this reason, dragging them out of it won't solve anythingQuote:Originally Posted by Lord Revan you see here, this attitude is the downfall of mankind.
*shakes head*
then were eventually going to see this as normal and regular.Posted 03-16-2010 at 02:37 AM by ProDeathblow -
Posted 03-16-2010 at 02:37 AM by Chicken993 -
stop writing about me :/Posted 03-16-2010 at 02:40 AM by bloodisciple - i think i recently read an article in the times about people like this and it was really unsettling that there are so many like them. what's going on that there are so many males completely unable to interact with/find human females attractive? i also hate to see them make such a spectacle of themselves.Posted 03-16-2010 at 02:56 AM by
Updated 03-16-2010 at 02:58 AM by FeyBladeMode -
I think it's because femals are like a different species to men FeyFey.
Also, I would never marry a pillowPosted 03-16-2010 at 03:01 AM by Urary -
pwuahahaha >:3
this ish so .. ,
Posted 03-16-2010 at 03:04 AM by anime_babee
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