A man married the hologram of an “anime girl” for over €14,000. Until the power outage do you part.
If someone can’t relate to real women, they just look for a digital “waifu”. What sounds completely crazy here in Europe is not so uncommon in Japan.
There, a 35-year-old Japanese man named Akihiko Kondo has now married a digital woman – Hatsune Miku from the Vocaloid software.
An expensive wedding: The price of this wedding can definitely be compared to the costs of a “real” wedding. The whole affair cost almost €14,500. A total of 40 people attended the wedding – but Kondo’s family stayed away.
He said, “For my mother, this was not something she would celebrate.”
Who is Hatsune Miku? Hatsune Miku is the mascot of the Vocaloid2 software, with which many people could create their own music. There, Hatsune is one of the available voices.
Worldwide, Hatsune is quite popular and appears in numerous fanfictions and music videos – in Japan itself, she even goes “on tour” and performs as a hologram, filling entire concert halls.
A woman for $2,800: Technically, Kondo is now married to a PC hologram of Hatsune Miku, which permanently represents the blue-haired young lady and costs a breezy $2,800.
For the wedding, however, a doll had to stand in, which now also wears the wedding ring.
Why this strange marriage? Akihiko Kondo commented on this and said that after more than a decade of humiliation and bullying by female superiors, he is simply unable to pursue a relationship with a “3D woman”.
He also identifies himself as belonging to a sexual minority and further stated, “There has long been a demand for diversity in society, and we must consider all forms of love and happiness.”
Furthermore, Hatsune Miku holds a special meaning for him, as she “is the woman I love and who saved me. I don’t try to find that in real women. It’s impossible.”
Hatsune Miku lives in a common-law marriage: Hatsune Miku does not seem to be particularly faithful – or she is simply polyamorous. Because the marriage to Kondo is now her marriage number 3,700.
So many wedding certificates have already been sold along with the hologram version of Hatsune Miku.
This marriage is also not legally binding in Japan. Viewed cynically, this whole thing was therefore a very expensive doll party.
What do you think about this matter? A typical case of “crazy Japanese”? Just a fun, but very expensive thing? Or just right if he is happy with it?
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