South Korean Man Marries Anime Pillow
According to the Toronto Sun, the man married a body pillow with a life-size drawing of Fate Testarossa, an anime character. An underground trend has developed of men and boys having relationships with anime body pillows. I suppose that spending eight hours a day on a pillow could cause someone to become emotionally attached, especially if the pillow is a lifelike representation of the anime character.
Still, it is certainly bizarre for a man to marry an anime pillow. What if he wants to consummate the marriage or have children? And how will he explain her presence at social functions? On the plus side, he'll certainly save money on the cost of having to feed her.
I suppose there is a certain appeal about anime characters. Like most fictional characters, anime figures tend to represent ideals rather than reality. Anime-enthusiastic boys probably find Sailor Moon's mini-skirts attractive while women girls might enjoy watching Tuxedo Kamen throw roses at the feet of ladies.
Anime enthusiasts have circulated an Internet petition for the Japanese government to allow people to marry two-dimensional characters. This is not the first time a man has married an anime character. According to CNET, a Japanese man known as Sal9000 married a video game character named Nene Anegasaki.
While the South Korean man's marriage to his anime pillow is cause for chuckles, I suppose there are worse things that could happen. We live in a society of high divorce rates, sex scandals, and marriages of expedience. It's so easy to become cynical about marriage when we see formerly upstanding figures like Tiger Woods fall from grace, celebrities marry in 24-hour Vegas weddings, and countless politicians such as Bill Clinton and Mark Sanford being caught with their Pants On The Ground. At least this man isn't hurting anyone by marrying his anime pillow.
In any case, hopefully this man has found marital bliss with his two-dimensional anime pillow.
Sources:
Man gets married to a pillow, Toronto Sun
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7 Comments
Post a CommentCan he take her (the pillow) as a tax deduction?
Become one with Russia, da?
It's called "objectophilia" to be in an amorous-type love with an inanimate object, but society is moving toward accepting it.
Liz, Sherri is right. Marriage is becoming more and more twisted from tradition. "Love" is a subjective term, and because of that people can make the argument that anything "loves" anything and there is nothing to gauge that. So yes, in the future people will want to marry their pets, pillows, their food, their uncles,and because of incessant whining there is a chance it will become legal.
Wow Sherri - you're an asshole. Two people who love each other having the right to marry is not the same as one delusional person intent on marrying a fictional character or their pet.
Nice article, Tina.
Too bad he didn't see this first: http://intimatebodypillows.com or he could have had himseld a super high quality pillow!!
What exactly is the big deal here? In today's society, it's just fine for women to marry women, men to marry men and pretty soon there will be marches in Washington with people wanting to marry their pets. So why not a pillow?