Wonders
shall never cease! A Japanese man, Lee Jin-gyu has fallen in love with
his ‘dakimakura’ – a kind of large, huggable pillow from Japan, often
with a picture of a popular anime character printed on the side.
The
28-year old Otaku (a Japanese term that roughly translates to somewhere
between ‘obsessive’ and ‘nerd’), took that love a step further by
getting married to his pillow in a special ceremony that was well
publicized in the local media after fitting it out with a wedding dress
for the service in front of a local priest. The pillow has an image of
Fate Testarossa, from the ‘magical girl’ anime series Mahou Shoujo
Lyrical Nanoha.
One
friend said of the relationship between Lee and his pillow: ‘He is
completely obsessed with this pillow and takes it everywhere’.
Another
added, ‘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’.
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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