Japanese 'Man' Marries a Video Game Character

[metacomet]

Man marries videogame character in Japan (first-ever man/game wedding) Boing Boing TV - YouTube

'Dating Sims' are very popular, they were invented inside the 'Anime' genre so that nerds can have have virtual conversations, dates, and eventually 'sex' with cartoon women ... :confused:

[metacomet]

The harsh world of cartoon dating... where every female looks like a 12 year old girl, and to get them into bed, you just have to answer a few trivia questions correctly.

http://www.otaku2.com/images/article_pic/content/1222604394-EbnI7wwZDct8w46yqhndb8vy_400.jpg

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/kotaku/2009/05/thisiskonami.jpg

http://www.deviantart.com/download/74358366/GiftArt__Ninja_Ai_Dating_Sim_by_Maksn.jpg

http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh252/ataludeblog/cg3.jpg

[shellygurrrl]

Very interesting, hilarious, and such a par for the course in our world society today. lol

[shellygurrrl]

The harsh world of cartoon dating... where every female looks like a 12 year old girl, and to get them into bed, you just have to answer a few trivia questions correctly.



Desiring a female who looks like a 12 year old is a very typical Western male fantasy.

[pinkfreud]

i got one word for this whole thing.


eww.

[thedefender]

Don't mind me...

What a sick bastard!

[metacomet]

Japan is so inundated with technology and social isolation that they have the leading number of recluses of any country in the world...

They call them 'hikikomori' - these are people (overwhelmingly young males) who do not leave their bedrooms or small apartments except to get food. They do not have real life friends, they do not have girlfriends, they live with their parents and rarely even speak to them.

This is the culture that is creating people willing to marry videogame characters.

Hikikomori - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hikikomori (ひきこもり or 引き籠もり, Hikikomori?, lit. "pulling away, being confined", i.e., "acute social withdrawal") is a Japanese term to refer to the phenomenon of reclusive individuals who have chosen to withdraw from social life, often seeking extreme degrees of isolation and confinement because of various personal and social factors in their lives. The term hikikomori refers to both the sociological phenomenon in general as well as to individuals belonging to this societal group.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/01/11/magazine/15japan.1.184.jpg

One morning when he was 15, Takeshi shut the door to his bedroom, and for the next four years he did not come out. He didn't go to school. He didn't have a job. He didn't have friends. Month after month, he spent 23 hours a day in a room no bigger than a king-size mattress, where he ate dumplings, rice and other leftovers that his mother had cooked, watched TV game shows and listened to Radiohead and Nirvana. "Anything," he said, "that was dark and sounded desperate."

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/15/magazine/15japanese.html

[shellygurrrl]

When I lived in NYC in the 90s, I already knew this type of thing would become more "normal." I predicted even then that people would rarely leave their homes due to technology and the isolationism it would create. It's only going to get worse, and trust me, it's not going to stay in Japan. You're going to see this everywhere eventually.

[thedefender]

Takeshi should just jump out the window.

[the crusader 1000]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsikPswAYUM

'Dating Sims' are very popular, they were invented inside the 'Anime' genre so that nerds can have have virtual conversations, dates, and eventually 'sex' with cartoon women ... :confused:


I can't believe this is happening, aint there a law out on this sort of perversion?
Thank God for real woman, not anime 12 yrs old's.

[turquoisefire777]

They call them 'hikikomori' - these are people (overwhelmingly young males) who do not leave their bedrooms or small apartments except to get food. They do not have real life friends, they do not have girlfriends, they live with their parents and rarely even speak to them.



this sounds very sad. the only problem for me being, looking at everyday life and just how the average person lives the fake lifestyle to the fullest anyway, what's the difference between fake people in flesh and fake people in a game console? none, in my opinion. both can affect your mind in either a positive or negative way.

also, just for interesting thought...wasn't Thomas Anderson also a bit of a 'hikikomori'? the only difference the fact that 'neo' had his own apartment.

and who ended up being the coolest of the cool that everyone feared and admired?

http://membres.lycos.fr/jerome44/histoire_fichiers/ilefilm.jpg

Desiring a female who looks like a 12 year old is a very typical Western male fantasy.

please don't stereotype. i enjoy anime, but that does not mean i have fantasies about 12 yr olds. :( :mad:

[mikey mikey]

Desiring a female who looks like a 12 year old is a very typical Western male fantasy.

No it is not. It is not typical of anyone except a nonce. Now please take your hate and ignorance away before you embarress youself further.

[int50]

Desiring a female who looks like a 12 year old is a very typical Western male fantasy.


Speak for yourself. I don't think you are right with that one.

[theprophet]

Tbh, i wouldnt slander this guy, this kind of thing isnt unheard of.

1: Japanese can have a rather detatched psychological standing due to the overflow of entertainment they have i mean shit have you seen some of the rooms Otaku peeps have.. enough entertainment to burn your life away.

Look at this guys room:
Life of an OTAKU (Link) (http://kidsnextdoori.blogspot.com/2008/07/otaku-room-56kb-warning.html)
he's has some seriously awesome stuff...

2: They do crazy things, hence the common statement "crazy japs"

3: If that game was to portray sexual interaction it would state the characters are passed the legal age, bearing in mind the legal age for japan was 13 at some point. Anime style always portrays characters as deceptively young by western standards. Besides it would be classed as a Hentai game if that was the case.

4: Dating-Sims are INSANELY popular in japanese gaming culture.

serious gaming isolates a person both physically and mentally so yeah. He's excused for his insane approach imo, he probably did it for fun. For all we know he may be schizophrenic or have some form of mental disability. Too many people are quick to judge to consider the 'why'.

PS: no, i dont fantasize about women with 12 year old physiques, thanks for the stereotype though.

[brainfreeze]

All I can say is, to be the mum of a young girl today must be the hardest job of them all. Thank God I don't have one. Call me old fashioned but, girls are for boys and women are for men. Even boys for boys and men for men, girls for girls and women for women - but never girls for men and boys for women. Never!

Anime exist thanks to those who protest against the "thought police" when it's pointed out that "sex and kids" is an abomination of society, even in a cartoon drawing (not on this thread, but yes, Anime and kids in cartoon porn has been a subject raised here before) These cartoons are so wrong!

[metacomet]

Tbh, i wouldnt slander this guy, this kind of thing isnt unheard of.

1: Japanese can have a rather detatched psychological standing due to the overflow of entertainment they have i mean shit have you seen some of the rooms Otaku peeps have.. enough entertainment to burn your life away.

Look at this guys room:
Life of an OTAKU (Link) (http://kidsnextdoori.blogspot.com/2008/07/otaku-room-56kb-warning.html)
he's has some seriously awesome stuff...

2: They do crazy things, hence the common statement "crazy japs"

3: If that game was to portray sexual interaction it would state the characters are passed the legal age, bearing in mind the legal age for japan was 13 at some point. Anime style always portrays characters as deceptively young by western standards. Besides it would be classed as a Hentai game if that was the case.

4: Dating-Sims are INSANELY popular in japanese gaming culture.

serious gaming isolates a person both physically and mentally so yeah. He's excused for his insane approach imo, he probably did it for fun. For all we know he may be schizophrenic or have some form of mental disability. Too many people are quick to judge to consider the 'why'.

PS: no, i dont fantasize about women with 12 year old physiques, thanks for the stereotype though.


Great post,

and I do agree that it's all for fun :p Obviously if a real female came into the guys life he would probably ditch his video-game wife in a second...

Until then, he frickin' married a videogame.

[haukipesukone]

Sad...

[theprophet]

Great post,

and I do agree that it's all for fun :p Obviously if a real female came into the guys life he would probably ditch his video-game wife in a second...

Until then, he frickin' married a videogame.

I'd hate to be the guys parents though "aww my son is marrying a.... nintendo ds character.... "

[kayomani]

Sounds like a typical Hikkomori, its a shame he'll miss out the human contact/relationships or maybe he just doesn't value procreation and therefore doesn't really place any weight into a traditional marriage. The amount of rage in this thread caused by social conditioning does make me lol a bit even though his case is a bit sad. I wonder if the marrage was a egotistical move or just due to his instilled social values for his own sake.

I have never really got why people rage so much over anime porn, I mean surely its more morally correct as its not live action and doesn't 'disgrace' those involved?

Lastly on the topic of ephebophilia (drawn only) as long as its kept away from me, I don't really care that he likes that sort of thing. My line of thinking is some folk are just wired up different and its most likely healthier for everyone if he's left to his drawings else he might actually go after someone really as his emotions get built up over time. The loudest folk pushing for bans on that sort of stuff seem to also be on the ones pushing for bans on violent video games (ggrr). If it doesn't affect anyone its just effectively thought crime, this sort of thing is being pushed on many different topics by usually the religious part of society which therefore winds me up a bit. If it harms none do what you will.. but I digress.

[logos880]

Japan is so inundated with technology and social isolation that they have the leading number of recluses of any country in the world...

They call them 'hikikomori' - these are people (overwhelmingly young males) who do not leave their bedrooms or small apartments except to get food. They do not have real life friends, they do not have girlfriends, they live with their parents and rarely even speak to them.

This is the culture that is creating people willing to marry videogame characters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori


http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/01/11/magazine/15japan.1.184.jpg



http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/15/magazine/15japanese.html

This can only happen when it is enabled. It costs money to have a room to live in, food to eat, and games to play. So, unless a person is being supported financially in this lifestyle it does not work.

Video games are more fun when you have a real live human friend to play with in person.

[goldenbear]

the new al gor religion. gaia. going back to the greek goddesses. she was the one who produced children without having sex.

Gaia: Greek Goddess of the Earth
www.paleothea.com
Description and images of Gaia, the Greek goddess of the Earth

well with the stuff going on with cloning and cybertronics we should all be worried.first they the elite create hell on earth.wars.famine,desease (h1n1 in all cases creates infertility or death, read package inserts) and the like.infertility.women being the weaker sex will die out.they already have been doing their research.

how the biologyist scientist are making money
http://www.physorg.com/news178349551.html

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/ACIO-7Y5E6Q

how the eugenisist discuss killing off and takeover of the planet in business talk
http://www.the-actuary.org.uk/871311

http://www.creditman.biz/uk/members/news-view.asp?newsviewID=10865&id=1&mylocation=News&chksrc=NNow4251

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703932904574510561662553166.html

cybernetics and human depopulation
http://www.imprint.co.uk/C&HK/cyber.htm

http://www.infoniac.com/science/scientist-predicts-humans-will-marry-robots.html

more nfo on the cyberhuman slave concept.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20091118/ibm_brain_091118/20091118?hub=SciTech

how they have looked into killing off the human race
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/1118/breaking41.htm
then men im sorry to say,which will poke anything, will then turn to the cybernetic dolls they are creating. the new brain is funtional in 2019. you should take a look at some of the links.

http://www.infoniac.com/science/world-first-robot-with-a-biological-brain.html

http://www.infoniac.com/science/robots-to-become-our-closest-friends-soon.html

http://www.infoniac.com/hi-tech/school-to-be-guarded-by-a-robot.html

http://www.infoniac.com/hi-tech/robotics-expert-calls-for-robot-ethics-guidelines.html

ever seen the movie terminator/matrix. this is how they will become sentient beings. get ready to be transported to your chambers and be turned into batteries http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7085077.stm.

and as we all know electricity particles are part of creation so look out of the box and understand the truth
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8307804.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8204835.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6683757.stm

http://www.nature.com/nnano/index.html

and of course the corporate gains money out of it

Gordon Moore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Moore's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

im sure the modorator would like to make this one a sticky as everything ive been researching up to the present day is leading to this one.i know theres a lot of links here but they have always had a few agendas going and im sure this could be one of them. i know these evil elite are trying to convince us that satan or god do not exist. that in fact is how evil works,convincing you it doesnt exist. i know thats in another thread (religion) so ill not start ranting on about that one. anyway they are all related so those of you who are deep enough into the rabbit hole should start hunting around in this direction.

i really do not want to be assimilated,microchipped or brainwashed. part of being the borge is not my cup of tea.:)

[greatdayforfreedom]

Who's going to be best man at this ''wedding'' Super Mario? :p

[theprophet]

the new al gor religion. gaia. going back to the greek goddesses. she was the one who produced children without having sex.

Gaia: Greek Goddess of the Earth
www.paleothea.com
Description and images of Gaia, the Greek goddess of the Earth

well with the stuff going on with cloning and cybertronics we should all be worried.first they the elite create hell on earth.wars.famine,desease (h1n1 in all cases creates infertility or death, read package inserts) and the like.infertility.women being the weaker sex will die out.they already have been doing their research.

how the biologyist scientist are making money
http://www.physorg.com/news178349551.html

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/ACIO-7Y5E6Q

how the eugenisist discuss killing off and takeover of the planet in business talk
http://www.the-actuary.org.uk/871311

http://www.creditman.biz/uk/members/news-view.asp?newsviewID=10865&id=1&mylocation=News&chksrc=NNow4251

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703932904574510561662553166.html

cybernetics and human depopulation
http://www.imprint.co.uk/C&HK/cyber.htm

http://www.infoniac.com/science/scientist-predicts-humans-will-marry-robots.html

more nfo on the cyberhuman slave concept.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20091118/ibm_brain_091118/20091118?hub=SciTech

how they have looked into killing off the human race
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/1118/breaking41.htm
then men im sorry to say,which will poke anything, will then turn to the cybernetic dolls they are creating. the new brain is funtional in 2019. you should take a look at some of the links.

http://www.infoniac.com/science/world-first-robot-with-a-biological-brain.html

http://www.infoniac.com/science/robots-to-become-our-closest-friends-soon.html

http://www.infoniac.com/hi-tech/school-to-be-guarded-by-a-robot.html

http://www.infoniac.com/hi-tech/robotics-expert-calls-for-robot-ethics-guidelines.html

ever seen the movie terminator/matrix. this is how they will become sentient beings. get ready to be transported to your chambers and be turned into batteries http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7085077.stm.

and as we all know electricity particles are part of creation so look out of the box and understand the truth
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8307804.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8204835.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6683757.stm

http://www.nature.com/nnano/index.html

and of course the corporate gains money out of it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Moore
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_Law

im sure the modorator would like to make this one a sticky as everything ive been researching up to the present day is leading to this one.i know theres a lot of links here but they have always had a few agendas going and im sure this could be one of them. i know these evil elite are trying to convince us that satan or god do not exist. that in fact is how evil works,convincing you it doesnt exist. i know thats in another thread (religion) so ill not start ranting on about that one. anyway they are all related so those of you who are deep enough into the rabbit hole should start hunting around in this direction.

i really do not want to be assimilated,microchipped or brainwashed. part of being the borge is not my cup of tea.:)

How does this have anything to do with a japanese guy marrying a DS, this is totally out of context....

[snapdragon]

A man at work went to Japan a few years ago and said the newsagents carry magazines for men, they comprise of pictures of young (clothed) schoolgirls (12-15) in various poses such as those seen in these cartoons above and they are legal and business men buy them with their paper. Bizarre. The type of porn mags seen in Europe are banned unless the genitals are blanked out.

[oneup]

LOL how pathetically desperate can you get

[rhydra]

I don't see this as particularly surprising.

The Turing test set a standard where an artificial intelligence had to become indistinguishable from human intelligence in order for it to pass the test.
The wild card is that humans are becoming "trained" to adopt the logic of computers.

That means that while AI is becoming more human-like humans are also becoming more AI-like. Eventually the two will merge, become interchangeable, indistinguishable.

[avaruus]

that's just sad.

[bobbydiva]

I think people go too far when they compare them to little girls.

A) they don't look human at all anyway
B) They have massive boobs

Weird either way.

[shellygurrrl]

No it is not. It is not typical of anyone except a nonce. Now please take your hate and ignorance away before you embarress youself further.
It's not hate or ignorance actually. The ideal woman is supposed to be eternally youthful, hairless, with no stomach, skinny arms, yet huge boobs and ass. SO my observation is valid. My statement does not include atypical males, such as most of those found here (simply for being at David Icke's site makes one "abnormal" in a way). So don't get your panties in a bunch, my comment was not meant as a personal insult to anyone, but an observation about most males in the US in their 20s.

[littlegreenman]

I wouldn't turn down Lara Croft if she came over to me in the pub and bought me a pint and bag of my favourite pork scratchings.

Then we would go home and she'd play with my joystick whilst I'd pound on her buttons.

[haukipesukone]

I think people go too far when they compare them to little girls.

A) they don't look human at all anyway
B) They have massive boobs

Weird either way.

I think it's their own pedofiliac instincts tingling if people see anime girls as children. Unless of course they are anime girls who are drawn to look like children.

[dreamykipper]

Look at the positive.

If his wife moans about him or nags him, he can just turn her off - how cool is that!

[mikey mikey]

Some husbands turn their wives off regularly.;):p

[rhydra]

Look at the positive.

If his wife moans about him or nags him, he can just turn her off - how cool is that!

Actually that's quite good, also, she won't say anything if you start dating another character and she won't take half of everything you own and cut your clothes up if you finish with her!:D

[metacomet]

I think it's their own pedofiliac instincts tingling if people see anime girls as children. Unless of course they are anime girls who are drawn to look like children.

Umm, lol.

They are drawn to look like children. Children with breasts and long legs, but children all the same.

You don't see Anime 'women' unless they are playing the role of a matriarch or villain of some sort. In which case the breasts are much bigger and the legs longer :p

[lewi]

I Think I'm Turning Japanese - YouTube

[leviathanstaar]

This is likely to be a paid publicity stunt with 75% of the motivation coming from that fact.

[bradstone]

Desiring a female who looks like a 12 year old is a very typical Western male fantasy.

No, it isn't. Where on earth did you get that total bullshit belief from?

[bradstone]

It's not hate or ignorance actually. The ideal woman is supposed to be eternally youthful, hairless, with no stomach, skinny arms, yet huge boobs and ass.

Not quite the same thing as going for 12 year olds though, is it?

Why not just admit that you what you said was utter tripe.

[trappedinameatsuit]

Desiring a female who looks like a 12 year old is a very typical Western male fantasy.

LOL! Well whoever those typical western males are they need their brains checked. They want one that looks 12? Pfft, most of the people around my age (20's) are already dating 12 year olds, 13, 14, and 15, maybe not 12, 13 but 15 and 16 I know for sure, have seen people like that. I never understood that. I guess they can't get anyone of their own social status or age. Just more douche bags making America look horrible so I can hear the complaints of blind idiots who like to blame entire masses for what some do because they don't understand or know how to blame the actual culprits who do stupid shit here. :rolleyes:

[romas]

Desiring a female who looks like a 12 year old is a very typical Western male fantasy.




Actually it's typical world wide. All "nobles" took young wives, because young people are more dependant and gullible. And we all adore them nobles(called celebrities today) don't we?

I find it funny you react to supposed age of imaginary character, rather then the fact it is an imaginary character that he actually married, are you annoyed men like younger women?

[romas]

Sounds like a typical Hikkomori, its a shame he'll miss out the human contact/relationships or maybe he just doesn't value procreation and therefore doesn't really place any weight into a traditional marriage. The amount of rage in this thread caused by social conditioning does make me lol a bit even though his case is a bit sad. I wonder if the marrage was a egotistical move or just due to his instilled social values for his own sake.

I have never really got why people rage so much over anime porn, I mean surely its more morally correct as its not live action and doesn't 'disgrace' those involved?

Lastly on the topic of ephebophilia (drawn only) as long as its kept away from me, I don't really care that he likes that sort of thing. My line of thinking is some folk are just wired up different and its most likely healthier for everyone if he's left to his drawings else he might actually go after someone really as his emotions get built up over time. The loudest folk pushing for bans on that sort of stuff seem to also be on the ones pushing for bans on violent video games (ggrr). If it doesn't affect anyone its just effectively thought crime, this sort of thing is being pushed on many different topics by usually the religious part of society which therefore winds me up a bit. If it harms none do what you will.. but I digress.





I agree, the ban callers really have no idea how to fix anything, ban calling is the oldest way of showing you are actually doing something, because other dumb simpletons want to see "authorities" "do something about it" and neither understand the situation nor try to.