In the latest "WTF"-type news, BoingBoing is reporting that a Japanese man, who goes by the name Sal9000, has married his virtual video game character Nene Anegasaki, from the DS game "Love Plus."
The wedding took place at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and had a real priest, real audience, and a slideshow of the happy couple's favorite memories.
The event was posted on Japan's Nico Nico Douga, a strange but popular video sharing site.
Below is BB's video report on the wedding, and we wish the bride and groom a happy life together.
How the *** anyone can make that marriage legal is beyond me... Does that mean if he drops his DS and breaks it he can be charged for murder? And can someone else marry the same character?
And we were busy worrying about the gays getting married. Looks like the the decay of the institution of marriage isn't related to homosexuality at all.
How the *** anyone can make that marriage legal is beyond me... Does that mean if he drops his DS and breaks it he can be charged for murder? And can someone else marry the same character?
That made me lol pretty good Blaz :P And yeahhhh ..... this is just a tad messed up <,<
We have this new news/talk show thing here in Aus that had this story on it last night, either I wasn't paying attention or they were wrong or both, but I thought they said it was a legal marriage, which is insane.
I wonder if playing any other game on his DS is considered cheating.
We have this new news/talk show thing here in Aus that had this story on it last night, either I wasn't paying attention or they were wrong or both, but I thought they said it was a legal marriage, which is insane.
It isn't legal. Just like marrying someone at church in France have no legal value at all. You need to marry in front of the mayor in a city hall and need to SIGN official documents.
How the *** an anime character is gonna sign something ? In b4 printer or automated robot lol.
An anime character have no official identity = no legal marriage. Hell you cannot even marry someone who is a "real person" but have no id (like an ID-less illegal migrant etc.) so don't expect Japan to accept weddings with virtual characters.
Things like this have happened before, but instead of a video game character, I believe it was a woman who married the Eiffel tower. At least this guy married something with a "personality," whether or not the marriage is "legal." (Which I'm sure it's not.)
Well that's what you'd assume being a normal person. But this is Japan we're talking about :p
Yeah but government is strict when it comes to these matters actually. It's not like politics like otaku and all.
Allowing this would be opening the pandora box in a country like japan. People would start marrying to FF XI characters, anime/manga characters, game characters, etc... *** crazy.
My first impression is "wat" and then "who cares". I've seen tons of crazy stuff like this, but marriage is prolly a first.
Kind of weird they allow "this", but won't get gay people get married. Idk about the laws over there, but this post has me befuddled.
I was reading at Kotaku last time that mostly 85% of Japanese boys are so obsess with games to the point that they forget about how to take care of themselves and are mostly virgins but, marrying a Game Character is just out of bound.
In the latest "WTF"-type news, BoingBoing is reporting that a Japanese man, who goes by the name Sal9000, has married his virtual video game character Nene Anegasaki, from the DS game "Love Plus."
The wedding took place at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and had a real priest, real audience, and a slideshow of the happy couple's favorite memories.
The event was posted on Japan's Nico Nico Douga, a strange but popular video sharing site.
Below is BB's video report on the wedding, and we wish the bride and groom a happy life together.
