A man married a pillow. A Korean man named Lee Jin-gyu fell in love with a life-sized Japanese body pillow called a dakimakura. The pillow has the image of a cartoon character named Fate Testarossa on it, from an anime called Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha. The 28-year-old man takes his pillow with him everywhere and eventually got married to it. Read more about Lee in this story. This is actually part of a broader cultural phenomenon. There is a growing subculture of men in Japan who engage in romantic relationships with pillows that have cartoons on them. People who have difficulty with romantic relationships with real (3-dimensional) people instead find themselves attracted to 2-dimensional anime characters. You can learn more about this phenomenon in this New York Times piece.
Posted on: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 12:06:34 +0000
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