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Appearently, you can now marry a Videogame character in Japan


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On Sunday, a man named Sal9000 married the love of his life. Her name is Nene Anegasaki, and she lives inside of a Nintendo DS video game called Love Plus. The wedding took place during a Make: Japan meet-up held at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. In attendance were a live audience, an MC, the bride's virtual video game girlfriend — who made a speech — and a real human priest.

 

The event was livecast on Nico Nico Douga, a popular video sharing web site that I wrote about in Wired Magazine back in 2008. (Watch this clip of hot shot Wired folks making total fools of themselves on Nico Nico Douga.)

 

Nico Nico Douga is home to thousands of video projects by anonymous users — mashups of original art, pop music, anime, and web memes that only an insider to Japanese web geek culture can completely decipher. Sal9000 is an active member of the Nico Nico Douga community, so it was important to him that his offbeat wedding ceremony was broadcast on the site. The footage seen here of Sal and Nene tying the knot between real and virtual is a highly imaginative, multimedia project orchestrated by a guy determined to officiate his devotion to his video game, and to pay homage to the otaku subculture that nurtures this type of creativity. Enjoy!

 

...I...

 

...I...

 

...I... have no words for this.

...I... just... wow.

This has to be a joke. I really hope he is doing this just to get some attention.

 

And to keep this away from the youtube topic;

Discuss about being a liking/loving/obsessions about fictional characters... or... something like that...

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Me: Sal9000, I'd like you meet Chantal. She's a real human woman and she'd like to go on a date with you.

Sal9000: Nty, I'm married. To my lovely wife Nene.

Me: Can I meet her?

Sal9000: *pulls out NDS*

Me: *dies from pity*

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