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Japanese man launches campaign to marry manga girl
Oct 30, 2008, 13:00 GMT
Tokyo - More than 1,000 Japanese signed an online petition to legalize marriage between humans and comic-book characters launched by a man who wants to marry a girl from a poplar Japanese manga comic series.
Taichi Takashita said he wanted to collect more than 1 million signatures to present to the government to legalize marriage to two-dimensional characters.
As soon as the law was passed, he plans to marry long-legged manga character Mikuru Asahina.
The brown-haired girl, wearing her trademark cute bunny or maid costumes is a visitor from the future. Originally created as a character in a novel, she soon rose to manga fame.
Within a week of its launch, Takashita collected 1,226 signatures.
'We are no longer interested in the three-dimensional world,' Takashita wrote on his website, making clear that he feels more at home in the manga world than in real-life Japan.
If he could, he would love to move into the virtual world, Takashita said, but as this seems impossible with present-day technology, the least he can do is to push for legalizing marriage between Japan's so-called otaku geeks and anime characters.
Manga, anime another other forms of animated entertainment are highly popular in Japan, with Prime Minister Taro Aso a dedicated manga fan.
Takashita's campaign success is an indication of Japan's increasing obsession with escaping reality.
Last week, a woman was found guilty of murdering her vitural husband in a popular online game after his character divorced her. dpa ln im
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LOL, more like a very below average girl dumb him and completely tramatised his entire life and train of though. In being dumbed by this very below average girl, he is seaking consult from something that isn't really there to comfert him by. Making this excuse, he seek for everyone to be able to be able to marry this Mikuru Asahina, instead of the feeling of being rejected by another very below average girl.
Beside of making fun of him, i think the marrage won't last that long. Because it is no more than an excuse to be able the feeling of someone is there for you no matter what happens. Like an inmaginary friend, child create them in order to excape of not having someone to be able to understand. I believe that when tough time comes to him (money/debt/childern), he will come to his scence that there is really no one there to come for his confert.
oh my I hope it is for the better... if not terminate it
Otaku culture is not considered normal in Japan, people. But it's not surprising that many Japanese want to escape, considering the cultural reality they have created for themselves. The extremes of self-sacrifice & overwork that they put themselves through (starting at Junior High and then continuing for the rest of their lives) are causing their society to unravel, in my opinion.
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I'd like to follow up more on this article, Certainly in Japan people is more open minded, due not taking influences from the outside world in the past, It's why they aren't afraid to come up with these interesting stuff.
If they want to push to the limit their fantasies making it somehow a goal - That's fine.
The way I see it, it's nothing bad at all if someone wants to 'love' an entity that only exists in the realm of pen and paper. I for one have gone through that stage before when I was young. BUT. People should not try and confuse this with reality simply because it deals with two ideas that have more differences than similarities: the fallacy of false analogy as it is philosophically called. Loving something that is merely a digitalized sketch and therefore cannot provide any love in return is nothing but mere fanboyism, the way I see it. So sure, go ahead and love anime characters. I admit I do it to. But legalize marriage? Uh, sorry that's quite unethical and unorthodox.
Sorry but, that scares me hahah this is i have to say.. nooo marrage to paper!
well at least he wont have a nagging wife
i understand that mikuru is hawt in a anime sense
but totally no plz
This kind of people have problems serious problems
retarded
He should just get someone to cosplay as that character and marry her. (But then it's impossible for them to marry)
makes perfect sense, now we have gay marriage, here's a manga marriage, next, perhaps somebody want to marry an animal. just let people do what they want.... isn't that what free societies are about...
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Oh Man!Oct 30th, 2008 - 22:07:43
This is the after affect on Japanese brains of American atom bombs dropped in Japan.
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