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Photo: metro.co.uk

 Lee Jin-gyu, a Japanese man has fallen in love with his
‘dakimakura’ – a kind of large, huggable pillow from Japan, often with a picture
of a popular anime character printed on the side.  I wonder what really went wrong because this does not seem normal at all.

The 28-year old
Otaku (a term that roughly translates to somewhere between ‘obsessive’
and ‘nerd’ in Japan), got married to his pillow in
a special ceremony that was well publicized in the local media after fitting the pillow into a wedding dress for the service in front of a local priest.
One friend commented on the relationship between Lee
and his pillow: “He is completely obsessed with this pillow and takes it
everywhere”.
Another friend added, “They go out to the park or the funfair where it
will go on all the rides with him. Then when he goes out to eat he takes it with
him and it gets its own seat and its own meal”.
There has been some other unusual marriages in recent time – the pillow marriage came after a
Japanese Otaku married his virtual girlfriend Nene Anegasaki, a character who
only exists in the Nintendo DS game ‘Love Plus,’ last November.
What sense does it make? The pillow did not walk down the isle, could not repeat the marriage vow and so on.