This is really, really old news. But still, it's worth talking about, as I find it very interesting. A while back, a Japanese (of course) college student married a video game character named Nene Anegasaki. An actual wedding, of course, with all the bells and whistles attached.
Man, how did he break that to his parents.
Um, however, while I can talk about how obsessive and sad the way certain people can take this 'waifu' concept, it has been done repeatedly, I find such a thing boring.
What I find interesting is quite the reverse. Rather than talk about the fall of real man, I shall talk about the rise of the artificial girl. No matter how sad someone might have been in the past, no one would even dream of exchanging vows with an artificial construct. But now, Love plus has broken this barrier (for better or worse, or worse still) and apparently simulated the male's ideal of a mate well enough for this to happen.
Note that I said the male's ideal of a mate. I am in no way saying that Konami have made an accurate female simulation. What they done is take the Tsundere, Yamato Nadesiko, etc. archetypes and made appeals to the otaku heartstrings (through their libidos).
The character married in question is described to be "a mature person", and is one year older than the protagonist. If I had to marry a character from that game...
...you know what? I don't even play the damn thing, so why screw around with metaphysical speculations. I've already met people who claim to have waifus and they creep even me out. Diehard Yuki Nagato fanboy, remember.
And on that note, here's a pic of the very lovely data interfaces of Suzumiya Haruhi.
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