Man marries pillow

Lee Jin-gyu fell for his ‘dakimakura’ – a kind of large, huggable pillow from Japan, often with a picture of a popular anime character printed on the side.

In Lee’s case, his beloved pillow has an image of Fate Testarossa, from the ‘magical girl’ anime series Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha.

Now the 28-year-old otaku (a Japanese term that roughly translates to somewhere between ‘obsessive’ and ‘nerd’) has wed the pillow in a special ceremony, after fitting it out with a wedding dress for the service in front of a local priest. Their nuptials were eagerly chronicled by the local media.

‘He is completely obsessed with this pillow and takes it everywhere,’ stated one friend.

‘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,’ they added.

The pillow marriage is not the first similarly-themed uncommon marriage in recent times – it comes after a Japanese otaku married his virtual girlfriend Nene Anegasaki, a character who only exists in the Nintendo DS game Love Plus, last November.

You say:What a sad, sad man who wishes to make a unilateral display of himself all over the world people will be sniggering at him! Why do not people keep their private lives to themselves? What will happen when the moths begin laying eggs on the sickos pillow dolly?fishy JIm, Mytown, 11/3/2010 0:06Report abuse What a sad, sad man who wishes to make a unilateral display of himself all over the world people will be sniggering at him! Why do not people keep their private lives to themselves? What will happen when the moths begin laying eggs on the sickos pillow dolly?fishy JIm, Mytown, 11/3/2010 0:03Report abuse Does his choice to marry a pillow state more about his heart-breaking nerdiness or about the news (also on the world wide web today) that there are 85 million FEWER women available in Asia than there should be. Maybe a pillow was all he could get?Sarah Pierzchala, Milwaukie, 10/3/2010 4:00Report abuse

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