Guy marries computer game character in Japan
On Sunday, a Japanese man named Sal9000 married his girlfriend, Anegasaki. Your probably thinking that sounds normal enough but the strange thing is she is a virtual girlfriend from a Nintendo DS video game called Love Plus.
The wedding took place at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan, it was conducted by a real priest and the animated bride made a speech a the end of the ceremony.
The event was livecast on Nico Nico Douga, a popular video sharing web site in Japan similar to YouTube.
Watch the video below of this bizarre event from Internet site boingboing
The groom later sent photos along with a message to boingboing showing the bride and grooms so called honeymoon.
Thank you very much for watching our wedding ceremony online. Because of your blog post, we received some comments from what appeared to be international viewers, and we were very happy about that.
I had heard before the groom is very busy during a Japanese wedding, but this was much more than I expected!
Both the actual wedding space and the livecasting web site were full on the day of — I’m so happy so many people were able to witness this. There were over 3,000 connections and 7,000 comments made online, and the people who showed up in person at the ceremony also offered their congratulations. It was great.
Now that the ceremony is over, I feel like I’ve been able to achieve a major milestone in my life. Some people have expressed doubts about my actions, but at the end of the day, this is really just about us as husband and wife. As long as the two of us can go on to create a happy household, I’m sure any misgivings about us will be resolved.
As for what’s next, we still haven’t gone to see my parents, so we will be going home together on New Years to officially announce our marriage.
The two of us hope to continue to let our love for each other grow as time goes on.
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