Japanese Man Marries Non-Existant Virtual Girlfriend
For some people, the dream to marry a loved one regardless of age, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, species, or even reality will just never come to pass. For a man in Japan known as Sal9000, however, the dream of marrying his fictional beau has just come to fruition.
On November 22nd, Sal9000 officially tied the knot with Nene Anegasaki, a fictional video game character from the Nintendo DS dating simulator Love Plus. The game allows lonely men like Sal to woo a virtual girlfriend by kissing, touching, and even taking her out on a date.
Since its release in September 2009, Love Plus has garnered a cult following so strong that many wives across Japan now lament that their husbands spend more time ogling these virtual vixen than they do with them. Add to the list single and lonely bachelor Sal9000.
According to online sources, Sal9000 has a long history of pursuing love in the virtual realm. It wasn’t until he met Love Plus school-teacher Nene Anegasaki, however, that he was inspired to take his love all the way.
Since the laws of Japan do not allow for man & video-game love — not to mention man & cat, man & dog, and man & man love — Sal had to travel all the way to Guam for the wedding, where the whole event was streamed live through Nico Nico Douga, a Japanese video site similar to YouTube.
Afterwards, a mock wedding and the official reception were held at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Featured at the event were a live audience, Sal, his virtual wifey, and who’d have guessed: a real life priest. The highlight of the whole event was when Sal9000 performed fellatio on his Nintendo DS after the priest hollered, “Kiss the bride!”
By V Saxena on 02-12-2009
Comment by ChimChim
December 2nd, 2009 at 4:02 pm
this is the guy nerds and geeks beat up for lunch money
Comment by Paul Moody
December 2nd, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Well he's in for a surprise there: that girl's been with God only knows how many other lonely Japanese teenagers and even though he's married I bet she's still leading others on.
Dirty bitmap
Comment by Bobby Brown
December 2nd, 2009 at 7:19 pm
LOL @ ChimChim
Comment by JAS
December 2nd, 2009 at 9:41 pm
LOL, How lame can you possibly be this is anther prime example of Japanese men facing the tough and extreamly challenging fact that Japanese women and Asian women in general will no longer tolerate Asian men treating them like a piece of property…and Asian men refuse to except the fact that Asian women shall be treated equally so until these dumb men wake up and realize that they must drop their sexists acts towards women we'll see more and more of this crazy lame stuff. OUT with the old traditional BS and IN with the new modern way.
Oh yea and my beautiful lovely wife is Japanese and I'm Caucasian so I here all the stories about how Asian men try to make us american men look bad just because they know that asian women love us american men and can not stand them.
Comment by dzg
December 2nd, 2009 at 11:32 pm
lol only japanese ppl would do this kinda thing… chinese gov would like eliminate this game before it is even released
Comment by jbell
December 2nd, 2009 at 11:57 pm
wow what the what! how do you even get that far to begin with? hey mom and dad this whole girl thing well its just too much pressure i think im going to dabble in the vitual world and see what happens…first comes love then comes marrage then and mega bite in a baby's carrage?? What The What!!
Comment by Bilay
December 3rd, 2009 at 12:55 am
I wonder if he needs to go back to Guma for divorcement after he gets bored of his probably less then 200mb wife…
Comment by Andy
December 3rd, 2009 at 1:16 am
dude, PRC is the country where 30million dudes have no chance of getting married, it would be merciful to release this game for them lol
Comment by Andy
December 3rd, 2009 at 1:17 am
with 55% divorce rate, a 40$ virtual girlfriend isn't such a bad bargain…
Comment by James Oh
December 3rd, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Greetings from http://liftyouup.blogspot.com.
This is my very first time to hear such sort of marriage, but I am sure it will not going to be the last one as well. Human tend to create new wave or change.
Comment by Casey
December 4th, 2009 at 9:31 am
Ahh, total dork. I don't want to say I hate cartoon fuckers, BUT WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THEM!?!?!
A lot of guys are really into this crap and I think its because they aren't good with social skills or are too lazy to actually have a real 2-way relationship.
Oh well, Im kind of glad that people like this aren't on the "market"
Comment by GeorgeClinton
December 5th, 2009 at 10:15 am
I think what you mean @Casey is a 3D relationship — as in real life. Technically speaking, Love Plus is a 2-way relationship because the user can interact with his virtual gf. The program is loaded with over 3000+ scripts. That's not real communication, but it is at least 2-way communication.
Comment by Testament
December 8th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
See, this is why Japanese anime/games is a dangerous addiction. This guy needs to put down his DS and go outside and meet a real girl. BTW, if he really loved her he would at least buy her the new DSi lol.
Comment by Anon
December 9th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
I think many of you are missing something big here…
How much money do you think he's earned from this stunt? I can imagine he's earned quite a lot of money from this, and will continue to… Look beyond the obvious…
Comment by Anon
December 18th, 2009 at 10:52 pm
Lets be happy for him and tell him congradulations!
Comment by Hentanimanga
December 23rd, 2009 at 7:51 pm
How in the f*ck did that happen, I mean, sure, I've masturbated to hentai, wished I was an anime dude and all that crap when I was a teen, but holy f*ck… holy f*ck
Comment by Adnan Muhammed
December 24th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
………dude thats one hard core otaku too bad he is gonna remain a virgin for the rest of his life……well until they start making those sex robots which can be given a personality …..now excuse me while i go jack off to hentai
Comment by kenny
December 28th, 2009 at 12:35 am
His dad probally like, "WHAT THE FUCK, YOU MARRIED YOUR GAMEBOY?!!"
Comment by chaos
January 7th, 2010 at 5:26 pm
this is just some reall ****ed up Sh*t right there
Comment by Tammy Joie
January 14th, 2010 at 3:54 pm
hahaha!! XD
Comment by Sephi
February 4th, 2010 at 7:09 am
I read about this somewhere else, apparently it was a joke. He was mocking people who take the game seriously and "fall in love" with it, or games like it. Just look at his stylish haird-do, just by looking at it you know he's not an uber pathetic, freaky nerd. He's a "cool kid" making fun of the no lifers. JS.
Comment by akshay
February 12th, 2010 at 1:26 am
If I have to marry a video-game character I will turn gay and marry Kratos. lol
But on the bright side, at least that VG character doesn't have a smelly crotch with STDs. ICK!!!!
Comment by dokidoki
March 26th, 2010 at 10:41 am
is it just me, or does the toki meki memorial girls' side picture in this article have nothing to do with love plus? wasn't that a game designed for women, where you play as a girl and catch yourself a guy?
Comment by Brian Schreiber
April 4th, 2010 at 6:06 pm
my dad would probably beat me to death with the gameboy if i did something like this.
Comment by Jan
July 21st, 2010 at 2:36 am
This is no different than a 2 year old and their imaginary friend.