28-Year-Old Man Marries Pillow

A Japanese man, Lee Jin-gyu 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.

The 28-year old Otaku (a Japanese term that roughly translates to somewhere between ‘obsessive’ and ‘nerd’), took that love a step further  by getting married to his pillow in a special ceremony that was well publicized in the local media after fitting it out with a wedding dress for the service in front of a local priest.
The pillow has an image of Fate Testarossa, from the ‘magical girl’ anime series Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha.
One friend said of the relationship between Lee and his pillow: ‘He is completely obsessed with this pillow
and takes it everywhere’.
Another 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’.
The pillow marriage is not the first similarly-themed unusual 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.
Wonders shall never cease!