Otaku have petitioned the government for the right to marry 2D characters.
The online petition in question:
“We’ve no interest in the 3D. If we could, we’d like to live in a 2D world. However, with current technology, this is not possible. So at the very least, can we have marriage to 2D characters legally recognised? If this were to come to pass, I intend to marry Asahina Mikuru.”
The most interesting comment we see in response is this:
“I’ve been married to Arcueid of Tsukihime for five years now. I’ve no doubt that I want to spend the rest of my life with her. As someone who lives in two dimensions, I’d very much like to support this measure!”
Via Gigazine.
Currently the measure has 530 supporters, with a million seemingly being the target for it to be presented to the diet, should they tear themselves away from trying to ban 2D characters for long enough to hear it.
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Mikuru was my least favorite. He could have her.
Thank you!
Finally someone agrees.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Excuse me...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
allow me to laugh with you... BWAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHHA
Yeah me too
pffftHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Japan's already got the longest life expectancy and now it's going for lowest birth rate too.
Natural Selection! I LIKE THAT!
Ya people need to get over themselves and just fuck more
It's not that they don't fuck, they do, a little too much btw, it's just they ALL get abortions, and the ones that don't, get run over by some bozo on the street, this isn't an offense, it's just how the world works.
golden
ROFL, lowest birth rate would only count from having a birth rate....
(falls dead frome luaghing)
Japan already has one of the lowest birth rates, at least as far as first world countries go. The ratio in Tokyo is less than 1 child per family, with a little over 1 for Japan as a whole. At this rate, the Japanese are due to become extinct.
This WHOLE THING is totally wrong!
It's stuff like this that tells me to stop calling myself an "otaku," because I'm simply just a fan of Japanese popular culture and in fact NOT an otaku. Man, this is pathetic... >_>
same here...
that's why sometimes i just refuse to be labelled otaku...
those guys are over obsessed and down right pathetic
WTF? This shit keeps getting weirder every day.
...I call Nozomu.
so hows the fight on gay 2d marriage? i say they should let them as long as they can get actual consent. And them snag them for forging signatures. Its a win win system, throw the otakus into a sleaze pit of themselves and shower broken figurines onto them
Awesome! I will move to Japan like right nao!
I'm marrying Lyn, even if I already married her in my fandom!
Yes Lyn from Fire Emblem!
...Mikuru's underaged. You've gotta be like 20 to get married in Japan, or something like that, correct me if I'm mistaken.
Whoever gets Miku first is just gonna get lynched one way or another. Then the second, the third, the one-hundred and twenty-six, etc...
I prefer 2D to 3D. I'd love to marry a 2D loli.
it keeps getting weirder and weirder everyday, besides what about the future.?
What if 3D girls have been nasty to the otaku all their lives?
he's just picking on the wrong girls...heve you guys ever thought that there are female otakus out there? they are as ronery as you are.
If they were living at The Simpson's world, Homer Simpson would marry them. :P For those who didn't get the joke, it was in one episode where Homer would marry everyone: even comic freaks with human-size dolls of comic heroines.
how many girls would marry ikuto..
LOL!
You're right!
Okay, now this is just stupid. Yes, we all have had fantasies about sexing up anime babes. But I won't even purchase a body pillow. Even I have standards. To be honest, I'd rather marry a seiyuu like Aya Hirano or Shoko Nakagawa, except that I'm sure that they both have extremely protective boyfriends and being an American, I probably wouldn't have a chance with either one, or any Japanese woman for that matter. Plus, with a real woman, you don't have to worry about getting papercuts on your junk...
This is ridiculous, they clearly haven't thought this through
First of all the characters don't have an actual choice in what goes on, it's the magaka's who decide what goes on
Secondly, think of all the people who would want to marry the same people
Coming from an obsessed anime artist/character designer's veiw, I wouldn't allow it. Actually, if they want to MARRY a character, shouldn't they ask the character's mother or father? (Aka, creator) Because they're the original voice behind it...
But still I don't know what self respecting Manga/anime creator would allow that O__o
OMG! This is just wrong..
the only good this will do
is weed out the weak people.
so go ahead and make this a dream come true for these guys and gals
what's the point of marrying something that's not even alive, and is a puppet of the animator/artist? xD
Dibs on Nagi-Sama
Damn...
Are ALL otaku socially retarded?!
By the way, they should find a way to procreate nonsexually. XD
Not ALL otakus are socially retarded.
It's just that the other 99.5% give the rest of us a bad name.
I see.
exactly... it's just all those other 0.5% are retards... legally marry a concept? Ridiculous ( and yes, each anime character can be considered a concept) it's like try to say: "Hey, I want it to be legal for me to marry the portrait of the Mona Lisa", any being you can't talk/connect, respond, or ask is obviously not a being, just a concept of one. Sheesh Those assholes, they bring shame to us otakus.
Concentral camps, all of them. NOW!
Concentration camps much?
Seriously I think this is above the meaning of being an otaku but if ppl is happy doing this kind of things and doesnt affects our lifes at all there is no reason to complain it makes this world unique, interesting and amusing, now im going to clean cause I puked for 20 mins for lol too much...
So.... how does the 2d girl consent? How does this guy know that Asahina doesn't want to marry me?
He should probably go to therapy....
This, this is why you otakus are being seen in a negative light. Jeezus.
Just one word: headshot...
But seriously, it's just damn ridicolous. I can't belive there are people who can take cartoons that seriously.
Things like this keep 3D much more amusing.
Wouldn't cheating and consent be an issue in this subject?
oh oh if i can marry 1 and decide to divorce will i lose half my goods XD no seriously Otakus r getting crazier and crazier not to be rude but thats the sad truth
=.=
I wish I could do that
HERE IS A BETTER IDEA: Why not draw the marriage certificate and ceremony? That way, it will exist in the 2D world and you don't have to make an absurd law over it.
i will admit that i do like 2d girls but i wont go this far 0_0
laammeeeee~~~
*facepalms*
I'm sorry... but how are you supposed to get ANY action from a 2-D character? I'm just stating the facts.
Well...gotta say, this is a surprise.
If I were to speak positively on the matter, I'dsay that for one thing, it frees Mikuru from the torment she regularly gets from Haruhi. Secondly, I'd probably pick Kula Diamond or Big Boss if I was homosexual.
But I'm not exactly fully supportive of this. For one thing, his mental health is in question. He's gonna die alone, and his wife will do nothing to help. A sad thing, eh?
Course, this isn't the first time Japanhas taken anime seriously. Remember that big funeral they had for Raoh from Fist of the North Star?
This wouldn't work unless the copyright holder agreed to create an avatar/character for the husband, and even then, it would have to be something that the wife character would be interested in romantically... or, they could make the character exactly like the real life person, and then the copyright holder can create a story, deciding what happens. But I don't believe in inter-dimensional relationships. The real life person doesn't exist in the character's universe, and vice versa. Hm, that gives me another idea. The copyright holder could choose an actor to cosplay the character, and act exactly like it at all times, and the copyright holder can declare this person the official 3d representation of the character, but this is less feasible than the first idea. But most likely, the copyright holder would not agree to either of the 2 options in the first place.
Surely the only way for it to be consensual would be for the author of the manga to actually write him into the story - I presume there'd be teary eyes and tender confessions all round. The guy would probably have to be consulted so he could be accurately depicted in the manga (but is that a good idea?). Then he could dictate to the author about the sweet life he wants to share with his new wife. I imagine the author would charge a premium for this service...
It opens up a pretty disturbing idea - authors creating manga about yourself on demand, and a fantasy life created just for you :)
Even calling them 3D and 2D is ridiculous. Scientifically 2D is "real". Anime characters are nothing more then ideas.
Also "3D" people are really 4D because they exist in time as well.
Japan is pioner in robot designs, each time this robot look more similar to humans. maybe in a future anime companies sell robots with the personality of some anime character ....the world is each day more crazy *sigh*
FFFFFFFFFFFFF Lol. That's just weird. Talk about cyber babies >_>
Yes, because having different views about life is very retarded. SO WHAT if peope prefer the 2 dimension?
Being an otaku isnt exclusive to anime either. If you read a lot of books, you can be considered a book otaku, so calling otakus "retards" is pretty much calling everyone who has a hobby a retard.
And what about someone who CAN meet real girls, but just prefers anime girls? I see that more like a personal preference than a creepy obsession.
Oh, and I have a petition for the marriage between C.C from Code Geass, and I, her number 1 fanboy across the web
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/ccfanboymarriage
I kinda like the idea you made ^___^
the jealousy over characters could start a WWW (World Wide War)
There's another article on here somewhere stating that in Enlgand, at least, fictional entities have rights, which is why the illegalized loli manga. By the same logic it should be possible to marry 2d characters, not that either idea makes any sense without AIs to replicate their personalities. And the www is coming anyway, with or without weird stuff.
I have a solution.
Make it legal but, seeing as marriage requires the consent of 2 agreeing peoples, argue that although legal, a 2d character cannot talk for itself, or act out an answer, and so cannot consent to the marriage.
This being said, it would be legal, but still legally impossible.
I dont think they have to argue anything. Japan would be the laughing stock of the world if they actually take this seriously. Its too pathetic for me to even be disgusted, I can only laugh. Anyways, I already claimed 80% of all 2-D girls so there's no point in them petitioning.
I think this is a great idea. I'm willing to bet none of the guys who replied to this article have the slightest idea what it means to grow up without friends.In elementary and middle school ,anime characters were the only interaction I had. The 2D women understands perfectly her role ;she is not arrogant, religious,a slut, or a prude. If japanese women had stayed on the true path;Japan wouldn't have such crappy birthrates and stuff like this wouldn't be necessary.
Have you considered the actions of japanese men? Why should women be held entirely responsible for the same misdeeds you commit? Perhaps you should realize that the reason you don't have any friends is because you are unlovable.... Japan would have better birthrates if you were to make yourself into a person that people wanted to be with, or be friends with. I recommend psycho-therapy, and lots of it.
Darn,if we were to make 2D marriage legal,I wouldn't be able to fantasize about my dear 2D girls anymore.So I'm basically against it.Especially not with Mikuru Asahina
I claim Nono
lol 2d world 3d is the same no one will choose u crazy sweating fat otaku
You know, I would support this except one thing keeps bothering me. The character has no say in the matter, and as much as we love to fantasize, they'd have no idea they were married to you. Plus, even if this were to pass, how many people would try to marry the same toon?
Therefore, the obvious solution is a televised mega death match between all otaku for the hand of the maiden. I'd watch a bunch of geeks fight to the death. That sounds like good tv. They get what they want, and i get a few days of dead people per anime character.
Dude.
This is fucking hilarious. Think of the children produced! xD
THIS IS SO STUPID! If ecchi wasn't BAD ENOUGH... Otaku's who want this go die. Man... Japan needs help. First step get rid of ecchi, then get rid of this mess. Yeah, the Japanese need God.
What the fuck is "Anti-Ecchi"? Asexual much?
And the last thing the Japanese need is even more foaming-at-the-mouth evangelists. Trust me, they have more than their fair share.
Japan doesn't need nor want God. It causes too much trouble; the subway sarin gas attacks proved that.
Well , I dont mind if they dont believe in god but please dont take away my Miko :p .... Marrying to a 2d character is just too funny , I like 2d girl over 3d but thats just too much .... Set aside copyright , Is it really ok for so many guy having the same character as wife(Gangbang?) and how is the character going to respond whether he/she wanted it or not .... Since japan is 1 of the most leading country in robot technology , they should start building a robot with AI for each character for those guys =.=!!!.
Too bad there is no such thing as "god" isn't it?
Really? Is this for reals? Someone tell me they made this site for some ultimate lulz. Please. Lie to me.
That it's an online petition should make the sarcasm obvious. Japan has a sense of humour too.
Why, this is by far the stupidest petition ever. Seriously. 3D people and 2D people marrying each other. Absurd!
... *signs petition*
Indeed Absurd!! *signs petition aswell*
It's not only absurd, It's BASTARDATION!!
I'd like to claim Ciel Phantomhive here and now. Dibs.
No way!! I married him 2,5 seconds earlier than you! Let's share him between the both of us and the other 20004856764632 persons who married him xD
Well, if this does actually get passed and approved, I'm going to marry Kuchiki Rukia ASAP.
¬ I second that!
Fucking incredible.
That's too much, even for Japan.
Etooo ¬¬
Maybe will better for him a plastic doll dressed like Mikuru-chan.
It will be more realistic than "marry" with a giant anime poster.
this
Let him do it. It's not unhurting anything but wtf are people going to do now? "Hey I wanna marry democracy!" or "Hey religion. We should get married." That could by something like copyright infringement or something. But either way, that's hilarious.
MHAHAHHAHAHA! Oh yeah and don't forget...MHAHAHAHAHAH!
This is just too sad and hilarious!
If it is a 2D woman with a 3D man, does that mean the baby will be 2,5 D ?
If so that baby would be a baby yoshi from yoshi's story. o___o
Fractal dimensions are between 2 and 3. They "exist", at least as a mathematical tool. The NOVA program on PBS this past week got into that.
I call Haruhi Suzumiya.
How do they plan to resolve disputes between multiple persons vying for the same bride?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Fuck me! You're kidding right?
holy freakn crap, get a life.
Had nothing else to do, so I signed it as well ^^
I wrote... 海外からのオタクの応援をつたえたい。 ぶちゃっけ、二次元のキャラの方がいい。 俺の場合にインデックスちゃんと結婚したい！
Time to head off and watch Toradora and Hyakko!
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I'm a true otaku, very shy and lonely too, love de 2D, but this, is simply too much. It's completly delusional and insane.
And, of course, giving the otaku a bad image and fame.