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.
Polygamy is illegal in japan, right?
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things like this gives otaku’s a bad name not that it has a good name to start with but seriously…
I’m sorry but this is pathetic.
What about MIKURU’s feelings?! Doesn’t HER opinion matter!?
*fume*
No marriage unless Mikuru actually signs the license and says “I do,” of her own free will, not some Adobe Premiere splicing.
*facepalm*
Totally agree to this
He is trying to marry Mikuru without thinking in her feelings, what a ronin.
I’m an anime fan But honestly you guy’s obsession to anime is really ridicules. You ppl really need to get out of your little fantasy’s your living in an get out of your computer’s and meet WOMEN!!!!! Liking anime is one thing but taking it to a retarded level and marring a piece of paper?? fucking redundant. GET A LIFE!
Alex: Saying get a life should be reserved for those who aren’t anime fans. Frankly, if you have the time to be writing get a life to use, you yourself should get a life. Also, as a brat/retard, learn how to write, so that you don’t have to publicly embarrass yourself. I mean, the comment feature even incorporates spell check for you, you have to be a real retard to ignore it.
while Alex said it in a unintelligent way, yes, otaku’s desperately need to get a life.
no otakus don’t need to get a life, RETARDED OTAKUS do
Amen to that.
This is really immature and “selfish”
So he wants to marry her, what about the “feelings” of the girl he want to marry?
Although I really love a specific anime girl, I wouldn’t go this far, this is no longer obsession, this is insanity
I agree, these bozo’s and their polygamy, THIS GIVES US OTAKU A BAD NAME!!
Damn polygamy, I have to agree with you, I’m an otaku, but I have both a 2D and a 3D fetish
My girlfriend thinks we live in 12D (yes, TWELVE-D!), so I’m seriously contemplating becoming an otaku as well, seeing as how the prerequisites of being a NEET (albeit formerly successful uneducated middle-management white collar pre-crisis, but still) and a few dimensions short seem to be all there!
PS last time I checked, said girlfriend was quite alive and certainly 3D by my count
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.
(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.
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.
Natural Selection! I LIKE THAT!
Errr… Isn’t that a bit too much? O.o
Oh!pretty shining love!YAY!UNBELIEVABLE!
I believe this is the only correct way to respond XD
are they okay with other guys getting marride with the same character
I guess they’d all be angry at the fact that I’m posting nekkid picz of all their wives on 4chan…
And wait until they start flame wars over who loves which character more. If they’re actually MARRIED to that character, some actual violence could erupt.
hahahahahahahaha.
great relative humor. and no i doubt theid mind. its the only way their gonna get any action in that marriage.
Hm. . . This could be a problem with copyright reason and other problems (lolwut ? Why did I think about this srsly anyway ?). For example, Arcueid is Nasu’s character and he has the copyright. Now, claiming her to be her wife might violate the copyright and other stuffs. Not to mention that there are tons of otakus that want to marry her :D
Polygamy wwwww
Good point, if this petition were ever to pass they should introduce rediculous license fees for marrying an anime character.
I don’t think you can marry 2d (read: Fictional) characters because they aren’t legally real people and therefore they cannot have their name a marriage license nor can they actually sign it or agree or disagree to the whole thing…
On the other hand, I’d love to see an Otaku wedding where the groom waits patiently at the altar while his only other friend carries a body-pillow with a picture of his ‘bride’ on it.
I’d like to disagree on your first statement. Let’s say the copyright holder is her father, and he has all rights to her opinions (which he can), then it’s possible for him to give the okay and maybe sign the agreement in her place.
A very specific situation, but still, you can’t technically marry what does not exist. Identities and copyrights are very different. A Copyright does not imply that the protected material is considered a legal entity (one that has rights and such) it just simply means that the copyright holder is the person who owns that intellectual property.
These guys are pleading to marry ideas, essentially and even though there would be no benefit to doing so, there’s no way it could work.
If you can get arrested for being in possession of loli, which is depicting a non-existant being, then I don’t see where the line should be drawn personally. So many things that don’t make sense anymore.
If people want to marry 2D, let them. What’s the worst that could happen?
you can’t be the legal father of a 2d character, so your argument is invalid.
You can’t legally marry one either.
Finally…
I foresee rampant polyandry (it’s not polygamy) in the 2D world and new lows in birth rates.
japan never fail to surprise me
But… Asahina Mikuru isn’t even 18 I think.
Actually, Yeah she is
Shush, you. That’s classified information.
How many husbands will Tifa get, I wonder.
BAWAHWHAWHAWHAHWHAWA
Nice!
WHo wouldnt want to have a wife that can kick your ass using slots and titanium plated gloves.
Not to mention summon, use magic…..OMG i have to shut up now.
XD
But seriously those guys have to get out more.
No sh*t, Japan needs to upgrade it’s mental health system.
Nothing to say but lol.
OK, I call dibs on Index as my wife.
>>“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.”
this
Oh wow, this made my lol hard. How would this even work out? How will the 2D Character get the benifits, and how will they be able to refuse and accept proposals. Surely this is more like a form of 2D Enslavement to fufill their lustful desires. They just want to be able to brag about it on forums and fellow otakus, that they’re married to INSERT NAME HERE. Then as some of you have already pointed out, they’ll probably get in an argument with each other, about who is really married to which 2D character.
Mikuru was my least favorite. He could have her.
Thus won’t go well…
I find it funny how people will promptly bash Japan and japanese people because of this…
Wasn’t in western societies that people already married with computers, console systems and other stuff like that?
Pretty shure about that.
I’d take it as a joke… but if someone is really serious about this, I’d recommend seeing a doctor.
I think the point is that we aren’t having huge petitions to get the rights to marry these kinds of things. just the every so often weirdo decides to do it. not large multitudes of us.
it’s really retarded really, to want marry 2D chara
i myself fall in love with 2D chara and not really interested with real girl but i have not the slightest intention to claim or marry 2D chara
saying so and even thinking so would be very well defying everything i believe in
those type of retard that want to marry 2D would only could reach level of an nijikon, one who love 2D girl and want them as their girlfriend and wife
to put it simply their love is like a man to a woman
i myself even more retarded than them, i don’t want to have a 2D chara girlfriend or wanna have girlfriend like them
the only thing i wish is seeing them(2D chara) happy, and the happiest thing a girl could have is be with the one they love, not me, not them but the chara they fall in love with in the story
wanting them to be mine, even if that possible won’t bring them their biggest happiness
so doing so would be really contradicting myself
my love is a greater love that transcend gender relationship and dimension
to put it simply my love for them is like a father to their child
i demand nothing back from them, i only want to see them smile and happy with the one they love
so as is said, wanna marry 2D girl is retarded
but my wish is even more retarded :D
Sir, accept my deep gratitude for this most inspiring and insightful comment!
Seconded. When they are with their respective pairings that’s when I am happy.
I can’t believe I found someone in this entire world that agrees completely with me.
Thirded, especially the “the only thing i wish is seeing them(2D chara) happy, and the happiest thing a girl could have is be with the one they love, not me”
amen.
This has got to be copyright infringement in some way or another…
Or all future copyright notices will say the following:
“You may not present, reproduce, or MARRY the following material without proper consent from the owner.”
And of course, you’ll never get permission…
One word: dowry.
Would it be incest if you marry your own character?
Is the character like a sibling to you?
More like a son or daughter, perhaps?
Maybe, I’m a manga-ka myself so…… maybe
70% of the worlds weird stuff comes from Japan ;)
man, thats just retarded, but i lol’d
This would just not work. I agree with what a lot of you have said there are going to be fights if someone find out they are married to teh same character.
Seriously this is going way too far, I mean I’m sure each of you here has a favourite character from anime but non of you would really go so far as wanting to marry that character, that’s just crazy.
how would they consummate it?
To kay: “how would they consummate it?”
Same way as he already does, probably… with a box of tissues and his carpal tunnel spasmed hand.
Another consideration – the girl won’t age, while the otaku does!
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
Fucking incredible.
That’s too much, even for Japan.
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.
Well, if this does actually get passed and approved, I’m going to marry Kuchiki Rukia ASAP.
¬ I second that!
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
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 ?
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.
If so that baby would be a baby yoshi from yoshi’s story. o___o
WHAT…
THE…
FUCK…
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.
Yeah good luck with that.
All I can say is, “fuu fuu fuu fuu….”
Except Haruhi always looked demented in that pic.
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!
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.
I lol hard, but hey this is just as bad as the gay marriage, and we just legalize gay marriage.
No offense, but gay marriage isn’t anything “bad”, in my opinion.
(note: is straight, so his view on this isn’t really biased.)
Fuck off man, take ur homophobia elsewhere
I’m straight, but I take alot of offence to what u just said.
Retarded is retarded.
This makes for a good laugh, though. Can’t wait to see die-hard fans marry characters, and get divorces and whatever crap.
Guy: “I’m here to divorce Furukawa Nagisa”
Offical: “Why, ffs?”
Guy: “She cheated on my with Tomoya”
BWAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
kid : dad, i think it’s about time i met my mother…
dad : okay, you’re right… *gives his son a DVD*
kid: *slits wrist*
HAUHAUHAUAHUHAUHAHAUHAUHAUHAUHAUA
this really funny,,,
to think that people who married 2D char will go through this kind of dialogue.,,.,.
Honestly, I think this is stupid, yet funny, but yeah I may have crushes on 2D girls (Konata), but I’m don’t wanna marry one, besides some 2D chicks are wi-yatches, besides anime inspired my 3D fetish
But………I call Konata!!!!!
they are all bitches
better pick up real girls lol
and learning business and Bill Gates measures
Like you
Mahahahahha….well, the idea is pretty sad though i don’t like the comments about japan and japanese people….generally i dont like the racist comment
Yes, it has to be remembered that most Japanese exhibit the responses you see here as well.
You can probably find a similar contingent of people in America or elsewhere who’d argue they have a right to marry children or animals, but I hardly think this would be grounds to condemn America as a perverted nation.
this just go beyond our fandom but this looks interesting though
Yeah, you could probably find 530 yahoos in any country, and I’m guessing from some of the comments that many of them were just trolling.
There’s some 1400 petitioners now…
2D girls can’t work, pay my bills, and cook. They just take away my money and make me find food for myself.
You’re able to find a 3D one to consistently do any of those things for you?
Sadly I used to have a 3D girl that did those thing but she had to move. Right now, I’m stuck doing things myself.
To quote Asuka Langley Soryu, あんたバカァ！！？
(Anta baka!!?/What are you stupid!!?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_sZmv4HAg4&feature=related
バカ, I think the ァ is not needed. Also: why katakana?
It’s spelled that way in the manga.
It’s emphasis.
The only benefit this could have would be to keep those genetics out of the pool.
This.
Agree!
Either way, they are not going to enter the pool hahaha!
This is ridiculous! I, Batta the Beast, will not stand for this! How am I, a minor boss of a sprite-based SRPG, supposed to find a girlfriend if all these freakish third-dimensional beings keep taking all of them?!
I guess it’s back to pillaging and plundering for love… *grumble*
Oh, how about lil’ ol’ Lyn? You do know that punishment is a way of showing love!
(sorry, couldn’t resist the reference)
What a beautiful way to show love.
Bringing the term “Mai waifu” to a whole new level I see.
Hahahahaha.
“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.”
HAHHAHHAHAHHAHHA. HAAAH HAHHAHHAHHAHHAHHAHHA.
Then that means if they want to go 2D, let’s kill them in this 3D world, and revive them in 2D world. Because they themselves are not interested with 3D anymore.
People die, when they are killed.
And they don’t have the guts to do it.
Hence that comment of mine. It was a joke though.
i think japan seriously needs to invest in new legislation… to arrest any moronic bastard who attempts to marry a 2D character.
i think a large scale cleansing in japan is required. cut off the crazy before it spreads
I support this Petittion and wish to add my name to it and help it out anyway i can, besides it’s about time someone decided to do this. there have been a few 2D characters i’ve had my eye on lol^^
I’ll hunt them down if they marry my favourite characters. Like others said this does give anime enjoyers a bad name, but hey there’s nutjobs everywhere. A few times there were men marrying dolls because they either believed their deceased wife was reincarnated in her, or that their future/past-life wives were in there. Figurine marriage is already possible it seems, but how does one pull this off to begin with?
People seriously considering 2D girl marriage should be able to get intensive government-funded therapy.
“I’ll hunt them down if they marry my favourite characters.”
…Why?
Closet ?
That this guy even gets the chance to start a pettition. He`s a complete wacko who should be sent to a psychiatrist or at least someone should slam him in the face with one of his manga`s and tell him to get back to reality.
Geez what a morron, such people give humans a bad name.
I wish to report you for apostrophe abuse.
How do we know if the girls want to get married?
what if they don’t? what then!
In the end, I guess only the copyright owners of each stuff (Haruhi with the original novel author and the animation studio etc) can decide to let it happen or not.
But if they do I don’t know what else needs to be done.
That’s the only problem IMHO
It’s Mikuru!?!?!
*faints*
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.
Too bad there is no such thing as “god” isn’t it?
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 =.=!!!.
FFFFFFFFFFFFF Lol. That’s just weird. Talk about cyber babies >_>
what’s the point of marrying something that’s not even alive, and is a puppet of the animator/artist? xD
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
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.
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.
I see.
Damn…
Dibs on Nagi-Sama
OMG! This is just wrong..
Concentral camps, all of them. NOW!
Concentration camps much?
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
…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.
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!
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
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
WTF? This shit keeps getting weirder every day.
…I call Nozomu.
it keeps getting weirder and weirder everyday, besides what about the future.?
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
how many girls would marry ikuto..
LOL!
You’re right!
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.
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.
Dude.
This is fucking hilarious. Think of the children produced! xD
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*
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…
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
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.
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?
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.
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.