For years, a firmly stuffed dakimakura has been the “waifu” of choice by ronery otakus around the world. But the implacable march of technology has seen even this staple begin to be displaced:
Is this the end of the dakimakura? Needless to say, the endless clones of Nene are cheap, offer simplistic interaction of more than sufficient quality for the average otaku, and can even fit discretely into pockets, offering pillow toting maniac a chance to shed their burdens.
Only in one crucial respect are they lacking…
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It takes a man to bring a dakimakura out in public!
His name is Melonpan and he made an awesome photo tour of himself carrying around his Nia-Dakimakura through some Swiss city. Sadly, his blog crashed and all the data (years of anime reviews and funny commentary) including the backups was deleted.
Only very few pictures survived.
http://s1.directupload.net/file/d/2217/3zdn5wx8_jpg.htm
He is truly a great man. More people should follow his example and be proud of their waifus!
Good old Melonpan:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/meidocafejp/sets/
Probably one of the many unsung heroes of this modern world unaffected by social stigma and goes and does what he likes... It takes a lot of spiral power to do that. No wonder his waifu is nia.
I would admit, if your brave enough to carry your waifus with you anywhere and not give a crap you are truly a example to follow. Makes me wonder why so many people are so use to copying everything society throws at them. =\
Because not all of us are sad and pathetic otaku freaks.
At least you could hug those pillows.
I rather cuddle my little cousin instead!
Humans should extinguish!
Lol, lots of otakus oblivious to the fact that this is all so sad and pathetic.
There's nothing quite like hugging her. Dakimakura's are here to stay. At least until good looking sex dolls are made affordable.
i want a pillow of Casca ^_^
At least, there's a lot of space saving.
For the next step, will it be a holographic waifu? :3
THAT DORK DOESN'T DESERVE A NIA DAKIMAKURA! GIVE IT! I'm really envious of those dakimakura parties, I wish I could attend one.
Given the extreme epicness of his documented pilgrimage with his waifu Nia, I believe he deserves her more than anyone else.
I want that doll.
Kagaguhan.
Please excuse my language.
In this case already know! Yeah many year ago...
These guys don't have money to buy the stuff anymore.
I find this kinda disturbing O__O
You find this disturbing? perhaps more lurking is in order, my friend.
a men can't hug their wifes anymore? what this world had become.
i want one of those but they're quite expensive here in norway :P 900kr for one, and not that good quality : P
I'd rather keep my three covers for my dakimakura. I re-use them every once in a while, so they're all happy! ^^
Dakimakura orgy.. Looks like fun..
Hey the DS saves lots of space ok
i'd rather hug a real person
depends on who you hug... >:)
I'd rather hug a real version of mai waifu.
Wouldnt we all...
If you are here then it's a good bet that that won't be happening anytime soon.
Just saying...
Disgusting.
3D PIG DISGUSTING < 2D CAKE DELICIOUS
I've been a constant user of sancom as an anon, and this kind of thinking still grinds my gears.
Enjoy your lack of reality.
I still hump my dakimakura every night. my waifu demands it.
I think the next answer is not 3DS or new Love Plus, but Kinect...
assuming project Milo is being released...
and Konami decide to go all out and port it to XBox360
i won't be surprise how much otaku will make use of it...
talking with Milo alone on your HDTV = creepy pedo
talking with Nene on HDTV = jizz your pants
The cardboard photo cutout is much better since its easier to mount one of those hand held things to it and its almost exactly in the right place.
^ Can't argue with that truth.
OTAKUS!! YOU HAVE BETRAYED YOUR ANCESTORS!!! how could you chose a cardbox cut out over over A SOFT,SEXY,DELICIOUS,FUCK-WORTHY, DAKIMAKURA!!
Am starting to think Love Plus+ is dangerous .-.
When Yuria is created wouldn't then be the end of japan ? the birthrate is already low o.O.
it would be the end of the human race
I perfer the pillows ones. They look better. Besides i like the idea of holding Suzaku from code geass naked in my arms.
Suzaku is not a waifu.
wait... so they sleep together with they're waifu's in the same room? imagine what's going on at night O_o
You could still physically hold a dakimakura, but this technology=full 2D interaction! Now they shall be strayed further from reality...
but with the 3ds we are getting the 3'rd dimension back.
oh my... a catastrophe.
So, what's wrong with the second photo? :/ I see an improvement. No more ronery bolsters.
There's a bottle of green lube on the floor.
That's a bottle of juice or something.
looks like lotion
Or fruit scented lube. ^_^
green tea.
This must be the Otaku Saturday Night Fever...
...where they get together, sing and dance to their favorite anime songs and engage in Love Plus tournaments and random cardboard character hugging.
I would not.
What happens if they have a pillow fight?
Wife beaters?
Communal Wives?
Pillow Orgy?
Sounds like a nice meeting.
...
I think I would prefer to hug dakimuras, though.
...and wife sharing ^^
Wow, I didn't know all comments on sancom need to make sense and be fuuny. >.>
Lol. It's not like my day depends on which comments are considered drivel...
But it's nice to see people care to press + and -. I rarely do it...
Now you know damn well that's not true. I've seen truly witty comments be down-voted before. Regardless of how witty something is, if a select few don't like it, it's down-voted.
If all the comments here were sensible and witty, they'd all be voted up. People just vote up comments they agree with so stop complaining.
ooo. Looks like I hit a nerve. Haha
Guess some take jokes seriously =)
Don't worry. They're just all butt-hurt at being shown the reality that it's all a sad sad thing.
You didn't hit any nerve. Your comment was just retarded. It made no sense and wasn't funny, which is why it got marked down.
talk about desperate house men
It is indeed a catastrophe.
In the old days, men were content with owning a pillow with their waifu on it. Any conversation they had with their waifu was all in their head, meaning they had to create the conversations themselves. This allowed men to strengthen their creative minds. One was able to communicate and interact with their waifu for hours on end, without so much as a peep.
Now, they rely on technology to do the conversations for them. Instead of creating billions upon billions of conversations and topics for one to interact with their waifu, they rely on others to create a set amount of conversations and replies which to give. The interaction with the waifu therefore crumbles, as you can only have the same conversation so many times.
Divorce rates skyrocket because they refuse to come up with conversations themselves and grow tired of their waifu, quickly replacing her with a new one within a matter of months. Their minds become sludge, no longer able to think for themselves, waiting for the cute voice to come out of the speaker instead of producing one in their mind.
I, for one, think we need to go back to our roots in waifus. Forget the man who says we only have three options to reply to our waifus. For me, I have over a billion replies. I can enjoy a nice walk on the beach or even take a hike in the mountains without being told I can only at a certain time. I can have discussions about politics with my waifu instead of only being able to talk about high school, which I have grown tired of over the years.
I propose creating a liberation front to help men escape the terrors of technological waifus and return to the humble physical waifu of which one can hold onto and love. This group shall be known as the Diacritical Individuals for Caressing Corporeal Spouses, or DICCS for short.
Who here is with me?
Why not just use both the DS and dakimakura for hugging and interactive action!
That would be cheating, good sir. For Shame!
so... ... ...sad.