A man married to a pillow

[J. Datie]

What's the marriage even mean though?

It means never having to say you're sorry for cracking an endless series of "pillow talk" jokes. Although I imagine once those run out, they'll probably drift apart and start seeing other people. Well, the pillow might see other people, I'm assuming the guy will just talk to them over the Internet.

[Jake]

Whenever I hear about some otaku doing ridiculous things like this, all I can think is "thanks for making people think Asian guys are creepier than they already do." :cry:

Don't worry, asian guys are still far further down the creepiness scale than rednecks and balding, unkempt, middle-aged white men who hang around outside schools despite not having any children to pick up. :3

[LVUER]

At least, when you marry a pillow, you don't have to feed "her", taking "her" to a shopping mall, or listen to "her" yapping when "she" is in a bad mood.

[Samu-kun]

I would hope that most girlfriends are capable of feeding themselves! XD

[Blue Lemma]

At least, when you marry a pillow, you don't have to feed "her", taking "her" to a shopping mall, or listen to "her" yapping when "she" is in a bad mood.

True, it's got to be the epitome of "low maintenance" girlfriend/spouse

[VenusEclipse]

I showed this to a friend and talked about it non-stop for a little while. Then he wondered if I prefered 2d or 3d...and I think he was serious with the question. o_O

If more people prefer 2d characters, I guess part of our population problem will be solved.

[LVUER]

What problem? Over-population or aging-population one? Since developing countries tend to have over-population problem (don't know why, perhaps because people who don't have much work have more time to be "productive", hehehe) while developed countries tend to have aging-population (more and more people don't get married or have children).

[Jake]

Since developing countries tend to have over-population problem (don't know why, perhaps because people who don't have much work have more time to be "productive", hehehe)

It seems to be the case that most countries move from larger to smaller families as quality of life increases - I believe it's commonly held to be because with lower quality of life, on one hand there's more chance of infant deaths so more children means a better chance of some of them surviving to adulthood, and on the other hand, the more children you have the more work your family can do and thus the less poor you'll be; quality of life increases tend to go hand-in-hand with worker-productivity increases like motorised farming equipment or the computer... so fewer people can still be just as 'productive', and in fact overpopulation just leads to more competition in the jobs market.

while developed countries tend to have aging-population (more and more people don't get married or have children).

It's not always people not getting married and having children - the UK doesn't have any particular problem with its birth rates, to my knowledge, but we still get people worrying about our aging population. In our case, as I understand it, it's because more people are surviving longer... so fifty years ago it might have been the case that there were enough young people paying taxes to support state pensions and healthcare and so on for old people, but now more old people have lived to be more old, so even though there are more young people as well, the proportions have changed and in the near future it may be the case that the young people aren't paying enough in taxes to support the old people.

[LVUER]

My statements contain some jokes in it. When I wrote "productive", it means they are "reproduce" or "recuperate" ^_^

or to put it blatantly: having sex

And yes, it's not always because of late-age marriage (or not married at all) or not having children. It's also because of what you said. I also state one reason I know. From what I heard, one of the reason why the population aging so quick (and big) is because of "baby boom" generation is getting older. I guess WW2 is to blame for this.

[Ren]

At least, when you marry a pillow, you don't have to feed "her", taking "her" to a shopping mall, or listen to "her" yapping when "she" is in a bad mood.

True, it's got to be the epitome of "low maintenance" girlfriend/spouse :lol:

What about the laundry bills, hmm? :P

[Voight-Kampff]

What about the laundry bills, hmm?

Huh? Why would any guy, married to a girl-shapped pillow need to wash th—Uh...n-never mind.

[IceD]

Yeah, this was even mentioned in some of our local tabloids . I'm glad not all otakus are like that, although this doesn't bring them a good name.

[LVUER]

Heh, otaku or not, pillow or not, there are dolls (they are sold legally) that created just to fulfill your-"that" kind of need.

[NeumanProductions]

This all reminds me of the dakimakura using the Katawa Shoujo characters. If you haven't seen them than you should. I love the talk about making them into real pillow cases for those full body ones.

http://shimmie.katawa-shoujo.com/post/list/dakimakura/1

[Deviot]

Look at the sadness in the pillow's eyes! they didn't even get it's consent!

think about how it would have turned out if only that korean man got enough love from his parents....