Remarkably, “Gatebox says it has issued 3,700 such certificates”, Techspot reports, “although Kondo is reportedly the first to have held an actual wedding ceremony”.Įven in a country obsessed with anime, “Kondo’s wedding shocked many,” says the Japan Times. Instead, 40 guests watched him wed a cuddly toy stand-in of Miku.Īlthough the marriage has no legal standing, Gatebox, the company which created the desktop version of Miku, has issued the couple a certificate to mark their union “beyond dimensions”. “For Mother, it wasn’t something to celebrate,” he said. Their wedding was a small affair, however, as Kondo’s family declined to attend. “His holographic wife wakes him up each morning and sends him off to his job… In the evening, when he tells her by cellphone that he’s coming home, she turns on the lights.” Kondo “considers himself an ordinary married man”, despite the fact that his wife “lives” in a small holographic chamber in his apartment, The Japan Times reports. “Miku-san is the woman I love a lot and also the one who saved me,” he said.
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Kondo said he was rejected by women and branded a creep at school for his obsession with anime, but “found solace and inspiration in the countless songs made for the virtual diva” by software users - around 100,000 as of last year, Asia One reports.
Created in 2007, she has become a pop star in her own right, performing to packed stadiums and releasing chart-topping albums of her synthesised vocals. Miku is the virtual reality face and voice of Japanese singing synthesiser software Vocaloid.
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