Young Akihiko Kondo hasn’t been able to talk to his virtual wife since the beginning of the year, but he doesn’t lose hope.
A few years ago the young Japanese Akihiko Kondou made headlines around the world for their striking marriage. The young man married Hatsune Miku, or rather, hatsune miku hologram. Hatsune Miku is a virtual singer extremely famous, who fills stadiums with her music and has accompanied artists such as Lady Gaga on their tours. However, she remains a completely artificial characterbut that hasn’t stopped Kondo from declaring his love for her by making her his wife.
Your case is one of many fictosexuals, people attracted to fictional characters. This sexual orientation is particularly popular in Japan, a country where anime and the application of the latest technologies have generated a tremendous fan phenomenon surrounding true fictitious icons.
The Japanese company gate box is responsible for producing devices for display holograms of fictional characters, which they then program so that they can “communicate” with us. It was this technology that allowed in 2018 the young Japanese could communicate with his new wife and start a life living together.
A company brings to life the hologram of its wife, but in the technology sector things change very fast
But… what if your wife’s software crashes? As reported by the Japanese media The MainichiGateBox already does not produce updates for the software that supported the hologram with which Kondo was married, so he can no longer communicate with his wife. This makes the young Japanese, by definition, in widower, the world’s first virtual widower. Speaking to the Japanese newspaper, the young man explained that since the beginning of the year he can no longer talk to his wife, but that his feelings for her haven’t changed:
“My love for Miku hasn’t changed. I held the wedding ceremony because I thought I could be with her forever.”
The young Japanese is always accompanied by a stuffed animal or figure of his wife, and ensures that hope to speak with her again in the near future. Kodo’s story is surprising but it also puts us in perspective in the face of the constant change that the world of technology undergoes on a daily basis. It doesn’t help much to get used to a system or application, everything can change abruptly in a matter of a few months. For many, the change is reduced to reading the new functions included in Photoshop or Excel, but for this young man it has meant destroying your marriage.