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Otakus are the worst*

Synthetic OrangeSynthetic Orange Registered User regular
edited October 2008 in Social Entropy++
*sorry Suppository.

Japanese man petitions to marry comic book character

A Japanese man has enlisted hundreds of people in a campaign to allow marriages between humans and cartoon characters, saying he feels more at ease in the "two-dimensional world".

Comic books are immensely popular in Japan, with some fictional characters becoming celebrities or even sex symbols.

Marriage is meanwhile on the decline as many young Japanese find it difficult to find life partners.

Taichi Takashita launched an online petition aiming for 1 million signatures to present to the government to establish a law on marriages with cartoon characters.

Within a week he has gathered more than 1,000 signatures through the internet.

"I am no longer interested in three dimensions. I would even like to become a resident of the two-dimensional world," he wrote.

"However, that seems impossible with present-day technology. Therefore, at the very least, would it be possible to legally authorise marriage with a two-dimensional character?"

There is no D: big enough for this. I guess weeaboos are breathing a sigh of relief as the original products manage to upstage them once again.

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  • trentsteeltrentsteel Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Oh JESUS

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  • Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood My baby's in there someplace She crawled right inRegistered User regular
    edited October 2008
    well about damn time!

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited October 2008
    my mind boggles at how he sees it as a technological problem

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  • trentsteeltrentsteel Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Wait, SHOTGUN ON JESSICA RABBIT

    I CALLED IT NOW BACK OFF
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  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    in before dely apple

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    would this apply to underage characters?
    this could make or break my vote

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  • Zombies Tossed My Salad!Zombies Tossed My Salad! Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    God I hate japan

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited October 2008
    If I married a cartoon princess, would that push me into a higher tax bracket?

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  • Wrench N RocketsWrench N Rockets Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
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    Sign me the fuck up

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  • trentsteeltrentsteel Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Actually how the fuck would this work? You stand next to a cardboard cut out all the time? This is fucking stupid this man is clearly mentally ill.

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  • DE?ADDE?AD Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    See, this would bug me so much more if I hadn't just watched that Real Doll documentary.

    Now I just can't figure out which is worse.

    Edit: Also, legally, would this mean you'd be married to every iteration of that character, or just one specific drawing? Mind-boggling idiocy aside, this raises a whole lot of questions.

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  • Agent CooperAgent Cooper Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Who would get to decide who gets to marry the character?

    I doubt there's just one person that would marry Ryoko if they could.

    (There are probably more that would marry Sasami.)

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited October 2008
    potatoe wrote: »
    would this apply to underage characters?
    this could make or break my vote

    Statutory rape laws concern classes of persons that can not be said to consent to the act of sex.

    The real question is how do you serve a cartoon with a marriage contract?

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  • trentsteeltrentsteel Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Oh god look it's one of them. I don't know what a Sasami or a ryoko is

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Ho! Ho! Ho! Drink Coke!Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    The mission objective was simple. Create a fictional world... Then land on it.

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  • scarlet st.scarlet st. Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    The law should state that they need to create their own character to marry. Oh god and they should make a database with the jpgs of all of the submitted wedding portraits. Oh my god it would be so fucking grand.

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited October 2008
    trentsteel wrote: »
    Oh god look it's one of them. I don't know what a Sasami or a ryoko is
    throw some pocky at them
    it might distract them long enough for you to get away

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  • trentsteeltrentsteel Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    This is just some stupid crazy guy that they thought would make a funny/interesting story about but it's nothing.

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  • Agent CooperAgent Cooper Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Holly would if she could

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  • Wrench N RocketsWrench N Rockets Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
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    She's mine just back off there get your own

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited October 2008
    The real ramifications of this law being passed, as it inevitably will, is that I will be able to marry the sarah palin article in my last issue of newsweek.

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  • Zombies Tossed My Salad!Zombies Tossed My Salad! Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Druhim wrote: »
    trentsteel wrote: »
    Oh god look it's one of them. I don't know what a Sasami or a ryoko is
    throw some pocky at them
    it might distract them long enough for you to get away
    Hey.

    Pocky is pretty dang good even if you aren't some weeaboo fagot

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  • FizFiz Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    I remember the "slippery slope" people saying that if gays can marry the next step is people marrying kids or animals. This skipped, like, 5 steps

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited October 2008
    Munkus Beaver wrote: »
    The real ramifications of this law being passed, as it inevitably will, is that I will be able to marry the sarah palin article in my last issue of newsweek.
    except you're not a Japanese citizen..

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  • Agent CooperAgent Cooper Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    See look it's started already

    forumers fighting over Jasmine

    Who chooses for her? Next, on Iron Chef

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  • peteaboda1peteaboda1 Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    This reminds me of the guy who literally fell in love with Link (pretty sure it was Link anyway).


    Also I guess, Japan

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  • scarlet st.scarlet st. Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    I just showed this to a friend and he was like "oh Japan... wait what character?"

    And now I'm actually kind of curious.

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited October 2008
    In conclusion, this law should pass because of three words:

    Honeymoon Papercut Hemorrhage

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited October 2008
    Fiz wrote: »
    I remember the "slippery slope" people saying that if gays can marry the next step is people marrying kids or animals. This skipped, like, 5 steps
    clearly we should have kept you gays locked up after all

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  • Agent CooperAgent Cooper Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Oh wait it's wrench fighting with himself

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  • Wrench N RocketsWrench N Rockets Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Agent Cooper wrote: »
    See look it's started already

    forumers fighting over Jasmine

    Who chooses for her? Next, on Iron Chef

    Disney-Princess-Jasmine5.jpg

    She's a vixin

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  • scarlet st.scarlet st. Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    I hope it's the little girl from Totoro.

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited October 2008
    Druhim wrote: »
    Munkus Beaver wrote: »
    The real ramifications of this law being passed, as it inevitably will, is that I will be able to marry the sarah palin article in my last issue of newsweek.
    except you're not a Japanese citizen..

    But what if I bought the newsweek in Japan?

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  • DE?ADDE?AD Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Centipede Damascus wrote: »
    The mission objective was simple. Create a fictional world... Then land on it.

    Okay, this is bugging the crap out of me - I know I've heard this, but I can't for the life of me remember what it's from.

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  • MarshmallowMarshmallow Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    The lengths people will go to deny reality is just fascinating.

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    trentsteel wrote: »
    Wait, SHOTGUN ON JESSICA RABBIT

    I CALLED IT NOW BACK OFF

    i declare prima noctis

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited October 2008
    what you guys don't realize about Jasmine is that she's got a total cellulite butt

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  • Agent CooperAgent Cooper Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    vixen, wrench

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  • Wrench N RocketsWrench N Rockets Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Druhim wrote: »
    what you guys don't realize about Jasmine is that she's got a total cellulite butt

    Better than the transvestite Pocahontas.

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Ho! Ho! Ho! Drink Coke!Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Fiz wrote: »
    I remember the "slippery slope" people saying that if gays can marry the next step is people marrying kids or animals. This skipped, like, 5 steps

    We're approaching the sexual preferences singularity.

    It's like the technological singularity except it ends with people trying to have sex with abstract mathematical concepts.

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