Fictisexuality or fictophilia refers to the inclination of individuals to feel sexual attraction (or love) for people, or rather characters, who do not exist. This is the case of Akihiko Kondo , who four years ago married in Japan a hologram of the pop singer of his dreams, Hatsune Miku , a female character who won the honor of being the first Japanese virtual singer.
Love conquers all?
Although marrying a hologram may remind us, again, of an episode of Netflix’s hit sci-fi series ‘Black Mirror’, it is not part of fiction. Kondo decided to get married during a ceremony in Tokyo for which he spent 2 million yen (about 14,000 euros) with a 16-year-old animated hologram with huge eyes and long aquamarine pigtails (which floated on a device placed on a flat surface). at a cost of around 2,600 euros).
About 40 guests attended the wedding and watched as Kondo married Miku, in the form of a stuffed animal, to immortalize such a moment.
Over time, Miku, his holographic wife (although legally this marriage has no validity) woke him up every morning and greeted him with the lights on when he got home. A ‘marriage certificate’ was issued by Gatebox, the company that produced the device, certifying that a human and a virtual character were married ‘beyond dimensions’.
However, what has changed from that time in 2018 to today is that 35-year-old Akihiko Kondo is no longer able to converse with her because the software license has expired and the company officially canceled the service in March. of 2020.
