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The arrival of technology revolutionized the world and human relationships, as shown Akihiko Kondo, a Japanese man who decided to get married in October 1200 with a hologram named Miku Hatsune, who is the voice for software from the Yamaha instrument company.
Although it sounds like part of a science fiction movie script, the hologram has an age that emulates the 16 years and physically has black eyes and long blue hair, characteristics that they fell in love with Kondo, formalizing in a formal ceremony in Tokyo for which he paid something equivalent to $17,500 Dollars. Despite this, not everything has been happiness, since the software that helped the couple communicate stopped updating the platform.
My name is Akihiko Kondo. My job is a civil servant. I married Hatsune Miku, who lives in my house. About 15 years ago, I was bullied at work and took a leave of absence, but thanks to her I was able to return to work. She saved me.
I love Hatsune Miku. I am very happy. pic.twitter.com/5RHyBIe0yg— 近藤 顕彦【 ⋈ 】ミクさん大好き (@akihikokondosk) April 27, 2022
Almost four years from now, Kondo appeared on social networks to defend the love he has had with his hologram for some years, and with which he lives and seeks to be recognized as a “sexual minority”, since he is not interested in another type of relationship.
“I love Hatsune Miku. I’m so happy,” she wrote in a post this week along with photos from her wedding and marital life.
And although he received many messages of support, he also made public that he received messages from hatred, to which he responded through the same social network and defended his current sentimental situation.
“ I think there are people who have fallen in love with characters like manga, anime and games. He is often accused of being ‘abnormal’. But I respect your love. There are people whose hearts have been saved by the characters. Even if he is criticized, your love is true, “he wrote.
In another tweet, he claimed to have received a message in English telling him to find someone from It is true that she loved him and that her love was false, to which she replied: “ It is the right to freedom of expression to express my impressions about the marriage between Miku and me at home. I feel free to express my thoughts. However, if you say something like ‘disgusting’ or ‘crazy,’ a sensible adult will know that the person saying it will feel hurt. Freedom is two sides of the same coin with responsibility”, he refuted.
It should be noted that months after the marriage, the company that created the hologram, Gatebox, announced that, by the end of 2018, the device that reproduces the hologram of Miku, which allows you to interact with the fictional character through simple queries with predefined answers, would leave to work.
However, Akihiko Kondo noted that the company discontinued manufacturing of that line of interactive holograms in March of 2020, much earlier than expected.
Consequently, the support for the machine’s software, which made communication between the two possible, was eliminated and, therefore, Therefore, Kondo was unable to interact with his wife. At the moment, a life-size Miku doll has become his companion.
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