This Hatsune Miku Situation Is Not Looking Good Right Now...

Mohammed Agbadi talking about the Japanese Man Who Married Hatsune Miku and what happened to their marriage...

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[narudayo]

Fun fact: Vocaloid are like barbie dolls.
The official age they could have are only the age of the official box art.
Many artist portray Miku in many different ways. Sometimes she is a toddler, a kid or teenager and other many times she is an adult woman or a girl of unknown age.
Sometimes she is the queen of a kingdom, a salarywoman, a girl of unknown age dissing her boyfriend, a known fashionista.
Sometimes she is a zombie, a ghost, a succubus, etc.
Sometimes she sound very young, sometimes she has a very deep voice.
Miku/vocaloid can be anything. They are there to help voiceless artist to tell stories.

Also a common trope in the beginning of the vocaloid fandom was that Miku/Vocaloird were robot dolls waiting for the producer/artist to create a song and design their new outfit and set the age + character they would play.

But nowadays, most people who discover Miku, get mad at any explicit song, sung by Miku, and with no suprise, they think that she is either a robot, an hologram, they call the songs "Miku songs" which is a wording that tells a lot, because vocaloid user and people who understand how things works call it "name of the producer song" or "name of the producer ft Vocaloid name". Forgetting that the fandom "made" Miku.

[SilentTur]

the fact that these people were rejected so much by the society to the point that they could only find love in fictional characters just goes to show how hard people can be

[spicynoodles]

Honestly the part where he said he'd rather be with a fictional character because she would never get sick, or die, hurt a little bit, because it's a very reasonable fear, and seeing someone you love suffer is legitimately one of the worst things that can happen.

I don't know, it's a little sad in a way, because in part he does that so he doesn't get more hurt by real people, but at the same time, if he's really happy like that, I would say continue, and I'm glad he found his ideal partner.

[ariannasv]

I actually felt kinda sad for the guy when you mentioned that they had to shut down the service for the device and when you said she was replaced with a network error sign, that hit kinda hard for whatever reason.

[LillianGraceFullofficial]

This story is the epitome of “do what makes you happy”

[bluedotdinosaur]

Something outsiders often don't understand is how brutally repressive Japanese culture can be. The reason why the "high school" period of life is so romanticized and fascinating in Japanese pop culture, is for a pretty sad reason: the brief window of time between puberty and adulthood is perceived as the only opportunity Japanese people have to gain some degree of independence and responsibility, but also explore their own personality, feelings, and desires.

After that window closes it is expected that people will crush their individuality and assimilate into the group. Unless someone is fortunate enough to be able to build a career in a highly idiosyncratic field, such as art or entertainment, they are expected to disappear entirely into whatever group they find themselves in. This puts tremendous pressure on those who suffer any anxiety over interacting with other people, or those who simply feel the need to express a slightly different personality from whatever is expected of them.

Shut-in culture is the result of this oppression. Fixation on the colorful world of pop culture fictions and figures is an understandable desire for escape to a reality in which everything isn't so brutally ground to paste.

Note that I wouldn't say this person shouldn't do whatever makes him happy. It is just that there is quite a lot of context behind why you see people develop these feelings so often in Japan, compared to most other places.

[Ziehua]

At least he knows that she’s not real and doesn’t really get mad at people when they tell him that

Good for him

[enbyfrogz]

i mean, he's hurting absolutely no one by doing this. its better than being obsessed to a real person. if he's chillin, so am i yk?

[minetta]

Tbh I like seeing his posts on Instagram, it's just wholesome. The man is living his life and is happy. The fact Miku could change someone's life for the better in this way while "odd" for some is sweet.

[andronnai]

When you brought up the part about the possibility of many other people also wanting to have relationships with the same fictional character, it reminded me of a time at a convention when someone started freaking out and screaming at an artist that they couldn't be selling merch of a certain character because it's their waifu and other people can't have her. It was a very odd and disturbing situation for security and the con staff.

[captainspaceboy]

This makes me a bit sad. Japanese society forces people to overwork so much that they don't have time to fall in love or create important friendships. So they turn to the next thing that fills that gap of platonic and or romantic relationships which are anime characters.

[littleblueclovers]

“When we are together she makes me smile. In that sense, she is real.”
That hits hard. I wish him the best.

[Lyliarc]

My first ever figure was Miku, I love her songs quite a bit. I'm happy for this guy to be married to such an amazing fictional character. Hope he keeps that amazing marriage.

[lostfox]

Imagine being bullied and pushed to the point where you no longer want to love real people and go to fictional characters instead. Honestly, I don't blame him. We humans are very awful.

[Lemonrollcake]

Hatsune Miku has been 16 for 15 years. At this point she is a 31 year old woman pretending to be a teenager.

[Korettln]

I wanna know what he does for work. His wedding to Miku was really fancy and he had a lot of guests. He has some really impressive collectibles that can’t be cheap.

I’m happy for him. He’s not hurting anyone ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[ShyasShadow]

6:18 Vocaloids don't have anything canon. Vocaloids can actually be anything you want them to be since the creators let's anyone decide any headcanons of the character's. Mainly the characters are supposed to be a certain age but since the characters are nothing but just voice banks, It's up to the fans.

Just a small fact I wanna share. Greate video btw.

[lordsoronexle]

For how weird it is, this story is a pretty sweet one. The marriage holds strong even through the worst of times and there's hope that it can be on the rise again.

[TheHydroHawk]

Honestly if he's happy, he's happy so fair play to him and he has at least some self-awareness ig🤷
lowkey reminds me of the rent-a-gf mangaka who's apprently dating his own character.

[ballbob]

An Italian playwrighter named Pirandello often talked about how every human wears an imaginary, unmovable and everlasting mask. You will always play a character when interacting with others, while never showing your true self to anyone. None will ever truly understand your feelings and thoughts more than you.
You are cursed to be alone even if you try to connect with someone.

I think Akihito is going to be fine.