Japanese Man Marries Video Game Girlfriend

But the wedding's probably not legally binding
By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff
Posted Nov 25, 2009 1:33 PM CST
Japanese Man Marries Video Game Girlfriend
Meet Nene Anegasaki, who's just made some lonely Japanese guy very happy.   (Love Plus)

A Japanese man pledged his undying love to a video game character last weekend, in a first-of-its-kind ceremony witnessed by dozens of gamers. The man, username Sal9000, had fallen in love with Nene Anegasaki, a virtual woman in the Nintendo DS dating simulator “Love Plus.” He “married” his digital before a real-life priest, though the priest stressed the marriage wasn’t legally binding. Some gaming websites, however, say Sal9000 earlier took Anegasaki to a chapel in Guam, where marriage laws are looser. (More Japan stories.)

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