There's a man, his name is Akiko Condo, he married the woman of his dreams,
that was in 2018.
But this particular woman doesn't really exist when it comes to other folks.
She is actually a hologram and there was some technology that was created to help
this gentleman find the girl of his dreams.
Now it does get a little different from here because he's a 38 year old man,
he has friends.
He's a normal guy, I know you guys are judging him already,
but he fell in love with this particular fictional character of a pop singer
who appears in anime, Manga and also video games.
Again, this all sounds very much like someone you may have come across
in your life.
This gets deeper, so here he is, he's 30 years old,
he was dating Hatsune Miku is her name.
She's depicted in pop culture as a 16 year old with turquoise hair and for
a decade he dated her before they had an unofficial wedding ceremony in 2018.
Condo, one of many who identifies as fictosexual, someone who was sexually
attracted to fictional characters, spent two million yen or
about $17,300 on the nuptials, but his family didn't attend.
>> Wow. >> Here's a picture of our hero,
he's very happy with his bride.
Let's look at this picture, it actually made me smile, Dude is feeling good.
Let's keep it real.
>> [LAUGH] >> So
he was going through some issues, here's some details of what he was dealing with.
He was working as an administrator in a primary school about 12 years ago when he
was picked upon incessantly by two women, it's crazy.
One was close to his age and one was a lot older when he greeted them in the morning,
they would ignore him.
Then they would stand in the kitchen where he could hear them and
they would call him names and if he made a small mistake they would shout at him.
Sometimes in front of the young students which she found humiliating and
the bullying got so intolerable that he left work and
for almost two years he locked himself in his room and then he refused to leave.
So in that isolation after he quit that job and
was sick of all the bullying is when he found and began dating his now bride and
he returned to the real world and brought him back out of his depression.
So it's not that people can't live in society because
they are engrossed in a two dimensional world.
But rather there are cases where people become captivated as they search for
a place for themselves in video games and
anime because reality is too painful for them.
I was one of those people, people who don't understand the background probably
think games are disrupting their lives, but that's not the case.
So he's making his point about who he really is and how this all works and
don't judge me bro.
Also in 2017 there was his advice, as I mentioned at the top, it's called Gate Box
and allowed him to speak to that holographic version of Nicu and
they also offered some marriage license, which he took, took advantage of now.
Let's show how Gate Box works and how it allowed him to do this.
[MUSIC]
[FOREIGN] [LAUGH]
Ohio.
[MUSIC]
>> Ohio.
>> [FOREIGN]
[MUSIC]
[FOREIGN].
>> And there you have it.
>> Boy.
>> Okay So look, there's the funny part of this and the sad part of this, right?
So, fictosexual, really?
That's what we're doing now and this Hatsune Miku apparently a lot of
people are into her, that's like a big thing in Japan.
She's a character, she sings, I think she might have sang with Lady Gaga or
something.
So, but since she's sex fictional, obviously you can marry her and
anybody else can marry her because it's not real.
>> She's polly.
>> Okay.
>> Yeah.
Yeah, she's polly anyway.
>> Yeah. >> So she can,
she can marry multiple people.
>> I see, [LAUGH] okay, I was like, I'm looking for, I'm a boomer.
I'm missing poly poly sexual.
>> Yeah, [INAUDIBLE] polygamist.
>> Polygamist.
>> She's getting married as polygamists.
>> Yeah, that's right, that's right, well, no rules there.
If you're, so he throws the wedding $17,000, other victims, sexual dudes
show up at the wedding and he's happy about that, that's their community, right?
But the parents don't show up, I get that, and the people from work,
he said didn't show up that.
I don't get if somebody at work was saying to me, I'm gonna marry hologram.
I'm a fictosexual, I'm going to that wedding.
>> [LAUGH] >> Okay,
I'm definitely going to that wedding and I think it was a virtual wedding.
I mean, what are you not going to go click the thing to watch that wedding?
Are you nuts?
>> [INAUDIBLE] food? [LAUGH] I like it, so, yeah,
like my best friend was getting married that day.
I'm like brother, I love you, I want to come, but this fictosexual dude, I know.
>> [LAUGH] >> He's getting married and
I got to check that out, I mean, what in the world?
>> There's actually no food, it' all just a figment of your imagination,
it is also a hologram like dammit foiled again.
[LAUGH].
>> I know what delicious odors you, God dammit.
[LAUGH] Okay, that's- >> I think my biggest problem with this
is not the fictosexual, I think that's fine, whatever do you?
A lot of people were into lola bunny, whatever I think the weird thing is that
how many years has it been since Tupac appeared at Coachella and
that's the best hologram we got really a little baby.
Come on now, we got to make them more life size.
>> He's got to find a better system because I think as I pointed out that
hologram company or that technology has since gone away.
>> Yeah, so no, no, he's in a lot of trouble, he's hurt dog,
don't ask him if he's all right.
>> [LAUGH]. >> That's,
that's why we're reporting on this now.
He got married in 2018, but now he can't replace a part, so
she can't I think she can't talk anymore.
So he's like, I've lost my communication, you buy an Audi and
it's hard to find parts for the Audi, right?
>> Parts always been his hand, I mean, let's be real.
Wait, I just have to say that, my favorite part slash the most disturbing
part of this entire story is the origin story right?
Of him being like, well to real life, women made fun of me,
which that felt very much like a one sided characterization of what happened.
And that's why I'm essentially an insult, I mean, that's the in cell
logic is like women in the real world don't understand like I would get them,
but they don't get it.
One time one of them looked at me weird Anyway, was I wearing pants?
Probably not, but you know what I mean?
And you're just like, why is it women's fault that you can't like for
your own social anxiety, that's such misogynist like psychotic BF?
>> Okay, now, but at the same time in cells in America we are not all of them.
Okay, but there's been some spectacular cases of violence against women in this
case there is no violence.
The guy just withdraws from society and marries hologram, right?
And so I don't know how it went down in that actual room and you're right,
I'm positive.
There's the second side of that story and
he doesn't look like he's the most socially adept dude, right?
But of course it's sad guys, of course it is, right because it's not just about him
by the way, many people have married the same hologram.
And so and a lot of people in Japan,
this is like an actual subculture are fictosexual.
Okay, what's happening is we're losing our human connections,
we're losing our bonds and that actually there's a really
interesting vanity fair piece this week out about the new, right?
And so this is a group that is being largely funded by Peter Thiel who's
Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, $8 billion financier more than entrepreneur.
But anyway, and they admitted the piece, they're looking for a dictator,
they've given up on democracy and and it's super scary stuff.
But one of the things that they hate is tech and I'm like that's so random
because they're like all the other stuff is political, but they also hate big tech.
Now part of it,
you understand because they think that they're being censored etcetera.
But I think that as I read the piece,
they've lost a human connection that we used to have bonds between one another.
Now nobody's looking out for one another and by the way here in LA,
you'll see crime happen.
Nobody does anything, a guy will do something to a woman and
nobody will react and you're like do something.
We used to be, we used to be a tribe, we used to live together,
work together and and care about each other and those bonds are broken.
So the new right here in this country has taken that to a dark place,
our bonds are broken, so I'm going to go to the original bond.
Hey, you look like me, you're with the same identity as me,.
>> [INAUDIBLE] >> Right, and what is the tribe need?
A tribe needs a king, right?
And so they're going in that direction in Japan, the bonds are broken
in a different way and they're going in this direction, but none of it is healthy.
Like, so I'm with Francesca, look,
the government doesn't need to do anything about it.
Nobody has to pick on the poor guy and
they say, you're not allowed to do that if you want to have added host, you can.
But I want something better for those guys,
I want them to be able to establish a human connection.
>> I did a whole story on this for National Geographic,
about people who choose to essentially not date.
And a lot of the reasons actually kind of similar to the United States, which is,
people are overworked.
They're so overworked, they worked till like eight or nine at night and
they're tired as hell and like having a whole relationship is a big thing.
Women and men are both choosing essentially not to engage in
relationships, then there's the added, there's not a lot of good child care in
Japan just like there's not good childcare here.
Things are expensive, just like, so
there's other ways that I think we set ourselves up for the most inhuman and most
tech driven of ways of socializing para social is the element of this really fast.
>> There's one sentence on this because it's graphics having you guys para social
relationship occur when you experience a one sided emotional attachment with
a fictional character or a media personality.
So which one of you guys out there watching right now has a pair of social
relationship with Jake you got here.
>> I do.
>> [LAUGH] >> When I'm [INAUDIBLE]
>> Okay, I don't mind you fictionally
marrying.
>> [LAUGH] >> In a real world is a little bit
tougher, okay?
>> Really, not mind that if someone likes and like our wedding date was July seven.
>> [LAUGH] >> It's beautiful, here you are.
Would that wouldn't creep you out at all?
>> Yes and no, look, obviously.
>> [INAUDIBLE] nothing. >> No, obviously things didn't go right.
And they should be marrying a real person and they should have a real human bond.
But as long as they're not doing anything physical with me,
like, >> Sure.
>> Okay, we were married, why don't you remember?
Okay, that's a problem, right?
Okay, but like otherwise no, I don't want.
>> I don't want a good choice.
>> Yeah, look,
I'm going to tell a totally crazy [CROSSTALK] picture your face on a doll.
>> Maybe if you told your picture, just cut out the face.
>> No. >> Unlike this flimsy doll-