Kondo Akihiko is an ordinary Japanese man who married a hologram named Miku. Hatsune Miku is a very popular synthesized pop singer with a cartoon avatar. When Akihiki, who’d always been shy around women, ‘met’ Miku he took an instant liking to her. The fact that she’s not real didn’t bother him at all. He’s got several versions of Miku at home - dolls of various sizes and an extremely sought-after hologram that was issued as a limited edition at a cost of over 2,700 dollars. Unions between real people and online entities are becoming more and more popular in Japan. Space Dimension Crossing Bureau agency registered 3,805 such unions two weeks after opening. But can an engineered life partner really make a person happy?
