from waynemah's flickr
by Shannon Togawa Mercer
I don’t know that I can write a lead for this article. I’m just going to say it. A man in Japan, known only as “SAL9000”, has married the love his life: Nene Anegasaki. But Nene isn’t your average bride. She didn’t have a long flowing train and her mother wasn’t sitting in the pews crying. In fact, Nene is the most unconventional bride Japan has ever seen. Nene is a video game character.
SAL9000, of Tokyo, wed this virtual vixen in a solemn ceremony hosted by the Tokyo Institute of Technology (I am having way too much fun with this). Vows were exchanged between man and, um, wife, by verbal declarations of love and flashed messages on SAL9000’s Nintendo DS screen. SAL takes his “till death do us part” vow seriously, telling the BBC that he will not abandon Nene, even if Nintendo comes out with a newer version of her game.
After a lively disco reception, SAL9000 and his Nene jetted off to Guam (shout out to my home island) for their honeymoon. It’s only unfortunate that SAL and Nene had to sacrifice the first 10 minutes and last 10 minutes of their maiden voyage together (the cabin doors have now been closed, please turn off all portable electronic devices, ipod, compact disc players. We will notify you when the use of such portable electronic devices is permitted).
See: The Telegraph, BBC
