She has "performed" at virtual concerts, even opening for Lady Gaga, and appeared in manga and video games.Īccording to Kondo, he and Miku started dating in 2008. The bride is a Vocaloid-singing software produced by Yamaha-who looks like a 16-year-old girl.
Much more recently, the idea made headlines around the world when Akihiko Kondo, a Japanese school administrator in his thirties, married Hatsune Miku, "a turquoise-haired, computer-synthesized pop singer," in the words of The New York Times. The heart wants what it wants and, for some people, that's a fictional character.įictosexuality-falling in love with an imaginary figure-is unusual, but it's an instinct at least as old as the Pygmalion myth in Ovid's Metamorphoses (first published in 8AD).