"Mai Waifu"

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What exactly makes people think that the characters that tend to be designated as these would marry them?

(This doesn't count certain hentai characters that will seriously go for anyone or whatever)

glennmagusharvey

Wish-fulfillment.

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Isn't that only supposed to apply to media/items that fulfill their wishes in some way?

(Admittedly, there are a lot of bodypillows, but still...)

MillerCross

Wish fullfillment applies to everything, Eddie.

DonZabu

I assume at least half of the people who say "mai waifu" are being facetious about it.

At least, I hope.

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You mean like the misogynistic jokes from people that don't actually care much about how men have less power than before where they live?

Radd

Easy, most women in anime would be deformed freaks IRL, so they'd be desperate. 

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I take it you believe in the almighty sexual needs of the beasts known as humans.

Wait, if we consider them deformed freaks, why wouldn't they consider us deformed freaks?

Radd

Because we outnumber them.

Counterclock

If I ever heard that phrase used in real-life..

Like the sounds of that phrase coming out of someone's mouth.

I'd probably hit them... A lot, with objects and items found around the place.

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Because we outnumber them.

Does that mean eventually, humans will become the most sexually attracted to ants?

Counterclock

Stars outnumber ants.

Logically, people want to have sex with the stars.

Space program go go go!

glennmagusharvey

Yes, there is definitely a lot of facetiousness.

The set of people who are "mai waifu" claimants is a set that has long courted Poe's Revolving Door.

Radd

@Edmania

No, it means that we are giant mutant freaks.

TheMightyAnonym

Pinkie Pie is mai waifu.

MoeDantes

What exactly makes people think that the characters that tend to be designated as these would marry them?

Especially when one such character is a fucking pony.

EDIT: Made this post before seeing the one directly above (FWIW, I was thinking of Fluttershy)

DYRE

Yui Hirasawa is mai waifu.  Though, yeah, she definitely would never actually marry me, especially since she's probably a lesbian.

Also because she's not real, but, y'know, that's only a minor detail.

glennmagusharvey

I wonder if anyone thinks that the companion cube is their waifu.

DYRE

http://archive.easymodo.net/a/thread/32056049

glennmagusharvey

should not have asked

Forzare

I don't think most people who use the term "waifu" actually think that said anime character is real or would want to marry them.

I've never seen it used seriously that I can remember.

Chagen

Forzare: You're gonna eat those words, son....

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Logically, people want to have sex with the (literal) stars(in space).

Looks like I like futuristic porn?

Stormtroper

Why should the suns heave through the void, if not to be skewer't bypon ourn fagpoles?

Shichibukai

Because we outnumber them.

I wonder, if we counted every named fictional character in history, would that really be the case?

Dynamod

its not like they can say no, they are virtual characters.

just write some fanfic where it happens, and bam! it happens.

true, it isnt canon, but IT COUNTS :<

(also I think I remember reading a story where some guy ACTUALLY MARRIED an anime character. in real life.)

MillerCross

I'm fairly sure you're referring to that time Edmond Dantes married Konata. 

Counterclock

"true, it isnt canon, but IT COUNTS :<"

Juan vs. the world(The Yaoi version) counts then!

glennmagusharvey

^^ No, there was an actual case of someone marrying Fate Testarossa.

That said, whether he thought he was marrying the character or the body pillow case, I don't know.  You go research it yourself.