Kind of.
Yuki Kashiwagi's android copy, Yukirin, is getting married to another robot, Frois, a robot designed by Maywa Denki in the likeness of a bath stool.
The marriage ceremony is taking place at Aoyama Cay in central Tokyo on June 27th.
Perhaps to calm down assuage any otaku, Yukirin has been rechristened Roborin, but to all intents and purposes she appears to be the same robot.
Tickets cost ¥10,000 and are limited to 100 people.
Is human-robot marriage (and sex!) now only a short step away?!
Our imaginations are running wild.
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When you need something done, crowdsource it. And we know that Japanese netizens are a creative and resourceful bunch.
For Valentine's Day (when girls give guys chocolates in Japan), Tenga became the Tenga Robo... a mecha creation for pleasuring the men.
For White Day (March 14th, when the guys give chocolates to the girls in Japan), Japan's netizens reciprocated and turned Tenga into a Iroha-integrated robot. As shared on Twitter in an ever more outlandish series of images, the Tenga Iroha Robo was artistically very impressive.
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On Valentine's Day, something amazing happened on the Japanese Twittersphere. People celebrated Tenga as the perfect Valentine's Day companion.
As reported by KAI-YOU, the leading adult toy brand found itself converted into a mecha robot by a series of talented illustrated.
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Forget Cornelius, Noise and all that. It seems that Japan's reputation in the world of electronic dance consists of little more than the country that has both technology and horny people.
To be fair, it is not wholly wrong. This is the nation of the Shiri robotic ass and the Yukirin AKB48 android.
And clearly Basement Jaxx like this side of things since for their music for "Never Say Never ft. ETML" they featured it almost exclusively.
Set in some distant future where dance has been banned or "72% people have stopped partaking" in dancing -- again, is this a reference to Japan? ...
Will this finally take the crown for AKB48 Fan of the Century?
As reported by our friends at JapanTrends.com, one admirer of Yuki Kashiwagi has succeeded in making a working android of her, the Yukirin Robot.
AKB48 fans aren't known for their subtlety or restraint. From purchasing up crazy amounts of CDs and merchandise to attacking the objects of their desire at handshaking events, AKB48 is a group that inspires all manner of extreme response from its fans.
But this is something we haven't personally seen before, though it is at least technically impressive.
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Everyone knows that I am a big ass man so naturally I got excited when I heard about the Shiri.
Its makers say it is a "buttocks humanoid that represents emotions with visual and tactual [sic] transformation of the muscles".
We say it's the best sex machine that never was!
Yes, now the genius of Japanese engineering has been directed not to saving the country from its energy crisis, food shortage or any of the litany of other issues. Instead, there is Shiri, a realistic ass robot with "organic, artificial muscles".
Made using a urethane skeleton, there is a Gluteus Maximus Actuator -- ...
