Which Female Body Pillow are suitable For Being Girlfriend?

You might shockingly wonder that what is happening in Japan once you come to know about the body pillow girlfriend phenomenon. A lot of Japanese men are literally consorting with these two-dimensional lover-pillows with anime characters embedded on them. This is in fact, a creepy and discomforting tendency which might cause a mass disturbance among young Japanese men.

Owning a body pillow girlfriend seems to be a trendy yet original occurrence like the “Hikikomori Paradox”, which also took place in Japan. Due to that phenomenon, several thousand male youngsters locked themselves up in their bedchambers for many months as they were scared of their extraneous surroundings. This anomaly created a devastating level of abnormality among thousands of families where the boys suffered from that particular experience of social fear.
Dakimakura/Body Pillow Girlfriend
Dakimakura is the actual term that is being used to define the hug pillow/body pillow girlfriend. This word of Japanese origin means “Hug Pillow” when translated in English, where Daki has the meaning “to hug or to clutch or to take in arms” and Makura is the Japanese word that refers to a pillow. The whole term simply describes the Japanese pillows that are quite larger than regular pillows and have life-size anime characters printed on them.

This particular term often means love pillows for men as they have female anime girls portrayed on them with intriguing poses and those pillows are huggable too. They are very much like the body pillows found in western countries which are used in comforting people with orthopedic diseases. Although, in Japan, Dakimakura are frequently used by the young males as “Comfort Object” for providing them with psychological support and comfort.

Although comfort objects are usually for the improvement of child psychology, often mature persons use such objects. According to a recent survey conducted in the United Kingdom, 35% of the British adult population nonetheless like sleeping with stuffed toys, such as teddy bears or bunnies. The body pillow girlfriend is one such material to provide psychological relaxation according to many Japanese boys. They keep this secret item as a comfort object as well as a splash of imaginary romance to their lonely lives.

The trend of Dakimakura started from the year of 1990 among the Okatu community in Japan. The term Okatu is commonly used to describe the obsession of people with certain interests, especially anime and manga characters. The trend was further spread among fans of anime characters associated with the production of pillow coverings that had printed portrays of many famous anime heroines of that time. Those pillow covers usually featured bishoujo (a Japanese term for a beautiful young girl) and Bishōnen (a Japanese term that means beautiful youth) characters. Those characters were from many Japanese video games that featured attractive young girls as the main characters of the play. In general, such games were called bishōjo game or “gal game”.

Cospa was the store that released the very first line of Okatu Dakimakura body pillows. This company was the sole distributor of hug pillows/love pillows for quite a many years, and still is one of the major manufacturers of this specific character goods. These pillows are sometimes being called the “Dutch wife” which is closely associated with another Japanese term “Chikufujin” which means the “Bamboo wife”.

During the year of 2015, talking body pillows were first produced which portrayed Rina Makuraba, the character from “Ita supo”. The technology of talking love pillows was the invention of Koichi Uchimura, one of the earliest researchers of the Kyushu Institute of Technology. Since then, many other advanced features have been introduced to this specific item to make people more and more interested towards that trend. Nowadays, companies deliver customized body pillows with any anime character instructed by their customers.

Until 2005, all Dakimakura came in one size (160 x 50 centimeter). After that another longer size was launched in the market. Right now, these Japanese anime featuring body pillows are available in a couple of different sizes.
• 160 Centimeter
• 150 CentimeterBoth the sizes are 50 centimeters wide, with a total circumfarence of 100 centimeters. The smaller size gained more overseas popularity as it fits the highest limit of weight that can be via express mail services.

The female characters in the anime who is suitable for being your girlfriendAmong several thousand popular female anime characters, it is really hard to choose one particular girl whom you would find the most suitable for being your girlfriend. The decision becomes tougher as each and every character is unique in its own way. Whether you prefer the physical appearance or the romantic characteristics of a roleplay, there are plenty of options in the virtual world of anime and manga. Below are the top 10 anime female characters which have received the highest ranking by the votes from their fans all over the world according to several contests and surveys, both physical and online. 
• Mikasa Ackerman From Attack on Titan
• Yuuki Asuna From Sword Art Online
• Celty Sturluson From Durarara!!
• Motoko Kusanagi From Ghost in the Shell
• Kurono Kurumu From Rosario + Vampire.
• Erza Scarlet From Fairy Tail
• Touka Kirishima From Tokyo Ghoul
• Nora Valkyrie From Beacon Academy
• Hatsune Miku manufactured by Crypton Future Media
• Sailor Moon From Shōjo manga

Why are they suitable for being your body pillow girlfriend?

Now, let us look at the personalities and featuring qualities of all these top rated anime characters which make them much suitable for being your body pillow girlfriend.

Mikasa Ackerman: She is taller than average, fair, has chin-length black hair, physically strong with lots of muscle power. pale skin and calm black eyes make her more irresistible. She is a teenaged girl who has become an amazing soldier in the military corporation. She has an alive yet innocent person with a strong judgment of right and wrong.

Yuuki Asuna: With long brown-orange hair, hazel eyes, she has 80-59-82 vitals. She is tall and physically fit, a lethal fighter. Previously careless of death, her way of life changes since she meets Kirito (leading male character). She is kind and caring. She takes things to heart quite easily. She is brave enough to take control of things. Although, she can easily be manipulated by controlling her emotional weakness.

Celty Sturluson: Known as the headless rider with an incredible motorcycle. She is a fairy from Ireland, who came to Japan in search of her lost head. With pale white skin, her head initially showed blue eyes and thick brown hair. Her body is very well built and she mostly wears a black biker’s jumpsuit. She is very simple yet almost emotionless. She has high confidence level the personality of an optimist. She likes watching movies or playing virtual games.

Motoko Kusanagi: A synthetic cyborg with human-like appreance. She has a boyfriend yet shows lesbianism. She has a perfect sexy body with a tall stature. Her body is made of advanced materials which are highly touch-sensitive. She is less extrovert and moody. 

Kurono Kurumu: With ocean like blue hair and deep purple eyes, she has a very bouncy pair of G-cup breasts. She has a smaller height with a perfectly curved body. In her succubus form, she has a tail, large wings, and long claw-like fingernails. Seducing men is her natural quality as a succubus and she is much confident about her beauty charms.

Erza Scarlet: She is an S-class conjuror with brown eyes and long scarlet hair. She has an artificial eye on the right side as she accidentally lost the original one in childhood. She has a very appealing figure with strong build-up. She is both inpatient and strict in personality. She is also highly sensible towards law and justice. 

Touka Kirishima: She is an evil demon who wears a rabbit mask while hunting. She is a teenager who is thin yet has attractive physical characteristics. She has purple bob hair with bangs on the left side and dark eyes. With a reckless personality, she shows the hardship of living a dual life (Human and Demon).

Nora Valkyrie: She has shoulder-length orange hair, jade/aqua eyes and a pink aura with pale white skin. She has an average height of 5’1″ and thin body with very seductive curves. She looks amazing in all the pink, white and black outfits. She is a cheerful girl with playfulness in her nature. She is very open-minded and quickly makes new friends.

Hatsune Miku: She is a girl of 16 with long turquoise double ponytails. She is a Human-like person with the synthetic singing application. She has a curvy luscious body with thin stature. She is jolly-minded and a very sensual singer.

Sailor Moon: She has long yellow hair with front bangs and twin ponytails. She is thin, tall and has a very sexy physical appearance. She is one of the most famous manga characters from the mid-90’s. She is extrovert, playful and very caring towards people around her. 

Why do so many people like to have a body pillow girlfriend? 
In recent years, more and more people are willing to have a body pillow girlfriend regardless of their real love life. It is not a trend among those men only who do not have a girlfriend or have no active sex-life, but also getting more and more famous among men who already have girlfriends. There are certain in-depth reasons behind this type of extreme and reckless act like having a body pillow and pretending to make a girlfriend character out of that. 

If we try to look into the deepness of such cynical and misanthropic behavior of Japanese men, the reason for such desperate measures is quite easily understandable. In that specific nation. one-fourth of the total male population of the age group starting from the late twenties to the early thirties, still have not experienced any real physical intimacy, especially with a person of the opposite sex. In addition to this situation, half of that population do not have any companion of the opposite gender.
It is clear that Japan is not the only country that has a large number of citizens who have been suffering from loneliness and the state of inactivity regarding physical intimacy. It is more likely that their social operation and cultural practices are forcefully making them occupy such anti-social abnormalities. It is actually the way their community functions which is forcing the males to become more uncoordinated and introspective while ultimately leading them to such sick actions.

Now, you can somewhat understand why this is happening. People often think it is hard to live a decent life in western countries, but it is so much harder in Japan. If you do not have roughly a B average throughout your student life, then when it comes to the time for getting a job, you are more or less pressurized as far as possible for gaining anything decent. Usually, the employers do not just want to know if an applicant is graduated, they look at all the details of that individual’s schooling system. 

Additionally, schools are not publicly funded out there entirely. When it comes to taking an exam for getting into the next grade or school, you have to pay for it. It is not generally cheap and that puts a lot of pressure on people to pass the first time around. A lot of people go to a “Cram School” which also costs quite a lot of money. Spending more money practically equals to more stress.

It is not like that good education is not necessary, however, compared to other Asian countries, the system and situation are too much pressure-creating on families and the individuals. With that much stress put on education, it is easily assumed that the lives of Japanese men are much oppressing. It only makes sense that a lot of people snap under the pressure they experience from everyday living situations and go into isolation or develop weird habits like having body pillow girlfriends.

Conclusion
Finally, some people are being a little or maybe a lot more obsessed with their favorite anime characters. Dakimakura has probably provided the most intense relationships of the anime fans with their loving virtual heroines. Although, not everyone is absolutely in love with them. While a major portion of the fandom is having pretty much serious and intense relationship with their body pillow girlfriends, still there are individuals who find them repulsive.
In the end, it is all about enjoying the anime girls of your dreams in a bit more realistic way. However, there are more reasons to like them than to not like them and getting cozy with a love pillow could be the ultimate option to save yourself from the monotony of a lonely sleep.