Who is Your Waifu?

[Erttheking]

While I personally think that waifu is a word that needs to go die in a fire alongside noob, causal, and white knight, (Mainly because people use it to insult others more than anything else) I'd have to go with this cute little cupcake.

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http://delimiter.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/knight-solaire.jpg

....Oh don't look at me like that. The guy says he wonders if you have feelings for him regardless of your gender and some people say we're all a like biesexual inside, and...he's just a friendly, helpful, likable guy. I'd probably be uncomfortable with the more intimate stuff, but hey, I'd be ok with him. I'd help him find his sun.

 

[Grayjack]

I have a lot of waifus, so I'll just post my top 2.

Spoiler: Blanc from Hyperdimension Neptunia

and

Spoiler: Dolce from Rune Factory 4

 

[deserteagleeye]

What, am I not enough of a Chie fanatic to warrant your list? I'll have you know I killed off Marie for her.....ok that was more for my own personal benefit.

Weren't you just lazy and didn't want to do her dungeon? Her Tsun levels were too much for you to take!

I did it for the original ending without Marie. I'm still gonna save her on my next playthrough though, begrudgingly. And even then my motivation mostly lies with fighting Margaret for the first time, saving Marie is just an afterthought. Did I mention I don't like Marie?! I really, REALLY don't like her.

 

[klaynexas3]

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She is why I played Persona 4. I fucking loved her.

Also. I'm surprised how many people actually posted in this thread.

 

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SANCTIMONIOUS SNIP

Ooh, ooh, I can do this too! Let's see...

I've got it. Sometimes people joke about murder. While this may seem harmless, it is actually symptomatic of a far larger problem: some people do, in fact, commit murder. The seriousness of this may not be apparent at first, but upon close observation you'll notice that both of the previous phrases contain the word "murder". Coincidence? I think not.

Sure some of you may laugh, and say that trying to establish a link between a lighthearted humorous remark and homicide is ridiculous, but you'd be missing the larger picture. In our haste to "have a sense of humour", we fail to consider the exacerbating influence that making jokes tangentially related to a serious subject has on that subject's continued existence.

There we go. Did I do it right?

 

[Dango]

I am my own waifu. Waifu #1

 

[Stryc9]

This one:

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Or this one:

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Guess I just have a thing for women who could potentially kill me...

 

[Lord Rothschild]

Mahoro Andou
mahoromatic is my fav anime and a combat andriod maid... can't beat and one of the other charactures is voiced by steave bloom I'd go gay to hear that voice wisper sweet nothings in my ear all night.


http://www.hdwpapers.com/walls/mahoromatic_desktop_wallpaper_2-normal5.4.jpg

 

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

Here's the thing though... I am highly sure that 99% of the people in this thread do not want to have sex with the fictional characters they've selected.

I'd say you're making a mistake by assuming that, Frappe. At best, most people would simply say that to save face. Put them in an anonymous environment and you'll get different answers.

kawaii snipfu

On the contrary, there are plenty of views, sexual fetishes and types of people that have huge amounts of stigma attached to them

To steal lines from an excellent video on the subject, we all view fictional characters as real on some level. If we didn't, everything fictional we see would be meaningless nonsense.

As for attraction, I really don't see the problem. I have exactly the same chance of sleeping with a Playboy model as I do with Tali'zorah. None whatsoever. Drawing are attractive. Infatuation is just the next logical step.

I do agree that there is a line. At the point where a person is actually rejecting physical contact because they feel the need to be loyal to a fictional character, it's more than a bit silly.

OT:
In the world of attraction to fictional characters, I would be considered a manwhore. I've never been able to settle on just one.

Except maybe Blaziken. Yes, that one.

 

[MSfire012]

<img src=http://eroderekko.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/hanako-1.jpg width=600 height=450>
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Hanako from Katawa Shoujo is the closest I have to a traditional Waifu, however. I find her immensely adorable and absolutely love her story route, finding it the best route in the game.

Someone else picked Hanako as well?! Dude, high five! Hanako's an awesome character, isn't she?
I really love her arc over all the others and her ending.... it hits me hard every time I think about it.

Yes, I love Hanako from Katawa Shoujo, high five indeed. I played her route the first, and the whole rest of the novel felt rather lacking comparing to it. And now Katawa Shoujo's getting an awesome fan dub, and Hanako has probably the greatest voice in it. I mean, check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPH0O6FDEbA

 

[KingKickass]

<spoiler=My #1 Choice>

Hanako from Katawa Shoujo. The game could of easily just made her a character full of tragedy, highly unstable and shown to be a character with very dark themes. But, instead... the game handled her very well. She's actually normal in a sense, with a lot of interesting aspects to her. Yeah, she can be super shy- but when she's used to you... she's really a person who doesn't allow her scars to tie her down.

Hanako is actually competitive when you're playing against her. She also loves to read and tries her best to improve oneself. The reason why I love Hanako is because she never plays the victim card. Not once... and wants the best for Lilly and Hiaso (despite he doesn't deserve crap... but whatever.) I love the way Hanako is kind, is modest, and though she has obvious faults of holding things in... she is very understanding. Best part about Hanako is the very fact that she doesn't WANT anyone's help forced on her, or to be pitied. She wants to be herself and accepted, but also given the chance to be something more rather then taken cared of. Hanako would be my waifu, though I much rather prefer her being in my life regardless of relationshions. She's just to darn awesome.

Hanako is best girl!

OT: Hanako Ikezawa would be my first pick, second pick however...

Spoiler: #2 best girl(s)

Either Yoko from Gurren Lagann or Elizabeth from Bioshock: Infinite. Both are great characters that I just love through and through.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I will never ever EVER use the term "waifu." EVER! That being said, I have had several crushes on fictional characters inc. Lina from Slayers (don't ask) and Videl from DBZ. Note, I said "had" as in past tense.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and Chihiro from Persona 3 too.

 

[Drummodino]

Yes, I love Hanako from Katawa Shoujo, high five indeed. I played her route the first, and the whole rest of the novel felt rather lacking comparing to it. And now Katawa Shoujo's getting an awesome fan dub, and Hanako has probably the greatest voice in it. I mean, check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPH0O6FDEbA

A Katawa Shoujo fandub? Huh, that's... interesting. I'm actually a bit skeptical because the voices won't match how I imagine them in my head. I think I'll just stick to the vanilla version for when I replay it.

 

[Scars Unseen]

I don't really get this whole thing... I watch anime(though less than I used to), read manga, and recently started playing visual novels, but I don't really find myself attracted to the characters themselves so much as the interactions between characters.

With that said, I would so far have to say that my favorite 2 characters would have to be Makise Kurisu from Steins;Gate and Matsushima Michiru from Grisaia no Kajitsu. The first plays a sort of tsundere straight "man" to the overly goofy main character, and the second is more of a wannabe tsundere that instead just comes off as an idiot, which pretty much makes every scene she's in hilarious(especially since the main in that VN is a sarcastic ass).

Here are some pics(though in these characters' case, it's pretty much all about the chemistry with the main character):

Spoiler: Makise Kurisu

Spoiler: Matsushima Michiru

 

[doodger]

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While I do find the Waifu thing/otaku culture really odd at times, trying to link the Japanese population thing/the current miasma surrounding the country to be mistaking the symptoms for the illness.

From what I've seen Japan is an extremely conservative country, rooted in the kind of Confucian ideology that is popular throughout Asia. There is an insane pressure on the younger generation to succeed their parents and work 70 hours a week in their dead-end corporate job. No wonder that in such a culture where people go from 10 hours of school a day to 10 hours of work a day dating and romance might be lost for many Japanese kids. Is it also surprising that people who want to be different from the rest of the group find their sole escape in a sub-culture that is unique to them? While it is not a healthy thing I do understand them.
As for the good folks at the escapist, well, we are probably the 1 percent of the 1 percent of people who hang out on the internet. I don't think this kind of light hearted forum posts is going to be the norm in 20 years.

OT:

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I am surprisingly fond of Fujiwara no Mokou from the Touhou series. Part of it is [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETTk83qis0w" ]her incredible boss theme song[/URL], and part of it is her interesting backstory. An immortal condemned to loneliness, she spends her time by herself in a remote forest, hesitant to get closer to people she know will eventually leave her life. She alternates spending her time running a chicken selling stand or killing and getting killed by her(also immortal) rival.

 

[waj9876]

...Sure, why not? A few characters I've had crushes on, in a "I know they're not real, but I would probably be in love with them if they were." kind of crush.

Spoiler: Shampoo/Xian Pu

Shampoo from Ranma1/2. Bubbly and fun-loving. Extremely affectionate towards her "Airen." Very skilled martial artist. From a tribe of amazons. Doesn't use doors, prefers to knock walls down.

Spoiler: Naoto Shirogane

Naoto Shirogane. Cross-dressing detective of Persona 4. She dresses like a boy because of the bias against girls in a male dominated workforce. She's also incredibly intelligent and is the only outsider to the whole Persona thing to figure out that the main character's are at the center of the whole thing. At least until she joins the party.

Spoiler: Centorea Shianus

Centorea Shianus. A centaur knight who takes honor, tradition, and battle very seriously. Is extremely strong-willed, yet incredibly weak to any kind of affection, becoming easily flustered and embarrassed from just holding hands.

Spoiler: Hanako Ikezawa

Hanako Ikezawa from Katawa Shoujo. Incredibly shy, intelligent, and one of the most adorable yet also sad video game characters ever. Her house burned down when she was little, and she only survived because her mother covered her to protect her. She listened as her mom burned to death, and still received incredibly horrific burns on the right side of her body. What really pushed her into being as introverted as she is, is because of the bullying she received because of this. What really makes me love this character, is that if you try to protect her like she's some fragile little doll, she'll freak the hell out and you'll get her bad ending.

 

[Raika]

Spoiler: Mai waifu

I love Final Fantasy. Love, love, love, love, love Final Fantasy. Love it. Love every silly, melodramatic, convoluted moment of every silly, melodramatic, convoluted game(except for the ones I haven't played yet, but I'm getting to it!) I've fallen for many of its characters, but in Final Fantasy X-2's astoundingly lovable Yuna, I found a person to whom I could relate, a person I could admire, and a person with whom I would probably be even more obsessed than I already am if she actually existed. Yuna's incredibly personal, secular character arc touches my heart every time I witness it. Through countless playthroughs, I still feel my eyes well up every time she finally gets not what she needs, but what she wants.

Not to mention her lovely eyes, sunny smile, and fluffy hair. I always picture it as being a bit coarse to the touch.

 

[Alssadar]

Spoiler: Best waifu

You're waifu is shit. What you gunna do
I'll be serious now

Spoiler: Anastacia

If it wasn't my duty to die for the flame, I'd gladly stay by the bonfire.

Spoiler: Mikuru

The standard of what moe is to be measured to

Spoiler: Miia

She's a goof, but still charming

Spoiler: Nonspecific monstergirl waifu

Hugging, handholding, and other lewdness.

Now, if you excuse me, this thread made me remember that I need to download Katawa Shoujo again, and stop pushing myself when I go jogging and actually meet the other girls. I'm looking for Lily this time.

 

[EternallyBored]

I guess the abridged version of what I'm trying to get across is lighten up. This topic was clearly never meant to be heavy.

And I think what I'm trying to elucidate is that perhaps the subject is not taken seriously enough, or simply accepted as "not my concern" when collectively it is something that should be considered to potentially be a concern. The population crisis in Japan (Fukushima and surviving one of the largest recorded earthquakes in recent human history notwithstanding) is, I believe, the tip of an iceberg, and in the briny depths of the ocean, lies this subject..and others.

Now I suppose we could say that the population crisis in Japan is not our concern either. But perhaps it should be if Japan is simply a diorama image of a potential larger world problem in the near future where not just Japan is in crisis.

Armchair philosophy or no...it is, at least, critical thought about behavioral trends that could lend themselves to very real world consequences at some point. So while this topic is not meant to be heavy, and I respect it for what it is, the subject matter at hand is a facet of many larger potential philosophical problems which tend to have real world ramifications at some point down the line.

I believe in our pursuit to take things lightly we sometimes forget that without the few people taking things seriously, we'd have no room to take things lightly at all. And perhaps as a generation we are far too irresponsible for our own good.

That post would have been nice if you didn't demonstrate a gross misunderstanding of the Japanese population drop and the social, economic, and environmental pressures that brought it about, not to mention completely lacking in any actual discussion of why those factors are actually relevent outside of an insular nation with a very unique cultural dynamic on the world stage, also failing to actually elucidate on the problems in favor of just stating that it is a problem.

Even in Japan, the "Waifu" thing is a gross minority and only gets brought up by Japanese media for shock value. News outlets talk about it the same way news pundits in the U.S. talk about saying "Happy Holidays' being a widesperead pervasive attack on Christianity. The Prevalence of attraction to fictional characters is a drop in the bucket compared to the actual factors that are causing the drop in births in Japan, things like: massive living costs making it too expensive to raise a family outside of the upper middle class and the rich, a decades long economic slump, the almost complete overuse of land and resources in a small geographic area, an immigration policy that restricts movement and addition of new citizens, a government that has shown little interest in actually increasing population growth by a significant margin, and an extremely insular culture that makes it very difficult to relocate within its own territory. All of these are the actual factors causing Japan's aging population, not people joking about liking fictional characters, nobody outside of sensationalist media centers has even tried to make that connection.

This also ignores the fact that Japan kind of has an unsustainable population as it is, so there is no telling what factors will equalize birth rates as the population drops to a more sustainable level. Pretending to have a heavy conversation about a topic by grossly sensationalizing its effects right out of the gate serves no purpose but to shoot any point you may have had in the foot.

There is a legitimate discussion to be had about how to help people who have become dependent on escapism and refusing to confront reality. Trying to conflate that discussion as if it is some great societal ill will accomplish nothing more than causing the people on this forum to ignore you as a sensationalist who is more interested in starting a flame war, than having an actual discussion.

 

[oZode]

I recall having a cartoon crush on Mindy when I was eight, but beyond that I don't really have a "waifu" since I don't find animated women that attractive. There's a fakeness to animated things that turns me off too much. Sure a picture might be cute, but I can comprehend long lasting feeling for what is a character made up by someone. The illusion just isn't there for me. I prefer a level of imperfection in my sense of attraction/cute. Animated women rarely ever provide that. However, females in reality have provided this imperfect cuteness factor in leaps and bounds.

Not to mention I find the idea of buying a wife worrying in implication. The issue with a animated character for me is that you make the character do what you want if interacting with you [chances are in any game where you can ingame romance your waifu, they'll look it up how to make that happen], and it comes off as little better that prostitution to me as a result.

So yes, I see a waifu not that different from a sex slave. But I don't take much offense to the practice, since they're fictional characters and if the internet's taught me a thing, it's that you can do whatever the hell you want with a imaginary character as long as you don't publish it...

Unless it is a waifu of your making or some exception to the rule of course.