Funny Pictures : Hot Pillow From Japan, Dakimakura

Dakimakura, which implies “the hug pillows”, are the type of orthopedic pillows with life-size photos of anime women on them meant to be embraced during a bedtime by those that suffer from loneliness. A dakimakura may be a variety of massive pillow from Japan. The word is commonly translated in English simply as “hug pillow”. In Japanese culture, dakimakura are not any totally different from Western orthopedic body pillows, and are commonly used by Japanese youth as “security objects”. However, from a western perspective, the word “dakimakura” is primarily used to point the popularized image of love pillows with graphic illustrations of feminine characters of a bishōjo vogue.

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