A 48-year old man and Love Plus player since 5 years, sits in his one room apartment with the console he uses to chat with his virtual girlfriend Manaka
A 48-year old Love Plus player holds a picture of himself and his virtual girlfriend Manaka. taken during a holiday in Atami which was programmed in the game. The weekend included a possibility to beam your virtual girlfriend to life size in order to have a picture taken together thanks to a digital chip on the ground.
Hitomi, mother of two and a frequent player of Voltage romance simulation games, poses for a portrait after work in Tokyo.
Hitomi, mother of two and a frequent player of Voltage romance applications, mainly plays her game while commuting to work in the Tokyo JR train line.
Visitors at the Star Wars exhibition in Mori Art Museum in Tokyo.
Kosaki puts a pair of manmade glasses on the doll he made by himself. He says that he stopped playing Love Plus when the creating company Konami stopped updating the game: ’Just like in real love, the story has to evolve, otherwise the relationship has no future’.
Kosaki with his home made doll.
Kosakis’ home made doll sits on a speaker in his living room. K., who creates robots for the boat industry, quit Love Plus when Konami stopped updating the game. He says that just like in a real relationship, the story has to evolve to be interesting.
Girls dance on the street after the Niconico Chokaiki weekend Anime fair in the outskirts of Tokyo.
The double room in Ohnoya hotel in Atami, one of the destinations for a programmed weekend trip with a virtual girlfriend for the players of Kotamis’ dating simulation game Love Plus.
A UFO-catcher machine and sofas in a backroom of the Adult museum, one of the locations on the list for the Love Plus player who would take his virtual girlfriend to Atami for a weekend.
Jennai, the producer of the new romantic game Waldburgsgedichte, with a story booklet in her lap.
A female Cosplayer takes a selfie with her smartphone before a photo shoot at the Niconico Chokaiki Anime fare in Tokyo.
The audience listens and sings along to a DJ show during Niconico Chokaiki weekend Anime fare in Tokyo.
Professor Yumi Asahi with Utano and Prince-Sana, frequent players of Otome games and a part of her research on the game culture in Japan.
A waitress dressed as a cosplayer tries to hand out a flyer to a passer-by on a street in Akihabara, a district famous for its electronic shops and Otome cafés in Tokyo.
Mr. Masano arranges the desk before the doors open to an event he has arranged for Love Plus users to gather and play, their consoles plugged to a beamer for an almost life-sized girlfriend screened on the wall.
A Love Plus playing married couple show pictures on their smartphones of dolls who ressemble the game’s virtual girlfriends Rinko, Nene and Manaka, during a visit to the Octoberfest in Germany. Beside the phone stands a little figurine of Nene wearing handmade clothes.
Mr. Masano gives a brief introduction to the event he has arranged for Love Plus users during a weekend fare before the doors open to the public.
A man with a briefcase laughs while chatting and with a waitress dressed as a Cosplayer on a main street in Akihabara, a district famous for its electronic shops and Otome cafés in Tokyo.
A player of Love Plus, indicates the itinerary of a programmed weekend in Atami on a map. The players were to take their virtual girlfriends on a trip and to follow the game instructions once there on where to go and what to do.
Jyunichi and Emi, a married couple and since 4 years frequent players of Love Plus, hold up their playing consoles, each one with a picture of their virtual Love Plus girlfriend: Manaka to the left, Rinko the the right.
Players of Konamis’ dating simulation game Love Plus sit around a table with their playing consoles and game gadgets during an Anime fare in Tokyo.
