New York Times Feature on 2-D Complex

The New York Times now features an in-depth article written by TokyoMango contributor Lisa Katayama on the recent phenomenon of older Japanese otaku embracing love and affection for anime characters normally reserved for more common relationships by profiling several different people who willingly demonstrate their affection for cute anime girls in different ways such as creating body pillow sheets, creating fan comics, and treating the characters as actual living breathing people.

The piece is startlingly revealing and demonstrates the different degrees of the fetish from the indifferent to the uncomfortably extreme end of the spectrum ending with the most human of desires, that being the quest for companionship.