A fictitious wife or what is a buf?

What can I say about animeshniki? This people are keen. Sometimes so passionate that he wants to move the 2D world into reality by any means. Perhaps, this is a kind of charm, because thanks to the fans of this genre in the everyday life there are new, interesting words about which ordinary people know nothing. For example, what is "vuifu"?

Term meaning

Sounds like the English word "wife", which means "wife". That's just what does this have to do with otaku and what is the "wifu" in anime?

Describe, this term can be as follows:

• Weifu is a favorite character from the manga or anime, which otaku (fan) allegedly elevates to the status of his wife.

If it is even easier to explain what "vuif" is, then it can be said that this is any fictional character of the female gender, to which there is a special relationship. And the addiction to the painted girl, as a rule, is manifested in the fact that she is considered her husband.

How it all began?

The primary English expression appeared on the territory of Japan at the time of the arrival of the first Americans. Initially, this word was not given much importance, and to "gaijin" (foreigners) in the country of the Rising Sun are wary.

After the Second World War, English is included in the school curriculum as compulsory. The country becomes open to visits, and some foreign words and phrases become an indispensable element of youth jargon.

Since the anime industry is focused on the adolescent and adult audience, the directors always follow the new trends in the speeches and behavior of the target audience. For the first time this term was sounded in the TV series "Azumanga", which was broadcast in 1999-2002 on the TokyoTV channel. School teacher Kimura, talking about his family, wanted to boast to his colleagues knowledge of English and called his wife "Vuif". This episode became the main catalyst that provoked the penetration and rapid spread of the word on the Web.

At first, when the term did not yet have an established definition, the answer to the question of what "vaifu" was - "Goddess". It did not quite correspond to reality. To the "goddess" the anime-boy feels a feeling of awe and aesthetic satisfaction, but an intimate attraction can feel to the "vuif" of the otak.

New era

Now that we know what "vaif" is and where it came from, it will be logical to assume what will happen next. There is a hypothesis about what will become real in the future. Looking at how the fashion for "marriages with anime characters" grows, Gaetbox introduced an electronic assistant in November 2016, the avatar of which is an anime character.

The assistant can work independently, has the ability to learn, knows how to recognize signals. Something reminds Ene - the "electronic girl" of the main character of the anime "The actors of the blinded city". By the way, it can also be regarded as a buf.

That's it, one of the sides of the ideal world of animes. Someone will consider that this is a complete absurdity, someone will start leafing through the textbooks on psychiatry in search of a suitable diagnosis, and someone will just look at another series with your favorite "Vuif".