Japanese Hug Pillow Moans, Groans, And Gives Lonely People Company

While pillow talk has one connotation in the West, it has quite a different one in Japan, and now the definition has been stretched even further as the world meets the “Ita-Supo,” the first ever talking pillow.

The smart and innovative Japanese developer of the new hug-pillow is Koichi Uchimura who decided that pillows were too quiet and boring and needed a revamp.

Clearly having his own sleep issues, Uchimura decided it was high time to do something about it and came up with the anime pillow, known as dakimakura in Japanese.

As the inventor told reporters, “When we’d sleep in the same bed, I’d start to think, ‘I wish she could talk,’ so I wanted to make that a reality. If you don’t rub her, she won’t make any sounds. You have to rub her.”

In explaining further the concept of his new innovation, Uchimura proceeded to rub the pillow’s breasts, or at least the picture on the pillow who is named Rina, to get back sounds of delight.

Then, in true quirky Japanese style, the inventor goes ahead and reaches down to touch Rina in her nether regions, to which she promptly responds with a serious, “No, not there,” even though she displays heart icons to show she is kind of into it.

Then again, if you go to far and start grabbing at the pillow too, hard you will be met with more stern shrieks of “Hey, that hurts!” or “Hey, hands off!”

And if you persist and grab the pillow even more, without stopping, her shrieks soon turn into a fully blown bad mood, where she gives you the cold shoulder and stops talking to you altogether.

Nevertheless, if you treat your pillow well and touch her softly, you can expect such responses as, “What’s gonna happen if I start to love you even more than I already do?”