Simply because of a term named waifu There're some guys got fall in love with female anime character and treat her like his girlfriend or even wife Even if the anime girl is from a shoujo anime, they'd watch it The craziest case, Miyajima Reiji, mangaka of Rent a Girlfriend claims that Chizuru, main girl of the series is his girlfriend. He makes a character he made on his own as his waifu I have a waifu too. Even I collect more merchandises of my waifu than my oshimen at 48/46 There's also a counterpart of waifu named husbando Girls can also get attached to male anime characters Just look at Omori Maho aka Mahopyon from AKB48 Team B. From her, we can learn that 48/46 members are only banned from having boyfriends, but they're still allowed to be obsessed to male anime characters Maho's husbando is Gojo from Jujutsu Kaisen. Yeah, Gojo has many fangirls. Reports said that during Jujutsu Kaisen 0 screening, many girls were screaming during the scene when Gojo opened his eye bandage
