Talk:Hatsune Miku/@comment-34440083-20190802173408/@comment-53539-20190802223130

Actually its not odd.

Japan worships objects (idols). Their belief is that inanimate objects have a "spirit" or "soul" within them. But the way it is... For example... When a child reaches a certain age in some places they burn their toys to set the "spirit" within the toy free.

Its hard to define it as I'm not 100% on par with the full meaning of it.

The image of the boxart character is Miku's "avatar" and her voice her spirit.

So Miku is an idol basically and is treated as a mini-God.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%8Dkai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsukumogami

These two pages might help you understand where their coming from.

Buddhism, the main religion of Japan is a Godless religion (Buddha is not a God, he is a priest, a scholar, a monk, a guide, etc and he directs you to enlightenment), but a lot of these folklore pre-date the introduction of Buddhism in Japan. In many cases, whats happened as well is the two things have integrated into each other (it happens, the Easter Bunny is not Christian, ts Pagan).

So if you sort of half-understand all of this, you sort of shouldn't be surprised if Miku's treated like a God, I don't fully understand all this myself nor do I pretend I do.