Dakimakura

Dakimakura are similar to Western orthopedic body pillows, and are commonly used by Japanese youth as "comfort objects".

[1] During the late '90s and early 2000s, dakimakura began to intertwine with otaku culture, leading to the production of pillow covers featuring printed images of bishōjo and bishōnen posed lying down from various anime or bishōjo games.

The year 2015 saw some of the first talking body pillows with Ita-Supo and its mascot, Rina Makuraba.

It was invented by former Kyushu Institute of Technology researcher, Koichi Uchimura.

[6] Love pillows are a subset of dakimakura usually portraying life-size pictures of characters in intercourse poses.