>>71408448>>71408464I read an article before about some filthy rich otaku that picked up a dirt poor SEA girl to act like his favorite character from some obscure older anime. She started living with him when she was still pretty young and he basically groomed her to become that character. Had costumes made for her and stuff and she roleplayed that girl 24/7 in his presence.
I doubt that's the only time that happened, there's probably a full on (obviously black) industry for it.