Citations:husbando

Noun: "(fandom slang) a male waifu, typically belonging to a female otaku"

 * 2013, "Rok the Reaper", "Otaku Culture: Husbando & Waifu", Genki Life Magazine, Winter 2013, page 47:
 * Beyond a reasonable doubt people will think having a waifu or husbando is the mark of someone who cannot get a boyfriend or girlfriend and is just down right pathetic.
 * 2017, Chengyan Zeng, "Living in Virtual Reality: Anime and Manga Fandom", in Exploring the Rise of Fandom in Contemporary Consumer Culture (ed. Chenglu Wang), page 249:
 * Different from others, the waifu and the husbando are dedicated to only one character.
 * 2018, Pilan Scruggs, "Obsessive Anime Fan Claims Waifu as Dependent, Goes Unnoticed by IRS", The MQ (satirical newspaper of the University of California San Diego), 14 March 2018, page 5:
 * "We should get along, and I would love to help others out so that they can claim their waifus and husbandos on their returns for this period."
 * 2018, "Wills", The Matador (San Gabriel High School, San Gabriel, CA), 16 May 2018, page 24:
 * passion for games and art to Vincent, waifus and husbandos to Sunhi, and a bright future to Ashley Young.
 * 2018, "Kaye: Your Happy Pill", Bliss Digital Arts Batch 2018, page 131:
 * Just don't frequently mention her husbandos around her though, she'll be rendered speechless for hours. *cough* Loki *cough*.
 * 2019, Dale Beren, It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump Into Office, unnumbered page:
 * For example, the otaku had popularized body pillows, a human-size pillow imprinted with the image of one's waifu (“wife”) or husbando (“husband”), the anime girl or boy to which the otaku imagines he or she is married.
 * 2019, Marc Castillo, "Staff Picks: Best Of 2019", Konshuu, Volume 51, Issue 1 (2019), page 8:
 * I played this for the husbandos, and I have no regrets.
 * 2019, Phoenix Fan Fusion 2019 Program Guide, page 65:
 * We know that you otaku have a waifu or husbando to share!
 * 2019, Anabell Xu, "Put Your Money Where Your Heart Is", The Arcadia Quill (Arcadia High School, Arcadia, CA), February 2019, page 5:
 * That's right, you heard me, your local cartoon husbando is nothing but a marketing trick designed to get you, a single person, to fall in love and buy their merch!
 * 2019, Aaron Wang & Kelly Yip, "'Frozen 2' Reviews That'll Thaw a Frozen Heart" (satire), The Stuyvesant Spectator (Stuyvesant High School, Manhattan, NY), 20 December 2019, page 23:
 * Lastly, best anime waifu/husbando is Olaf, no doubt.
 * 2021, Courtney N. Plante, Stephen Reysen, & Thomas R. Brooks, CAPE: A Multidimensional Model of Fan Interest, page 191:
 * For example, about 30% of anime fans report having waifu or husbando—that is, they consider (sometimes jokingly, sometimes not) an anime character to be their wife or husband
 * 2021, Stephen Reysen, Courtney N. Plante, Daniel Chadborn, Sharon E. Roberts, & Kathleen C. Gerbasi, Transported to Another World: The Psychology of Anime Fans, unnumbered page:
 * Those with waifus or husbandos are also more likely to feel a greater sense of belongingness to the anime fandom, a fandom which they're also more likely to consider to be unique compared to other fandoms.
 * 2021, IJane Louise Caringal, "What Kind Of Otaku Are You?", The Leaf (Santa Teresa College, Bauan, Philippines), Volume 54, Number 1, page 15:
 * When it comes to her ships, husbandos, and even waifus, she is as passionate as a housewife on a time-limited sale.
 * 2021, Booked (University of Negros Occidental-Recoletos, Bacolod, Philippines), page 87:
 * She has a long list of husbandos and does not hesitate to assign one for each day of the week.