Prayer for robot pets

 robotic dog pets, attend a ritual for their health, called Shichi-Go-San, which is usually held for praying for children's health and wellbeing

Unlike children those robot pets can't do anything when the owner become older, at the end will end up kodokushi.

Wait, what!??

Wth did I just read!??

Now I understand. Whew! This makes sense. Everything falls into place. Got it.

I need a big grain of salt for this one.

Our dystopian future has arrived early….

Only in Japan.

All those people in line didn't all just decide to do this. There was probably a big ad campaign to get these people's money. 七五三 is going to be another commercial holiday enterprise aimed at the lonely.