It has been a long wait since I have won the bloodiest auction battle I have ever participated in order to win the right to bring one of the rarest Dollfie Dream Kuze Kiriha 紅瀬桐葉 home, released at Kyoto 5 of 2008, but her appearances in Yahoo Japan Auction is considerably more rare than Dollfie Dream before her such as Feena Fam Earthlight and Estel Freesia, Dollfie Dream that released along with her, such as Erika Sendo; and Dollfie Dream that released after her, such as Saber, Asuka Langley Soryu and Rei Ayanami.
It's been another intense camera action day as I have a lot on my agenda. The first order of business is to have two of my lovely daughters to try out the two of the most adorable maid dress set from Kyoto 7, Sasara School Swimsuit Maid and He is My Master Maid Dress set. There is no argument for who should wear the School Swimsuit Maid, but there was room for debate for the He is My Master Dress set, I finally decided to have Kiriha model for us, why Kiriha? Because she is my most pampered daughter! There will be some hints of yuri action here and there in this photo session, as I finally come to term to fulfill the promise I made way back to take some yuri photos for my daughters XD. Please enjoy~
How I managed to tour Japan in 3 Days and 4 Nights while hitting all the hot spots like Odaiba Gundam, Evangelion 2.0 You can (not) advance, Kamen Rider Decade Movie - All Riders vs. Dai Shocker with shopping in Akihabara! My assistant Pretty Fräulein Asuka-chan will guide you through all that.
How long has it been since I acquired the cloak for Saber? Hmm ever since Airi arrived? Yeah, I been wanting to do a Saber solo shoot out for that long, but laziness and procrastination delayed it for this long! Errr, not really, I was busy with other stuff and had the lighting setup packed away and didn't pull them back out until just recently. Anyway, I been wanting to do this shoot out with Saber standing in front of the Buckingham Palace and I have finally done it! I think I managed to pack a few pretty good shots in there, hopefully you would enjoy them as much as I did :D
Alright, so I finally made it to the new cast on the PS2 port version Estel Freesia. What can I say about her? Estel is quite a tsundere, more than Natsuki (especially after I started her Moonlight Cradle arc) and definitely a tough nut to crack! I am going to try a slightly different approach and compact her story a bit more, Feena's story was way too long and I probably had way too much details in the last writeup.
I originally planned to hold on to this group photo session before the Dollfie Dream Theater storyline has a chance to catch up and introduce the new character as a surprise element, but Volks USA has informed me yesterday that I have just hit the "surprise element" deadline >.>;;; Anyway, the long and short of it is that I have picked up a 2nd Sasara back in Hometown Nagoya 4 After Event party...
A few days ago, I welcomed my Sixteenth Dollfie Dream Daughter DD娃娃 人偶 Matou Sakura to my family; and I had Saber, Rin and Ecchi Lion came out to gave Sakura a warm welcome; but that was not all that I had in mind! The number sixteenth daughter also mark the completion of a Platoon!! Since such a significant milestone cannot be ignored or overlooked.... so I have decided to summon all of my daughters together for a full family portrait (it's been a while since I did the last family photo)! This special event is also know as Dollfie Dream Daughters Grand Glorious Gathering, DDDGGG for short!
Whether or not you believe in Easter, there is never too many of bunny girls or chocolate eggs... so, for the sake of more bunny girls and chocolate eggs; I have decided to have two of my Dollfie Dream cosplay as bunny girls for some sexy bunny girls theme photo, please enjoy~
It's been a few days since Airi arrived at my residence, and I have to admit that I have grown to like her more and more as each day gone by. So it's natural that I put together a photo shoot for her with a proper background~ I hope you enjoy these photos as much as I do :)
A few weeks ago I announced that I will be holding an Adopt a Sasara Contest and I have spent the last couple of weeks trying decide on a contest format that is fair and have the ability to incorporate my own opinion as well as public opinion and finally, to test the contestants' knowledge about Sasara! I have actually decided on the contest format some time ago but since we are drawing close to December, I think it's best to get the contest started, the intent is of course to have Sasara arrive at her new home before Christmas.
For the past month or so, I have been secretly working a large scale Dollfie Dream photo shoot to celebrate the arrival of my fifteenth Dollfie Dream daughter Erika and fourteenth daughter Estel (since Estel never did get a proper photo shoot of her own, partly because I knew I had Erika on the way
Been quiet for the past couple of days, but I finally started to feel better for the past day so I decided to catch this chance to go out with my Dollfie Daughters again. The main objective this time was to correct a few oversights I had in the last outing so I had to take DD Asuka アスカ and DD Rin 遠坂 凛 out again, but that would be a tad too dry just to keep taking photos of those two so I decided to take DD Saber out with me as well.
It's been almost two weeks since I started this Yoake Mae yori Ruriiro na Visual Novel marathon run project which includes the original Yoake Mae yori Ruriiro na Visual Novel (2005) August soft, Yoake Mae yori Ruriiro na -Brighter than dawning blue- (2009) Aria soft and Yoake Mae yori Ruriiro na -Moonlight Cradle- (2009) August soft, it's a massive undertaking that I have never attempted before. But after over a week worth of effort, I am finally getting close to the midway point. This project really started when I redecorated my room with three Feena fam Earthlight Dakimakuras and one bath towel, then all of a sudden I wondered about how much do I really know about her.
Ever since the announcement of Dollfie Dream Sasara 久寿川 ささら by Volks a few days ago, I have assigned utmost priority to learn about Sasara's story. It's funny that I have been putting it off for more than a year, and I know I have been wanting to do it but the announcement of DD Sasara gave me the final nudge in the back I needed to start another visual novel marathon. I suppose this is my first Leaf game as well.
I have always heard about how Anime Expo is one of the largest anime convention in North America but I have never once thought about going there myself in previous years. However, the convergence of various factors this year including the chance of meeting some of the friends I have made online at figure.fm, a trip to Volks USA and meeting Danny in person were enough to persuade me to make this journey. So, for this past weekend, I have picked my most pampered Dollfie Dream, DD娃娃 Kiriha Kuze 紅瀬桐葉 to accompany me to Anime Expo 2010 in Los Angeles!
I am just going to say it to get it off my chest, Natsuki Takamizawa (鷹見沢 菜月) deserves more attention than she is getting! Ok, while I don't think Natsuki is in the same league as Feena in terms of elegance and beauty, and she may just be a plain Jane next door neighborhood girl; but she is quite cute in her own rights, I don't understand why there hasn't been a single figure made of her yet.
First there was Getchu.com blocking non-Japan IP addresses, then Alicesoft.com.. it seems I have brought very little good eroge gaming news today… but fear not my comrade, I have got good news this time! Popular 3D Eroge Game maker Illusion Soft have announced a collaborative 3D Character Collection game with Forgest to bring you the authentic rendition of popular eroge game characters from Alicesoft, BaseSon and Visual Art’s!
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I am sure we have all heard of some eroge game companies began blocking access to non-Japanese IP addresses some months ago, but until recently it really hasn’t affected me all that much until yesterday… I found out one of my favorite online shop Getchu.com, they sell Anime DVDs, various Anime related merchandises, Games, Music, Books, Doujin, and the all important Eroges… and I have been using their website for the latest releases in Japan because they have a very comprehensive coverage on just about everything, not just eroges…but all genres. However, my worst fear have happened last night, they have begun blocking Non-Japanese IP. At first I thought their site might have went down…
Edited: Popular game publisher Alicesoft is also blocking non-Japan IP >.<;
Edited again: It appear in less than 24 hours since I wrote up this post, the apparent ban on non-Japan IP has already been lifted… for now.
But then I found their twitter account online…. everything seemed fine… which confirmed my fear…. I pulled myself together and found a Japan Proxy Server to use on top of my Virtual Machine.
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Been an interesting past couple of days, I am still exciting over winning the bid on bringing a brand new Dollfie Dream Kiriha home with me, hopefully she would arrive within the next two weeks or so. The extravagant bidding war over Dollfie Dream Kiriha a few days ago finally lured out another Kiriha parent to put his/her girl up for adoption (which is totally within my expectation), I will keep my eyes out on how this one play out. While I am fairly certain that it will not reach the same price as what I had paid, mine is brand new and un-open, this one is “used”; it would still be interesting to see how many prospective Kiriha parents will show up to claim her. Anyway, since it’s Sunday so I decided to put Escalayer into the Sexy Demon Girl set I recently acquired in the Feburary outfit collection, since I though the color scheme really suits Escalayer’s red hair.
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I have been after the Saber Alter dress ever since I got into the world of Dollfie Dream, but for some reason the dress has always eluded me in one way or another.. whether it was losing out on the bidding war or the set was incomplete.. anyway, a few weeks ago I spotted an auction for an after market look-alike to Saber Alter’s costume for DDDy body, I wasted little time to try to get my hands on it. The package has arrived today and I am too excited for words so I have my first daughter Escalayer tried it out immediately!
The dress came well packaged and is lined with white cloth all the way inside so I don’t think I have to worry about staining, but I will do my due diligence and inspect Escalayer after 24 hours~
It felt like it’s been forever since the last time I talk about eroge game now, perhaps it has to do with the fact that the last Illusion game Yuusha Kara Wa Nigerarenai was too much of a failure for me to even spend any time on it. Anyway, what I am going to talk about this time is the Alicesoft 20th Anniversay Project: Alice 2010. The same company that brought us awesome games such as Mamatoto, Beat Angel Escalayer, Sengoku Rance, Daiakuji, Big Bang Age, Beat Blade Haruka and Toushin Toshi 3.
I have been a fan of Alicesoft games for many many years now, most of their games are very fun to play, challenging and require some level of fluency in Japanese before you can play effectively, not to mention most of their heroines are drop dead gorgeous! Every now and then, Alicesoft would do a fandisk release call the Alice Mansion, which contain a collection of omake stuff, songs, short stories etc. The year 2010 is Alicesoft’s 20th anniversary and they have prepared to go with a bang! Let’s take a brief look at what they have to offer!
Here we have Alicesoft’s mascot, Alice in her modern look; she has received many face lifts over the past 20 years or so, and needless to say, she is still one of the most kawaii eroge game company mascot around!
A few days ago, blogsphere comrade Tier celebrated his acquisition of the rare and limited edition of pre-painted version of the 1/4 Uesugi Kenshin from Volks A-brand. I promised him to take a few pictures of my own 1/4 Gathering version for him to compare the finishing quality between the two. That reminded me, I never quite taken pictures of my 1/4 army, might as well take this chance to snap a few pics eh?
For those of you who are not familiar just who this Uesugi Kenshin is, please take a look at one of my earlier post for the 1/5 Uesugi Kenshin Freeing version. In 2007, in a survey done by Tech Gian, Kenshin narrowly defeated Saber from Fate Stay Night to become the most popular eroge game heroine of the year. Enough talking, let’s dig in~
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I picked up this Kenshin a few years ago, obviously I haven’t gotten in Dollfie Dream then. I have always treasured this Kenshin as the most elegant painted figure I have ever owned, like a goddess descended from heaven.
It’s been a few days since I submitted my 2nd Dollfie daughter Asuka to the figure.fm x Hobby Link Japan sponsored Miss Dollfie Summer 2009 pageant contest. I initially submitted my 1st daughter Escalayer’s entry but due to time constraint I didn’t do a very good job on the entry. Now that the time period has been extended, I sort of feel the need to go back and do another special session with Escalayer because I felt I had put more effort into Asuka’s entry and it isn’t fair to Escalayer.
Timing is tight so I had to fired up Hikari Photo Studio and took us to a more exotic location for a special photo session!
Figure.fm, another community site under Dannychoo.com has been buzzing with activities lately. The latest contest, sponsored by the good folks at Hobby Link Japan is Miss Dollfie Summer 2009! Among the prizes are a very neat looking black gothic style dress and a ToHeart 2 uniform set!
The details of the contest are as follow:
All your daughter has to do is post 3 different sets of photos of herself. Rules time:-
To be honest here, I am doing this for the sake of participation more than anything since I don’t really have casual dresses for my dollfie daughters. However, it’s a good excuse to take my daughters outside for some photos, some of them are actually pretty good! I wish I had more time to prepare for more outdoor photos of my daughters, since I have been busy writing up the ToHeart 2 summary for Kusugawa Sasara, otherwise I would have sent more of my daughters in for the competitions!
My entry for the contest, my fairest daughter – Escalayer!
[*] How old are they
Escalayer was adopted on April 20th, 2009, but when I ask her how old was she, she told me “All Eroge game heroines are at least 18 years old!”
[*] What they like doing
She likes to watch Kamen Rider with me and help me out on Eroge game when I get stuck!
[*] Favorite food
Chinese dim sum – Siu Mai
[*] The first word that they said to you
Henshin! 変身!
[*] Why your daughter is the fairest of them all
My daughter has a very cheerful smile, a beautiful head of long straight red hair and a charming body. I love her so much that I adopted 6 more daughters to accompany her!
Escalayer practicing her henshin move in front of the sun set.
I am sure a lot of you have grown tired of my continuous Dollfie Dream and Otaku Project spam, how about a little change of pace and go back to the good old PVC figure review for a bit huh? I have done a brief summary of this 1/5 FREEing Kenshin in the Dollfie Dream Completion Project Arrival post as I got her but that didn’t do her enough justice so I decided to do a more detail review for her.
One of the main reasons why I haven’t done much with PVC photo review is because of the wordpress 2.8 upgrade has broken one of my most favorite plug-in Wordpress Flickr Manager. It takes cares of everything for me, but since it’s broken and the developer is no where in sight, I am not sure when this is going to get fixed >.>; I wish I never upgraded to wordpress 2.8 despite of all the new features, having a working flickr manager is way more important to me….
Anyway, enough ranting, let’s get back to Kenshin! Believe me when I say this is probably the best looking Uesugi Kenshin PVC figure we have to-date, she definitely deserve this title. The previous attempts by Griffon and Kotobukiya could not even come close to the beauty of this Kenshin.
I am not sure for what purpose I am writing this post, but I just feel like getting it off my chest. For a better part of 7 years now, I have been collecting merchandises ranging from painted resins, PVC figures, posters, stick pillow from the eroge game Beat Angel Escalayer from Alicesoft.
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