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Just two weeks ago I welcomed my Thirteenth Dollfie Dream Daughter Kiriha, I really didn’t expect to adopt the Fourteenth Daughter so quickly after paying up for Rina and Yuki last month; but really good deal rarely shows up in Yahoo Japan Auction and as I explained before in my last post, the deal I got for Estel was just too good to pass up and on top of that I have always been thinking about adopting Estel to make up for missing out on her PVC figure when it was on sale last year.  So here we are, after just welcoming my thirteenth daughter two weeks ago, my lovely loot inspection assistant Feena has once again joined us to introduce her youngest sister yet, Estel Freesia.

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For those of you who may not be aware, Feena and Estel actually came from the same PC game (they even share the same Dollfie Dream head mold), Bright than Dawning Blue / Yoake Mae Yori Ruriiro na.  Estel was a character introduced in the PS2 version of the game and it was ported back into PC in 2009, along with the release of Moonlight Cradle which was rated as the 2nd best seller in 2009 by Getchu.com

Those of you who might be interested in Estel Freesia’s background story, I have written an extensive summary of Estel Freesia’s story arc.

And here is the list of the loots I have acquired in March and early April.

  1. Dollfie Dream Estel Freesia + Casual Dress set
  2. Fortune Arterial Black Cat Maid by Azone International Won Fest Exclusive 2009.
  3. Estel Freesia Casual Dress set (stand alone)
  4. Sasara School Swimsuit Maid set from HT Kyoto 7
  5. He is my Master Maid set from HT Kyoto 7
  6. Dollfie Dream Dynamite base body
  7. Dollfie Dream optional part DD2-B-02 L bust
  8. Dollfie Dream optional part DD2-H-05 hands
  9. TnK Snow White Negligee set DDTK-0083
  10. Volks Lingerie Box – Bufferfly Motif for L bust

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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 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.  Ever since I have finished play Fortune Arterial back in January, I have already determined to bring her home… and the wait is finally over!  I hereby present to you, my thirteenth daughter -Kuze Kiriha- 紅瀬桐葉!

To celebrate her arrival, I have Feena, my 4th daughter to come out and introduce her to us!

Dollfie Dream Kiriha 紅瀬桐葉

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How should I put this?  I think I sealed the deal to adopt all of the Dollfie Dream that Volks licensed from August soft the moment I decided to adopt my thirteenth daughter Kiriha… because soon after I finished the paper work to bring her home, I suddenly came up with a very dangerous idea about doing a group photo based solely on the August girls (I call Feena, Estel, Erika and Kiriha as August Girls because they are all based on Visual Novel from August Soft, Brigther than Dawning Blue and Fortune Arterial respectively).  Some of my regular visitors here probably have read about the summary story I have written for Estel last year [Estel Freesia's normal arc].  Overall, I have to say I have taken a liking in her but not necessarily strong enough at the time to adopt her Dollfie Dream form last year, but I have in various occasions thought about doing so.  I have regretted over not picking up her Kotobukiya 1/8 scale figure when it was on sale last year, and I have been thinking about redeeming myself one of these days.  I even picked up her priestess uniform and her casual dress already, preparing to have Feena cosplay as Estel for photo shoot… but that plan fell apart after I came up with that group photo idea…

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I really didn’t plan on adopting Estel so soon since I have just paid for Rina, Yuki and Kiriha and was planning to wait and see what Dolpa 23 had to offer before going for her; however, a very special deal on Yahoo Japan Auction came up this morning offering a brand new DD Estel and her casual dress for 70k with buy it now option.  Even though I have already acquired Estel’s casual dress in a previous auction, that deal is just too good for me to pass up!  For those of you who is not familiar with Estel’s casual dress, I have found a website that show us how versatile that dress is!  With the dress valued at about 20k yen, that effectively put a brand new Estel at 50k, which is almost as good as a steal! View Full Article »

Alright, so I had a good night of sleep and lunch, it’s time to do a proper inspection on the mega loots I received yesterday.  As part of the July 4th Independence Day long weekend, I had a day off from work yesterday.  I guess it was a coincident that Dollfie Fate and Dollfie Nanoha, one from Volks Japan, another one from Volks USA would ended up arriving on the same day, everything just worked out the way I wanted!  The only problem was that the UPS driver didn’t show up until late in the afternoon so I couldn’t start the the inspection until after dinner.  Hobby Search came through with a package of their own as well, let’s take a look at them.

Obviously, the main attractions this time are DD Feito and DD Nanoha, but we have also got Feena cushion cover Moonlight Cradle version and a few Cospa cushions which has been out of stock at Hobby Search for some time now.

Edit: Added revised group photo, previous one was too cram.

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Still in the middle of planning my come back strategy on adopting Rin Tosaka Dollfie Dream, whether I should go straight to Yahoo Japan Auction (a few Rin Tosaka DD has already popped up on Yahoo Japan Auction but they all come at a ridiculous price, some even ask for as much as 90000yen for a 50000yen Dollfie Rin, no thanks, I am not in that much of a hurry!), or try to take a shot at the After event items, still undecided.  In the mean time, two of boxes have arrived for inspection for the month of May, this is the 3nd round of loots arrival for the month so far.  Let’s take a look at what we have here:

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The day I have been waiting for since the beginning of the month has come and gone, I have been checking my email at work every half an hour but the result didn’t come until I was back at home.

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I was so excited when I saw the email came through, but when I clicked on it… some of the items I put on the ticket were missing… namely the Rin Tohsaka DD and her school uniform set.  I can’t say I am very happy with the result but it’s not exactly the end of the world.  On one hand, it’s the first stumbling block I have encountered since I rolled out the Dollfie Dream Completion Project; but on the other hand, it will spare me from spending an extra $636 immediately.  I might eventually want to pick Rin up aftermarket and that usually mean I have to pay an extra 10-15% premium, so the fact that I couldn’t pick Rin up at the lottery event will mean that I have to spend more money in the long run.  The only saving grace for me is to relieve me of my guilt of spending too much money at one time >.>;  Enough talk about Dollfie Dream for now, let me move on to loots inspection.

A few boxes have arrived for inspection today.

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And the content, half of the loots this time are purchased after reading reviews of the items from my live blogroll.

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Before I go any further, I would like to take a moment to give my thanks to one of my comrades Optic from the Dis-jointedzone.  See that Nanoha Visual Collection in the upper right corner?  This must be like the second or third time that I went straight to order the magazine after reading Optic’s review, it really pays to go check his site once in a while to see if there is any good magazine out there :)   Thanks Optic!

Then in the middle pile we have G’s Magazine May edition, and I only really bought it as a tag along with the Nanoha Visual Collection, plus this issue comes with a bonus Estel Freesia bonus figure, yeah I know they are trading figure, but I need to have an Estel Freesia representative in my collection.  That little DS game tugged away at the bottom is the Super Robot War OG Saga: Endless Frontier.  I am a pretty big SRW fan and Endless Frontier has Kos-Mos Type IV from Xenosaga III as cross over, so I just have to buy it to show some support to Atlus so they would keep translating SRW games to the western auidence.

All the way to the left we have Raqel Gothic (original by Vispo) painted by E2046 Gathering.  Raqel is another immediate buy after I read her review at Exelica Meteor.  I am sure Jame’s photographic skill only help shows her beauty, but Gothic girl with a great axe is quite appealing by itself.  By the time I went to E2046 to look for her, version 3 was already sold out and the only one they have stock was version 1 and by the time they processed my order after the holiday weekend, they were down to 1 in stock.  A few days ago, in a rare occassion I have to say, E2046 has announced that will be making more Raqel Gothic version 2 due to increasing customer demand.  Now it’s probably the last chance you can grab a Raqel Gothic.

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Edited: Tweaked some camera setting and the completed Raqel looks like this now:

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The month long Yoake Mae Yori Ruriiro na (PC2005), Brighter than dawning blue (PS2->PC 2009) and Yoake Mae Yori Ruriiro na ~Moonlight Cradle~(PC2009) visual novel marathon plus the odds and ends of summarizing Feena normal end, Natsuki and Estel storyline has finally come to an end.

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I am happy that I dug deep and stuck with it, and I enjoyed the time I spent summarizing their stories; it really gave me a reason to try to understand their stories a lot more than I usually would have.  I have yet to finish Feena’s true arc summary, something I intend to do in the near future.  I have accomplished my goal of bringing the stories of these wonderful heroines to light, that’s one down on my to do list.

Now I should present my treasures of the month… this month will be crazy, yea I said it.  Three boxes are up for inspection, the hobby search box has arrived a few days ago but I have put off the inspection until I finished Moonlight Cradle, plus the package yesterday that I picked up at the post office today and the package that arrived today.

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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.

Before I dig into Estel’s story, allow me give a brief explanation of the moon church.  静寂の月光 (Silent Moonlight) is the main religion in the Kingdom of Sphere and it’s divided into 3 branches: Internal Affair, which handles personnel assignment; External Affair, which deals with the more political ends of the church, this particular division of the church is highly dependent on personal connection and basically it’s only for people with connections; and Lost Technology, which safe guard and handle the the remaining technology from the pre-war period.  Needless to say, the Kingdom of Sphere cannot survive without Silent Moonlight because if the Lost Technology is not operational, the Moon is basically uninhabitable.

Estel Freesia was a recent graduate of the moon church academy, she graduated top of her class but she was assigned to City of Mitsurugasaki instead of the External Affair division that she applied for because of her orphanage background.  She is hard working, and a generally honest girl that has a problem accepting her past (the fact that she was demoted to Earth did not help at all).  This mental barrier prevented Estel from being honest with herself.  She was raised in an orphanage along with Karen after she was found near a church by high priest Moritz Zabel Frantz (whom Estel considered as her foster father) when she was still a baby.  She idolized Karen for being able to advance her career despite her upbringing and she vowed to achieve the same result as Karen by going through a different path.  Estel can be rather confrontational when it comes down to matters regarding Earth and Earthlings because of the highly competitive moon church academy environment she studied in.  Estel is beautiful just like Feena but her personality has a slight tilt towards tsundere and has been seen hitting Tatsuya with various objects whenever he did something to spite her.  She is a dog lover though, especially puppy.  She has been studying very hard since her assignment to Earth in order to try to get reassigned away from Earth.

Estel’s storyline branches off Feena’s story and Tatsuya first ran into her when he was on his way back home after delivering dinner to Sayaka in the Royal Moon Museum within the Lunarian Residential District.

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Update: I have updated this page to include some of my new posts on the game

Feena fam Earthlight’s normal ending

Estel Freesia’s ending

Natsuki Takamizawa’s ending

Spoiler to follow, you should know the drill by now

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