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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!

Do you like to take family portrait of your Dollfie Dream Daughters?

Dollfie Dream Daughters Grand Glorious Gathering Sixteen Daughters Version

Dollfie Dream Daughters Class of 2010

Top: Volks Dollfie Dream Dynamite DD娃娃 人偶 Escalayer エスカレイヤー, Kusugawa Sasara 久寿川 ささらTohsaka Rin 遠坂 凛, Matou Sakura 間桐 桜, Saber セイバー, Feena Fam Earthlight フィーナ·ファム·アーシュライト, Sendo Erika 千堂瑛里華.

Middle: Takamachi Nanoha 高町 なのは, Asuka Langley Soryu 惣流・アスカ・ラングレー, Ogata Rina 緒方里奈, Kuze Kiriha 紅瀬桐葉, Morikawa Yuki 森川由綺, Airi アイリ, Fate T. Harlaown フェイト・T(テスタロッサ)・ハラオウン

Bottom: Estel Freesia エステル·フリージア, Natsuki ナツキ

Obviously, in a special occasion such as this, I wouldn’t miss the opportunity to film the family video!

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For the past month or so, I have been secretly working a large scale Dollfie Dream DD娃娃 photo shoot to celebrate the arrival of my 15th Dollfie Dream daughter Erika and 14th daughter Estel (since Estel never did get a proper photo shoot of her own, partly because I knew I had Erika on the way, it was more prudent to wait for Erika and do a formal introduction post for both at the same time.  It really shouldn’t have taken this long but I took a break in between to work on the entries for Otacool 3 Worldwide Workspace and Culture Japan video entry where I attempted a do a video tour of my room, hopefully my clip would get picked ^^;

Anyway, back on topic.  Ever since I adopted my 13th Dollfie Dream daughter DD娃娃 Kiriha, I had this idea to collect all four of the August Soft licensed Dollfie Dream, and there were these images in my head that I want to capture them into photos.  So, without further ado, allow me to present to you, my August Four!  A collection of photos on Dollfie Dream Feena DD娃娃 フィーナ, Dollfie Dream Estel DD娃娃 エステル from the Visual Novel Brighter than Dawning Blue also known as Yoake Mae Yori Ruriiro na 夜明け前より瑠璃色な; Dollfie Dream Erika DD娃娃 千堂 瑛里華 and Dollfie Dream Kiriha DD娃娃 紅瀬桐葉 from the Visual Novel Fortune Arterial.

Dollfie Dream Erika, Dollfie Dream Kiriha, Dollfie Dream Estel, Dollfie Dream Feena

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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.

Dollfie Dream Feena Estel

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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Japan trip loots

Some of you who have been following my blog would know that I have just traveled to Japan recently for a super condensed sight seeing and shopping trip.  I have a set of mission objectives that I wanted to accomplish, and I have managed to finish most of them by Saturday night Japan time.  But how can it be?  There are only 3 real days to work with, I have to be back in the airport before noon on Sunday.  As I reveal the details of my complete walk-through of my super condensed Japan trip, it will become more obvious!

  1. See the Odaiba Gundam
  2. Watch the Kamen Rider movie
  3. Watch the Evangelion 2.0 movie You can (not) advance
  4. Shopping in Akihabara
  5. Shopping for Dollfie Clothes and appropriate size Rider belts
  6. Go to a maid cafe

I am fairly proud to say that I have accomplished every one of the above objectives even though this trip was so short.  For starter, I am going to cover my loots during this trip and I will expand onto some of the finer details of my experience of my super condensed, super fast pace first trip to Japan.  Without further ado, let me get started.  First is the grand scale loots!

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Obviously, you can’t really see anything like this, so let me break them down into their categories.

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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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Despite my main computer went down, loots have been arriving non stop for the past week… now that my computer is fixed, it’s finally time to reveal the result of my Dollfie Dream Completion Project.  I borrowed the name “completion project” from Evangelion, straightly in a sense, trying to “rescue” the lovely Dollfie Dream from their original boxes and adopt them as my musumes!

Just who are the mysterious Dollfie Dream?  You about to find out (not like my picture didn’t give them away lol).

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For the past few days I have been busy putting up the new loots I have acquired from Anime Central Convention (and to take a well earned break from all that Yoake  Mae Yori Ruriiro na story summaries), but at the same time, I have been planning my next major move.  Some of you are probably aware that I have recently adopted Dollfie Dream Dynamite Escalayer and I have been extremely pleased with her as my first musume.

My next major project, has been given the code name DDCP, also known as  Dollfie Dream Completion Project has already been set in motion for a few days now, an unprecedented level of funding has already been approved as part of this project.

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And to quote one of the most heart felt statements I have seen recently from browsing through Dollfie Dream related blog sites:

I give up.  I saw pics of Rin Tosaka, Fate Testarossa, Nanoha Takamachi, Nagisa Furikawa, and Yoko/Nia Dollfie Dreams on Dannychoo.  I just give up.  I love Dollfie Dreams.  They give you so much more then static figures and statues can.  The detail and realism.  They are so lifelike.  And most importantly, they are 100% more moe then anime figures. -Punynari,Moé Passion

I can’t help it but to agree with Punynari, Dollfie Dream takes the Anime Figure collecting to the next level.  I used to not like dolls, like those made by Azone but the Volks Dollfie Dream line is different, I believe they are made to target Otaku like myself, with extremely well made and high quality doll-figure (where the word Dollfie comes from).  It is not to far outstretch to call them the ultimate figurine (to date) of your favorite 2D girls/Bishoujo.  In a recent Dannychoo.com post of the Realistic Yoko Figure from Max Factory, I see a lot of people commented about how the realistic Yoko doesn’t look Yoko anymore and anime heroines should retain their anime look, etc.  This is where Dollfie Dream really shine, they provide a solution to the life like anime figure that most Otaku like myself would prefer Dollfie Yoko.

I am sold, I am under the Dollfie Dream Fever right now, I am finding myself not getting as excited about PVC figurines as I have been in the past.  May 15th will be the one of the biggest day in recent months as Volks USA will announce the lottery result of the Doll Party 21 limited items.  I have submitted my entry for both Fate T Harlaown from Nanoha StrikerS and Rin Tohsaka from Fate Stay Night.  Let see if I get lucky this time and won’t have to go to aftermarket auction site to get my Dollfie Dream fix :)


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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It’s been almost a month now since I started this Yoake Mae Yori Ruriiro na Visual Novel marathon run project, it’s finally coming close to an end.  I have just completed Cynthia Marguerite’s arc and the final arc Moonlight and & Earthlight is finally opened to me.

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Moonlight Cradle takes on a completely different approach from the original game, I have to clear everyone before Feena’s after story is open to me.  All in all, Moonlight Cradle is very short and get to the point since the story and setting is basically the same as the original game.  But before I talk about anything else, I need to give the Marguerite Sisters an honorable mention.

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I guess I wasn’t prepared for sad endings, I felt a little sad when I finished Lease/Wreathlit/Fiacca’s ending, but not until I began Cynthia’s arc do I truly understand what’s really going on.  The older sister Fiacca, transformed herself into a data bank and lived on as memory for the past 700 years to watch over humankind to help preserve peace and the Lost Techology; the younger sister Cynthia, in order to protect the dimensional portal she invented, sealed herself in the portal terminal (where time does not flow) so her invention couldn’t be used in the previous war.  I am quite easily moved by this self-sacrificial acts, especially those that last hundreds of years with no end in sight, yet they had to do it because it’s the right thing to do (Think Gunbuster OVA3).  If anything else, I would really like to see a Cynthia figure so I can keep her in my collection, only then would I be able to neutralize the sadness I felt when I saw her ending.  I liked her story but at the same time, I don’t necessarily like the sad ending.  It’s a good thing that I can start Feena’s final arc right the way; otherwise, I would be upset for the rest of the night.

Anyway, to break off from the visual novel for a bit.  Tonight was suppose to be the night I meet my adopted daughter (dollfie) but all I got was this dreaded note from the post office.

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Alas, that just meet I need to go to the post office first thing in the morning!  Alright, I should go back to finish Feena’s final arc before it’s too late.

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.  Sure I have watched Brighter than dawning blue ~Cresent Love~ but that may not be adequate given the amount collector’s items I have on her and the fact that the animation may not represent the game character adequately.  On top of that, I have always been curious about the 2nd tier heroine Natsuki Takamizawa and the new cast from PS2 port Estel Freesia.  All that curiosity became a massive determination to drive me to work on all three Visual Novels in a row.

フィーナ Feena Fam Earthlight

フィーナ Feena Fam Earthlight

The effort really paid off, I really enjoyed the games so far, the games frequently put you in the main character’s shoes and have confronted you with questions that don’t have a clear cut answer.  After I finished Feena’s normal end and Natsuki’s end, I started talking about Natsuki’s story in an earlier post while I really should have started from the beginning and give the proper background information regarding the the whole story.  Without further ado, let me set the record straight once and for all.

Update: I have updated this page to include some of my other posts related to the game

Edit: Re-publish and sticky post to include Bonus Wallpaper from Moonlight Cradle Premium box

Feena fam Earthlight’s normal ending

Estel Freesia’s ending

Natsuki Takamizawa’s ending

Warning, this post is massive and full of spoilers, intended for those who want to learn the story but have no way of playing the game.

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