Yes, I've been in love with anime since I discovered Speed Racer, Gigantor, The Amazing Three and Kimba on UHF in the '70s. My blog is about a whole lot of things as well as otaku subjects but I do talk about them.
Dollfie WorldThe faceups on DDs seem to be done by hand. At least that's the considered opinion of the faceup artist who did my MDD Namiko and my Obitsu boy Zetto's faceups. "They don't look like stencil jobs." She actually did a little fix-it work on my DD Yumik...
Hong Kong Day 1He say you Brade Runnah! Hong Kong was the inspiration for "Ridleyville" the packed-to-the-gills version of Downtown LA in the movie "Blade Runner." Yes, it is my favorite movie, ever. It's interesting to see that the Blade Runner-ization of Hong Kon...
Manga TextbooksNo Starch Press is releasing translations of some of these books. I got the one on Stats because I want to *understand* it, not just have survived two semesters of Stats + Research Methods.
Order Made Dollfie ClothesMaybe you could also give Ageha Design some backup too? Their designs are gorgeous but they apparently do things one outfit at a time.
Order Made Dollfie ClothesDanny, will you back Chun up with some manufacturing support? We who have Dollfies, and who would like to have designer clothes for them by Chun, would be absolutely thrilled to be able to buy what apparently she is unable or unwilling to sell at any...
New Employee AnnouncementBig ups to Elly-chan.
Oh yeah: I really do think she looks like a real-life version of the Yukino Volks Dollfie Dream. Seriously.
http://s181.photobucket.com/albums/x249/msgeek703/?action=view¤t=yumiko_face_volks_pic.jpg
Compare and contrast...
A Week in Tokyo 52BTW: Elly Otoguro looks like a real-life version of Volks Dollfie Dream Yukino. At least she looks like what I imagine my Yumiko-tan to look like as a real human. The only diff is Yumiko now has golden "carrot" reddish-blondish hair now...she likes c...
A Week in Tokyo 52Second that...Time Of Eve is a throwback to the wonderful Animes of old that exist to MESS WITH YOUR MIND. One of my all-time favorites is Serial Experiments: Lain so that's where my headspace is at. Please, there are so many brainless Moe shows now,...
A Week in Tokyo 52Costco FTW. Trouble is, very hard to shop there as a single lady. I have to basically "group order" with friends to take advantage of it. One nice thing about it: they treat their employees very well. And they manage to be very profitable "in spite"...
A Week in Tokyo 52I have late hubby's purple Fender Squier Strat. I know a few chords but I'm still in your ballpark, Naito-Nii-san. However, I now have a chibi-chibi amp for it I share with my Obitsu boy...here's a photostory around my finding the neat little practic...
A Week in Tokyo 52They do it all the time on LA Metro Rail. There is standing room at the back of each Red Line and Purple Line car specifically for bikes. Bike to Public Transit to Bike commuting is starting to catch on here in LA. When gasoline was pushing $5 people...
A Week in Tokyo 52Get it through your thick skull, people...Danny will *not* post pix of his wife. End of story. She apparently likes her privacy. I can understand that. Not everyone wants to be a public figure, even spouses of people who become public figures have th...
Mini Dollfie DreamI seem to have lucked out...Namiko's knees and ankles were nice and tight. Who knows what will happen in the future, but there is a suggestion that Volks did a quiet redesign of the MDD knees. I got this from someone who works at Tenshi no Sumika in...
Mini Dollfie DreamUpdate on Namiko...she's at Biff's for the faceup WIN. She also has fairly tight knees and ankles so she indeed can stand on her own...the problem is more balance than anything else because she has such petite feet. Knee joint problem not present. So...
Japan Prepaid SIMConsidering how all the best phones are Japan-first or Japan-only it would be silly not to consider buying one to unlock and bring home. Especially if you are from the benighted US, where we get just about everything decent last. I'm still assuming t...
A Day in Tokyo 5I was in fine health all through winter break. Then the first week of classes came and I got HAMMERED. I'm still dealing with a hacking dry cough and congestion in the morning. (headdesk)
A Day in Tokyo 5Wait...I thought you had a lot more than that! And I thought you just got an MDD from WhileI'mAutomaton! Do give us more info on the brand new one...."details, please!" What happened to the rest of them?
Scoreboard for me is one full sized DD (Yumik...
A Day in Tokyo 5You would have to visit the Third World to find a worse health care system (or more properly LACK of system) than what we have in the good ole US of A. We're number 37!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVgOl3cETb4
Nihon is #10 in the world now. The...
Tsukiji & Hamarikyu GardensYeah, and being American I have a really bad rep following me around. They don't talk about the "Ugly American" for nothing. (headdesk)
Japanese FoodDanny...you MUST visit Los Angeles. Even the roach coaches (food trucks) are gourmet here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCkVWu__llA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX3Qzjl76E8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grk7Af-NQCo
We have some of the most a...
Japanese HusbandsIt actually goes all the way back to Prehistory in Japan, where some anthropologists speculate that Japan was originally Matriarchal. A lot of the Patriarchal aspects to Japanese society have their origins in the adoption of Confucianism by the Japan...
Mini Dollfie DreamThis seems to be a flaw in the MDD. However, Chibichibiusa's fix does indeed work...talk to Chun about it too, she did the fix on Taiga.
http://puppy52dolls.com/tutorial/kips/
http://www.figure.fm/post/en/4503/How+to+make+your+MDD+stand+better.html...
Mini Dollfie DreamTo give my DD a boyfriend I had to turn to another manufacturer entirely: Obitsu. My Zetto-kun is a 60cm/55cm hybrid. 60cm retrofit chest, 55cm abdomen piece, Gretel sculpt head faced up to look masculine, 60cm 2-piece standard joint body everything...
