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AZONE Pure Neemo character doll of the main character from the late-2000's Manga, and early-2010's Anime, "Shinryaku! Ika Musume"/"The Squid Girl" a most unusually charming Anime series, and a must-see!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squid_Girl i've ported her over to the OBITSU 26 (MEDIUM Bust, NATURAL Skintone) which is not only far more aesthetically pleasing overall, -YMMV- but a far and away better proportional match to her rather bulbous head. my old 1999 VOLKS UFS Ah! My Goddess "Skuld" models the original AZONE Pure Neemo body for contrast. i'm working on attempting to alter her original outfit to better fit the much larger OBITSU body. we'll see what i can manage to work out from that... TBH, i found that "Squiddie" 's rather cartoonishly "flat" Faceup somehow bothered me, particularly when contrasted beside my other girls, and their generally Anime-stylized, yet semi-realistically-nuanced facial appearances. that in mind, i bit the bullet and attempted to suggest some "depth" to her face;

stylized Japanese Miko (Shrine Maiden) costume, generally inspired by;

as much of a vendetta as i tend to have against TOYNAMI and their proudly-abysmal quality-standards, i suppose i do have them to thank for getting me into Anime character dolls back in 2001, via their short-lived 11in. "Tenchi Muyo!" doll line. indeed, i generally feel i've more or less come a fairly long way over the full twenty years since... -2001- -2021-

they're SO Cute and Pretty♥ wish i could afford them all;

from the basis of this; and this; and this; and this; comes this;

https://lego-worlds.fandom.com/wiki/Spooky_Girl FINALLY got around to getting my Spooky Girl, a year or more now after finishing LEGO WORLDS (SONY PS4) in which she is a playable character, -becoming my instant mainstay- just as soon as i had managed to eventually unlock her, at least;

Just got this little sweetie in from AmiAmi a couple days ago. i've spent that time making her an entirely new set of undies, as well as trimming away the excess fabric at the dress' seams, providing a much more natural fit than possible straight-out-of-box;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi_(To_Heart) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Heart 1999 "VOLKS Ultimate Figure Series" To Heart Multi HMX-12, re-bodied with the OBITSU 26 M-bust N-skin; 1999 "VOLKS Ultimate Figure Series" To Heart Multi HMX-12, with VOLKS 21cm. EB body as originally provided out of box;

Konomi Yuzuhara from To Heart 2;

an updated video collection shot;

25 years of selective collecting;

a modest little collection of dolls and paraphernalia spanning the near-25 year history of this classic series of Japanese-market Visual Novels; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Heart https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Heart_2 -from LEFT to RIGHT- Lucy Maria Misora; https://to-heart.fandom.com/wiki/Lucy_Maria_Misora Konomi Yuzuhara; https://to-heart.fandom.com/wiki/Konomi_Yuzuhara Tamaki Kousaka; https://to-heart.fandom.com/wiki/Tamaki_Kousaka HMX-12 "Multi" https://to-heart.fandom.com/wiki/Multi Ruuko Kireinasora as a Fairy Ballerina Pop-Idol, inspired by "Princess Tutu" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Tutu

i'd at least feel compelled to give a sympathy hug over her most unfortunate Eye-owie...

discovered this great, multifaceted 2017 Golf-themed game a bit late on, and it's rather flexible character creation system;

actually, technically, a good while longer, since i vaguely recall sitting through an episode of ROBOTECH as a very young boy around what must have been sometime in 1986 or so. a nephew gave me his old 1985 REVELL ROBOTECH CHANGERS VEXAR transformable model (U.S. market reboxing of 1983 IMAI MACROSS VF-1S Focker 1/72 VARIABLE TYPE) around 1988/1989 or so, and then i got a taste of Mecha Anime tropes at a more readily-impressionable age around 1991, thanks to the Mecha action-platfomer game "ASSAULT SUIT LEYNOS" (TARGET EARTH in the U.S.) on the SEGA GENESIS games console. my Anime fandom truly began to consciously coalesce around 1995, when my dad bought me an old IMAI MACROSS 1/100 VF-1J Ichijo GERWALK mode model kit, and PLAYMATES toy company reissued the old original MATCHBOX-made ROBOTECH Mecha toys under their "EXO-SQUAD" line. around that time, i discovered SUNCOAST VIDEO at the mall, and their Anime selection. first i concentrated on ROBOTECH, -via the dual-episode FHE VHS cassette volumes- found VIZ MEDIA's ANIMERICA Anime magazine, and began picking up issues often as i could, and then i discovered MANGA VIDEO's MACROSS II and MACROSS PLUS movie compilation releases, Pure, uncut MACROSS, for the first time. from there, i began to branch out from Mecha-themed anime, with series such as Galaxy Fraulein Yuna and Tenchi Muyo! and then the early-21st-century and the DVD Anime boom hit, and i was well and truly off to the Anime Races. i'm about as hardcore today as i've ever been, and, thanks to the internet, i now have the kind of Mecha and Character-themed merchandise that i would have killed for as a young teen, two-plus decades ago...