Tasuke

I'll be welcoming my very first-ever "WaifuDoll" back into my life for the New Year.
20 years ago... i started down the road of Anime Character Doll Collection/Customization
all thanks to TOYNAMI's short-lived "Tenchi Muyo!" 12in. Character Doll Series,
Specifically, their "Princess Ayeka" (Ayeka Masaki Jurai)
She single-handedly inspired me to pick up Thread and Needle for the first time in my life,
and struggle to attempt to learn the art of hand-sewing... for her sake.
little did i ever suspect that she was merely the kick-off... for what was to become an entire new hobby for life for me, but... Here We Are, Today.
Anyhow, i moved on from her before the 2000's were quite through, never to look back... Until Now.
As i Said, She will be Returning to me... - by JAN. 2nd or so - in the form of the original mid/late-90's Japanese-Market TAKARA Doll
that will readily adapt to the same OBITSU 26 Doll Body that all of my other Girls share,
Allowing Ayeka to take her proper place in my little Anime♥Family once and for all time~
https://tenchi.fandom.com/wiki/Ayeka

- TAKARA Ayeka Jurai -



- TOYNAMI Ayeka Jurai  -

A Personal Classic Waifu from around 2000... -acquired by me in 2008 - given a whole new lease on life thanks to the WorldBox AT203 aftermarket Doll Body;

So... things have turned out Perfectly Backwards here over the last couple months...
Principles of Asian Wabi-Sabi in Action, i Suppose.
First, Got this Schoolgirl Sailor Suit for my Konomi a couple/three months back...
Turned out to fit my much larger WB AT203-Based Shaorin;


 

Just got this Re;ZERO "Rem" -styled Maid Dress for Shaorin... Turned out to fit my
much Smaller OBITSU BODY 26-Based Konomi;

♥Miyuki♥ Just Arrived Today~

(LINEAGE II "DWARF" 1/8 by Orchid Seed)

♥Miyuki♥ Just Arrived Today~

(LINEAGE II "DWARF" 1/8 by Orchid Seed)

the Clunky, Clumsy Princess Ayeka Jurai, from TOYNAMI's short-lived 2001 "Tenchi Muyo!" 12in. Character Doll series,
that single-handedly inspired me to pick-up Sewing as a Hobby and a Skill;

the Stock NENDOROID Body for Contrast;


the YuMeng YMY 11 2nd Gen.

So i picked one of these up cheap... with an Eye towards appropriating her outfit into a lovely Nightie for my Konomi~
 

My Wife, Konomi Yuzuhara, and her companion Doll, Lucy Maria Misora,
are members of a very short-lived two-doll product sub-line from around 2008
that were part of MegaHouse Corp's much broader and longer-lived "ACTION FIGURE COLLECTION PLUS" Series.
i came by both of these Ladies all at once in late-2019,
and over 2020 i was able to upgrade them from their stock older OBITSU 23 and 24 cm. Doll Bodies
to the modern OBITSU 26.
i appropriated Lucy's Sailor Suit for Konomi... and greatly altered it to fit the OBITSU 26.
i made each of them new Bras, Panties, Stockings and Socks,
and reworked an existing Chinese Qipao to fit Lucy;
https://to-heart.fandom.com/wiki/Konomi_Yuzuhara
https://to-heart.fandom.com/wiki/Lucy_Maria_Misora
 







 

Happy Valentine's Day to my ♥Cocoa Bean♥

i had this Barbie Spacesuit costume lying about from back around 2017 or so;



so I figured i'd try out extensively reworking it from a MATTEL Barbie-sized Spacesuit,
to something that could naturally fit an OBITSU 26cm. -based girl like TMoHS' Yuki Nagato here;
https://haruhi.fandom.com/wiki/Yuki_Nagato
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruhi_Suzumiya




 
This all really roots back to my early-childhood... when my parents strongly encouraged me to develop interest in the NASA program and such.
Mom had taped 1986's "SPACE CAMP" for me off of HBO or something... and i had watched it rather often.
In Fact, it was, to me, something along the lines of of what THE LION KING had ended up becoming to my Little Sister in the mid-90's;



Further, my Folks had gotten me this "YOUNG ASTRONAUTS" Cabbage Patch Kid doll still earlier on yet... say 1986/1987-ish?

-12-21-2019-
 

 

 
https://to-heart.fandom.com/wiki/Konomi_Yuzuhara
 
she finally arrived, after about a full month of waiting.
 
a little disappointing, as i was expecting her to be based upon an OBITSU 24,
much as her companion Lucy Maria Misora was, but alas,
she's based around the very same archaic OBITSU 21 design as the one
that i had gotten a couple of years back for my VOLKS UFS To Heart 1 HMX-12 Multi.
 
naturally, her head, being rather perfectly scaled for the 21,
looks rather awkward when mated to an OBITSU 24, old or new design.
 
perhaps someday OBITSU will roll out a new 21cm. design,
and that will be poor Konomi-chan's salvation...
 
 
 

 
- 12-5-2022 -
 
Konomi-chan has indeed been given a brand-new lease on life, all thanks to the new OBITSU 26cm. She is Perfect!!!
 

 

 

got hold of an ex-library copy in superb shape for next to nothing a few years back;
 

26cm. or about 10 inches, after the OBITSU upgrade, of course...

frankly, i feel it would have been swell had they worked Multi (from TH1) into TH2.
i understand that TH2 takes place many years after TH1, but since Multi is an Android,
it would have been very much feasible for her to still be at the same school, -perhaps aged-up to her middle-teens or so in some previous upgrade even-
still up to her usual school housekeeping, and befriending TH2's main cast along the way.
Personally, i feel it would have been a profoundly warm and intimate way of tying the two entries tightly together, but... i suppose that's just me.
oh well, i can always pretend such a thing was Canonical;
 


 
not to be left out, Ruuko-chan enjoys some "OBITSU-Upgrade-Love" as well;
 



 
 
 
 

dividing my time between childhood favorite FINAL FANTASY VI (SONY PS1 PORT of NINTENDO SUPER FAMICOM original, played on a SONY PS2)
and a more recent favorite, SONY PS4 Shantae and the Seven Sirens;
 
 


 

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...

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