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I am working on my traditionally sculpted, resin cast 1:6 scale head sculpt of Raiden by Thai artist numoworkshop. I purchased the head sculpt back in 2014-ish, from his shop on eb6y. I had already modified it since I purchased it, because I am not a fan of painting sculpted hair. I also prefer my toys to have "real" hair, unless they have extremely short hair, which most of the characters I love don't have. I heavily modified it back then, but I always felt that I had a long way to go, before I could call it done or close enough.

However, knowing that I am much older now, I repainted him first to see just how much of a sh1tty job I did the first time. DX That is the first image to the left; I didn't even seal the work and thought "nope," so I wiped it clean and I'm starting from the mods now. Which is the image on the right. I still need to do some more sanding and probably need to add more Apoxie on the right eye to make both as symmetrical as possible, as Raiden is perfect that way... lol!

If it's not oblivious from the second photo, which has the shot of how the sculpt looked straight from the artist. I removed all the sculpted hair, I carved the ear/audio cyborg pieces out of some of the sculpted hair, then sculpted some of the details that weren't there due to the obvious sculpted hair covering those. I carved the left eye out of the eyepatch/band on Raiden's left that was sculpted instead, and of course I didn't do half a decent job, because I suck! Those were the heaviest mods I've done, all at "once" (not literally, they took me quite a few days. Just waiting for the Apoxie Sculpt to dry takes a day, or so..) without first painting and seeing what else I need to change. I feel I did a super lousy job due to that. However, I don't regret it this time. I feel I always do slower mods, so I don't regret the crapfest later. However, this time, with this sculpt, I didn't want to have a custom Rising Raiden, with sculpted hair and a covered left eye.

Because I did pre-order and still own the Hot Toys Metal Gear Rising Raiden, but that one took a bit longer than a year to release. I feel like he was announced sometime in early 2014-ish. He was delayed a few times, if I am not mistaken. I got mine from Japan, so it was as early as possible, unlike getting it from a USA retailer and still got to me until August 2015. I knew I wanted an alternative head sculpt that was closer to the Rising that never was, which was supposed to be developed by Kojima, but then it was not to be created, and Rising was developed by Platinum. Which I don't hate, but did miss the opportunity, to get any figures based on that specific Raiden key art (which had brown eyes instead of blue ones, and that also irked me, but then it never happened anyway!). Not like Raiden is so popular anyway, there would have probably been no figures based on that key art regardless, but I still wanted to have a custom one, so I got this head for that reason alone.

End of mega long rant, just to share my progress, of this head sculpt I purchased more than a decade ago and kept in my closet along with my other resin dolls, so that I could feel they were being kept from aging too badly. I should be working on my other giant resin head sculpts first, but I feel this dude has waited long enough (and I love Raiden, I really need more figures based on him. Too bad no other MGS fans share my lonely Raiden fangirl dreams T__T;;.). (:

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More of my recently repainted, and modified DIM Minimee Crisis Core Sephiroth custom head sculpt. I took these with my newest phone, that takes crappier photos. They were all taken at the same time, but all are pretty much the same exact angle, as his wig wasn't cooperating and his eyes leave huge gaps if not positioned just right. It's hot like the dickens here, so I didn't want the extra struggle. I just took a few quick shots with this cell as well. The body is floppy, needs new elastic, so it was a real struggle. Most of these are carbon copies of each other. Not like, I usually don't take repetitive photos anyway. DX

I am particularly happy with these, regardless, because they don't have harsh shadows. The other phone exaggerates lighting/shadows for some reason. This one takes blurry, pixelated, off focus photos that are most of the time washed out and glowy in a weird way. I don't know if the lens is damaged (I am a klutz, but I haven't dropped or accidentally scratched any of my phones as of yet). Weird, but what can I do? I suck at taking photos already. I adjusted the curves in the first one to not look so washed out. It is a slightly different angle than the last one. But that yellowy-ness...sigh

I seriously need to fix his wig, it's driving me nuts. The bangs in particular, I don't know how they got so messy. The fiber is awful, I feel I mentioned that it is the same as my CL Rou's fiber. It tangles like nobodies' business, just because. It is staticky and is stiff. I used a fabric sheet with fabric softener, because I heard that would remove static from synthetic fiber wigs. It worked a bit, and kind of left it feeling semi-soft, for a tiny bit. T___T;;;

I might have to wash it with actual fabric softener, for real, and that's going to destroy the freaking bangs. Which took me an eternity to get to where they are. They are not even as tall as they need to be, considering how tall my Rou's are (and how tall CC Sephy's are!). Taking into consideration, Rou is less than half this dude's size. DX

End of rant! I loathe summer weather; in case I've never mentioned that anywhere. I am winter-fall, old fart. I don't mind shoveling ten feet of snow daily, as long as it's not 80 degrees anywhere near me.

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I finally repainted my custom DIM Sephiroth MInimee, Crisis Core version. I modified his left nostril a bit further, so that it would be less asymmetrical. DIM's Chinese sculpting team didn't do a decent job at getting even 50-percent close to what I requested and paid extra for. I even requested to have a smaller sculpt, yet I got the biggest head sculpt possible. T___T;;;

I love this head sculpt nonetheless, it doesn't look exactly like Original Crisis Core Sephiroth (my ultimate dream doll based on Sephy!), but I feel I am slowly getting there. I am really happy with how he looks right now; I need to fix his current wig. I chose the worse fiber possible; this is the same one as the fiber I used for my mini Sephy (FL CL Rou). I don't know where I'll find nice synthetic fiber for doll wig making now...but I haven't lost all hope yet! (:

The last image is the progress I did on him, over the years, with the very last shot, being how he looked prior to this new repaint and nostril and left eyelid mod.

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My May 2025 toy haul is finally here! It only took eons to arrive, despite the EMS shipping costs, it was stuck in traffic for eons…. literal eons… DX

I am super happy with the smaller Sasuke Uchiha figures, they are hyper adorable! The FigUnity one in particular, I wish they had made that an optional solo version as well. I know Sasuke is not popular, but I kind of don't care for the rest. Don't get me wrong, I love the figure as a whole and feel all the characters look extremely cute, and I am beyond glad I was able to get it. However, I would have preferred an only Sasuke version even better. It would have been a lot less expensive as well, for such a tiny, tiny figure. The GEM Go one is also extremely cute, and I am also happy I was able to afford that one, despite its tiny size…inflation I guess??? >_<;;

From top left to bottom right: BanDai Namco NARUTO Shippuden Grandista -UCHIHA ITACHI- (Game-prize) Non-Scale Figure; MegaHouse G.E.M. Series NARUTO Sasuke Uchiha GO! Non-Scale Complete Figure; MegaHouse FigUnity NARUTO Shippuden Team Seven Group! Non-Scale Complete Figure; Good Smile Company Marshmalloid Attack on Titan Eren Yeager & Armin Arlert Non-Scale Figures; GOOD SMILE Company HELLO! Attack on Titan Eren Yeager & Armin Arlert Non-Scale Posable Figures; DIG Pripra Figure Plate Vol.3 Plastic Model; Contents Seed NARUTO Shippuden Deka Acrylic Stand Sasuke Uchiha Black Coordinate ver.; General Sticker NRT-017 NARUTO Shippuden Diecut Vinyl Sticker (Hologram) Sasuke Uchiha; TOKYOGETS 3 o'clock Attack on Titan Diecut Sticker Eren.

I wish I would have been able to get the non-holographic sticker of Sasuke as well, but I noticed them too late, once the regular one was all sold out. Sadly. I hope i'll be able afford the cost of shipping another Itachi Grandista, so I can unbox one. I love the accuracy and beauty that Bandai-Namco are able to reproduce, when it comes to Sasuke and Itachi (prize) figures. I own a few more expensive ones based on Sasuke, but not all companies are able to get his face quite right. These are all incredibly beautiful this time around, so I am super happy with all. I am also really happy with the Eren and Armin stuff, I wish I would have gotten Mikasa's versions as well, but I feared for the s/h, which ended up being quite a bit. However, they sent these in a box way too large. They could have easily fitted both Mikasa version of those figures as well, and there would still be plenty of room left in the box. Too bad, I guess… Maybe on another day. (:

I also included some accessories I got from Obitsu customizable doll line. I don't believe they have an official name, unless it is actually "Body." I have been waiting for the new 30cm male body to release for more than a decade, when it finally did, I missed the pre-order. Now I am waiting for it to be in stock again, somewhere (Japanese retailers, mostly). Hopefully, I'll be able to get more head sculpts for it as well. You can never have too many loose head sculpts... or small doll shoes, I say! Lol!

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I am unsure if Tmblr will allow these to be visible to anyone, but me. Since plastic toys in humanoid shape are not to be seen without cloth pieces from head to toe. One of my posts with photos of a sealed in plastic baggie, Azone Pure Neemo shapless boy body was fl6gged once. Then some of my Mano's posts were also fl6gged. Yet, there are some questionable stuff that gets suggested to me, not only fan-fic but also actual people...as well as accounts with female avatars that make me question humanity when I already have zero faith in it...

As a fangirl of Sephiroth since I was in my early teens (after playing OG FFVII), I always wanted a perfect figure or doll based on him. There are some awesome figures based on him, and I own quite a few, if not all of them (except for any resin statues, as I don't/didn't collect those until BJD back in the dark ages). When I saw Fairyland Chic Line Rou, I knew I would need him to bring my very own custom Sephy doll to life. He doesn't look anywhere near like him, in any of the many versions there are now of Sephiroth. However, I just knew proportionately and body build-wise, there would never be anything closer (to me, and knowning the body is not perfectly proportioned either, as Sephy is meant to be). So, I purchased Rou, fully wanting to create a custom Sephy. I lost interst in BJD, for about ten plus years. Now I repainted my Rou, and lost some of his clothes... I lost his pants, apparently. I could find both Sephy-esque coats I made for him, but none of the other stuff. Weird?

I own a GameToys Sephiroth, that I have repainted a few times already. So, I feel I got the closest I'll get to having a perfect Sephiroth figure, without ever getting a (OG) Crisis Core, version that would be my ideal version of him. Having said that, I don't mind owning a million different version of him. I still want my Rou to be my Dissidia version of him and still plan on customizing further my CC version DIM Minimee head sculpt, that I also purchased, before I knew I would eventually own the GT Sephy, in the far away future (meaning now).

I am super happy with him, despite my cameras having problems photographing anything, because I suck at life, setting lights, taking photos, painting miniatures.... ect. I didn't do a good job with his top lashes (or bottom ones, but that's the story of my life!). I'll attempt fixing the top ones later. When it's not hot like the pits of h3ll, here. DX The last three were taken with my crappier but newer phone. (:

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I take weekends off, so I take the time to repaint my customized dolls during that time. I was super happy, that my Rou was coming along nicely. I thought I just needed eyelashes and brows, and then I would add a few additional details here and there, and be done. But nope. Something went completely wrong. I have zero idea what, exactly. A huge old piece of the fixative came right off, as I was blending paint on his left side!

Never in my more than twenty years of repainting toys, has anything like this ever happened to me before. Not even when i was a brand new, newbie repainting toys. It's so frustrating. More so because I have no idea what went wrong, in the first place? I live in a neutral humidity area, there was no rain Saturday when I sealed the face plates, to prime them for painting. I didn't start painting until Sunday, so the primer was well beyond cured by then. I saw no signs that the fixative hadn't adhere to the resin, no cloudiness, no shininess, nothing. I don't know what went wrong.

Now, I am so frustrated. I kind of want to just wipe both plates and start again all over from zero. Part of me also just wants to add more fixative and try to move on. I want both plates to look like the same exact face, because that's the way it is supposed to be. My Fairyland Chic Line Rou represent my custom OG Dissidia version of Sephiroth. That's who I want him to be, and I don't know how to feel right now. Other than completely frustrated! So many wasted hours, just to have zero worthy results of the time wasted. T__T;;

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I took a million photos of my Mano, so I'll be spamming him a lot more (perhaps!). I suck at photos, and lighting. I don't know why this photo looks so weirdly lit. I tried fixing the yellow cast, but nothing helped. I try to not photoshop my photos because I want to seriously get better at it, but I really wanted this one to be less yellow. I love the way he looks like this; I had to douse his hair in water, because this fiber is so staticky, I had forgotten that. I love synthetic mohair, never knew what the official type of fiber is. However, keeping it sleek looking, without flyaways is a pain in the gut. I don't use gel on my dolls' wigs, because I don't want it on their plastic. I like the hair, and the way the paint apps don't look make-up-like and rather soft and fleshy, as they are IRL, but the freaking yellow cast.

Anyway, I really love this photo, but Insta has image limit, and I just copy paste from here to post on there, because it is a royal pain in the gut hole to post on there (only through the app, and I am computer person). I like spamming my work anywhere, so that's what it is. I wanted to share this photo as well but already had too many I liked better on the other post. (:

Don't know why I wanted to justify sharing more photos of my Mano, on my own "blog," but here we are.

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More of my recently repainted Limhwa Limho Mano. Now, back on his body. I am super happy with how he looks IRL. I suck at taking photos, and this is the first time I take photos of him, without an actual camera. I suck at taking photos, I can't ever say that enough, so I need all the help I can get. Cellphone cameras are awful at that for me. I used to take semi-not-too-craptastic photos with my vintage Samsung. Now, that one is dead, I feel (maybe it just needs a new battery, who knows). I can only rely on luck to get a semi decent, not too blurry but awfully pixelated photo, that may or may not be a completely different coloration than real life. T___T;;

I am a thousand percent to blame, because I am a klutz, I dropped my poor camera once too many on its lense. Now, I am stuck with crappy cellphone cameras, because I am too cheap to spend money on something I'll have to upgrade just every few years anyway. On the other hand, I could always get a new camera... except I suck, so I'll probably take terrible photos anyway, but at least I would know for certain it was all me sucking, and not the tool. Lol!

The last five photos were taken with my newer phone that takes more accurate colored photos, but super pixelated if not super blurry ones. I made the asymmetrical bangs wig he is wearing; I used to hate that wig when I first made it, but then I used it to test how much I loved him after I repainted/modded him. So, I am kind of growing extremely fond of it over time. I am in love with how he looks with it right now, at the very least -- and I kind of love him with his default Jpop wig. I am super happy he still looks dark and gloomy, despite going very light on the shading, and my cellphones refusing to show the actual soft fleshy colors. I tried different lighting, so these are all over the place in color and tones, but I am trying to take better photos of him, that are not terribly dark, blurry or pixelated. You can't even see the textured shading; it just looks like a blob of color terribly applied randomly for no reason. Funny, I think my cellphones prefer my timer repainted head sculpts... (;

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I repainted my Mano, after more than five years without even looking at him. The last time I took photos of him was back in 2019. I wanted to modify his lips once again, to widen the top one. I feel like I didn't do a half decent job when I made the lips bigger than life. I always wanted him to have massive lips. It started slowly, then I got them to be this size. I purchased new Aves Apoxie to mod them, last year. Then I got lazy, and waited until this year to finally go ahead and mod my Mano once again!

Except, I thought maybe I can just get away with repainting his face, without even attempting to modify them again! Lol! I am a lazy old fart, what can I say! I know I'll mod him eventually, I just wanted to see if I could get away without modding. I feel like I could, but I know I'll mod him, just because that's how much of a crazy old-fart I am. And I can see every little flaw, and it kind of drives me crazy. He is a 67cm tall doll, so he's pretty huge, I should be able to do better (mods).

In the meantime, I'll enjoy how he looks for now -- I am happy with him, but need to fix his applied lashes, I suck at those too. I lost one of his piercings in the process as well, he has thirteen stainless steel ball bearing glued to his face as facial piercings and I lost one! I know I have extra ones, I purchased a few when I first gave him ball bearings as piercings (prior I was using a reproposed ball keychain as the piercings-beads). Sadly, I haven't been able to find them since I repainted my Luna, and wanted to give her some as well. I'll keep looking nonetheless, but I might have to get some more and that's going to hurt me more than I wish -- I hate wastefulness! T__T;;

His brows are darker than they might appear in some photos, and his lips are lighter. I wished I knew how to take photos, but I suck! DX The last photo is a comparison of 2019, the last time I photographed him, and his current bod1less look. Lol! I painted him using acrylics only, and tried giving him some texture with a slight stylized shading on his cheeks. I didn't want to make him look like he's wearing make up, but still like a dark vampire prince! (:

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My April 2025 toy haul got here a few days ago, finally. Only took an eternity and beyond! DX

From top left row to bottom far right, 3rd row: MegaHouse LookUp My Hero Academia Shoto Todoroki Complete Non-Scaled Figure; Good Smile Company x Square Enix Huggy NieR:Automata Ver1.1a 2B & 9S Complete Figures. 2nd row: Good Smile Company Huggy Rebuild of Evangelion Kaworu Nagisa Plug Suit Ver. Complete Figure; Good Smile Company POP UP PARADE Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls Servant L size Complete (Non-Scale) Figure; Banpresto Naruto Shippuden Uchiha Sasuke IV, Bandai Spirits Vibration Stars Non-Scale Figure x2; Ensky NARUTO Shippuden Kabuseru Standee CC-ST014 Sasuke Uchiha. 3rd row: Ensky TV Anime "Black Butler: Public School Arc" Sebastian Michaelis & Ciel Phantomhive Clear File 6, Sebastian Michaelis Clear File 4, Sebastian Michaelis & Ciel Phantomhive Clear File 3, Sebastian Michaelis Clear File 1.

I got doubles of Sasuke Vibration Stars IV figure, to unbox one from Amzn. As I expected, the boxes were crushed. I've sadly never found them from a Japanese re/seller in time. I don't know if I'll ever be able to, but I do find one, I will get it for certain. These don't even have the Pierrot authenticity sticker, which bothers me to no end -- these are legit, from Amzn directly, but they do sell counterfeit stuff and don't care. Not to mention how terribly packaged they came in. I already knew it, as I already mentioned it. I loathe getting figures from Amzn, for that reason. They don't give a crap... I got the rest from Japan, and also doubles of Nagito, so I can unbox one. This is my first large sized PUP, I hope they are at least as tall as the box suggests, knowing that the smaller PUP have extra larger than life boxes, most of the time and those come in see-thru plastic ones. Glaring intensely at Pyramid Head. >_<;;;

Glad I was able to get all these, I love the Huggy ones, I hope they release some of Sasuke... because I need more Sasuke based figures in my life! Lol! I do... I actually do...

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I finally got around to repainting my second GDToys GD97005 head sculpt. The one that is supposed to be a realistic-ish version of Sesshomaru. This one I got loose, to customize to be my fanart version of Ayami Kojima's Alucard (Castlevania). The Japanese Konami developed video game version, just in case that's not clear enough. Not the "anime" version on that streaming platform, which I really don't care for. I played all OG games, gave the Spaniard developed ones a chance, but no. I stick to the OG Castlevania, as my one and only Castlevania, true love. DX

I'm super happy with him, I feel like my work is getting so much less clean and lousy with each repaint. But, oh well! I am having a lot of trouble with super shaky hands with each passing day, and that's okay. Too bad, I can't really do much about it. Putting technical skills aside, I am happy with how he looks. I hope I'll be able to get his hair to be at least half of the majestic hair that miss Kojima gave Alucard in Symphony Of The Night (not as big though, as I prefer realistic hair bulk). I am still unsure if I'll be rerooting, making a wig, or just restyling his hair. I know in SoTN, his hair is on the more golden blonde side, and this head is not meant to be Alucard, so his hair is a thousand percent silver. So, yeah. That's going to be a pain in the lower back.

I also feel like I didn't do a great job doming his irises, but again, my freaking shaky hands. I'll try again, since I can at least try! Lol! I don't know yet which body I'm going to be using for him, I am thinking the Kamisoul MAF body, but I don't know which color will match, nor if it will work proportionately. I own the first release, and now there are four colors now. However, I don't know exactly which color was the first release, since there are two pale ones now. One pinkish, and one that's yellower. I have zero clue which shade the 1st body release was supposed to be, since it wasn't listed as being a particular color, because there was only one at that time. I feel like I'll proably never get to see him complete, because my sewing skills are non-existent and there's zero chance I would be able to find something readymade that would come close to Ayami Kojima's art, let alone for cheap or in the size of the body I choose for him. DX

The first few of these photos are from my older phone, and the last five are from my crappier phone, that takes more color accurate photos, that are blurry and washed out, most of the time. (:

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More spammage of my Decora Fashion Girlz Luna doll repaint, with applied upper lashes. I wasn't able to find my 1.5mm stainless steel ball-bearings, so I am going to have to find those before I give her a million facial piercings. Otherwise, I am super happy with her. I wish I could find shorter lashes, but just as full as these. Sadly, I can only find synthetic human-meant eyelashes near me, so they tend to be as long as posible and never short. I prefer fuller lash-lines on my dolls, but not necessarily super long. Never super long, actually.

Regardless, she's all put together now. I am still giving her piercings, but I am super happy as she looks so far. I only wish I could find more gothy looking mass-produced fashion doll clothes for her, but I am pretty certain goth is not what all the little girls are screaming to get their hands on. So, I'll just have to leave her as she is or get off my lazy-old-fart behind and sew something new for her. Knowing well, I know I won't do the latter. Lol! DX

I love her regardless, I'm pretty happy with her, in case I haven't said so a million times already. (:

Edit to add: a shot of her face without factory paint. She has pretty heavy staining from all the purple and hot pink factory make up. So, I did a light color correcting layer or two. I didn't want to spend too much time on that, since I was just going to be covering it up with her bangs anyway. I also went with very light pigmented skin texture and shading, since I am not a fan of make up looks myself. Not even when I was a young girl, so now as an older than dust, old-fart, I can't say I like them more. I prefer my dolls to look like they are not wearing a thousand pounds of eyeshadow. That's what my aim was for her, while still leaning towards a vampire/punkish look.

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I am done with my Decora Fashion Girlz Luna doll repaint. I haven't sealed the work yet, but I feel I am done. I went with all acrylics once again, and a 3-4 hours worth of work each day for the past three days. I am super happy with her; there are always issues due to my shaky-old-person hands, not as clean of a paint job as I would have liked. The last day was the worst, but I was super excited to finally finish her, so I painted her even with the extra jitters. I thought because her head is massive, it was going to be easier. Not thinking about how much of a pain it was going to be holding her head in one hand and trying to steady the other on top. Lol! Oh boy, was that a whole new learning curb! Doesn't help that I'm a scrawny, short old-fart, with tiny scrawny hands!

I was thinking of giving her more details in her irises, but I was too shaky, so I stopped myself. I might try later on, but for now, I feel she's done. I'm happy with how she looks even with all the flaws, she reminds me a bit of Secret Doll Persona head sculpts, the way she looks now. Which, I kind of really love, because I was never able to justify getting one of those dolls myself (I did regret it, for a while).

I will probably add upper applied lashes to her eyes after I seal the paint work, and perhaps a few piercings. I kind of like it with the idea that she's a vampire, might try sculpting actual fangs and teeth next time.

The second photo was taken at the end of the 1st day of painting, the 2nd one on the second day. I feel progress photos allow me to see what needs changing, or what I want to add, sometimes I like sharing those as well. Because I am a silly old-fart! (;

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I made a sock sweater for my MYou Bettina Male (28cm tall), from a pair of socks I purchased with the intention of making a sock sweater for my Limhwa Limho Mano (67cm in height). I then lost the socks, and I wasn't able to find them for a long time (think years!), then I lost interest in sewing or doing anything for my BJD, mostly because most of them are huge. Then I hoarded toys like a crazy nut job and finally got back into customizing toys after getting back into 1:6 scaled action figures a few years ago. Which, then led me to wanting to get a smaller BJD, and I got my Bettina in 2022, when MYou released their 28cm mature tines.

Not too long ago, I stumbled across these socks I got to make a sweater for my Mano, all those years ago. I purchase them from K-Mart before that one closed in the tiny touristy town I live in. I am super happy I found them, finally. I am not sure if they would have made a decent sweater for my Mano, because he's huge compared to this tinier dude, but I am glad I made a sweater with them in the end. They kept getting snagged on everything because they are like stockings, more than socks. Which was a pain to sew, but I suck at sewing so, I guess there's that. I also made a new pair of pants for him, but they are too big! I re-sized the pattern twice (it's meant for a much larger doll), but it is still too big. I will try again, hopefully with black matte fabric next time. Although, these were a pain and still managed to not turn good at all! DX

The last four photos were taken with my other cellphone. IT does weird things and never focuses, but I feel the colors are closer to real life. I also made a sixth wig for him. I feel it could be better, but at least is less bulky than the previous ones, I feel like.

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Got my UF-Doll x Autna Cat TV doll, and I'm super happy with him! I am almost certain all of them are supposed to be TV-headed girls, but I got "News Channel" or Xiaohei, as I've seen it supposedly being called in Chinse, which is supposed to be "little black one"? Because, I want mine to be a boy. I feel this one works well as either, and so does the white one, or xiaobai/emotional-channel. I love wearing black from head to toe, so I am biased and want all my dolls to also wear black from head to toe (as much as possible). I am kind of lucky, that most of the anime/Japanese-videogames I love, almost always wear only black or darker color clothing themes. DX

I'm super glad I was able to get him at last; I was worried they would all sell out before I had the chance to grab at least my fav, which is of course this one. I would have been happy with the white themed one as well, because I feel they also work well as a boy (but the black suspender-shorts are adorable, and I would have regretted not going for him). I don't have any room to display anything "large," so I won't be displaying him anytime soon, so I just took a bunch of photos of the doll and his accessories he comes with. I also don't own any stands I would trust him to stand in forever. I don't know that I trust strung dolls even on a stand, actually. I hate that they had to tape the freaking box, with a huge giant piece of sticky tape, and now my box is ruined. They had already ripped it at the top, which is another thing I loathe. I always cut the glue at the bottom flap, separating it neatly without damage to the boxes. Yes, I am a nut-job.

However, getting the one I wanted was a sacrifice far more than I had hoped, I guess. I got a damaged box, paid more than on other places because of freaking s/h and taxes and I'll just have to deal with an ugly piece of tape on my box. I was lucky when I got my other UF Doll, because I took a huge leap of faith getting a mystery boxed one, and got the brown one I wanted. I prefer it when I don't have favs, because then I can just get a mystery box and do the box opening myself, but I guess that's why I want to stop getting more of these... although, if I am still able to, I would still like to get the Emotional Channel one, if they don't completely sell out everywhere before I can justify the cost of these on Amnz once again. T__T;;;

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My March 2025 Japanese toy haul got here a few days ago. I love the Eren's titan form Revoltech, but I am a bit sad that it doesn't come with a window display box as well. Like with Link's ToTK deluxe Figma version. That has a fancy sleeve and a window display box as well. That would have been my ideal choice for this version of Eren's Revo. I'm still super happy that I was able to purchase him. I wanted the Ryu Hayabusa (Ninja Gaiden) one as well, but I wasn't able to justify his price. Mostly, because I have zero figures based on him, and I don't know I want to start with such a huge expense for such a tiny figure. In my excuse, there's zero figures based on Ryu, outside of a handful of scaled statues that I can't justify either. I might still try to get one, if my budget allows. Which, might never come to be, with how things are going right now...T___T;;;

From top far left to bottom right: MegaHouse LookUp Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom Kira Yamato & Athrun Zala Complete Non-Scale Figures; BanDai Spirits "Black Butler: Public School Arc" Tekupiku Sebastian Michaelis & Ciel Phantomhive Non-Scale Complete Figures; Kaiyodo Revoltech Amazing Yamaguchi Attack on Titan (Eren); Jamma EVA MICRO MACRO Premium Twin Figure -First Impact- Rei Ayanami & Kaworu Nagisa (Game-prize) Non-Scale Figures; Cospa Code Geass Re;surrection New Illustration Lelouch Tin Badge; Square Enix FINAL FANTASYVII Polygon Soft Vinyl Cloud Strife Non-Scale Figure; BanDai Namco NARUTO VIBRATION STARS -GARA & UCHIHA SASUKE- Sasuke Uchiha (Game-prize) None Scaled Figure; PICCODO PIC-H001CW Alternative Hand Set A, B & C In Cream White; Caravan KAITO x SOLWA Art by Tozai Acrylic Stand.

I also included photos of my Total Anime Eren's figure. I am not sure how to feel about those figures. The one I would have really loved owning is the Ken Kaneki one, because there are not that many figures based on him either. However, it seems like T4rget is making it hell, for some of us to be able to get him. Not even sure why they wanted it as an exclusive, just to make it a pain in the lower back for actual fans, and a day at the park for scalpers, I guess? DX

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A million repetitive photos of my Repoprize Sasuke Uchiha figure. I got two, so I could unbox one. However, their boxes where equally flawed/bruised. So, I kind of am tempted to get a third one, to see if I can get a perfect box. Not because I am a hoarder, but because I am a MISB collector. DX

Putting that aside, he's super adorable and a lot bigger than I was expecting. I kind of never really pay attention to how big these prize items are, until I get them. I was expecting a much smaller box from BBTS, but I got a kind of larger than expected one. Then when I opened the box, I was more surprised to see how large the figure's boxes were. Then, I was hoping the figure was larger since there is a large image of the figure on the box. I was hoping the figure would be that size, but no, he's much smaller than the photo on the front. He pretty much could have been though, there's enough room in there for him to have fit perfectly well, being a larger figure as well.

I am super happy with him nonetheless, and the reason why I took so many photos of him. He's super cute!