Greetings & Salutations!

This is Rinka here, Nice to meet you all!~
I’ll be a new co-writer here on moeidolatry.com!

As fellow avid Dollfie Dreamer, I will also bring in my pair of beautiful girls who I’d like to also introduce; Ran & Yukari Yakumo. And from their many years of travels, living through many ages of the world, they are willing to share their adventures and knick-knacks with you lovely readers.

I myself will be helping to cover pop culture events like Manifest and Supanova by sharing photos and writing about my expeditions at the shows.

A little about myself? Well… I guess you could say I am a large fan of kemonomimi (mainly Kitsune/Fox) girls, along with kuu-dere, onee-sama and motherly anime archetypes who posses various voluptuous assets heheh… ^^;;. I tend to be a cool and level headed in most situations, I’m not afraid to voice what I think and can be a real critic when it comes down to my passions which are Dollfie Dreams, anime and pop culture.

With this I leave you some of my creations, an image of Yukari surrounded with only a fraction of the collection accumulated over the lifetimes she has seen through, Ran Yakumo looking ever so warm and sweet, and lastly Sakura Matou at Rayong beach in Thailand from one of my first ever shoots.
I do hope you will enjoy and look forward to my future work

Sincerely,
Rinka

i<3u

Managed to get my girls some gifts in my busy schedule ^^;

Hope they like to share the bear too lol.

I thought about getting them cake, but I think I’ve been feeding them too much of it (in other words, I think I’ve been having too much cake…)

They look like they enjoy the bear :D
Though, will they share it nicely or not…?
Will I need to buy another bear? =/

Arturia seems to like the hearts, and Evelyn is quite content with it…even if she pretends not to.

Anyway, for those singles out there (technically me…), happy singles awareness day!

Dollfie Dream mini-gather

Today was quite eventful :D
A few friends decided to bring their dollfies along to mingle with each other, naturally I decided to let one of mine come along too. The location? OzAnimart, a lil anime store in Melbourne Australia.
Evelyn has visited OzAnimart before, so I guess it’s Arturia’s turn to socialise.

As I wasn’t expecting any photos, I didn’t bring my regular gear, instead I had to make do with my lil old faithful, the Nikon Coolpix P2 snapshot camera.

I borrowed Will’s dollfie’s black wig and tried it on Arturia, the result was pure sex (well… I thought so).

The next few photos include the other girls. DDDy Yoko belongs to a friend, and Aisha (DDDy Kanu) belongs to Will.

So ya, overall a fairly fun day, always feels nice having friends who are getting into dollfies :3

The girls were also quite a hit with the customers who came into the store, one of which thought they were on sale XD

Reload! Reload!

22nd January was the date for @Can (Atcon), a small convention in Melbourne, Australia.
That was also the date my friends, Rinka and Maroon Beret, accompanied me in our S2 Café butler outfits. Our goal: to have a dollfie photoshoot!

Rinka carried Saori, I carried Arturia and Maroon Beret was in charge of the photographic equipment load. The plan was to rendezvous at my place before moving out to the CBD. It was a hot day so we were in for quite a trip of painful walking and fanning ourselves with moé Japanese fans…

We arrived at the point and scouted the immediate vicinity for potential photo opportunities. LZ were found and we set up the tripod and equipment, ready for war!

Well anyway, it turned out alright :3
Unless of course, someone decides to have a poke at what’s going on.

Alcohol powered moé

Second petite post, and a little longer too~
Got some new arrivals which I wanted to show along with some of my new obsessions!

First thing up, I got some of my new figures including Ciel from Kuroshitsuji [Square-Enix], Saber Super Movable Nendoroid [Good Smile Company] and Dead Master figma [Max Factory] to name a few.

As a rule, and also to limit my spending… I only get nendoroids that possess the =_= face if I like it. This Saber just so happens to have one!

Ciel was actually an impulse buy, I haven’t seen Kuroshitsuji but I know very well of Ciel’s appearance as a trap. I guess I couldn’t resist ^^; Oh that dress… :3~

Now on with some new obsessions of mine. Kamen Rider, aka Masked Rider has become something I’ve been investing quite a bit of time and money into. I just like to make it clear that I’ve been watching the Japanese shows, not the US incarnations. What do I have to show for such interest? These…

Now I can henshin too~! Wearing one of these turns you into a little kid again.

My favourite so far is Kamen Rider Decade, possibly because of the camera/photography motifs and the fact that you get to see all the previous kamen riders battling it out. Think Super Robot Wars but with Kamen Rider instead.

Another thing I’ve recently enjoyed a lot is, well, hazelnut liquor called Frangelico. A friend introduced me to it and I’m hooked. It tastes so yummy~~
Put it in with milk and you got yourself the best milk ever! I hate milk by itself but this just makes it into the milk of the gods!

Last thing I wanted to announce, PRE-ORDERS FOR THE iDOLM@STER 2 ARE OPEN!

I’ve already pre-ordered my copy from AmiAmi, so I’ll be looking forward to it next year. Well…most of it anyway.

Snow trip!

While it’s blistering hot in Japan (presumably), we’re enjoying winter down in Australia, or at least, some parts of it that aren’t in constant “summer”.

We’ve taken this opportunity where some friends and I were free on a weekend to take a trip to Mt.Buller, a popular ski location for locals and foreigners alike. It’s a 4 hour drive from central Melbourne to the mountain, so we did a one day trip, with dollfies in tow. Three to be exact, I’ll be introducing a new friend, Rina. Over the course of many months I’ve managed to convince a friend of mine to also be a proud owner of a dollfie.

The trip was quite tiring and it didn’t help that the weather was being especially unruly. It was raining, overcast, and misty. The rain was the problem, but we’ve found that the Volks’ violin dollfie carry case are especially hardy in keeping the dollfie dry, but the case itself was one soggy piece of equipment. Thankfully it dries out fairly easy.

Anyway, less blabbing, more photos.

Here’s a stereogram for good measure, left image is slightly blurry tho =/

Sorry about the relative lack of photos, the weather wasn’t happy, and we were tired and hungry :(
Hope you enjoyed the photos!

Sakura and Arturia

In this photoshoot, I decided to re-visit the location used for Alter’s Saber Alter and the solo Arturia. Instead of going at it alone, Arturia is accompanied by a friend’s Dark Sakura!

For those who don’t recognise the location, it is St.Patrick’s Cathedral, Melbourne. On my previous photoshoot with the two, you can see that the weather was quite uncooperative that day. We decided to come back another time. This time, the weather was too good… The harsh sunny conditions provided bright reflected light from nearby buildings, which created a weird mix of shad with highlights =/

Anyway, onto the photos!

I’d like to point out that about this time is where those inquisitive Chinese tourists arrived, mirorring what happened the other times I was last there. A group of children ran up and started to stare in amazement, one yelling to her mother “Barbie! Barbie! Barbie!” a few times ^^;

To be honest, I’m not really 100% happy with the last shot as it doesn’t have the same impact as the first. The weird lighting on their faces was due to a building nearby which was cream in colour and reflected most of the light from over the hedge to their heads @_@;

Anyway, that’s that! Hope you enjoyed the photos~

Stereoscopic images

3D vision, the new consumer sensation. You see it everywhere, from the big screen cinemas, to smallest hand held console, it seems to be everywhere all of a sudden.

Some of you may have encountered some images in the past that have two images side by side. These are more likely than not, stereograms. For this specific type of image, one needs to cross their eyes so that both images merge into a single image in the centre.

During my outdoor photoshoot of Arturia and Sakura (which will be posted soon!) I took a few photos of them together, with a slight shift in angle. Once I was at home processing the photos, I noticed that they had a similar quality to stereoscopic images I’ve seen, so I tested them out. To my surprise, they worked! I’ve created my first accidental stereogram!

If you’re new to all this, before you click on the image and try it for yourself, I’ll let you in on my little technique which seems to work for me. Here’s a few steps:

• Focus on centre of the image, it’s best to keep the image small so make it easier on your eyes if it’s your first time.
• Put a finger in front of your eyes, between you and the image.
• While still focused on the image, you’ll notice that your finger is out of focus and that there’s two of them.
• Align the out-of-focus fingers so that each finger is in the middle of both sides of the image.
• Now here comes the tricky part, focus on the finger.
• You’ll now notice that the now out-of-focus image has combined.
• You can now move the finger away, but try to keep your eyes slightly crossed so that the image is still combined.
• Focus on the image without un-crossing your eyes and enjoy 3D!

Hopefully that helps ^^;

Now onto the accidental image:

Now, I tried to reproduce this with a figure on my shelf. It was quite a challenge without any specialised gear, or a tripod…

Hope you’ll enjoy those images :3

Volks

Doll’s Party 20

Long time no post!
Sorry about the lack of updates, I don’t really have an excuse other than having to grind at Uni >.<
Unfortunately my work isn’t too “moé” so I don’t think it’ll have a place on this blog, but maybe one day XD.

Today I’m showing you guys that haven’t heard the new Dollfie Dream lineup that Volks will be showcasing at Doll’s Party 20. The event is held at Tokyo Big Sight on the 7th December 2008, a tad earlier than the usual date of Christmas. So, without delay, here they are!

Before I continue, for those that have no idea what a Dollfie Dream, let alone a Dollfie or ABJD is, visit an earlier post for a very brief rundown: Dollfie Euphoria.

Dollfie Dream Dynamite

First up, Volks are releasing a new body line for Dollfie Dreams, dubbed Dollfie Dream Dynamite. Two anime series will be featured for this new body, Ikkitousen Great Guardians and Beat Angel Escalayer.

Volks hasn’t released any photos of the Escalayer to my knowledge, so we’ll just have to wait a lil more. For those who want to see the actual base body of a Dollfie Dream Dynamite and compare it to the others, visit Volks’ official base body page. I’m not really a fan of the new bodies, I think they’re a lil too much for my tastes, but it does look quite nice.

For more Ikkitousen love, visit the official page:

Saber Alter

OH MY GODDESS!…
No words can express the emotion I feel when I saw this. As most of my friends know, I’m quite the fan of Black Saber so it was quite a shock to see that Volks will be producing one. I shouldn’t be so surprised tho, after all, they did release the regular Saber >.>

But in any case, here’s a few photos from the Volks USA site. The link for the official Japanese site is below.

I’m… I’m actually going to try and grab myself one with the help of my friend in Japan (I love you buddy) so there goes my money… and I’m supposed to be saving up to go to Japan ^^;

Volks is also going to release a new dress set for Saber, her casual wear with a Dollfie Dream sized plushie lion >:3 Adorable!

For more, visit the offical page:

Time out!

So, let’s take a lil time to discuss the future of this lil blog. I’m aware that I haven’t updated for about THREE MONTHS, and it was a mixture of uni, work, games and good old laziness to blame. I’ll try to post more often now since I’m in my end of year holidays.

I thank those who come here regularly and apologise for the lack of updates ^^; I also noticed people want a higher photo shoot content, so I’ll try to fit that in as well, rather than random posts.

GOOD APPEAL!!

Japan Packages

Today, I got what I wanted for a whiiillee~
I have a friend who’s staying in Japan for a year on the JET program (teaching english etc). Now, he’s also a fairly obsessive otaku and a kind one at that, he’d get stuff that I wanted from Japan that would otherwise be unavailable, or too costly for me to get.Today two packages came in the mail from him :3

This is all the things he managed to get for me during that whole summer event period in Japan, I wish I had given him more money…

Again, apologies for crappy indoor shots~

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I glee with excitement, my mouth salvating, my fingers wriggling, a gun in my pocket…
That’s how it was when I got home with the packages, I opened then up and began my exploration and documentation of the items for both this blog, and for my database of all things otaku (this is going past 14k AUD…and I still haven’t included some items…).

Aaah advertisements, I love the ones from Akihabara :3

Gao~! Finally got the Illya + Berserker plushie I’ve been trying to get for some time, and also the Saber Lion from Fate/Tiger Colosseum which is a Wonderfest Summer ’07 exclusive.

Rawr~! Nendoroid Saber Alter and the non-scale Saber & Irisviel of Fate/Zero, both by Goodsmile Company (MY BOX, MY BEAUTIFUL BOX~!!!!), both exclusive to Wonderfest summer ’07.
It’s possible that I’ll be bringing the Saber & Irisviel to Manifest for a photoshoot~ I’ll be scouting for places this Friday.
I’ve been so busy today that I haven’t even opened the figure boxes yet >.<

( ﾟ∀ﾟ)ｱﾊﾊ八八ﾉヽﾉヽﾉヽﾉ ＼ – ＼- ＼
I managed to nab myself a super limited edition of Lucy Maria Misora maid version. The regular is pictured to the left in a white and red with green trims outfit, the boxed version is the white and black with gold trim. Only 950 were produced, 400 for Wonderfest Summer ’07 and 550 for limited online orders. You can check the site at Wave, although you can’t buy it anymore…
Excuse me while I drool all over the box…

The two Fate Fantasm Boxes come choc-a-block full of goodies that just shouts ｷﾀ━━━━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━━━━ !!!!! The first is Illya, it comes with a book with character illustrations and other articles, and the second half has some fan manga which was fairly cute. The box also includes Fate Character Trump playing cards, a bust of Illya with blood and a BerserCAR! >:3

The second box is Black Saber, my favourite, the book contains the regular stuff but the fan manga is so cute :3 Along with this box comes a Black Saber tapestry weighing approx 50 x 65cm, a Black Saber eyemask bust and a flashing LCD keychain

I now have three busts, from left to right, the one I got with Computiq magazine and also weathered, the Black Saber eyemask version, and the Illya + Berserker with blood.

Also, the BerserCar lights up it’s right eye when you push Illya down XD

YES! Ito Noizi’s new artbook which everyone and their uncle has, it just oozes（；´Д`）ハァハァ with all the Shana art and her other works, it also includes other characters such as Alulu/Elulu, Bridget, the Melonbooks mascot and much more. Like the previous artbook GU-RE-N, KA-E-N comes hardcovered and a beautifully illustrated jacket. My friend also managed to grab me a poster with it but he had to send it another time =/
The KA-E-N came with this photocopied sheet by Ito Noizi for animate, a chain store in Japan :3

Now onto the two doujins (he would of gotten more if I gave him more money beforehand…) that my friend managed to get from Comiket 72. I requested for iDOLM@STER and he delivered on the goods.

First up is NORTHANM@STER by Ojo-Noyokusitu.
It’s a Hokuto no Ken (Fist of the North Star) cross iDOLM@STER parody! I know i know… but trust me on this, it’s hilarious! I laughed for a good few minutes and now my stomach hurts (although it’s prolly rather to do with what I ate…). My Japanese language skills aren’t that great, so I couldn’t really understand the whole story =/

Enlarge to clear censorship

Second is i.D.M side A by U.R.C
Yes, it’s a H doujin, and a full colour one at that o_o
Story goes along the lines of the Producer having to interview candidates for a new idol group, he gets the first five girls details and goes off to “interview” them.
After “interviewing” he goes back to the manager and eagerly asks for the next batch… *drools*

There ya go, all my stuff I got today in the mail, time to stroke my e-penis…I mean open up my figure boxes ^^;

P.S. I’m gonna have small post images for non-photo shoot posts from now on so don’t think there’s something wrong with the small one :3