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New DD family members – part 2.
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Shortly after Airy joined our family I had a fantastic opportunity that I had not expected. My friend Salica from Figure.fm and the Dollfie Dreams forum was having to give some of her girls up for adoption. I felt really bad for her but I was very excited to learn she was having to give her Mio Akiyama up for adoption.
Mio is one of my other ‘unicorn’ DD’s that I’ve wanted for a long whilte now. In fact, while Danny Choo is the one who made me aware of Dollfie Dream girls, it was his post about the K-On! Dollfie Dream girls, Yui and Mio, that got me looking into them with more interest. Mio has always been my favorite K-On! girl so she is really where it all started for me.
I was lucky enough to get things together and be able to adopt Mio, and on August 6, 2011 Mio-chan came to my home to live with the rest of my family:
I’m not exactly sure what it is about Mio that made me love her so much. I don’t think the artist did a fantastic job at capturing her likeness from the anime. It’s not bad but not perfect. I do love her cute, innocent look and with her mouth sculpted the way it is, I picture her always saying ”Oh!” like she is seeing something interesting.
One that that really surprised me was the quality at which Salica keeps her girls in. Not only was Mio is absolutely perfect condition and included everything she originally came with, everything was packaged in it’s original bags. In fact, if it wasn’t for the extra outfits and some toys she included with Mio I would not have know she was every opened before by looking at her in her box!!! I can’t thank Salica enough for letting me adopt Mio. She is on my schedule for some new photo sessions soon!!!
My most recent addition though came as a bit of a surprise! My friend Jun97 from the Dollfie Dreams forum has a DDdy version of Volks Aoi and she’s really stunning. I’ve admired her for a long time, she has such great character and is really known as being the tsundere girl of the DD world. I’ve mentioned to him a number of times that Aoi is next on my list of girls to adopt and that I wanted her to be a DDdy just like his. I was worried he would be upset if I was copying him but I could not have been more wrong.
On Septempter 17, 2011 I got a package in the mail – it was a DDdy version of Aoi from Jun97 along with help from another friend of mine, Mitsuki – also from the forum. It wasn’t a total surprise as a few days before they let me know a package was coming and I guess I got a little to inquisitive and eventually guessed it correctly. haha Even so, I was absolutely shocked when I got her. She’s so beautiful and her little frown is so sweet!!!
Even though I was very excited by getting a new girl all of the sudden I was way more touched by my friends thinking of me so much to do this for me. Just so there is no confusion, this wasn’t a free “gift” – I did pay them back. The real gift is that they were thinking of me and went through the trouble of doing this for me – and also trusting me enough that I would pay them for it. hehe I’m still a little emotional now thinking about it as I write this. I can’t thank them enough for their kindness.
I don’t have as many DDdy outfits as I need but I do have more coming soon. Aoi spent the first few days in her very tight slip that she kept popping out of (hehe) so I don’t have any pics of her yet in something new. I plan on correcting that soon.
I can’t believe it but somehow I now have 8 girls living with me at home. It’s starting to get pretty crowded around here. With the recent news of the new Saber DD’s coming out, and my plans to get both of them, that is 2 more that will be joining my family in the future.
In some ways this hobby is really horrible and cruel – financially!!! haha But I always smile when I see my girls on my desk, even if they are a bit crowded now. I guess I’ll just need to rearrange some furniture to make more room for them and their future sisters.
**James.
K-On! manga to continue.
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Late last year I mentioned how the Genshiken manga was continuing and how excited I am about that. I recently saw more good news, the K-On! manga is going to start up again!!!
I saw the good news on Sankaku Complex which is a great site but be warned, it’s not very safe for work. There doesn’t seem to be much information yet on what the restarted manga will cover though I think most people suspect, and hope for, a continuation of their current story following the girls past High School to college. If that’s what they end up doing I wonder how they will handle Azunyan’s time stuck in High School as she’s a year behind the other girls?
I know there are a number of people who don’t like K-On! and call it pointless and simply a “moeblob” anime but I think they may be missing the point. I’ll agree that the show is filled with moe characters and situations, just look at the animated gif of Yui doing her Un-Tan dance. The show is also about friendship and having fun in school. If the K-On! was simply a mindless display of cuteness without substance I don’t believe there would have been as many people saying how emotional they got, even to the point of crying, at the last few episodes. No matter what you may think of the show you can’t honestly deny that K-On! is very loved by it’s many fans.
K-On! Movie is in our future.
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I’ve been a huge K-On! fan since the series started. I was so happy that there was a second season, and not just 13 episodes but a full 26 episode season.
Now that we are at the end of this second season and the girls have graduated I was feeling sad about a world with no new K-On! in it. Thankfully that has changed:
It’s been announced that a K-On! movie is in our future.
While I would rather see another series of K-On!, maybe one taking place while the girls are in college, a movie is nice. It should also let us see some higher quality animation than what’s usually available in the TV series.
I think it makes good business sense that they would keep milking the K-On! cow as it’s such a huge success. The Japanese anime industry has never been shy about monetizing their shows. As an obsessive Otaku collector – I’m really fine with that.
**James
Photoshoot – Mio Akiyama from K-On!
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A few weeks ago I got a new figure and finally got around to taking some pictures of it so I wanted to post them. It’s FREEing’s 1/8 scale Mio Akiyama in her “Moe Moe Kyun” maid’s outfit. I pre-ordered this figure back in February and have been eager to get it in. Thankfully it’s just as nice as I thought it would be.
FREEing did a really great job in capturing the feel of Mio from the anime where she does her “Moe Moe Kyun” pose.
If you haven’t seen this before you really should be watching K-On! But so you know what I’m referring to, here is a You Tube clip of that scene:
