I am Klein, the reclusive maintainer of this blog/site. The above picture is as close of a clear picture of me you will ever get. I am a video game playing, comic book reading, invader zim watching, anime figure collecting, doll enthusiast. Somehow without that last part in there about being a doll enthusiast I sound like a ten year old boy ^^; I am mostly commonly seen with a DSLR in one hand and a doll or figure in the other.
More seriously, I have been collecting anime figures off and on for the better part of ten years now. I have amassed a fairly large collection of anime figures over the years and as a result my apartment looks something like a toy store. I am a borderline obsessive collector (I say borderline only because nothing is going on credit cards so I am not exactly that far gone where I am racking myself up in debt to buy figures, I know my limits). My love of anime is not limited to just figures, I love every manner of bizarre swag I can get my hands on generally the odder the swag the more I want it. I had actually completely stopped watching anime for a while due to lack of interest in some of the newer shows at the time, then about three years ago I was stuck in line with nothing to do so a friend tossed me their psp loaded up with all of the Rozen Maiden anime, I was instantly hooked again and my love of anime was reawakened.
One curious side affect of my getting back into actively collecting anime figures is the dolls. It started out simply enough, I loved Rozen Maiden so the pullips of the Rozen Maiden cast would be kind of neat to have unfortunately from there is snowballed I now have over 200 pullips and company. Even worse, I decided to try other dolls like blythe, bjd and dollfie dream.
I do have interests outside of anime figure/doll collecting. After seeing Dark Knight, I remembered a long forgotten love of the Joker when I was a kid I loved the animated Batman series and I adored the Joker but I had packed up all of my stuff at some point and kind of moved on. My love of the Joker has been rekindled and has led me to the near impossible quest of reading every Joker comic ever (I also have the more realistic goal of reading all of the comics Harley Quinn appears in ). The past two years or so, I have slowly been building a mountain of Joker and Harley Quinn comics and collectibles. I also love playing video games (Oblivion, Arkham Asylum, DOA, Tekken, Final Fantasy) and watching bad horror movies the more wretched the better.
You have some cool dolls there. I happened upon you blog somehow. Any way, I saw all those Blythe dolls and I took a photo in a drug store here in Yokohama where they are selling a range of hair color products, but instead of using women to model the color on the boxes, they are using Blythe doll, lol. How great is that. Here is the link to my blog photo of that.
http://bit.ly/hARvRc
Hope you get a laugh out of that like I did.
Tom
Hi Klein, Can you give me an idea of what a “used” Pullip afternoon should or would sell for? I have one that I purchased on ebay last year. I bought her without her box, she did not come with her sunglasses and the dog she has , well, the leash is not attached to her hand and was not when I bought her. I paid $100.00 for her at the time, and I am thinking of selling her. She is still in very good condition and her eye mechanism works fine. She has her stand, suitcase, dog & scarf as well as most of her original outfit.
Thanks so much….Lillian
If she is in good condition I’d say $125 would be a fair price (maybe even a little higher, I would not go lower though), would easily be $150 or so with the sunglasses pity you didn’t get them ^^; I’ve sold nude Afternoon for $90-$100 depending on condition before.
Hi. I just stumbled on your blog and I just wanted to thank you. Now I don’t feel so alone. I used to think acquiring 6 Dollfie Dreams in a span of one year was being obsessive but now I know better. I’m just borderline like you *wheeee*. Ooops. I hope I didn’t offend you with that remark. None meant. Peace! I love your dolls, they are all so pretty.
No worries I wasn’t offended ^^; Being passionate is always good as long as you keep it in perspective and aren’t digging yourself into debt pursuing your hobby. Thanks so much ^_^
Hi. I stumbled across your blog and fell in love with you Harley Pullip. Is there a way of getting in contact with the person who customized her.