Pullips and Junk

Although project Mahoro is not complete, I have started another project. For those of you wondering about Mahoro, her face up is complete but she still lacks a body, wig, clothes and I am not entirely happy with her eyes. I am just kind of frustrated with the lack of progress with her at the moment especially since I can not seem to find the wig I want for her. Our new project, comes about due to the unexpected acquisition of a Volks Super Dollfie. I say unexpected because I never anticipated owning a larger than Yo-SD bjd and I was not actively looking for another bjd right now. I acquired her through a trade with an acquaintance of mine, the offer was too good to refuse. She is a Volks Super Dollfie Mimi, I had always liked her sculpt because it was more stylized than most bjd sculpts. Most larger bjds are kind of off putting to me as they are too realistic looking but luckily Mimi is not like that. I was kind of flummoxed as to what I was going to do with her, I started looking for clothes and such but I couldn’t really find anything I liked. I was looking around Denver Doll‘s site and I found this wig then it clicked, with her stylized sculpt she would make a perfect Utena.

I loved the Revolutionary Girl Utena anime, when I was younger. I haven’t watched it in years but it holds a lot of nostalgic value for me, it was even the first anime I ever bought on dvd (although it took forever to complete because the licensing company only released the first season until years later). I used to have a Utena and Anthy wall scroll hung up in my room but I think I finally took it down in the last time we got a big batch of wall scrolls in to make room for something else. The show irked me in it’s lack of merchandise other than the plushes and the two sega real figures there was not a whole of stuff.

After some thought and discussion (with requiemart who is apparently is a huge RGU fan) I decided that to start off with her “stock” will be the black and white school uniform from the movie, I know it is not as iconic as the uniform from the series but she is my doll and I aesthetically prefer the black and white uniform plus I think it may actually be less complicated to actually sew (I am going to at least take a stab at sewing this myself before resorting to farming the work out). Eventually I actually intend to have a fairly extensive wardrobe for her: the school uniform from the anime series, the dualist uniform from the series, the dualist uniform from the movie, girl’s Ohtori academy and Utena’s rose bride gown. To answer some related questions that are bound to spring up- At this time I think Utena will be the only character I will turn into a bjd, if I was to do a second one Anthy would not be my first choice. If I did ever make an Anthy it would be based off of the movie appearance anyway but honestly she is like 4th or 5th in line in terms of characters I would like to see as bjds (Nanami, Mikage, Kozue, Shiori then Anthy).

I most certainly do not have any crazy ideas of making bjd versions of the entire cast. My next project (which is not even to be started on until Utena and Mahoro are complete) will more than likely be another dollfie dream this time based off of Nurse Witch Komugi as I love her character design and after that I plan on doing Elda and Freya of Chobits but that one is going to take more planning as I want to do both at the same time as well as make pullip/dal customs of Sumomo and Kotoko.