Dakimakuras anyone?

Yeah, I've seen a few sold, but I'm waiting to find one < 20K. I do want it, but not for that much. With proxy prices factored in, > 20K is just too much.

Yeah, I don't think I'd want to pay more than 20K for the MAIDOLL cover either.
Also, FUCK YES Toranoana re-opened pre-orders: http://www.toranoana.jp/mailorder/article/04/0030/07/11/040030071181.html

Was just going to post about that. I put in a pre-order for that cover. I think it looks amazing and I also ordered the special edition DVD. The DVD is released already, but I'm having Yokatta wait for the cover to be released before shipping. Figure I might as well get them in at the same time.

Going to be a long wait though. She's not shipping until early November. :(

Hmm a bit too large for my tastes :)

Was hoping my Yokatta order might arrive today but no luck.. either it appears tomorrow, or it's been sent to customs and arrives god knows when ;(

SMJ finally got my Rabbit.net cover in, which should work out pretty well. I should be able to pay off my remaining invoices a bit later this week, so hopefully it will be stored in the US by then. Then it will be time to request a fairly large shipment. ^^

Edit: Was it you that picked up the new Anko Miku cover, Zengar?

Double Edit: You're all making me edit my post a ton of times. D: Mandarake added the Marks Pretty Cure March cover for 25k, for anyone interested. The last one that sold went for ~25k on YJA, so this would be a fairly good way to get it without the proxy fees.

My order arrived! (just posting this so Shashin doesn't need to edit again!)

Pics later on..

Heh, funny you should mention that. :P The one I really wanted was the Peace limited version. I had to leave the house for about 20 minutes after the March had popped up. While I'm away from the house, I check my phone and sure enough they added the limited version. Tried to snag it on my phone, but was too late. :(

Finally found a sample of Anko's Miku tapestry the other day, and it looks fantastic. She seems to be going down in price a bit; I've seen a few close as low as 28k. Which is still absurdly high, but the tapestry is huge:

http://www.mandarake.co.jp/information/2012/08/30/21gcs02/index.html

Nice! That does look quite big, are the dimensions of it listed anywhere?

Unfortunately I haven't seen anything solid. One seller believed the size to be A0 (841 × 1189 mm), while another seller just measured the length of it rolled up (which would be the width) and said it was 90cm. So probably pretty close to A0, if not a little bigger/smaller.

So here's my little box of goodies, with a blow by blow unpacking sequence of photos!

Upon first opening I find...

Sengendo's Kanzaki Ranko cover..


And a Kanzaki Ranko doujin, which actually was kind of the tipping point for me as I liked the cover and then the preview shots of the doujin were great.. given the doujin alone is 1k and the both together is 10k this probably wasn't the smartest way of making my final decision :p


Sengendo's Tenshi cover...


Patchoulli cover...


Someone's boobs and someone with some lacey/frilly clothing..


The frills coming from this Alice cover..


And the boobs being Manami's from this Clochette cover...


Someone from a Purple Software eroge...


Really no idea who she is, just liked the art..


An Askmakura cover..


Ririchiyo from Inu x Boku cover, by Show...


Someone in dog-paw print pajamas..


Ah it's a Gisele cover from that Flowering Days game that seems to have a lot of official covers out...


Yoshika cover.. (from Touhou, not Strike Witches, obviously..)


And finally, a Mikeou bath towel with a character from the EX-ONE game/thing.

And to give us something to talk about.. give opinions on which covers you'd like to see in full, the most popular ones will get some pics!

Is anyone able to track down the Inyouchuu/Aojiru dakimakuras? I'd love to get my hands on them.

Hmm, given the material of those, they look like they might be bedsheets (at least the one with two characters.) But I'm not really familiar with either series enough to say for sure. I'll look around, but a quick search didn't pull up anything. Do you have a link to the page you got that image from?

Also, if you're just interested in tentacles in general (good choice!) there are a few covers that have them. Off the top of my head, the recent Escalayer cover comes to mind, as well as these two:

http://blog.xn--er-573a1isbf1441e2hs87j.jp/archives/4685

http://blog.xn--er-573a1isbf1441e2hs87j.jp/archives/8717

Edit: Sample image of the first: http://shimg.surpara.com/shop/item/41/41552.jpg

Sold out on Mandarake and doesn't appear to be on YJA (the two main sources.) Still looking for the others, but haven't had much luck yet.

Double Edit: Found these two on YJA:





Unfortunately, they're both in the adult section, so unless you have an account, linking them for you won't do much good. The first is a 9800 yen buyout, and the second is a 5000 yen bid. Both look legit, but the material probably isn't the best.

Thanks for looking Shashin. How are those prices? I've never gotten any before, but I'm pretty obsessed with Inyouchuu so I'd love to own some of its merchandise haha. The Mikoto one (red head) interests me the most, as does the middle one which I have never seen any sample images of before. That one looks awesome, but yeah. I'm pretty sure it's one from Kowaku no Toki (same as the third girl there), if that helps at all...

I can't remember the random site I found that on, I can try and look around. It's been years though... these seem rare as heck I guess. I would probably be willing to commission someone though if anyone here could get a hold of some of them. The Mouyrou ones there are pretty nice too. But yeah I'd love the Inyouchuu ones or Kowaku no Toki. The last one there with Takeru is pretty nice and seems cheap.

Are dakimakuras uncensored?

The prices for the two I linked are pretty okay. The 9.8k one is probably pretty close to the original retail, while the 5k (it is a bid, so it could go higher) is likely a good deal cheaper than the retail price. Unfortunately, you just can't buy stuff from YJA (Yahoo Japanese Auctions) unless you're in Japan, pretty much. So you'd have to use a proxy which adds some additional cost. If you can tell me character names/the name of the series the middle (with the two chicks) is from, I might be able to look it up. As I said, based on the material and it having two characters, I think it might be a bed sheet and not a dakimakura but I could be wrong.

I wouldn't really say they're rare, but they're likely a few years old and the systems for looking up covers back then was probably not as good. The fact that it has been a few years also influences availability, obviously.

That's a complicated question, which has multiple answers: Yes, no, and kinda.

Company covers (done by official sources/licensed/the artist for the series) almost always are censored. Either in a way that the goods aren't shown (they have panties on), creatively so (juices, tentacles, hair, etc is in the way of the nether regions), or flat out mosaic/Barbie doll nether regions. The last is pretty rare, but unfortunately eroge companies seem to be the ones most likely to do so.

Circles on the other hand, which are basically small groups of fans, usually don't censor at all. And in fact, they can be very explicit. Circles choose what they draw... it's kinda unlikely you'd find these characters done by a circle, as they tend to focus on anime series/Touhou/etc.

Bed sheets would be nice, heh.

Here's the getchu page to Kowaku no Toki (蠱惑の刻) - http://www.getchu.com/soft.phtml?id=421945

I'm pretty sure the girls names are:
Yukino Honkou (本郷　雪乃) older darker haired girl
Yuri (本郷　藍) younger girl, not totally sure on the name

If you find anymore on that one that'd be awesome. FYI though that is one of Aojiru/Tinkerbell's craziest games, so just a heads up hopefully you can handle the searching lol.

Interesting, it was a dakimakura cover.

Nice covers Shashin! Must of been like Christmas morning opening up that box. :D

My Fatalpulse came in which is good news, except I got charged a $65 duty. The proxy I used put the entire price on the shipment so I got dinged. :(

I think I'm going to switch the Satellizer I have on display with this Fatalpulse. Satellizer was my first dakimakura and I haven't taken her out of the pillow, but I think it's time. :P

By the way willowywicca, awesome stash. I think I'd vote for these myself, they look awesome!
https://www.fakku.net/image-404/images/1192138-3K1TEPO.jpg (you should get the artist on this one heh)
https://www.fakku.net/image-404/images/1192141-97QT8KO.jpg
https://www.fakku.net/image-404/images/1192143-7RF8ANT.jpg
https://www.fakku.net/image-404/images/1192147-YI8PCU2.jpg



*dies* Holy crap, that's a winner! Someone buy this one for me... haha. Oh man I need that one.

Did a very quick search (I'll search more later) and only found one currently listed. It's also in the adult section of YJA, so linking it wouldn't do much good. It's being sold by the same seller that's selling the one cover for 9800 yen. It's listed for 3500 yen, but unfortunately it's used - the seller states that it has some dirt in the margins and is kinda worn. If you wanted it just to display, it might be worth it for that price, but I probably wouldn't recommend sleeping with it. :P


Edit: Small Mandarake order just arived. I've wanted the Argyle (Monster Hunter) cover for awhile, and I couldn't pass up the Marks cover. Both came with the "little damage" tag, so they were both cheaper than you'd normally expect to find either of them. Haven't opened them up yet (it's sad when this is the first thing I do), but I'll update if there is any major damage. My experience in the past with Mandarake's minor damage tag has been good; I've ordered three covers with it - didn't notice any damage on one, another had some lose threads near the zipper, and the last had some dirt stains or something near the bottom.

Sweet, that's a good price, maybe it shows though. lol, do they show pics of the actual owned one there at all?

Well keep me updated I guess if you can and find another one. If there's a better condition one for like 5,000 I'd be very interested. Though I wouldn't know where to start after that... I've imported things through AmiAmi since it's so simple, but yeah. That or maybe I could go through someone else here or elsewhere to get it to me if you guys tend to that or whatever.

That one on the left you got is very nice.