Dakimakuras anyone?

LOL Were you having a romantic evening with your daki? I'm just giving you shit. ;)

Check this: http://home.howstuffworks.com/how-to-remove-chocolate-stains.htm
Or you could try this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcMzNOohTVc
Would NOT recommend the peroxide part though. If you can, always hand wash your covers, and turn them inside out if you are going to scrub an area.

Dunno if it won't damage the fabric, but I always used shaving foam for stains on my clothes, always helped.

Crazy, I've never heard of that method before. Then again, I've never heard of using cream, like the guy in the YouTube video recommends, either.

Soak the daki in a pail/bucket of water add some white vinegar and leave it for about half a day. It should come off.

Oh man, that's gotta' smell terrible.

It won't be that much of a problem when you add some nice smelling detergent like softlan. Sunning it afterwards also helps remove the smell.

I don't know why I didn't think about this sooner. I bought some of this lavender pillow spray once, and aside from smelling quite pleasant, it really helps with sleep. http://www.bathandbodyworks.com/product/index.jsp?productId=11669952


FUCK YES!!!!!!!1!!!
http://blog.埋もれる抱き枕er.jp/archives/8969
http://www.harthnir.com/daki2/index.html
Want both, but if I had to choose...the Navy version!

Okay yep, the auction deals hit you pretty hard with the extra fees haha... all the stuff I've ordered from amazon through SMJ though has been fairly cheap.

Lol, I find it funny that some of you guys think you are supporting the artist when you are buying off YJA. Buying from their web reception is fine. But buying from YJA is no different than buying a bootleg (unless the seller sells it directly on there which most don't). You're just promoting price gougers. If you're really supporting them, you'd go and buy it yourself at the event. Why don't you do that? Because it is expensive to pay someone to special proxy for you or fly there yourself. So that's the exact same concept as if someone were to want to buy a bootleg because they don't want to pay the overinflated prices. So there seems to be a double standard involved here. Just because it would cost way more to obtain it legitimate, some of you think buying secondhand is helping the artist.

Just like the whole issue with used games. The developers and publishers get nothing off used games. Just saying.

The way some of you post though (maybe it is the way you worded it) make you look very hypocritical. A lot of you think there is a morality issue, yet I bet most, if not all of you, have downloaded a song, program, game, anime, watched video streams of copyrighted works that wasn't posted by the copyright owner, or something else similar at one time and think it is ok. A blind eye is turned here because some of you are just crazy and passionate about this.

Now if you bring in the fact that bootleggers make money off it, that's definitely something to look down upon. But dakis and figures, unlike digital software, are not 1 to 1 copies. So in theory, you can say that it is a customized version. You are paying for the material and ink they use.

There's a reason why many artist sites don't have long web receptions (if at all), and only sell at events that are only a few days. You may want to do some homework if you have no idea why this is. But basically, the original artists pay no money for the characters they use. So they are actually profiting off another person's work just like a bootlegger would do. While not exactly the same situation, the basic concept is the same, however.

Don't mistake me with saying I'm supporting bootlegs though. I'm neither for nor against it. I'm just pointing out how wrong some of you are with your thought process. You may want to re-read my post if you don't understand what I wrote.

I don't agree with that at all.

With bootlegs you aren't supporting the original artist at all. No money is going to the original artist. No matter where you buy a bootleg the original artist is not going to get compensated.

With purchases on YJA money has already went to the original artist. So you did support them because if no one bought them from YJA the sellers would eventually stop purchasing these items and the original author would eventually make less.

Sure, you are not buying from the original artist directly, but you are purchasing the original hence the author has been compensated in one way or another.

What you are doing is just justifying the method you use even though it is the same thing in principal.

There is no difference to paying someone to go to events or paying someone who already went to the event on YJA. Just like on YJA there can be price gouges on paying someone to go to the event.

Note in this post when I refer to original artist I'm referring to the cover maker, not the author who created the character.

I'm eventually going to make a custom one with these two lady from katawa shoujo



They are my two favorites, But thats in the future.

anyone know if this site is legit
http://www.qt-anime.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1

Nope, looks like bootlegs. As a rule of thumb, any site that sells a cover in "Peach Skin" is a bootlegger.

October is off to a good start. :D



Also got a couple M-shaped norens too (duplicates):

Very good start to October indeed! I'm not usually into tanned, but that tanned cover is peaking my interests. She looks great. :P

I considered it as something those sellers deserve, I mean, if you ever went to comiket yourself, you know it's hell whether you go for the summer or winter, it's Hell and don't get me going on to fighting for booths. Money goes to the seller and artists, I got no qualms paying for help I received.

I guess you don't understand it then. Look at my used games example. A sale is already a sale. They don't get anything additional. The artist is not getting anything from you. You can't indirectly relate them as saying you paid the artist just because someone else bought it. There is definitely a difference because someone who went to the event was planning to buy it. Paying someone to buy it for you means that person going for you was not going to buy it in the first place. If you can't see the difference, you may want to take your fan goggles off. Go ahead and justify it any way you want.

But I believe Zengar said it best. If you think of it his way, that's a different story.



And that's great that you think that way actually.

This post was actually geared toward some of the other people who think they are supporting the artist by buying from YJA. People here want to share information. Yet there is some misinformation and that's why I posted. But it seems someone got butt hurt over it giving me a -1 rep. Great job, thinking it is going to hurt me lol. Not that I care; but as expected, that's a typical fanboi response over something they don't want to hear, even if it is the truth.

Not at all.

1) "A sale is already a sale."

Sure a sale is a sale, but you are failing to look at anything but the present. For example, what if no one at the event cared for the cover and did not want to purchase it. The only people purchasing the cover are those wanting to sell it on YJA. If not for the people purchasing it for auction, the creator would get nothing. If this happens multiple times the creator may produce even less covers and or stop.

If people didn't buy from YJA then these YJA sellers wouldn't buy the covers and there could be situations were covers would not sell like in the above example.

You can't deny this doesn't happen. Circles like HOP have limits for this reason where 30 people must purchase before they even bother producing. By purchasing from YJA you help keep alive the chain.

Your issue is you wrongly assume that every cover is purchased and all sellers leave empty handed. You fail to take into consideration other scenarios that occur.

2) If you can't see how paying someone to purchase something isn't you paying and supporting the maker than that's just you being stubborn.

If I give money to a friend to pick up a case of red bull that isn't him buying it it and supporting the makers. That is me buying it and supporting the makers.

I bought only 1 cover from YJA. I have no bias here. You should stop with this "goggles" nonsense as it only makes you look foolish.

I am a little confused as to what sparked this whole thing. I don't remember anyone saying that they thought buying covers off of YJA was directly supporting the artist, I am farily certain that I didn't, and it's pretty obvious that auction sales don't directly support the artist...unless of course, that it's the artist's YJA account. ;)

And if airline tickets to Japan were that cheap, then yes, I know that I for one, would have no problem just jumpin' on the old airplane and taking a quick, inexpensive trip to Japan to buy a dakimakura or tweleve. Unfortunately, that is not the case. So what are your options if you want an event-exclusive cover? Answer: start scouting for auctions. And like Alamarco said,
the artist already received money from another source/party, so the cover has been sold regardless, and the person who purchased the cover lucks out and pockets a little extra coin for their efforts. You see this happening at just about every convention with just about every sort of collectible imaginable, licensed or unlicensed. And if the dakimakura artist places an order for a set numbers of covers to be printed or has a limited quantity that sells out, then he/she reaches their max goal/profit regardless of who purchases the cover. I've asked a particular artist if he had any covers left over from C82, and he sold out, but you know what, I found one on YJA bought it and told him that I did, because I liked his work and wanted to show him that I appreciated it and while I couldn't be there to purchase it, I'm willing to go the extra length to support him, even if that doesn't mean that I didn't support him financially. Exposure can be "support" as well. Were you perhaps confusing that for financial support?

In my opinion, the use of video games as a comparison to dakimakura isn't really a valid example due to the fact that most video games are readily available, mass produced, and easily accessible to purchase in just about every territory by just about any consumer (sans Germany and Australia - they are pretty strict on mature content). So when you purchase used video games when the same brand-new video games are simultaneously and readily available, then yes, THAT would directly affect the property holder. But this is not the same thing. If one was to buy a cover off of YJA while the artist was still selling the same cover on his/her site, then yes, this comparison would be valid.

Either way, whatever, we're all just here to share our love for dakimakura, yeah? With the exception of the occasional troll that pops in the thread. I don't give a rip about them. I'll still do my thang. :)

EDIT: Didn't see your last post, Alamarco, but I agree with your point on a "sale is a sale." ...especially when there is a limited quantity or time frame for which to purchase. That is really the point I am trying to make in my post. :)

DOUBLE EDIT: Too much time went into this goddamn post. ;P

how is buying from auction not supporting the original artist? the seller already purchased from artist >.> is then flipping it on auction to bank. or perhaps purchased the cover for a bonus item, then sells it to get money back. am i wrong? o.O