Dakimakuras anyone?

Nice stuff , Kobun! By the way, the Blond Tapestry you have it's in a set or did you buy it seperately?
And here's some of mine.





This marks the 3rd cover that I have 3 copies.

Damn, three sets of three?! The only cover I have three of is that Harthnir cover. Nice lil' haul though. :)
Anyhow, yeah, that tapestry came with the pre-order of the game. It's super fucking thin material.

That's some sick loot Kobun. Especially the top left, something about that just makes me weak in my knees. :P

Also, your cover from charatweb is stunning. I love the big chests as well, but I'll have to resist her. :P

Been a while since I posted, been a bit busy, but still keeping up with my orders.

Received:
- Momo from Movic

On order:
- Yui from Movic
- Robin from Evening Call
- Sonico from gamers-online (not sure of the circle, but the one with the boobs)

Ordering:
- Momo from Evening Call
- Hancock from HOP

Just waiting for next paycheque before ordering the last two. These recent releases have all been great. Think this is most I ordered at one time.

Thanks Alamarco. That's a nice list you've got there, yourself.
While I don't tend to hang or display many of my tapestries or posters, I can't help but get suckered into buying a few here and there. Goes without saying that I couldn't pass up the two tapestries I got with this last batch, and every time I order a Lilith cover, I feel compelled to get the poster. Most times, the posters are hotter than the covers themselves. And I can't express enough how excited I am to get that cover form CharaWeb - shame it's not more explicit.

I'm actually heading out of town for the Holidays tomorrow and am having a few Ask and Anko covers sent up to my parent's house. This should be interesting. I am going to be watching for FedEx like a fucking hawk. LOL

I'm pretty much the same. I do hang up most tapestries, but I've run out of room. I still keep buying them though so I have a bunch sitting around with no place. Like you said, the tapestries usually have some amazing images so they are hard to resist.

That's pretty risky. Would sure be an interesting dinner conversation if everyone had a nice view of the cover, assuming no one has seen any of them before. :P

ahem.. pardon me, but when is winter comiket? is it that last weekend in dec? can't wait for the new stuff

The last 3 days of December, so Saturday 29th til Monday 31st.

Put in my order today for Momo. When she arrives that will be my 4th Momo cover. Looks like she has gained a sizable lead. I don't believe I have any other character with multiple covers. :o

I was just giving this some thought the other day on which character I have the most covers of. I think I'd need to do a complete tally, but was laughing, because as to the number of covers I have (including duplicates) I think Sena holds the lead. I don't even really like Sena that much, it just seems that I have a ton of covers for her. If we were going by unique covers, I think Azusa would hold the lead, but I'd need to do a full count.

Momo is 3rd on my list of favourites behind Saeko and Rin. I'm not surprised I have a lot of Momo, but I am surprised I don't have more Saeko and Rin.

It is kind of interesting to think about especially when you come in for surprises like yourself. Having so many and her not being a favourite would be surprising to me. It would make me think why I bought which cover, although still being relatively new at collecting I know all reasons for mine personally.

I do that a lot with my figures, since I've been collecting longer. I look at them and try and think what first drew me to the figure.

I did a quick count in my head and a look through the blog (though they don't always have every listing), and I think I'm at 8 unique Azusa covers and 8 (including duplicates) Sena covers. I don't particularly love Azusa, but she seems to get a lot of good covers from my favorite artists/circles (NoReal, Illust Guerrilla, BWStore, etc.) I think it's rather strange with Sena; she has gotten a lot of good cases, but she's exactly what I don't like in a character, normally. I'm not really a fan of blondes or big boobs, and when I actually got around to watching the series (after I had already ordered several cases for her), she was my least favorite character (though there were no character I disliked.) So in her case, I definitely think it was the artists that made my buy so many for her (4 from Marks of 2 versions - duplicated because it was a short preorder and I put in an order with SMJ and Yokatta, 2 from Evening Call, duplicated because I had a friend who was interested in it but didn't have the money at the time, Dai Taiwan's fantastic bikini cover, and BWStore's cherry cover.)

Well, in all fairness, Saeko and Rin don't get a ton of dakimakura covers. Off the top of my head, I know Saeko has 3 (Maidoll, Cakemoon, TAMA), and possibly a Dakemakura or two. Rin has quite a few more, but not too many ones that have come out recently; Saber has always been the more popular character from the series, and since Fate/Zero only featured her as a loli, there wasn't really much reason to do a new one for her. The only two in recent memory are the two Evening Call did, but I can think of a lot of others that came out from 2008-2010, maybe.

I've neglected this thread. I thought I could add the bootlegger-exclusive's perspective on things at the moment. There's quite a bit to learn with this route, but I'm finding solutions.

First, the ADP cover of Nymph finally came. It was just as good quality as HobbyHeart. She's just adorable, and she's always been one of my favorite characters anywhere. It doesn't make up for the horrifying lack of customer service or disregard for customer relations that ADP has, though, which is why I actually added them to a major reseller ratings list (it wasn't listed previously until I submitted a request to have it listed) and then wrote a scathing review of them.

I've come to like HH. They're fast to respond and are much more polite than ADP, who treats their customers like a nuisance. It reminds me of a running joke with my job since I work in a hospital as a network administrator, which says that if it weren't for the clients on the network, the job would be perfect.

Here's something important: While 60" pillows with any half-decent stuffing are very difficult to come by, LNT has an excellent 60" pillow that is really something else--far better than pretty much anything I've come across, at least in theory, since I ordered one and it has not arrived yet. Something to keep in mind. If you want just one good pillow for your Daki of choice as a sleep aid for the night, I think that's a good fit.

This has to be said, by the way: Shower before you plan to cuddle and sleep. Seriously. It doesn't matter what you did during the day, you're covered in whatever environment you spent it in, and it *will* rub off. You'll start to notice after a while.

Anyway, I'm enjoying my collection tremendously. I've found that I like to make a U on my bed: One on each side, one behind. My previous peachskin ones are fine for this, since they're only for decoration in this case. 2WT retains heat far better than peachskin, so they make much better cuddling pillows. Nymph and the Atelier ones are still my favorites.

I'm also developing a business relationship with a friend of mine so I can sell some of the ones I don't mind separating with. I told him I'd give him one free out of my lineup (sort of as a 30-day trial) and he could decide whether or not he liked it. Afterward, I'll charge for one and throw in another as a bonus. After that, I'll do small bulk discounts. (part of my strategy as a seller is getting people involved in the first place through a loss, after which they're way, way more likely to continue buying and make up more than enough for it, which is why initial "free trials" are so important--thanks for suggesting this tip to me, Amazon Prime and Netflix). This is kind of important, as I just spent $300 on my dad's Xmas gift and need to earn it back.

So what happens if your friend doesn't like the cover after 30 days?

Sorry, I worded that poorly. I meant "sort of" because I was using it as an analogy, since he gets to keep one for free and see if he likes the rest of the collection at all. He's a friend, so he can keep it regardless, but it's just meant as a foot-in-the-door so he's comfortable with both the product and the seller.

He's not really a close friend, just someone I met online a long time ago and talk to once in a while. If he were local, I'd just let him take one for nothing like you said to see if he likes it enough to buy others from me without risk, but he lives in New York, and I live near Boston, making that kind of unfeasible, and inappropriate.

I have a local friend who's getting one of his choice as a Christmas gift. He's a good friend I've known longer than anyone else, so that's just a gift he can keep out of mutual friendship, and with the advantage of seeing them in person. That's secondary to just seeing him again, though, since he moved to Florida after he graduated while I stayed in Massachusetts, and is visiting home for Christmas.

I can see collecting based on the artist/circle. When you find a good style that suits your tastes, it's hard to turn away from it.

I think you also made a good point on short pre-order windows. It's easy to make impulse buys because you feel like you'll miss your chance. I do it all the time. :P

Yeah, I'm a little shocked there isn't more Saeko. She seems perfect for covers with her shape and the manga she came from. I missed out on the maidoll cover and I keep checking from time to time, but I find her for around 30K which is too much for me. I also avoided the loli Rin covers. Not my cup of tea. :P

Circles are definitely the way to go, for me. Every now and then I'll see a character I love get a cover from a circle I'm not familiar with, or a circle I love will do a cover of a character I don't care for, but generally speaking, they put out a lot of great stuff; Evening Call's extensive offers are always of quality, Anko's work is always beautiful, Kyounetsu has a lot of fantastic art, and so on.

Yeah, it's a just a shame the "foreign" market for legit cover is so limited; the covers I have doubles of, that I'd be happy to sell, are selling for 14-20k on YJA. I have them listed in the $150-200 range, which is in most cases, either what I paid for them or a bit less.

I'd love a copy of the Maidoll Saeko cover... apparently she was up on Toranoana at some point (you can still pull up her page there), but it never made it to the blog, so we all missed out. >.< I like the cover a lot, but 20-30k isn't what I'd be willing to pay for it. I bought the loli Rin myself, and it's a fantastic cover, but if loli doesn't appeal to you, then there is nothing that can be done about that. ^^

I think I'll eventually get to the point where I follow circles. I kind of do, but I still only go after characters I like. Evening Call for example is where most of my covers are now coming from, but it's also because they keep releasing characters I like such as Rin, Rias, Robin, Momo, etc. Makes it easier to follow the circle.

I was the same with figures. The beginning was purely characters I enjoyed and eventually branched out into anything that looked good.

$150-$200 is an amazing price, especially when rare and older covers go for $350+. I'm the same way, as long as I get my money back I'm fine with selling even. I'm not in it to gauge and make money. If I do sell, it's because I really want to get rid of it.

I actually did see the Maidoll Saeko on Toranoana, but she was sold out when I seen her. I imagine she was sold out quite quickly if it didn't make it on the blog. I happened across her when I was randomly browsing Toranoana. After seeing her on Toranoana I went to Yahoo auctions and saw her for 30K. :(

I follow the scene in general, via the blog and a few other sites, but I make a habit of checking the sites of my favorite circles on a regular basis, just to see what's going on.

Yeah, in my case, the covers I'm selling are either unopened covers I don't really have any interest in (a few company covers that I never opened), or covers I have doubles of that I don't really need them for (tons of Sena.) I do buy doubles occasionally, but it's usually for cases that I plan on using and want to have a backup for when the case eventually wears down a bit. I might eventually use one of the Sena cases if I buy a few pillows, but I don't think it's one I need a bunch of doubles for.

Toranoana is usually a preorder, but the main blog we use misses a ton of updates. They probably had a limited preorder window there, and we just missed it since it was never added to the blog. Hopefully Fei will decide to resell it at some point.

Plan on selling your Sena Blanket? ^_^

As I experienced http://daki.otaprice.com/ is always faster with updating.