Dakimakuras anyone?

I'd buy a dakimakura made by Urushihara.

Or a Beatrix Brehmer dakimakura, since the artist who made her (CARNELIAN) makes loads of dakimakuras.

Don't have much experience with it myself, but this might be helpful:

https://www.fakku.net/forums/figures-mecha-and-toys/dakimakuras-anyone/page/19#2606759



Unfortunately Urushihara dakimakura covers are typically pretty bad. :( The art is good, if you like his style, but the material he typically uses is often subpar and his covers often have mosaic censoring. Personally, there isn't anything more frustrating than a dakimakura with mosaic censoring; I can accept it in my porn, but for something I paid good money for, it just ruins the art for me.

I'm not familiar with the character, but the original artist was Carnelian? She does do a good number of covers, but she tends to stick to original characters from what I've seen. Though her most recent two were characters from the webgame KanColle.

Censorship should be censored, but censorship on Urushihara works should be an international, crime against humanity. Seriously, fuck censorship.



Yeah, I'm kind of saddened about the high possibility of NO dakimakuras for Beatrix. The girls in that light novel are easily the best I've seen from CARNELIAN.

Dakimakura covers are a fairly strange phenomenon when it comes to censorship. A lot of circles are able to get away with fairly explicit covers, and then you'll run into a random cover that has horrific mosaic censoring.

I actually don't mind "creative" censoring, where they just cover up the goods in some way; whether it's hair, panties or fluids, it serves the same purpose. But then there's another branch of covers that follows the Barbie doll anatomy or mosaic censoring way of dealing with it, and these cases are always disappointing. Strangely enough, it seems to be the eroge companies that use mosaic/Barbie anatomy the most often. I guess it makes sense, because they're so used to censoring their product for everything else, why would it be any different for this. But it just feels lazy to me; if they really wanted to release a good product, they would find a way to get around the ugly censoring without disobeying the law.

Of course, the need for censorship is stupid to begin with, but that's an entirely different conversation.

On the subject of Urushihara's work, I believe I own two of his covers. I don't remember what the second one is if I do own a second, but the first I own is his Miku cover. I think she's wearing a pair of panties in that one, and avoided censorship, but I'm not 100% sure on that; I do know that some of his dakimakura covers do have mosaic censoring on them.


And yeah, I did a quick search and wasn't able to find anything on the character you mentioned. Sorry, man. :(

But sadly, censorship is usually uncreative, like you mentioned.

I don't know what's worse: barby doll censorship (something Urushihara has been forced to do by some shitty publisher of his, glad he stopped working with them), and mosaics.

In fact, now that I think about it, I don't mind mosaics anymore because I've seen them for too long a time.

But barby doll censorship actually looks disgusting.

It's really heartbreaking. Two of my first three covers were very nice circle covers, that happened to be fairly explicit. I was very quickly obsessed with this hobby, and was constantly looking for new covers I wanted. I found what was a Holy Grail for the time; I didn't stop looking for this cover until I found it, and when I did I bought it immediately, for a fairly hefty price. The sample image I had to go on had the typical Caution tape censors, but I didn't let that deter me; I was still relatively new to the hobby, and figured that there would be something there, at least.

I get it, open it up, admire the art before focusing on the anatomy... or lackof. It was easily one of the most crushing moments I've had in this hobby, and I'm always wary when ordering these days.

The cover and sample image for reference:

http://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/733198
http://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/733195
http://blog.xn--er-573a1isbf1441e2hs87j.jp/archives/2579

tl;dr fuck censorship.

The only good censorship I know of are the tiny black lines they put up in doujins. Wish they did the same with everything else.


I'm still going to look for a good, decent Urushihara dakimakura. And if I ever get out of my bankrupcy, I'll commission CARNELIAN to make Beatrix dakimakuras of all varieties: skinsuit edition, lingerie edition, nude edition, etc.

Essentially, yeah.

And to bring it down a depressing path, I actually cancelled my trip to Comiket because of the new censorship rules they're going to have in place for the event. They're asking circles to be a lot more self-policing, and the items we do see out of Comiket will likely be heavily censored, which might set a trend for more heavily censored works overall.

So I asked Sayori on Twitter if the dakimakuras on Taobao were legit, and linked her to the ones of her work. She said that selling R18+ dakis in China is a crime, and all of the ones with her work are pirated/bootlegged. This also probably explains why there's some original non-ero dakis on Taobao too.

I really, really want her C78 daki but it just simply hasn't been on Yahoo or Mandarake at least a year.

Just thought I'd let you guys know.

Yeah, Sayori's covers wouldn't be on Taobao, unfortunately. Moejinja keeps most of the stock they have through their website, and sometimes a sells some on YJA, I believe.

Taobao is mostly bootlegs, however there are some interested points to make. I've seen at least 2-3 bootleggers that have a section for original works that they actually commissioned. It's definitely an odd thing to see, since their stores have maybe a few hundred bootlegs and then they have a separate section with 10-20 covers of their own work. Then the circle A.C.G. Arts has a Taobao store that's legitimate; I emailed them a few months ago and they said it was their store.

The main thing to consider when ordering from Taobao is that all the material is going to be cheap, so you're definitely getting what you pay for. However, that's not necessarily a bad thing, I guess. In the case of A.C.G. Arts, I had a friend who ordered from them, and the material was your typical generic 2WT... I ordered my own cover from Toranoana, paid twice the price, and the material appeared to be exactly the same. So for circles that don't use a quality/specified printer, there's always the risk of getting the shit of end of the stick when it comes to material.

In short, the majority of covers you find on Taobao are going to be bootlegs, but there are a few cases of legitimate stores.

What is ACG Arts' store on Taobao? I might be interested if I can track down a few of their older stuff.

http://acgarts.taobao.com/

Not bad. I like the Catherine one. Have you heard of slolita? I'm considering buying from them.

http://slolita.taobao.com/?v=1

Yeah, they're one of the stores I was thinking about when I said there are some sellers on Taobao that have a few of their own creations mixed in with a ton of bootlegs.

There are a few of them out there. Looks like there is a new one releasing soon too:

And as always, they're the best.

I'll be actually ordering these ones. Thanks for the heads-up.

Finally, I won something in YJA.
The exhibitor ask me for my yahooID but I'm not sure what it is. Is it my email that use to log in to yahoo (like xxx@yahoo.co.jp)?

I'm starting to get addicted with this auction thingy now. It's really challenging for getting something at a relatively low price .

Yeah, I think it would be the xxx from your Yahoo ID, but I'm not 100% on that. Most sellers aren't willing to ship internationally, so I've never tried ordering directly. D:

I've never posted in here before. :o

I have three dakimakura covers.

* An official one of Noumi Kudryavka (A side; B side)
* And two one-sided ones of Hina and Mokan from Ro-Kyu-Bu! which came with Dengeki G's Festival!

Personally I want to obtain more explicit ones (official or doujin), but not sure of many places to get them from which ship internationally, aside from dakemakura.com (And I don't really want to purchase Hobby Heart bootlegs...)

Welcome to the thread!

How explicit are you looking for? Most people I talk to who are new to the hobby actually try to avoid the explicit covers, so it's nice to find someone interested in them. :D And against bootlegs, too!

As far as sites that ship internationally, I'd say the two best circles are Evening Call and B&W Store. Personally, I don't think B&W Store's material is all that good, but they have some really good covers. Sadly, covers typically work on a preorder period, much like figures, and B&W Store just closed a preorder period for about 10-20 different covers on the 15th. Evening Call has some nice stuff still up for sale now, though.

Both ship internationally, however, Evening Call's site doesn't have any English support for signup, so signing up might be a bit difficult.

Evening Call's site is here:

http://eveningcall.net/Products.aspx

You'll probably hit the age confirmation screen twice (it's a recent bug on their site), so just hit the button on the left twice and then open the link above again.

If you see something you want and need to sign up, I've written a guide here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Dakimakuras/comments/sqc7b/aozoki_aoko/

It might be a bit outdated now, but it should still give you a general idea of how to sign up.

As I mentioned, B&W Store's preorders just closed, but you can find their site here:

http://bwstore.com.tw/

Mandarake is also pretty great for finding covers, since they'll sell anything and everything they can get their hands on. Just search "抱き枕" and you'll get plenty of relevant results. The downside to Mandarake is they typically don't have sample images, so you'll have to try Googling the product's name and finding the image if you don't already know what it looks like.

And finally, as a bit of shameless self promotion, I'm selling a good number of covers, most of which are fairly explicit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Dakimakuras/comments/1bs7en/dakimakura_cover_sale/

There are other sites that ship internationally (such as BonCool), but for the most part if you really want to get into this hobby, you're likely going to have to start using a proxy/deputy service sooner or later.