Dakimakuras anyone?

Skipped the post, but I do. Will post about it when I can properly type.

Well, I can't explain that one either. I think us cheaper folks (lol) just put up with buying daki at a high price because that's normal (as in, they're expensive and that won't change), but with the inner pillow, if we can find it cheaper, I'm sure most of us will. And since pillows are sort of readily available everywhere, we'd typically want to spend a more "normal" price on them. I guess what I should say is some of us rather spend money where it counts more (that being dakimakura and not the actual pillow) if that makes any sense.

Plus, there's also the novelty of having more than 1 pillow.

I think it's mainly the cost of shipping a pillow that really scares us cheaper folks the most. As in, we'd have to pay a large amount of money for something that isn't really tangible and we wouldn't want to pay so much. Last I checked, large pillows from Japan will only ship via EMS, and they're quite heavy = larger cost on shipping. Hope that makes sense. I know some of you will go with EMS no matter the cost, but I certainly would choose the cheaper shipping method if possible. I don't mind the extra wait.

If you're filthy rich, it doesn't really matter. You'd just get whatever.

Ya, Rin was my first favourite until Saeko came into the picture and they're still close so considering I have a Saeko already and that this particular Rin looked so damn good I had to go with Rin this time.

On the subject of cellphone posting, I have an iPhone and don't mind posting on it when I need to. Making long posts is probably the only thing I dislike, but I mean long posts. Nothing beats a keyboard though!

Hmmm, I've got 3 pillows, 2 A&Js and 1 that came with a Dakimakura, Previously had a bad experience with 2 pillows from Cafe Rio , that's why I'm paranoid over pillow quality.
And most of you definitely has higher spending power then me. My currency is 30% weaker then the USD.
And the reason why most people would go for EMS is not necessarily because of having it delivered faster but the fact there is tracking and insurance which SAL does not offer. Losing something expensive during the process of shipping is something I never want to experience again.

I guess I can't really say anything about the quality of A/J pillows until I try one myself. They're probably really nice but I'm quite content with the quality of Royal Pillow's cluster fiber. Before finding Royal Pillow, I was actually going to buy a CafeReo pillow... Now that you've mentioned it, I'm happy I didn't. :D
And spending power is sort of... it depends on how much wealth someone has, not based on the strength of a particular currency.
As for shipping, you're right, SAL doesn't offer insurance, but there is always the registered SAL option which puts a tracking number on it. I guess that can be seen as sort of a middle ground between economy and express shipping.

Eitherway, we all have our quirks.

For me, it's because I literally don't have the money you think I do... everything I buy is pretty much on credit and I have to hope I can scrounge it up in time to pay SMJ. :P

If I were to buy an A&J pillow, it would be an extra $100 or whatever, when I'd much rather just buy more covers. When I finally do order through Royalpillow, I do want to buy around 10 or so, so that I may have a harem on my bed. :3



I really like Rin a lot too, and I definitely like the Evening Call Rin case (and the Saber too, for that matter) and I also really like pen's artwork/style, but I just couldn't convince myself to buy it. The same pose, clothed/nude style of dakimakura covers pisses me off; I much prefer the front/back style. And that was probably my main reasoning when I decided not to buy it (that and finances...)

As for posting on a phone, I don't mind it too much but it's still a pain in the ass. One thing I will say though, is fuck touchscreen only phones. I "upgraded" from my trusty G1 (admittedly because it was broken after 2.5 years), to the HTC sensation and it has absolutely made text messaging and typing a royal pain in the ass. The next phone I buy will have a QWERTY keypad, even if I have to buy an outdated model.



My very first webshop order through SMJ was with D-Stage, and it's actually the reason I have such a massive spending limit. I ordered about 5 dakimakura covers and 40 something doujinshi through them. If you have any specific questions, feel free to ask. It depends on what you're looking to buy, but overall I wouldn't necessarily recommend them. If it's dakimakura covers, you should try to check to see if you can order direct, since they (along with all other consignment stores) add about a 10% surcharge on top of the cost the circle charges. They're actually where I got my first Evening Call and Dakemakura covers, before I realized they both offered direct reception (Evening Call was new at the time, so they may not have done it yet.)

For doujinshi, they have a good selection and a bunch of other cool goods, but I'd recommend checking Mandarake before buying, because they'll usually be similarly priced (for new) or cheaper (for new/used) and there isn't a proxy fee. But it can be a pain in the ass manually searching if you have a big order. The doujinshi I bought was all harder to find stuff that Mandarake didn't have.

If you do decide to order with them, and are ordering doujinshi in particular (high item count), use Yokatta over SMJ. Yokatta definitely has the best commission rate for stores (as I've said many times), but SMJ's rates become even more ridiculous as they charge an extra $2 (+ auction commission) per item. So for my 45ish count item, it was like $90 + auction commission.

If you have any more questions feel free to ask, but more or less, they're fine. I'd check out the other consignment stores like W-Canvas and such; they usually have pretty similar stock and one may have a better search system.

I like your novel :)

Though you have to admit a stronger currency is definitely an age. It would technically mean if were earn the same amount of money, you'll still be 30% richer then me. And of course, wealth is the primary point which is why I said most, not all.
And I dunno, back where I was doing my tertiary education(equivalent to College) couldn't even afford these.>_>
After all, these stuff cost an arm and a leg, a real luxury.

Currently using an 4S and a Galaxy note, note seems to be good for typing but I would prefer a real keyboard.

I'm also in the boat of not having the finances for pillows, but also not having the space. My bed is a twin bed so it's tiny and while it fits the one dakimakura fine, I'm not sure two will fit. Besides my bed, I don't have anywhere else to put a pillow, so buying more pillows would really be a waste of money.

I do eventually plan to buy another pillow to try my hand at two, but that really is the max and right now I want to increase my collection before buying pillows. The one thing I'm doing is keeping pillow sites handy for when ever I do decide to order another one. My first, and only was from AmiAmi, but since then I've taken note of Royal Pillow from a MFC post from BluRay a while back and now you guys are mentioning A/J pillow so I've noted that as well.

Twin bed? It should be bigger then mine, I'm sleeping on a super single and I have 2 dakis on my bed, used to be 3 but damn did I felt squeezy.
And, yah, these pillows take up a lot of space unless you buy the vacuum bag to store them.
Of course, collection is the priority for everyone rather then the pillows. But I can't stress enough that a good pillow will be of a better value in a long run. Nobody should experience nicks on their dakis.

What, am I not good enough for a legit quote now Shash? We used to be so close. *sniff, sniff*
No, I'm kidding. Thank you for the information, man - good stuff. I used up my daily rep on the dude who just translated that 120+ page Bosshi h-manga, but I'll rep ya tomorrow.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

And no worries, I don't use my rep for the day 90% of the time and don't care where my rep is sitting. I just like helping fellow dakimakura fans if I can. ^^

My bed is tiny. My Satellizer dakimakura is currently taking up the middle with two smaller Qwaser of Stigmata pillows beside her. I could fit another dakimakura on the bed, though the full width of the bed would be taken up by both dakimakuras.

I could probably fit 3-4 if I were put the dakimakura perpendicular on the bed instead of parallel, but I tried that with my Satellizer and too much hangs off on either edge and she droops. I feel this would ruin the pillow inside and maybe even the actual dakimakura so that experiment only lasted a minute.

Have you heard of the Stamos Snugglefest?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocj_sGKFOIA
Since you have a smaller bed, that means more "snuggle" potential with the daki you like. Small bed = thumbs up.

Thanks for posting that, that was hilarious. I think I might of woke some people up laughing. I guess I learned a couple techniques to use on Satellizer. :)

This thread moves too fast when I'm not able to check it for even a short while ;(

I've got 1 cospa pillow atm and I would say it's alright but not amazing. It's only a 150x50 one so 160 covers all have a bit of a gap at the end.. but I almost never look at the feet anyway so it doesn't bother me. I'd be tempted to get a AJ or dreammaster but I can't really fit a second pillow anywhere and am not so unhappy with the cospa as to want to throw it out yet. Haven't had any issues with it causing any damage to dakis (as far as I can tell) so far anyways.

I do also feel the illogical compulsion that paying so much on shipping a pillow is stupid while happily paying far more on the pillow cases all the time. Can't really explain it lol.

http://twitpic.com/8bdqow my pillow mountain is starting to look somewhat like this too now :p Though I've stopped folding things vertically if I can avoid it and only horizontally 2-3 times instead. I find that a vertical fold can leave a much more noticeable and disruptive crease straight down the middle of the image than horizontal ones end up giving. Doesn't matter much if you're using a pillow filling to stretch out the creases, but if you also hang them as I do then I'd recommend trying to avoid a vertical fold!

You just killed me with the video.

Heh, one of my main goals before I started classes up again was to take a couple shots of my entire collection. I had set out to do so and create a dakimakura mountain on my bed, but I got bored after the first layer and packed everything up again. >_>

Was just a pain in the ass to reach both sides of my bed, due to the way my room is set up and I didn't want to trample over the front portion of my covers to reach the back, so I'll probably just eventually pile them all up in their storage area instead of taking the effort to get a good shot of each one, even if that would be more impressive.

This is probably the best picture I have of my collection, but it's largely outdated. I'll probably sort everything out and end up taking another shot like this.

This seems to be an old photo you shown quite some time ago.
Those at the bottom are your spares/duplicate copies or something?
And I will take a photo of my current collection but as one large mountain.
It's a friggin mess when you try to mash 400 over covers together.

Yeah, I need to sort everything out and take a new picture. I had said it was really outdated. But nah, I just ran out of hangars to hang then, so I started stacking them. I don't have too many duplicates; maybe 5-6 total.