Dakimakuras anyone?

Looks like it's not out til march 19th, so will have to wait til then. For the time being, I added it to the "Help me find this daki!" pearltree so we hopefully remember to check for it around then. If you can add a link to this daki on the dakimakura blog to that pearl it'd be handy too I guess.

Yeah, still on the fence with Pearltree. I am more of a fan of Google Docs, but maybe once I get more familiar with the service. I'll try and give it another go this week.

I really like the Pearl Tree system. I haven't really paid it much attention the last few days, but it's great for organizing shit and it's cool to have a visual representation of whatever someone adds.

Pearltree is good, but we need more people using it or it won't be much of use.

Man, dakimakura's sure surprise me. I was really suprised to find out Kaze no Stigma Dakimakura's existed.

woot!

My Sonico dakimakura arrived to Yokatta. Now just need it shipped to me. :D

Nice! You'll have to snap a few shots and post them when you get it. :3

This will be my first destination to show some photos. I'm excited now as Sonico is awesome and this will be a real dakimakura unlike the cloth that came with the art box for Sonicomi.

Rather than search through this thread, can I request that who eve posted all that info and links about how and where to buy the actually pillow for this dakis? I really would like to have at least one or two, but I need the pillows to start at least.

Here's what I learned so far.
Some people have them custom made with cluster fibers, make sure to have them a little bigger then the dimensions of your dakimakura (Especially if it's a stretchy fabric like 2-way tricot) It costs around less or the same as a official cospa pillow, but give you cluster fiber.
www.royalpillow.com/

You can buy official COSPA Pillows, which cost a bit more.
http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/detail?scode=COS-9193&page=
Some people don't like it because it's not firm enough, etc. I don't have personal experience in this.
Theirs also a whole category of Hugging Pillows on Amiami.
http://www.amiami.com/top/search/list?s_seriestitle=Hugging%20Pillow&pagemax=100

Or, you can always be a cheapo and go to walmart and buy a standard sized body pillow. Don't expect it to keep it's "fluff" though.
If you want to be cheap, but not too cheap, go to Bed, Bath & Beyond and buy a 20$ pillow.

gbatemper covered most of it. Just to add that the A&J Feel Smooth 160x50cm ( http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/detail?gcode=CGD2-09761 ) and the Dreammaster 150x50cm ( http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10088801 ) are supposedly 2 of the best pillows, better than cospa ones. The AJ one has a zipper to open it up and add more filling if you want to too afaik. I have neither, so only going by what has been said previously. Also, shipping for pillows is high relative to their cost, so for those in the US royalpillow probably works out far cheaper.

Yeah, Royalpillow does end up much cheaper. I think it ends up to around 1/3 of the price. The main price problem is currency conversion and shipping, especially for pillows such as these shipping costs a loot. I will probably pick it up when I go to Tokyo over the summer.

Yah, this is awesome, who made this anyway?

Don't know who made it per se, but it is a special mail-order (and I think that they offered this one through online order as well) cover from Core Magazine's Comic Megastore Magazine (H-manga). Similar to one they offered a while back, which I just snagged through SMJ:



I've had my eyes on her for a long while and up until I found it a few days ago, completely forgot about her. Luckily I managed to snag it on the cheap (only 11K with the art book). Then, as Shashin pointed out, a couple others surfaced. Go figure. ;)
Anyhow, the cover in question appears to be #006, whereas the cover I just got is #003. So I'm assuming they offer a new one either annually or biannually.

Damn, I saw the blonde on Mandarake but someone bought it before I saw it.>_>
What do I search to get results for the blonde on YJA?

コアマガジン is the name of the magazine, but searching it currently doesn't bring any dakimakura results.

As Kobun mentioned, he linked it to me saying he had won it, and then it popped up on Mandarake a few hours later. I thought about buying it myself but 15k was a bit steep I thought... then it popped up in the morning for 8k. I almost bought it again, but I figured the nude Nymph was enough for me.

Edit: On another note, I paid for my Evening Call order yesterday morning. Just put "I'd like to pay with Paypal in the note when checking out" then confirmed the total after shipping, since they had to adjust it for EMS. Don't think they plan on integrating it into their site entirely like Bon Cool, but keeping it more along the lines of B&W Store. Time will tell, I guess.

Don't sweat missing out on the one that was posted for 8K yen. It didn't come with the artbook that originally shipped with it. The other two did, but I'm guessing that might have been the reason behind the lower price. I've learned to contact support and ask questions before bidding, it beats buying something and learning once you get it, that it isn't what you thought it would be or doesn't come with something that you thought it did. To think that it only took me several years to figure this out...
The turn around time is usually two days when asking questions though...well at least it is for those of us on the US West coast. ;)

Turn around time for asking questions where? YJA?

Well so far that applies to Mandrake and YJA via Rinkya. Haven't gone through SMJ yet with an auction question.

Ah, figured it was a generalization but wasn't sure. SMJ doesn't offer a question asking service as far as I'm aware and I haven't used Rinkya. I've actually had very quick response time from Mandarake; as quick as two hours or so when I submitted a question through their site inquiry form. Direct questions may take a bit longer, and I have had to wait a day or so once, but my average response time comes in under twelve hours.

On a completely unrelated note, it's pretty fun opening this thread on my phone and zooming down as quick as I can to bypass the sample images, hoping no one is looking over my shoulder that second.

Hahaha. Yeah, I've been on that boat too. It's like quick, maximum zoomage to avoid any NSFP (not safe for public) images. :)
Also, Mandrake seems to be the fastest with turn around time on customer queries, but I'm sure that is because they don't have to check with a third-party seller.