willowywicca Posts

That is correct. You can try, but they'll probably just send you an invoice for your outstanding charges. ;)

Well that was strange. I just went to pay Yokatta for my Toranoana order via PayPal and I received the following error message when I tried to submit payment:
"This recipient is currently unable to receive money."

I wonder if PayPal laid the smack down on them on account of the fact that they specifically tell you in their email invoice to "pay the Paypal fees by sending the payment as Personal Payment, or you can use other selection and we will charge you Paypal fees in separate payment."

Trying save a couple bucks probably bit them in the ass.

I think I need to up my spending cap on SMJ. I went to go look at placing a special order through Rinkya, shit's like $28 comission to order that Lilith cover. Eff that noise!

I must had missed those. Seiren's high Polyurethane ratio must be what makes it so awesome. It has this nice thick feel when you hug it compared to A and Js while smoother by a teeny weeny bit feels kinda thin.

Recently I found DC's 2WT to be incredibly bad. I noticed from using 4 covers made by them. Kanu, Koi Kishi(2 covers) and Mugen Kidou. All of them had nicks at the lower half of the cover. It isn't as durable as other 2WT. While I do have a 2nd copy of the covers I'm using, I'm not too happy about it.

Dunno about you Willow, But I think she reeks of awesomeness.Too bad taking shots from my shitty S3 in conjunction with my lousy photography skills. proves to be shitty as usual. I can try to get better face shots if you need to see.

Don't think any of it were your targets.

http://ekizo.mandarake.co.jp/shop/en/item_s-933149.html
http://ekizo.mandarake.co.jp/shop/en/item_s-924734.html
http://ekizo.mandarake.co.jp/shop/en/item_s-933172.html

Did you end up picking it up? But yeah, I actually really like the art of the one I have, but the material is god awful. I think I ended up paying something ridiculous like 15k for it too (there were auctions of it for ~30k, and the actual retail price was like 7.8k, I think -_-) If the material were 2W, smooth knit, or even SK Suede, the price would have been absolutely worth it. But the material really was that bad, and that's why I dissuaded that one guy from ever posting here again... if he had a bootleg of the Louise cover (which was also for sale :o) he definitely would have been better off than having the official product.

Btw, were you still interested in Natsuru? :P

a variation of the Mayoi I have from the circle that uses absolutely terrible material.

You have a lot to learn about the world of dakimakura covers, my friend. ^^
There are primarily three types of dakimakura covers you could buy:

1. Bootlegs - This should be fairly obvious; it's knock offs that are using other people's work. Generally speaking, any dakimakura cover in the $30-70 range is a bootleg (though there are legit covers in that range, and bootlegs outside of it.) The quality is usually greatly inferior to the quality of the other two categories.

2. "Company" dakimakura covers - Generally speaking, these are the covers that you can find on big name sites like Hobby Search and AmiAmi. They use official art from their source series, and unless the source is an eroge/hentai, they're usually on the tamer side of things when it comes to nudity. Prices for these usually range from 8000-11000 yen.

3. "Circle" dakimakura covers - I'm sure you seen/read some doujinshi (if not, just check the front page of Fakku.) All doujinshi are done by collections of individual artists known as "circles". The dakimakura scene is much the same; there are probably hundreds of different circles that do dakimakura covers. The webpage you found, Dakemakura, is one such circle (Dakemakura is actually the circle name.) And the Homura you linked was also done by a circle, specifically AnkoKoubou (あんこ工房) and they actually happen to be one of my favorite circles (I own that Homura myself, as well as maybe 20 of their other covers.) Prices for circle works generally range from 10000 yen to 15000 yen.


If you really wanted that Homura, she's available on YJA for 12000 yen buyout. However, the material is 2-Way Roika and it had a pretty bad wrinkle problem, but it could be ironed out easily enough apparently (the material in the pictures you linked is the 2-Way Roika, so you can see what you'd be getting.) You'd also need to use a proxy to order it, so it would probably cost you around $180-200 to order it.

There are actually a good number of circles that are willing to ship internationally, though (copy/paste from a list I posted previously):

Circle sites that ship internationally
Now we're moving onto strictly circle stuff, and it becomes a tad harder to navigate, but it can still be done without any added cost or too much hassle. As a warning, if you haven't realized this already, most circle covers tend to be on the more explicit side of things.

Black and White Store - A production company/collection of circles (I'm not 100% sure of the relationship, honestly) that's location in Taiwan. They put out a lot of high quality covers, have a fairly decent English system set up, and include shipping in the total price. This is probably one of the better deals, if you find a cover that you like, given that the average circle cover is in the 13000 yen range and EMS shipping for one is about 1500-2000 yen, which is included in the usual B&W Store price of 13000.

Bon Cool - Bon Cool has garnered a lot of good will with me. They come out with some fairly nice products, but it's the cool promotions and things they do that really stand out. I've ordered from them two or three times. The first time, they included a double of one of their covers I ordered, as omake. The second time was with a promotion that got me 40% off one of their covers. The third time didn't yield anything special, but it isn't something you should ever expect, and it's cool that they've done what they have. If you check out their site, make sure you don't miss the language options in the top right hand corner to switch to English/preferred language.

Evening Call - I love this circle; I've been following them since their 4th cover came out (they're now in the 130s) and they recently started accepting international orders. The downside is that it seems to be an afterthought, so the accessibility if you don't speak Japanese is minimal.

Dakemakura - I've never ordered from them personally, but they're apparently willing to ship internationally according to their FAQ. The main thing of note about this circle is the vast number of covers they've done, most of which are still available for order now. If you went through them all, I'd imagine you'd probably find something you like.

W-Canvas - I'm including this site as a bit of an afterthought. They have a banner at the top that says they will ship internationally, but I've never ordered from them myself. They're not a circle, but a consignment shop, similar to Toranoana. They carry circle covers, usually at a price 5-10% higher than what you'd pay if you ordered directly from the circle. I know you can find both Evening Call and Dakemakura covers on there, as well as a ton of circles that don't ship internationally. If you can successfully contact them, and order covers from circles that don't ship internationally, it would probably be the cheapest way to acquire their covers. Update: They actually do have a fairly limited English shop set up now, but if you email them items you'd like added to it, apparently they will.

Ah, I kinda figured. They're pretty bad about posting samples images as it is, and their limited covers seem to be even harder to find a good sample of (usually it's just me getting lucky and finding someone with an auction that has the certificate in full view.) Anyway, if Mandarake doesn't sell it in store before they get it to me, I have a pretty good feeling that the bondage version is the version I have. Unless the image they used is just a stock image and it's the other Comiket version.

I ordered karory's cover on the Rabbit.net preorder, through SMJ. I put the order in Thursday night and said that the preorder was set to open 6/23 at 8PM. It got delayed and all, but they never sent me an order rejection. They sent me an email saying they had ordered my requested item at about 5AM this morning (the order opened at 4AM for me.) The item I had wanted had sold out at around 4:30AM, but they wouldn't have been able to order it at all if it was registered as out of stock, so here's hoping. It was pretty weird at one point though, as some of the covers had their stock listed as either -1 or -2. My guess is that a lot of people put in an order at the time same and they'll have to end up canceling a successful order or two. :/

Thanks man! I really liked the Akeno one. Ended up grabbing her from Yahoo auctions for 13.5k. Now just waiting for SMJ to ship it.

Wow, Shashin, Zengar, willow, those are really impressive collections that you guys own. I wish I had the money to grow my collection like that haha.

By the way willow, would you be able to display the two girls at the middle of the bottom row from your pic here on your next dakimakura blog post? Their expressions are really eye-catching.

Wow, Shashin, Zengar, willow, those are really impressive collections that you guys own. I wish I had the money to grow my collection like that haha.

By the way willow, would you be able to display the two girls at the middle of the bottom row from your pic here on your next dakimakura blog post? Their expressions are really eye-catching.

I don't see why they wouldn't accept it. Unfortunately, I have to place the special order again and this time SMJ asked me to separate my order into five different special orders. I sent them an email asking if I'm going to be billed for five separate special order charges. Best not be playin' me like that. Especially for all of the money we spend...shiiii-. ;)

Anyhow, two things:

1. On a sad note, it looks like ILLUSTGUERRILLA is officially dead. Either the site has been removed or the domain license expired. Either way, it's pretty sad. :(
2. On a holy shit-I-want-this-cover note, I must have this cover:

I cannot tell if it's just limited to the con or if you can web order it, but it comes with a bonus phone card too. :D

OK, it's super late and I'm tired, but I wanted to share the pics of the Dragon's Quest Priestess cover I recently bought from D-Stage. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS COVER!


PRODUCT SHOT:



I bought another Lose cover which you can find a few pages back, but I can't post pics of it here. I think Mikey was asking for the shots, so I'll send them on over via message tomorrow. I think I'm going to place an order for the two lovely tanned ladies tomorrow too.

Hope everyone had a good night, talk to you all later tomorrow/today. ;)

Got my SMJ goodies today. ^^



As for the new CranCrown cover; I'd say there's a good chance it's censored in some way, and the goods aren't exposed as it looks like they should be. D: But we'll see. :o