willowywicca Posts

Lol I find this funny, someone has bid 35.5k on this on Rakuten http://auction.item.rakuten.co.jp/11661262/a/10000044/

When there's still countless auctions at 10-14k on YJA...

Well I was about to post that there was a Raika up on mandarake for 18k.. but before I even finished typing it up it had sold ;( Gotta be fast if you want good deals from mandarake ;(

The item description will say if it's used (obviously you need to run it through a translator). The majority are unopened. Usually the used ones are sold at much lower prices.

"Storefront" just means that it's currently on display at the store and someone could have already walked in and bought it before the online system gets updated to reflect that the item is actually sold/gone.

Well, rather than thinking of it as 20k, I think of it like this: Are there 2 other dakimakura I'd prefer to have instead of just the Raika one? If there are, I'd get them, if not I'd get Raika. And as you can see I ended up getting Raika..

Hmm, typically I get 0-1 shipments from a variety of sources, people who allow grouping orders together, I generally will bunch them up, so I don't really get more than one order per month from a single source:

Amiami 0-1: almost always 1 per month, they always seem to have *something* I'm interested in..
Hobbysearch 0-1: usually 0, they rarely have better prices than Amiami
Otacute 0-1: usually 0, though sometimes they have really good prices like on the Moe Jinja covers a while back
HobbyLinkJapan 0-1: again usually 0 these days, they only tend to be cheaper for Cospa covers and I'm not really getting those any more)
Yokatta 0-1: usually 1.. they allow storing orders for up to 3 months but I am impatient ;<
Mandarake 0-Many: depends what turns up and at which of their stores. With mandarake you can't really wait to bunch up lots of items together, you have to order fast or what you want will be gone before you know it...
SMJ/Sutocorp 0-1: Usually 0, as I haven't been bidding on many auctions lately (aside from the recent Raika and Kuroneko, obviously), preferring instead to get via web orders. Tends to be 1 though around the time of Comiket....

Adding all that up.. I guess I typically get at least 2 shipments in a month (amiami and yokatta most likely) and possibly up to 4+ sometimes if other stuff aligns or Mandarake gets some awesome stuff in..

More pics of my recent mandarake arrivals:

Mami Front:


Close-ups:

For some reason the edges/lines on her face are very jagged/rough compared to the rest of the art, it's slightly offputting.



Mami Back:


Close-ups:




Girl-from-FULLMETAL-EYES-whose-name-I-don't-know Front:


Close-ups:




Back:

Really love her pose and expression here..

Close-ups:




Also you can check part 29 of my dakimakura collection on Figure.fm for some pics of 2 of the covers I got while in japan: http://www.figure.fm/post/en/39164/Dakimakura+Collection+29.html

Hmm, I'm really liking how Evening Call's new Karuta cover is looking, and a quick browse of the artist's site leaves me confident I'll still like it once it's colored.

Yeah she has really lovely boobs, which is why I was quite surprised when you said you didn't like it, and I guess that's why it stuck in my mind :p

There is still a Clesta auction for 17k bid ( http://page2.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/b134870615 ) that you could try your luck on vietxmikey, it's unlikely anyone would bid over 20k on it for now since they can just buyout the other one...

lol, I thought you didn't even like her due to short hair :P

And yeah, I ended up going for the digital lover Kuroneko/Kamineko cover after seeing some photos of it. And then I figured I should get Raika too to cut down on my shipping costs-per-cover.

Nah, I'm gonna wait for the web order since Clochette always do one. Just won Clesta's Raika for 18.5k after saying I wouldn't bid on it too :s But this one I really will wait for a web order for! :P

Thanks, actually googled it after I asked and found that page lol. Had already setup an account, just didn't kow where the adult part was hidden ^^

Hmm newby question.. where is the adult section of YJA that you've been mentioning shashin and how do I access it?

It's a one time thing. Though I'm sure they wouldn't mind if you make a 2nd account and spend another 960,000yen getting there again.

Yeah that's the same one, and they listed it differently on the english page (by mistake? - possibly since they listed it so fast for me). There's probably still some people left who bought COMIC1 6 stuff waiting to see if the price rises more before selling them (either on YJA or in Mandarake).

Yeah I did. Haven't asked them, but it should be sitting at Yokatta by now.

Well, when you posted your list of orders there was a lost auction for it, then you said you "still had your eye on one auction" so it seemed likely! Quite glad of the 18k mandarake price, that's like a 15k auction bid or something, with proxy fees and local shipping and the like.

That you bidding/winning a 2nd copy of Mugen Kidou/Tomose Shunsaku's COMIC1 cover + set for 19.5k Zangar? I was on the verge of trying to bid on it, but mandarake were amazingly quick for once, and put up a copy of the cover (no set) on the english site within only a few hours of me asking them to when I saw it on the japanese one. So I was able to order that instead.. now to hope nobody bought it out in the shop itself already... Last few times I asked for them to add something to the english site it took them a few days so I was quite surprised it went up so quick today.

None of them for me, thanks.

Seems fairly normal for you to me..

I like AJ 2way's feel the most, but I think (nearly) all 2way tricot/roicas are good and it's largely down to personal opinion to distinguish between them.

A box from Mandarake arrived, what could be inside?!

Yeah it's the same for my one, I assume it's temperature rather than any property of water that makes the chemical become transparent. Maybe he takes the pictures in a sauna or has a dozen heatlamps pointed at them or something ;(

Oh and thanks for the link, seems like a nice blog!

I wonder how he managed to get the shots of them transparent without any obvious water.