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Evzlol wrote...
<33333333333333333I shall be your new bestfriend! Anyway, thanks so much for the links, I feel bad for coming here out of nowhere and just asking away with all my questions but it seems almost all my problems are now solved!
Now my search for a Noble Works cover shall begin to go with the room accessories and theme of my computer! http://postimage.org/image/728344dhx/
Once again thanks guys so much
Ohh noble works. How about this to complement your pc theme.^_^

Anyway, I saw a couple of her dakis which I wanted to buy but they seem to have disappeared for a while.
Evzlol wrote...
That sir... is rated R^_^
How do you guys exactly go about buying legit dakimakuras, I mean its all on japanese sites so how do you find em and even go about ordering em!
WHO ARE YOU!!!*heaves heavily*
Anyway, here's your bible son, study it well.
http://blog.xn--er-573a1isbf1441e2hs87j.jp/
They cover news for the latest updates in the dakimakura business and they typically have a link to the maker's site, where you can either get a deputy service to buy for you or some will allow foreigners to buy directly from them like B and W store, Boncool and Evening Call.
As for your pillow issue, I recommend getting either of this if you're willing to shell out the cash:
http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10088801
http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10148572
The 2nd option is what I use because it's cheap and allows the replacement of filling to your liking. Also comes in 1.6M configuration unlike the first.
The first one apparently makes you feels heavenly. But unfortunately is pricier, fillings cannot be added or replaced and comes only in 1.5m configuration.
Both Pillows are very high quality though. SOme people complain A&Js is not as thick as the dream master. But personally, if the pillow is way to thick, it's hard for me to hug it.
One reason I don't recommend any other foreign pillows is simply because of the fact that the threads can ooze out of the pillow after a period of used, some of the filling are naturally abrasive on your covers, which can lead to nicks even if you swear that you never clawed it with your nails.
Kobun_SLF wrote...
And if you don't get it D, LMK and I'll swoop on it. :3There's 2 new lilith dakis for your picking for pre-order.
Shashin wrote...
I'm almost certain it is now. Funny, I've had a chance to buy it at a good price before too, and I should have jumped on it considering IG was one of my favorite circles, the cushions seems to be ridiculously expensive now, and the dakimakura of her (Himeka) is one of my favorites... but for some reason I just can't convince myself to buy her cushion.Of course, I might have snapped on it had I not picked up 4 other covers from Mandarake this morning... >_>
You plant money tree.>_>
willowywicca wrote...
Lovely stuff Zengar :) Yeah Sena's skin tone seems fairly dark, at least relative to Fuuka. What's in the 2 brown envelopes (which I assume came with the Marks Senas)?.Postcards which you will never ever use to send a happy new year greeting.

Tomoyo and Sakura covered for being way too explicit and loli.>_>
And mishio is finally dried!


BTW, the 2WT that mishio is made of may not be A and J, but you will be pleased to know it's of higher quality then A and Js.Reason being the % blend of A and Js is 85% polyester 15% spandex while Mishio is made of 83% polyester and 17% spandex, that small increase of spandex in the blend makes it more subtle in smoothness and and a bit thicker then A and Js.
Part 1 of my Comiket booty

The tapestry that came in the box, it's pretty tiny but has very fine and good quality printing.
But you'll have to excuse the poor photography skills here cos it looks blurish.

Mishio is wet.....literally
Now, I would love to show off Mishio but I got too excited opening my stuff, I piled the dakis on my pillow, and she slipped and fell to the corner of my bed,epic fail, She became a bit dusty , so I spent half an hr handwashing her, now she's drying.
pictures will come soon.
The rest of the stuff
I noticed Marks has a habit of changing the way he draw pussies in general.>_>
And Sena seems to have darker skin tone here, maybe I'm seeing things.


The tapestry that came in the box, it's pretty tiny but has very fine and good quality printing.
But you'll have to excuse the poor photography skills here cos it looks blurish.

Mishio is wet.....literally
Now, I would love to show off Mishio but I got too excited opening my stuff, I piled the dakis on my pillow, and she slipped and fell to the corner of my bed,epic fail, She became a bit dusty , so I spent half an hr handwashing her, now she's drying.
pictures will come soon.
The rest of the stuff
I noticed Marks has a habit of changing the way he draw pussies in general.>_>
And Sena seems to have darker skin tone here, maybe I'm seeing things.

sparda03 wrote...
drakanity wrote...
sparda03 wrote...
Hi guys, anyone of you know why this is happening to my daki? I dunno why, I barely touch the pillow itself during sleeping. And yes, I'm not fapping on it XD Sorry for the low quality pic. 
It looks like that is from the cheaper material? Sort of like the ones from the dengeki magazines and such.
At least in my case, those ones get "caught" more easily due to many things. It can be due to finger and toe nails, a rougher blanket/comforter, dry skin (especially from your feet which tend to have drier parts), hair if you have more prickly thicker hair on your legs, and so forth. Since you move on average of something like 40-50 times each nite (or so I read), it could be the case of you being unaware of it happening.
Damn, I'm never gonna buy dengeki dakimakuras anymore. BTW what are they made of? The Dengeki Dakis? Damn my Erio is spoiled, should have stayed in the box.
Smooth knit, but poorer quality smooth knit then those from commercial companies.
The older dengeki material was a lousy version of suede.
But to be honest, your pillow can also cause damage to dakis, personal long time experience. Because over time the filling can ooze out of the pillow and rubbing against it can be bad, especially if you're using a generic pillow that has poor quality fillings, they tend to be abrasive.
After I switch to A and Js, I no longer have such problems. But I still carry the trend of buying 2 copies of every dakimakura I own(if possible)
sparda03 wrote...
Hi guys, anyone of you know why this is happening to my daki? I dunno why, I barely touch the pillow itself during sleeping. And yes, I'm not fapping on it XD Sorry for the low quality pic. 
The major reason why I try to buy 2 copies of dakimakuras I own.
It happens very commonly especially freebies from magazines and 2WT(still one of the easiest to damage)
I would say skin would not be that likely, but hair might.
Unless the end of the pillow is near your feet.~_~
Anyway, try to keep your nails clipped and filed/rounded. Finger and toe nails are dangerous enemies of a dakimakura.
Even Stronger materials like Roicot are not very resilient against scratches or snags.
willowywicca wrote...
Yeah I really liked some of those ^^Comiket loot has arrived yay!

I realised while I was waiting for them to arrive that I had unconsciously ended up getting ones with a common trait this time round...
Spoiler:
Woot nice ass collection.
Anyway, I'm kinda glad I bought the Grande daki of their webshop, I never expected them to have ready stock at that point. Got 2 copies of the white hair girl in my storage now.
million_knives1112 wrote...
Shashin wrote...
million_knives1112 wrote...
i was thinking about picking this up but not sure if its worth it ? http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/detail?gcode=BOK-5601&page=topThat's entirely your call to make. It's reasonably priced, and if you like the art, why not? I have a feeling I'm going to be in the minority in this thread, as I personally don't intend on ordering it.
Sorry bro, you've missed the deadline just 3 days ago.
willowywicca wrote...
Yeah not much you can do to avoid getting "caught" by webshop releases that would have saved you money. They do tend to be more likely for eroge company's releases than for doujin circles, so being more patient for those is possibly recommended. Do check the history of webshop releasing for any circle/company though on the dakimakura blog, as that gives you a strong indication of whether they're likely to do so again for their current releases or not.The Appare!! Tenka Gomen - Tokugawa Yoshine dakimakura with Dengeki Festival COMIC 22 has turned out even nicer than I was expecting: http://www.otacute.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=3_33&products_id=24548
Smexy!!
Actually, there's no way to predict whether a cover would be re-released or available via web order.
It's a sad fate for outsiders especially if you're after the more famous circles like Marks and Ankokubu, the prices always rips a new hole in you.
It's a sad fate for outsiders especially if you're after the more famous circles like Marks and Ankokubu, the prices always rips a new hole in you.
Shashin wrote...
You're definitely crazier than I am in spending, even if I had managed to keep a fairly similar pace for some time. :p Back when I first got into the doujinshi hobby, which lead to figure collecting, which lead to dakimakura collecting, I had just come into a fairly decent (one time) sum of money. I was able to spend lavishly without any worries for about a year or so, and the money has started to run dry; which is pretty much why you should never give a college student a good chunk of money... I'm generally pretty good at thinking things out, but I just kept spending. :PThe last few months, the money has run dry, and I've sold off a very large part of my figure collection (luckily I had acquired a decent amount of quality figures that I never opened, along with a bunch of shitty figures), and I've been selling doujinshi locally for quite some time. Neither result in guaranteed income and have been slowing down a bit as of late, but I've still been able to make enough to pay immediate balances... but I really need to get into a mode where I don't spend as much; I could probably sustain 2-4 covers a month but not much more than that. D:
Well, I still probably go wild even when I enroll to a university.I'm just working occasionally for some moola. And you've been selling doujins? First I've heard knowing you so long.
Shashin wrote...
To be a poor college student with no self control. T_TI've somehow managed to pay for my covers, but I don't even dream about my savings increasing anytime soon. :P
Says the crazed dood that has dakis that are almost on par with me.0_o'''
I'm not even going to ask how you sustain yourself till now.
Kobun_SLF wrote...
Oh, and I picked up my B&W order this morning. Best packaging ever: thick mil plastic cases, with button snaps on the back and comes with a with full-color poster board insert of the cover. So happy right now. :3Yah, I bought stuff from them like 3 years ago, they have established a standard no other circle has achieved.And till this date their materials have always proved to be the most resilient in comparison to any other circle's materials.
My current collection of dakis stands at about low 400, which is pathetic.
Besides dakis which I collect the most, I like to buy all sorts of other stuff like Tapestries and Oppai mousepads.
In addition, I like to collect limited edition games and those cost me a bomb.
Surprisingly, I have 2 bank accounts , one for savings and one for my crazed spendings, my savings have been going up in a slow steady pace, and I always have a grand or 2 left in my spending account after all the stuff I buy every month.
Shashin wrote...
Hmm, that's actually a pretty interesting shot; does SMJ require you to pay up front? For the IG stuff, anyway. It shows that you've paid for it already, but they don't have it in stock yet. Actually, I guess that makes sense, given they ship directly from Japan to you; they can calculate the total invoice cost once they pay the seller, since they don't have to then turn around and ship it to the US. I still haven't paid for my 400+ day IG order. >_>As for searching tips, you pretty much got the best of it, willowywicca. I generally use Chrome and just copy/Google Search the item name, and then chop it down further from there to get results. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. It's generally pretty helpful, with a bit of grunt work and patience, to dig up sample images for covers that aren't on the dakimakura blog/were released a long time ago. But even then it isn't really a sure thing.
For proper images of the actual cover, you're even more limited to what people have taken pictures of. The copy/search method still works fairly well, but over time you just start to learn what sites do reviews, and you check back at those frequently.
Some good sites:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/neoplanet/sets/72157622529847132/
http://blog.surpara.com/emileH/
http://pillow100.blog114.fc2.com/blog-category-1.html
You don't pay upfront, you can only pay when they sent the invoice in 2-3 days. From there you're given 2 weeks grace to pay.
And god, someone tell me where I can get this doujin(physical copy of otherwise)
http://www.toranoana.jp/mailorder/article/04/0030/01/41/040030014179.html
Kobun_SLF wrote...
JFC ZZ, 300K yen?! Yo, you want to get me a job working with you?Also, my B&W store order is in. :D I missed the delivery today, but am going to the PO to pick up tomorrow morning. That was a ridiculously fast turn around time, from order to delivery. Thanks for the help, guys.
If anything, I would love to work under any of you guys, you got a stronger dollar, which equates to more buying power. My currency can't do nuts against the dollar let alone the yen. How I wish, I had the money like you guys, I could have expended my collection by another 30% which means I would have hit 520 over dakis in total.
This is just about half of my stuff since I had to find another deputy service because SMJ isn't all mighty. Darn those "me no likey foreigners" auctions.
willowywicca wrote...
Hi! I was busy raiding in WoW and doing assorted things ;< I also haven't much to contribute now either, aside from that I also hope they sort out paypal sooner rather than later! Alice one is really nice too, surprised that's still in stock. Do you guys ever try to browse for proper pictures of released dakimakura? In general there's not much point searching english sites, but for browsing japanese ones I find that searching for "character name (in japanese) æŠ±ãæž•ã‚«ãƒãƒ¼ (dakimakura) blog" gives best results. Possibly adding in C81 or whatever event it came from too. I have limited success with this approach but it fails outright for a lot of dakimakura. Anyone got any suggestions for any better search terms/tactics?
And on that topic, here're pics I found of that ninja girl daki I got from comiket, http://blog.livedoor.jp/nemyii/archives/5672211.html god I can't wait for her to arrive.
Unfortunately, it only works typically for covers that are released by Ero game companies in general because those usually have a full image on their site.
The only other way is to visit other blogs of Japanese people, since they do very comprehensive photo taking, but even then those are limited.
You guys have it good since you only buy 1 of each covers. My total damages accumulated this month hit 300k yen already. so yeah god bless me.
Been playing some dream c c club on Vita.waiting for a recontract on my job, so I got tons of free time poking around to get myself in deeper shit.
