If you haven't watched Gugure! Kokkuri-san; it's based off a supernatural humor slice of life 4koma manga featuring a girl named Kohina Ichimatsu and the god Kokkuri whose based off the children's game of summoning a fox spirit to answer questions similarly like a Ouija board. The start of the story is that she summons Kokkuri and her life gets all crazy as he doesn't want to abandon the girl, due to her nature and proclaiming she is a doll.
Most of the time, she is in a form where she looks less human compared to her surroundings. Including the fact when she smiles the pieces on her face shuffles.
How Kohina looks most of the time in the manga and anime
But every once in a while you see the true form of Kohina a small young girl, with big piercing eyes that seem very sad.
But as she is a doll it was only a matter of time before a doll company would put out a doll of her... And Azone was the one to do it. Azone has a very anime aesthetic more so than Dollfie Dream in my opinion due to the fact the eyes are printed or painted on rather than having holes for them and inserting eyeballs.
They also replicated her bob haircut in such a cute fashion, and her eyes are simply adorable they go along so well with her small mouth. The only thing I don't like about what I have seen of the doll from Azone's images is the actual uniform of Kohina.
The uniform from the images doesn't look to be of a really good quality. but that doesn't really matter as I can make a better and cuter uniform for her instead of what she has on. And of course I will want to put her in super cute outfits as well besides her main clothing. I've never had a tiny doll before, so when I get her it will be interesting.
Kohina Ichimatsu stands at 23cm tall or 1/6 size and is coming out September 2015.
*Even though she's not a ball jointed doll she'll be under the BJD tag because she is a jointed doll
This year starting on February 14 through April 12, Volks USA and Volks Japan is having preorders for the Snow Miku limited edition Dollfie Dream.
If you're not into ball joint dolls, Volks is a hobby company that has a huge hand in the doll department, and up until recently were known for their doll line called Super Dollfie. They then came out with a more stylized doll with more idealistic proportions of anime girls that became hugely popular especially among men, called Dollfie Dream.
Most of the time, the best Dollfie Dreams come in the form of limited editions that usually can only be bought at a Dolpa (Doll Party hosted by Volks) or by getting them second hand at an exuberant price. But luckily for us Volks decided to start the Limited Dollfie Dream Pre-order Project which means that if you order during the pre-order period you're guaranteed the doll when it is released.
When you pre-order through Volks USA you have a choice between making a deposit of $50 or paying for everything at once. Though keep in mind if you do pay for everything at once your doll still won't get to you till shipping time. The production period is from May 2015-Spring 2016 with shipping at the end of June 2016 for Japan and September for the US for the first batch of orders. With the regular limited Miku's the shipping was divided in batches because of the vast amount of people who decided to pre-order.
The price for the Miku fullset is 64,000 yen + any fees and if you preorder from the US site it is $650 but no fees though we don't know if there is shipping charges, and if you live in California you'll have to pay the sales tax as well.
I did pre-order one Snow Miku through the Volks US site mainly since the $50 deposit was just easy to reserve my place since I did it once pre-orders opened up. But also because once she's here, shipping from California to my house is easy compared to the wait for EMS and the prices behind that because of the dimensions of the box.
In case you haven't noticed Atlus held their 36 hour Persona stream recently and we got more information about Persona 5, got to watch the Persona 3 movies, and we got more information about Persona 4: Dancing All Night. We get a very cute video mixing real people playing the game and having fun and we get shots of the game. Here are some images first of the PV.
Teddie was so adorable in the PV especially when Best Friends came up because of what Teddie said, he was all "You're all my best friends" and my heart just melted. Though at the end of the PV he remarks that he wants to buy it and then yells for Yosuke oddly enough when the Junes theme is playing.
We also got the hint that we'll at least be seeing Yukiko, Naoto, and Nanako within the game as well. I have no idea if they're going to be playable or what not but within the PV itself we saw both Yu with Nanako and Naoto on stage with the actual rhythm game in the background.
With all the teens dancing I'm really excited to see Yosuke and Yu dance the most, just because of this small scene. We all know Yosuke likes music and everything. But together these two always taken me like a bunch of jokers, so I wanna see them dance together. At least they look competent, as opposed to Kanji and Chie
Chie is just doing Kung-Fu and Kanji is just stomping around like he's in Ouendan (cheer squad). It may seem like I'm being a bit mean, but I'm not. These are just my observations, but they fit in with the characters. Do you honestly see these two dancing in the way that we're expecting, being all in music videos and junk? I honestly wasn't I was expecting goofy dancing, and I hope I am not wrong in June.
I am wondering though about the story and how it is going to play out, and this screen right here is kind of the best we have at the moment showing what can possibly go on within the game. Though I do have one main major question when this comes over to the US.
What is going to happen with the Junes theme that's in this game. On the P4D site there is a track list, including the Junes theme. And the theme does include more than the "Everyday Young Life Junes" theme. So what is going to happen when this is translated, are all the songs going to stay the same, or will this one be localized to fit the slogan of "Everyday's Great at Your Junes"? These are the questions, along with who is going to be in the DLC?
There are three different versions of the game, though all get the Persona 5 special PV BD, if you just want the game you might as well just by the single game. But if you want the CD soundtrack and the DLC your best way is getting that Crazy Box with Rise on it. And if you're a sucker for limited edition peripherals, just get that Premium Crazy Box. Myself I have ordered the Crazy Box, now all I have to do is wait.
