Tasuke's Anime Dolly-a-Whenever Thread...

[tasuke]

with their fairly terribly-designed doll bodies, my TENCHI dolls were really beginning to show their age by the late-2000's,
and, just recently gaining home internet access, i was just beginning to discover the wealth of far superior Japanese-market character dolls
that had came and went all throughout those formative years when i was clumsily learning doll-tailoring skills
on those comparatively-terrible TOYNAMI Tenchi bodies.

my first, badly-overdue eansion in Anime dolls came in late 2008, a TSUKUDA HOBBY "Mamotte Shugogetten!" Shaorin Shichiri,
which just so happened to be in the same general "Non-Scale" 12/13in. size as the Tenchi dolls.

i got her off of E-Bay for $40 shipped, a total freak happenstance, it seems,
as i have yet to see another pop up there in the decade since i stumbled upon her;