To Heart 2; "Another Days" Tamaki Kousaka (KOTOBUKIYA, 2007)

[tasuke]

well, here she is, not perfect, but all right, even so.

she seems to be a custom collaboration between KOTOBUKIYA and OBITSU.

while her legs, arms and internal spinal frame are all standard OBITSU of the day,
the head and soft vinyl bust/lower torso halves are clearly KOTO originals.

the head has a captive shaft that slots into the OBITSU 27's hollow neck,

-with the OBITSU's usual eye hook and retaining bar absent-

- but otherwise, she ends up looking and feeling like just another typical OBITSU 27-based character doll,
save for her unusually-endowed bust-line and somewhat curvier lower torso,
complete with light anatomical accuracy of the personal region.

that said, her KOTOBUKIYA-sourced endowments proved far too generous for my own tastes,
and so i ported her over to a more reasonably-sized M-bust OBITSU i had tucked away.

among other things, her Sailor-Blouse looks far less strained on her now;

http://to-heart.wikia.com/wiki/Tamaki_Kousaka

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Heart_2

[tasuke]

she actually looks remarkably charming in this evening dress;



and my precious Mikuru, in Tamaki's Sailor Suit, looks, well, Simply Precious!!

i found that one of the blouse sleeves was badly stained from something, so i had to remove them,
replacing them with long sleeves, -which i prefer anyway- in the closest shade of pink i could manage to scare up
to match that of the blouse;

[davidd]

Nice work replacing the sleeves. That must have been challenging. Looks good; I would never know that it was an alteration.

Agreed, Tamaki looks quite charming in her evening gown.

[tasuke]

Thanks. it was actually fairly easy for me, so far as this kind of work generally goes...

Anyway, these two get along quite well, despite being from very different grades;