The Doll Forum

Now there's some kind of woman I'd be curious to go on some kind of date with. XD

This lady likes to dress up as a (ball jointed) doll in her original costumes.
Found the pictures on either Twitter or Tumblr, I can't remember.

Anyway, I thought you might find this as interesting as I! ^^

Yes. Very interesting. I wonder why she does it?

That's really intriguing and I love the way some girls like to dress in a very unconventional manner.
I do have one BJD and another on the way shortly and I must say she does a very good job of looking like one.
Brilliant paint job and even her face is very BJD. Nice find.

Wow, it's like the uncanny valley in reverse! The airbrush work is really good.

There's several videos of her on YouTube, she goes by the name of Lulu Hashimoto. Here is a Video of her that looks amazing, she does the movements of a doll that is very believable.

wow, great youtube find , Synobyte07! thanks a lot, i love the clips. ^^

As I read the article there is no one woman who models the costume. And their identities are secret (probably because the person inside is irrelevant). The artists's name is the woman Hitomi Komaki. Actually, at least two artists are involved, the body stocking was designed by Koh Ueno.

Mondoon, I had to read the anacronym several times until I figured out what you meant by BJD. My first thought was 'of course, you do'.

I will be cruising the second-hand bookstores of Tokyo soon, in particular Pygmalion to see their photo books on ball-jointed dolls. Though some of the older (in sense of subject not date of creation) fantasy art of Trevor Brown is more up my alley, e.g. Alice. They have that too and for a 1/4 of new price. To say that dolls and books are revered in Japan would be an understatement.

If there's such a thing as a "reverse" uncanny valley, I believe this just might qualify!

Knightshift wrote:If there's such a thing as a "reverse" uncanny valley, I believe this just might qualify!

Wouldn't that mean it's, like, TOO canny? XD