Fairyland's Sebastian from Black Butler!

Fairyland is releasing Sebastian in Japan only due to licensing issues in the US.

Other pics can be found on hobby chanel.

I don't personally like Black Butler, or this doll, but I think it's great that another big company besides Volks is doing a properly licensed resin reproduction of an anime character! I'm also glad for fans of male dolls - DD, as much as I love them, are always girls and always vinyl lol. I wonder if they'll do any others after this?

Which characters would you like to see Fairyland do? Do you like their 'anime style' doll better than Volks'? Are you going to try to buy him?

Icchaeyo's Deviantart and Faceups

So...here I am, featuring yet another Shushu. What? Did you ask if she'd modified? Why yes, yes she is!! Just look at her beautiful slitted eyes!

And that faceup! So gorgeous! Whose doll could that be?
I answer, "Who else's? Icchaeyo's!"

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Yeah, sorry for the dumb little intro there. X3 To be honest, I'm always struck a little dumb by her masterful creations. She modified this Shushu by herself (as well as an open-eyed faceplate). Besides the Shushu, she has a gorgeous Unoa Lusis, a CP El and Woosoo, and she used to have a Domuya Fin.

^ Here's her gorgeous Woosoo!

She does her own faceup work and (as mentioned) modifications, and on top of all of it... just look at her gorgeous photography and illustration work!

I very much admire Icchaeyo. In fact, she is and always will be one of my favorite faceup artists/photographers. I am continually inspired by her and I absolutely adore her dolls. Her knack for muted colors, softer focus, sunlight-bleached environs and mysteriously beautiful figures always amazes me and I can't stop looking at it! Please go appreciate her gorgeous work at her Deviantart, Flickr and Blog.

EDIT: I used the word 'gorgeous' 3 times in this one little post. XD I really am losing it...

Fairyland's Chic Line

Well, I know that everybody is going to be discussing this soon enough, but if you're not sick of it already, these are my personal thoughts on the new Chic line of dollfairyland.com. Also, I want this blog to be as worksafe as possible, so I'll always put up warnings or somesuch when posting any artistic nudity. Therefore, I'm leaving it up to Fairyland's Blog to show you pictures of the posing and body.

Now, on to the opinionation!

The new Chic line is shorter than your typical Minifee, standing at 40cm instead of 42. The bodies, as expected from Fairyland, are beautifully engineered, and they seem to pose as well as the Minifee bodies. My favorite part is that it seems Fairyland designed the models with heavy customization in mind, including parts for hand changing (as in their Minifee) as usual, but also disclosing plans for fantasy parts and revealing a new system for heads.

This head is actually a Minifee-sized (M-line) faceplate on the "head attachment part" (probably the headback) that is compatible with the Chic body. You can also put Littlefee (L-line) heads on the body using another "head attachment part". The Chic line heads (or, you guessed it, C-line) seem to be notably smaller than either L-line or M-line heads, but that's to be expected because....

Bam! The doll has a distinct fashion-doll appearance which calls for more realistic proportions of head-body size ratio.

My verdict? Genius engineering as usual, but it's not my thing. I personally don't like fashion dolls and will most likely never own a Chic line doll. I prefer the anime-like, stylistic grace of the Minifee, as seen here.


However, I'm glad that Fairyland is once again breaking its own mold (no puns) and I'm especially impressed with the new head system. I also think it's really great to have more variety in MSD size, because a lot of people have been wanting more 'mature' minis, and the market has been responding with increasingly unique works of art.

I'm actually more excited about the possibility of a Fairyland 60cm doll. In Cerberus Project's letter (which you can also view on the Fairyland blog), they stated that they had been planning on releasing 60cm dolls for a long time. The Chic line was a sculpting foray in that direction, but should also be viewed as a project all on its own. I've been wanting a 60cm Shushu since I've laid eyes on her, and I honestly think that if that were to happen, that Shushu would even replace Kurumi as my dream doll.

Let me know what you think of the new Chic line! Would you get one? Do you like or dislike the fashion doll look of the bodies/proportions? Do you plan on hybridizing between M, C, or L-line? Are you just as excited as I am about the 60cm doll possibility?