Osaka Ben » dolls http://www.benher.org/blog Being the occasionally bilingual journal of a Professional Ex-Pat Tattooist trained and apprenticed in Osaka Japan Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:47:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Hiderow Memorial Prints are here! http://www.benher.org/blog/2009/10/18/hiderow-memorial-prints-are-here/ http://www.benher.org/blog/2009/10/18/hiderow-memorial-prints-are-here/#comments Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:03:01 +0000 Hori Benny http://www.benher.org/blog/?p=1122 just a box!

今朝、このバカでかい箱が届いた〜！どんな宝物が入っているやろう？
Today, this big ol’ honkin’ box arrived at the shop! What treasures await!?

Damn Matryoshkas!

アナザー箱や！なんでか知らんけどあのロシア人形みたいなやつを思い出す！(本当にWILD ZEROのERICさんよ、丁寧にまとめてくれてありがとう！無事に着いたぁ！)
And inside is… Another box! It’s like those damn russian dolls! (Seriously Eric, thanks for packin’ these well – he even sleeved ‘em for me! Woot!)

Better than the original

色具合はすごい！まさかオリジナルより綺麗？！
Is it possible that the coloring is even better than the original?

Obligatory plug for the Wild Zero folks

WILD ZEROのERICさんは本当に立派な人間です。何回も地球を救ったそうです。私はこのプリントを頼む前に、サンプルを無料で送ってくれました。品質管理ももちろんばっちりでした。ミス１枚もない。用紙の品質もよく、原版と同じぐらい綺麗です！

彫師同士はやっぱり気になるところが一緒で、似ている様な悩みもあるから任してもいいです。ありがとうございました！

Gotta take a sec to plug Wild Zero and thank Eric for his help on these. Not only has this guy saved the world more than once, but the quality of the prints was amazing – far surpassing my expectations. The quality of the paper was high and there was not a single mistake in the entire lot – which I cannot say for so many other companies I have dealt with in the US. I dare to say that the color quality exceeds even the original!

But Eric is also a tattoo artist and so when you leave a job up to someone in your industry, you know that they are going to have a similar mindset toward the work and treat it with care. Thanks again brother!

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あぁぁ。たまにお金を無駄遣いをしないと！しかたがない！Mandarakeが近所に移転したし。一体どうやって我慢したらえぇの？先週、ぽっくんの大好きなPullip人形を買って、心が落ち着くと思ったけど…大間違いだった！箱から出すか？出さないか？迷ってしまった！悩みが増えただけだぁ！クッソぉ！大阪外大女子大生の友達にアドバイスをお願いしていて、やっぱり開けないと楽しめないと決心した。

Sometimes when life gets you down, you have to avoid emotional scarring by grounding yourself in rootless materialism! And how could I say no when I found out that Mandarake had moved into the neighborhood! (At Tower’s old location in Amemura) I discovered that Pullip had done an edition of Rei! Everyone’s favorite soulless melancholy Eva character. But to take her out of the box or not?! That was a worry I could not have anticipated in my spending fury! It actually doubled the burden of my heart! So I did the only thing I could! – I called up two college girls… for advice on how this rapidly aging bastard should procede…

Open Slowly... Slooooowly

ゆっくりあけないと… 一本の毛にもいたみを付けない様にして…
Gotta open slowly… so as not to harm a single hair…

Beware of spooky eyeball instructions

目玉の説明書！微妙にきもっ！
Gross! Eyeball moving instructions! The 4th wall is broken! BROKEN!!!

Out of the box! レイ魂！

カミングアウトした！…Reiちゃんは。
Coming out! Um… Rei, that is.

no longer \'mint\'

ほぉらほら！開けたぞ！オタクめ、泣けぇ泣けぇ！
It’s no longer ‘mint!’ Weep, you stupid Otaku!

Freeing the bonds - Kinky!

うぅ！縛ってあった！
Oo! She was all tied up in there! I had to remove like 50 twisty ties, forever scarring my already bloody fingers.

パンツ発見！ぷぷぷ！

れいぃぃちゃぁぁんの　ぱ・ん・ティ！っぷぷぷ！
Reichan’s…. panties! Teee heehee!

Stabbing休憩！

ちょっと休憩！せっかく女子大生が来てるからLonginusの弥で攻撃しようぜ！

A break to stab college girls with the Spear of Destiny!!!

Flip!

フリップは可愛すぎて、あまりクリップを付けたくないぐらいなぁ…
Her flip is so cute I almost don’t want to put in the clips…

Heidi and Rei

でもアルプスのハイジはどうせも付けたいからしょうがないなぁ。どうぞ、好きにして！
But Heidi insists on the honor herself. Be my guest if it will make you happy!

Here she is! A formidable doll!

Here comes Rei! A violence doll of Berzerker!

Now, POSE!

よぉしゃ！みんな！記念写真ポース！（僕とレイだけ！）
Now Everyone Pose!!!… well, ok, just me and Rei.

Welcome to your sad new home

冷たい肌の人形よ。ようこそ、あなたの新しいホームへ。
Welcome, cold skinned doll, to your lonely new home.

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今日は雛祭りやから人形についてかこう！
最近チョップのダウンタウンビルのにはいろんなおもろい店が増えてきた。先月、４回にはデザイン天才のMGXたちも新しい店を開店しました！（MGXはチョップのポスターやいろいろをたまにデザインしている）めっちゃ可愛い感じ！Dirty Dish Refine – ドイツ系の人形、絵本、お皿等いろいろある！僕のお母さんは人形屋さんの店長やからこんなのはめっちゃ好きそう！俺の大大大好きなBlytheもいますよ！俺はLicca,Blythe,Jenny,Pinkyファンって知っていた？でも人形と同じ様に髪はのびないなぁ。（-_-；）

Since today is the Doll’s Festival in Japan, I have an appropriate topic for today:
There’s tons of new shops opening in the Downtown building lately. On the 4th floor, the guys at MGX have started their very own doll/dish/figure shop! Dirty Dish Refine – All sorts of unique items from Europe, especially Germany. And of course, my favorite, custom Blythe dolls! What, you didn’t know I collected Licca, Jenny, Blythe, and Pinky? Yep! Now if only my hair grew like a creepy Japanese doll’s…

MGX005

MGXのメンバーはペィンティングもやっています！可愛くない？板で直接塗っている形で。ゴスっぽく、ピンクでかっこいい！

MGXdoes their fair share of painting too! Super cute gothy-pink! Painted with housepaint on wood – makes a cool finish!

MGX004

おぉ！懐かしいGarage Kitじゃない？！MGXのオリジナルキャラクターフィギュアの一個頂きした！うまく作れるかなぁ？塗るのは楽しみや〜！結果をのせるね！

Hey, isn’t that a garage kit? MGX teamed up with a model maker to produce their own original figures – I got one of the kits – let’s see if I can paint it worth a damn! I’ll post the result on here!

MGX001

完成フィギュア！MGXはワンフェスで売ったそうです。ワンフェス知っている？日本の一番でかいフィギュア関係コンベンションですよ。コンベンションというより、コミケみたいな祭りだ。来年、是非、連れてくれよぉ〜！

Here’s the finished figure complete with it’s own box! I love these things! Fabrication rocks! They sold a bunch of these at Wonder Festival. What’s Won-Fes? Pretty much like Comic Market for figures and models. The largest in Japan (and hence, the world.) Hey Manga, next February take me with you!!!

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