Those eyes! Those horrible eyes!

[elfs]

And I thought Dora The Explorer was bad.

I stopped by Kinokuniya on the way home and picked up a volume of Maria-sama ga Miteru (I'm not going to bother pulling up the Kanji-enabled editor right about now). Not the comic book, the novel, which was the original. The drawings are about right (you can see the character designs here) but inside the book were a couple of drop-out flyers advertising the DVDs, the manga, and the dolls. Those dolls you see to the left. Oh, my, gods those are creepy-looking. It's as if Maria-sama ga Miteru was put into Tim Burton's hands. Not a healthy thing to think.

And while I was looking around, I found a rather cute example of cosplay (probably safe for work). Kawaii!

Comments

[featheredfrog.livejournal.com]

Holy Hannahs!

[abostick59.livejournal.com]

I don't believe in the uncanny valley, but if I did, I'd use these pics as an example.

[dhydra.livejournal.com]

All dollfie stuff looks weird. Whenever my kids find them in their anime/manga explorations, I feel like I'm feeding some future fetish of theirs.

Hey, Elf, you're probably the person I need to ask this to: My teen daughter wants to decipher her Layers magazine -- so she would need a Kanji-enabled editor? Any advice, I'd greatly appreciate.

And if anyone knows where I can find a Sheena/Tales of Symphonia costume pattern, please, please, please tell me. I don't want to help her design one from scratch -- I'm still burned out from doing Shrek's Puss n Boots from Halloween past.

Much thanks!

[mistie710.livejournal.com]

OK. I agree. Those are pretty creepy. They remind me of a range of goth dolls they had in at my local shop last year.