♥Belldandy♥ (Ah My Goddess! TAKARA, 1997)

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Bell-chan is so happy to have gone clothes shopping with her Keiichi and found such gentle, lovely undies that coordinate so very well with her personality, as well as with the new outfit her Keiichi helped her pick out;

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i'm just grateful to finally have her, and a pretty much ideal doll body for her such as the OBITSU.

i remember first finding out about her in the late 90's, -when comic shops were my ONLY outlet for Anime goods, and a very occasional one at that-
and saw the red dress version of her available in the monthly "PREVIEWS" national U.S. comic shop catalog for like right around $200USD!!
i can't even imagine paying that much for her back then, awful TAKARA doll body and all, and no real alternatives in which to perfect her like i have available to me today.
i really did luck out, paying like $85shipped for her from an HK EBAY seller. this guy's was seemingly the only source
of the blue version currently available, one other fellow EBAY seller, also of HK origin, having the red version available for like $155shipped,
and even a seller of the far more recent VOLKS Super Dollfie version for an absolutely out-of-the-question $2040shipped!!!

yes, this is definitely the very best Bell-chan i could ever realistically hope to have, and i think i'm quite satisfied...

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finally got her hair in some semblance of order. straight out of her box, it was a real mess.
definitely higher maintenance than the hollow vinyl molded hair of my Mikuru-chan.
Belldandy's such an Angel♥ she makes it all more than worth the trouble.

just in case anyone might not have been aware of it, she is literally a Goddess,
loosely based upon a spiritual entity from ancient Norse mythology;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ver%C3%B0andi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norns

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_My_Goddess!