DDs And Obitsus

[Jezrah]

As for heads, you can use any you like at all. It doesn't have to come from Volks as an MDD.

Really? I had heard that several of the SD size heads were too big for the MDD (unless you are going for the chibi look).

It really depends on your personal preferences, and also what other dolls will be interacting with her. Yoko has one of the biggest DD heads, but there's a member of the DD forum that has her on an MDD, and she's cute. I wouldn't put a big wig on her or anything, as that would add to her head size. That's sort of why I put my 04 on a 48cm body- I wanted her to be a young girl, but I wanted her to wear the giant poofy wig, so her head looked yoo big for an MDD for me. But an 04 wearing a smoother wig is just fine.

People choose suitable heads based less on size and more on facial maturity. That's more of why you don't really see 07s on an MDD, not just because it's a big head but because it looks too mature to be a kid. The 06 is also large but looks cute as an MDD.

[SetsunaKou]

Almost all my 60cm (SD) dolls are DD/Obitsu/Resin hybrids.

However, the DD heads I use are the type with the handpainted eyes (I prefer them for anime characters rather than eyehole heads since you can make the dolls look EXACTLY like the characters with painted eyes and not just 'almost' them with the eyehole eyes.)


I think we have about 36 SD like this? Yes, just about that number, give or take one or two.

My anime girls are all Obitsu 60cm bodies WS, with Volks DD Custom hair head NS heads.
My anime boys are all ResinSoul 70cm NS with Volks DD Custom Hair head NS heads.

My sister's anime girls are all Obitsu 60cm bodies WS, with Parabox WS Anime heads (discontinued style). Her boys are all the same, but with Resinsoul 61cm bodies or Obitsu male 60cm bodies. (I think she has one 70cm RS boy body with a Parabox Anime head and one 64cm Nobility Doll boy boy with the Parabox Anime head.

We have one Dollfie Dream NS body with a Parabox WS Anime head on it. The DD body is much more beautiful than the Obitsu 60cm body but it's floppier, an inch shorter and the neck is thicker. I loved her (she was originally mine) but I passed her on to my sis, because her girl chara is supposed to be 'shorter' and I didn't care for the thicker neck. It's not bad by itself, but when you put it next to the Obitsu 60cm girls, they look slimmer and more....animelike? The DD could be a realistic person....almost. ^^ :laughs:

Umm, I'd say if you are looking for beauty rather than poseability, the Dollfie Dream is more lovely to look at. She even looks more 'natural' in poses. The Obitsu always seem a bit 'stiff.'

BUT the DD is ultra floppy (she will NEED a stand!). I know that Volks doesn't really offer internal parts for the DD, but I find that they rarely, if ever, break. At least the few I've had (I sold several I didn't need anymore.) And this one we still have is about 10 years old and she's not shown one symptom of breakage or damage. Just floppy kneed, but they come that way, pretty much.

Now, our Obitsu 60cm----we have over 25 and they are almost ALL broken or have broken and needed new parts. Maybe Obitsu sells parts because the dolls are prone to breakage?

So they both have good and bad----the Obitsu are more anime-like and sturdy in a pose. (Almost to the point of stiffness.)
The Volks are more natural looking, but are super floppy.

I've had both and the DD has never broken in 10 years, while the Obitsu break joints/connectors quite often.
Yet, we have 25 Obitsu 60cm and only 1 Volks DD right now. ^^ So........

[Jezrah]

I just want to say that the newer III series bodies are not floppy at all, all of mine stand in a high traffic area without stands and rarely fall down. I only even own one stand and I only use it when I want to stand a girl on a tripod outside.

[victoriavictrix]

The biggest con in my mind is that Volks doesn't provide internal skeleton parts. Their answer for "this part is broken" is "Buy a new body."

This is true for the DD2, DDDy and MDD bodies. With the newer DD3, DDDy3, DDS, and MDD3s many of the external parts come with their corresponding internal parts. I never got around to getting one of the newer bodies so I can't tell you if the "3" parts are compatible with the "2" bodies/parts.

You mean they actually listened to and acted on customer complaints??? How refreshing!