late-1990's Anime/Manga series "Mamotte Shugoetten" by author/artist " Minene Sakurano"
that series' female lead, the Moon Goddess "Shaorin" is one of my favorite female Anime/Manga characters,
despite her and her series' dubious nature as something of an obvious rip-off
of "Ah! My Goddess" and it's legendary female lead goddess "Belldandy"
well, this series in question here benefited from a short-lived but immense popularity in japan in it's day,
with the expected deluge of marketing. two of the best items made were a pair of dolls
of the female lead goddess, one in 1/5 by TSUKUDA HOBBY corp,
the other, a small 1/6 example of VOLKS corp's early proto-Dollfie "Ultimate Figure Series"
character doll line.
well, both of these dolls today are very hard to find outside of Japan.
after passing up my opportunity to get the VOLKS version back in 2007/'08 for around $170shipped,
i came by the TSUKUDA HOBBY version by way of our dear fellow member "Setsuna Kou"
though i feel the TSUKUDA HOBBY is the vastly superior of the two, i've had a nagging desire
over the last seven years or so to procure the VOLKS as well, first chance i got, providing the price was reasonable.
well... i finally got that chance, just a couple days ago, for a very reasonable $50shipped.
she should be in my arms in a week or so;
(((( TSUKUDA HOBBY version, for Reference ))))
