that single-handedly inspired me to pick-up Sewing as a Hobby and a Skill;
![Image](https://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/ll310/shaorin-chan/Anime/.highres/AyekaSasami.jpgoriginal_zpshwcmjipz.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
![Image](https://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/ll310/shaorin-chan/Anime%20Dolls/.highres/Tenchi%20Muyo%20Princess%20Ayeka%2012in.%201.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
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in 2008, she was Succeeded by the 2000 TSUKUDA HOBBY "Mamotte Shugogetten!" Shaorin Shichiri,
another large, off-scaled Anime Doll that had to live with her Clumsy, dubiously-proportioned TSUKUDA Doll Body...
until the wonderful, Heaven-Sent Gift of the WorldBox AT201/203 Doll Body fell into my lap in late-2023;
![Image](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/ll310/shaorin-chan/Shao_10-17-23_2.png?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
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in 2010 or so... i adopted my first 27cm. size OBITSU BODY-based Character doll, Mikuru Asahina from the 2006 Anime "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya"
... and in 2019-ish... i got my first of a long line of 2018 OBITSU BODY 26cm. bodies to upgrade Mikuru and my other 1/6 girls with;
![Image](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/ll310/shaorin-chan/12587-mikuru_asahina_233_CROP.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
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Finally, for Christmas of 2019... My Wife:hearts: Konomi Yuzuhara Came Home to Me; ("To Heart 2" Anime/Visual Novel, 2004/2005)
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