DD Sailor Jupiter

Yeeeeah I had told myself “only Usagi” in the beginning... Then Rei was so cute and had always been my favorite... and Ami ended up being around long enough for me to be able to afford her... and now I’m waiting patiently for Mako’s shipping notice 😆 I know I’m in this for the long haul. I just can’t say no. 🙃 I’m excited to see the rose earrings in person!

I have to admit I am pretty excited for Jupiter. Something about her is really cute.

I'm hoping Minako is true to her character's look when they finally make her.

Yes, I am excited too! I am also surprised that Jupiter was the one that made me decide to collect them all. I mean, Mercury is my second favorite after Moon, but even when she was up for pre-order and on sale events, I still kept doubting myself about purchasing her and Mars. There was a couple of times where I was really tempted.. so now I hope that there are more opportunities besides second-hand market to grab them. I am crossing my fingers VolksUSA have them again in one of the event sales. Possibly a maybe if they do get Jupiter in the future?

I also hope Venus is cute too! I do wonder if they will go for her Sailor V outfit or her school uniform for the extra outfit..

30 minutes ago, solebria said:

I do wonder if they will go for her Sailor V outfit or her school uniform for the extra outfit.

I was thinking about that earlier. I am sure they will make the school outfit, but Sailor V might be a long shot. It’s the Sailor Moon anniversary event and Sailor V is her own thing. 
 

Conversely Sailor V has guest spots throughout Sailor Moon in the games at the arcade, so maybe it will make sense. 

Edited June 13, 2020 by BeyondTime

On 6/12/2020 at 1:10 PM, solebria said:

After going back to Jupiter's order page for days, I went ahead and pre-ordered her. So while I am happy that I got her (she's so pretty!!), now I feel a little more pressured to get the other girls (Mercury and Mars..and Venus, in the future). I kept putting off Mars and Mercury for this very reason haha 😅 Usagi will be happy to be reunited with her friends but my wallet will not be happy. 

And here I thought I would just be contempt with only Sailor Moon... oh, how wrong I was! 

Congrats on getting Jupiter! I was actually only planning to get the Outer Senshi if Volks ever made them, but somehow I don't know why Jupiter is so cute that I ended up caving and getting her. I kept going back and looking at her photos until she was released 😅

And that urge to get all the other Senshi to make up the full set... I know that feeling too well 😬 Atm I'm still resisting... 🤪

I did not see an email when I ordered but she is in my web purchase history so I hope it all goes well.  I can’t wait to see Venus, my urge to collect all five is also very strong.  If they make Saturn and she ended up looking good, I would probably get her too.  

10 hours ago, BeyondTime said:

I was thinking about that earlier. I am sure they will make the school outfit, but Sailor V might be a long shot. It’s the Sailor Moon anniversary event and Sailor V is her own thing. 
 

Conversely Sailor V has guest spots throughout Sailor Moon in the games at the arcade, so maybe it will make sense. 

That is true! I have a feeling they will probably go with her school uniform since the others got theirs but maybe Volks might surprise us and do a Sailor V outfit. With a company like Volks, you never know!

 

10 hours ago, bbotss said:

Congrats on getting Jupiter! I was actually only planning to get the Outer Senshi if Volks ever made them, but somehow I don't know why Jupiter is so cute that I ended up caving and getting her. I kept going back and looking at her photos until she was released 😅

And that urge to get all the other Senshi to make up the full set... I know that feeling too well 😬 Atm I'm still resisting... 🤪

I will be in big, big trouble if they also decide to do the Outer Senshi. Its also fun to read how I wasn't the only one that couldn't resist Jupiter's sculpt! Although do try to resist that urge of buying the rest because in my case, I can no longer stop myself from buying the other girls! 😜

1 hour ago, solebria said:

but maybe Volks might surprise us and do a Sailor V outfit. With a company like Volks, you never know!

I think they should do that, but another possibility is that they could do a Minako - Sailor V re-release on a Sailor V anniversary. That seems to me like the more likely way it would happen. I do hope they do the outfit. Heck, I’d happily pay more for her if she came with both outfits in the box. 
 

As far as the Outer Senshi go, if they make them it might be a Sailor Moon 30th anniversary thing and not something they do for the 25th anniversary. I think the soonest we see Minako is this December and possibly not until 2021. If I am not mistaken 2022 marks the 30th anniversary. I don’t know if the 30th will have the same fanfare though. 

Just my opinion here. I think the plan from an fairly early stage was to make all the Inner Senshi. Given what Sailor Moon was it seems to me you either stop at making Sailor Moon or you make all the Inners too. In addition I have a hard time thinking that the license holders upon deciding to approve a DD release wouldn’t have wanted all five of them released as DD to celebrate 25 years of the series. Usagi was the star, but they were all main characters.

From what I read about the series inception, I think all five girls were equally important to their creator too, and Minako was the first one she created not the last one. 

Pretty sure Minako is a when and not an if. 

Edited June 13, 2020 by BeyondTime

All this talk of Venus is making my wallet anxious. I think there is no question at this stage she will make an appearance but after all four of the other girls looked so great I just don’t see myself being able to pass on Venus. It was hard enough skipping Jupiter and Mars and I wasn’t even a huge Mars fan. I now can’t tell if I’m hoping for a 2020 release on her to get the struggle out of the way or a 2021 release to give time to have more savings and feel a little less guilty about my doll family exploding (for me anyway ha) this last year. 
 

I’d love for her to come with the Sailor V outfit but school uniform does seem way more likely. Though Moon did get an extra alternate costume so you never know. If my vote could go for any alternate outfit though it would be Serenity, not cause I want it myself but it would just look so gorgeous. All the Moon dolls deserve that dress. 
 

I actually never got to properly experience the anime when Saturn arrived (limited access to media growing up and just didn’t get to it later) but I think she’d actually be another one really hard to pass on if made.  I hope they do stay committed and continue to the Outers. 
 

Cant wait to see user pics of Jupiter. She looked pretty good in official shots so I’m expecting to be blown away when I see user pics. 

Edited June 13, 2020 by Beani

14 minutes ago, Beani said:

If my vote could go for any alternate outfit though it would be Serenity, not cause I want it myself but it would just look so gorgeous. All the Moon dolls deserve that dress. 

That, and I'd like it if they released the Super outfit for the rest of them.

I debated putting this in the original Sailor Moon release thread where the size of their eyes was originally discussed, and was somewhat controversial. I decided this was the more timely place to put it. I was one of the folks who really wasn't happy with Usagi's eyes, but I warmed up to her design after I got her in the Volks USA Christmas event in 2018.

Now that I am re-watching the show it drove home to me how unworkable their eyes would have been. Usagi's eyes often seem to be drawn with the bottom of her eyes below the bridge of her nose, and I think that would look really weird on a doll. Making her eyes as big as they are in the anime would have her eyebrows up in the middle of her forehead which would also look really off.

Sometimes when their eyes get big their hairline contracts and their eyes go up into their forehead, and that's another thing that would just look wrong on a DD imo.

There are some cases where her eyes are drawn a bit smaller, and aren't really all that much different than the doll, but even then you have a much rounder eye socket and much more sharply curved upper eyelid, and that's another element that I am not sure is all that workable. Their eyes would be narrower with a much larger gap between them, and I think that would look odd.

Of course it's anime so there is a lot of variation in the size and shape of their eyes including eyes that take up most of their head.

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You see a lot of profile shots in the show - usually when Usagi is daydreaming about kissing Motoki or Tuxedo Mask - and their faces from the side are really flat. You see this reflected in DD Rei & Ami, but DD Usagi has a bit more depth.

Lastly, I really don't think they look like their crystal incarnations all that much. I think at the time there were some suggestion that they took design elements from Crystal, but I am much more inclined to see them as looking like they do in the original anime. DD Ami looks nothing like she does in Crystal imo.

While my minds eye will always see the characters with huge eyes, and faces made wider by the lack of any cheek definition in the anime, I think the dolls are all a really good realization of the characters look in a 3D head.

I'm really looking forward to seeing Jupiter in person. She's so pretty in the Volks photos and Volks photos never show you how good they will look in person. I want to see how her design compares to the other three.

Edited June 14, 2020 by BeyondTime

Has anyone gotten a shipping notice yet? Also, I noticed that not only the charges for Jupiter and her uniform were dropped from my card, but the charges for another order (body and bust) made on 1 Jun were also dropped. All the orders are still under preparation though, but does Volks only charge when they ship? (My past orders were usually shipped within days and this is the first time I am ordering directly on the new site, so I have no idea.)

I indeed also had the charges dropped and contacted my creditcard company and Volks. Volks has responded very quickly that they will charge at a later moment because there is some more time in between or something like that. Short message was something like: don't worry it will be charged later.

Probably right before they send her just like with other orders?

So I hope this reassures other people too who saw the charges were dropped from their creditcard.

That’s pretty standard for them. The pre-authorization disappears for a few days and then the charge shows up. It always makes me nervous though, because you never know what a card company is going to do with international transactions. 

It never happened before so it made me nervous too haha. My creditcard company said they had checked it and found it a bit weird too but I guess for Volks it's standard. I'm just happy it wasn't cancelled by accident or something 😱 now to wait for the shipping email!

 

Edit: found the first Jupiter on the yahoo auction now too 😒

Edited June 16, 2020 by Ylse

Yeah the dropped charge made me nervous too lol. It happens with most retailers that I shop with, though, so I'm not worried. I just kind of hate when retailers do that and would prefer they simply take out the funds immediately, rather than letting it linger in my bank account until they decide to ship/charge my card. 

I just hope she'll be shipping soon! I've been anxiously checking all day to see if my doll has shipped lol. 

Also re: the eyes, 

On 6/14/2020 at 2:15 PM, BeyondTime said:

 

I personally thought the prototype of Usagi was kind of 'off', but that completely changed when I saw the real-life photos of her- in fact I was a little surprised that people still didn't think she was an accurate portrayal because I instantly saw Usagi in her facial sculpting and screening. Even in bald/eyeless pictures, she still felt exactly like Usagi to me in every way and still does. 


I think something to note about Sailor Moon is that the Classic anime had switched Character Designers so many times, even over the span of a single season. Heck, an entirely different artist did the S finale and they switched right back to the previous artist in the following episode- then a completely new one at the start of SuperS! It would be pretty much impossible for them to make a 1:1 accurate doll because....well what would that look like, when each character looks completely different depending on the season (and sometimes the individual episodes)? Even the current promotional artwork for the Classic anime is ever-so-slightly different from the original designs. So I'm sure it was difficult for them to get a correct balance of accuracy and 3-d translation, given that variation within the 90's anime.

I think Toei/Volks made a concerted effort to design the dolls in a way that was accurate (particularly to the S season), while simultaneously making little changes that would capture the 'feel' of each character- even if it's not an exact 1:1 translation of any of the Classic anime designs, they manage to capture the characters perfectly imo. This is especially obvious in the eye designs for me.

We all have our favorite seasons and our own personal visions of what each character 'should' look like- I think Volks managed to design the dolls in a way that woukd look/feel accurate to most people. Well...except for the gloves lol. 

Edited June 16, 2020 by Serena-Hime

17 minutes ago, Serena-Hime said:

I was a little surprised that people still didn't think she was an accurate portrayal because I instantly saw Usagi in her facial sculpting and screening.

I had to see her in person, but that was my feeling when I did.

1 minute ago, BeyondTime said:

I had to see her in person, but that was my feeling when I did.

it's a little unreal to me, tbh. Even the sculpting of her mouth is so Usagi lol

I still disagree that Sailor Moon was perfect the way she was, because her eyes are too small to be quite right. She was very close, but not quite there. The rest of the girls look fine to me, and they all have 22mm eyes, but Sailor Moon had 20mm eyes for some reason. They could have been just a touch taller and still not look out of place, just like the others'. I don't know, maybe if I get some 22mm 90s style eyes she'll look more like herself to me.

Is it just me or do the Volks dolls looks REALLY close to the character design of the new upcoming movie(s? not sure amymore if there are several planned) 

I "love" it how they tend to change the style of them in every damn new season / movie. The old movies and series looked pretty consistent.

18 minutes ago, Serena-Hime said:

it's a little unreal to me, tbh. Even the sculpting of her mouth is so Usagi lol

Maybe it's the lack of fountains of tears shooting out of her eyes that makes her look off. 🤔

6 minutes ago, Victoria said:

Is it just me or do the Volks dolls looks REALLY close to the character design of the new upcoming movie(s? not sure amymore if there are several planned) 

I "love" it how they tend to change the style of them in every damn new season / movie. The old movies and series looked pretty consistent.

The designs for the movie are based off the 90's anime designs (and the character designer for the movie is the same one that did seasons 1-2 of the Classic anime) so there's definitely a similarity! 

Also there's two movies planned, for a two-part adaptation of the Dream arc of the manga!

Edited June 16, 2020 by Serena-Hime

Someone on Instagram posted a photo of all four Inners standing together and I audibly gasped at how perfect the height difference is between Jupiter and the other girls! Where’s my shipping notice, Volks? I need her now!! 🤣

Jeez! How are people getting her already? It's making me even more impatient to get my shipping notice lol she looks so gorgeous!

28 minutes ago, justsomedollies said:

Someone on Instagram posted a photo of all four Inners standing together and I audibly gasped at how perfect the height difference is between Jupiter and the other girls! Where’s my shipping notice, Volks? I need her now!! 🤣

What was the name of the poster, please?