Welcome home Nao!

It started out with me disliking her in the first place because I found her weird. But after exposing myself to persona 4, and looking at owner photos of this girl, I soon fell in love with her, but went into despair after seeing her aftermarket prices , essentially becoming a holy grail that I thought I'd never own .

 

Funny enough for me, the doll Gods decided to take pity on me, and It was only a year later that I somehow managed to get the opportunity to adopt not one, but two Rise kujikawas and bring both girls home!

 

This is actually the second Rise I purchased. The first one has been fully paid off, but somehow my seller's post office didn't want to ship her to the country because of Yolanda (It's weird tbqh ) . I'm lucky enough that I happened to have a friend who's currently studying abroad in the same country and happened to be willing to take that Rise home (unfortunately, I don't think I'll see her till next year because I'll be going back home to my family for christmas) , so I'm so happyyyy to have great tomodachis

 

Anyhoo, off to the photos!

Pardon for the crappy cam quality, as I took it with my iphone.

 

 

The box! Customs decided to inspect her, and they decided to open her from the bottom of the box orz.

 

 

hello!

 

 

After unwrapping the box, I was greeted by the standard yellow box that most volks DD's come in. At this point I was literally shaking in happiness, because I really couldn't believe she was finally home!

 

 

Hello Rise!

 

I'm in love with this sculpt. Rise definitely stands out among her fellow DD's with her face (also, painted teeth! ) . As a fan of Soejima's artwork, I definitely love that volks managed to transition his style on her perfectly. She looks like a lovely mix of SD and DD!

 

 

I'm also honestly unsure if this is what Volks did with this particular doll, or if the previous owner did this, but Rise has eyelashes! it's a first and I really thing it adds more beauty to her. I'm not too fond of her eyes though, so that'll be changed soon once i get some blue tak hahha .

 

Pardon for the doll nudity! Rise is actually an S-bust girl, but because this particular rise will become my custom Naoto, I've asked my seller to thrown in an L bust for some of the costumes I plan to make that requires such bust.

 

 

And here she is! I didn't get her as a fullset sadly, but thankfully enough I happen to have a second fullset outfit here, and I'll definitely dress her up in that later tonight when I get the time to!

She's really pretty! At first I did not like Rise, but over time when I have seen how people customized her and made her their own I've grown to really like her a lot. ^__^

Congratulations! She is such a special girl I love the eye laces you added

She's really pretty! At first I did not like Rise, but over time when I have seen how people customized her and made her their own I've grown to really like her a lot. ^__^

 

Thank you! And I know how you feel, It was really the combination of me loving the series + owner photos that made me want to get this girl for my own

 

Congratulations! She is such a special girl I love the eye laces you added

Thank you!

 

I actually didn't add in the eyelashes! they were added in by the previous owner and tbqh, I love that small change.

Wow, Rise twins, Congrats! Nao is so lovely (love the name too) and I also like the lashes. They make her look so natural. I hope you're able to take pics of both girls very soon.