'Drape' body

image from http://www.artetokio.com/tohart_TAMA.html


Well, back when I saw the Tamaki doll on the Arte Tokio website I thought the suffix "drape" was curious. I suspected back then that it could mean that the breasts actually can sag. That was an observation I made looking at the nude and bikinied doll. I also concluded that it was well within the constrainst of my imagination, plus I couldn't get the doll, even though I wanted to so it's a moot point.



image from http://www.artetokio.com/arte060ppD.html

There is a new body option; 'ARTE 060++D' the D standing for drape. http://www.artetokio.com/arte060ppD.html . At the time this was written it had not yet come to the English version of the site. From the rough translation of babel fish, it seems my initial suspicions were founded; in that this new body has breasts that can sag.



image from http://www.moeyo.com/2009/11/review_artetokio_toheart_tamaki.html

Yae wee. Thing is though; images from moeyo.com (http://www.moeyo.com/2009/11/review_artetokio_toheart_tamaki.html) seem to show me that they still have a somewhat curious shape on side profile.




image from http://www.artetokio.com/Ikkitosen_KANU.html

It appears Arte Tokio is currently exercising creating dolls from silicone in different hardness. The latest character doll (http://www.artetokio.com/Ikkitosen_KANU.html), has an exclusive body with the suffix -muscle, which seems to me to indicate that it is harder than the standard doll.



image from http://www.ikkitousen.com/character_kannu.html

For those of you unaware the above rendered character is Uncho Kanu, a character from Battle Vixens (一騎当千, Ikkitōsen) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Vixens. A ecchi anime.