Rambling About My First Nendoroid Doll

This is not a review or anything like that. But I do ramble a lot. If you want a proper review, please consider checking out XCanadensis’s video on them .

Hello Dollect! I just wanted to do a quick  (…) post sharing my experience with my first Nendoroid doll. Who just so happened to be the ever lovey Kitagawa Marin from the anime/manga , My Dress-up Darling!

I know it’s definitely not for everyone, but I personally really love the series a lot, and I am currently caught up with the manga. I really love a lot of things about the series, but like basically everyone who has seen/read it, Marin herself is definitely the highlight.

I have been interested in Nendoroid Dolls since they were first announced. Especially since the appeared to be a worthy oponent to the Cu-Poche Friends action dolls by Kotobukiya (I hope to eventually get one of those one day as well).

But I also noticed that they also seemed to pop up after it became popular people started making Cu-Poche and Nendoroid Hybrids, along with the ever loved , “Obitsuroid” (Nendoroid heads on Obitsu 11/OB11 bodies).

Both of these things I personally find very fascinating. But I never got around to getting/making anything. As I was personally content with just my default Nendoroid’s.

I have preordered Nendoroid dolls a few times over the years. But I always ended up canceling them do to me either not being interested in the particular doll anymore, or I had other purchases I wanted to prioritize.

The latter was actually the case with the Marin I am mentioning today. I preordered her and was super exited, but as a anime doll/figure collector, I have the curse of needing to prioritize which items I will go though with ordering for the month. I don’t remember which month it was in particular, but Marin was in a more spendy month for me, and as much as I didn’t want to, I decided to cancel her…

But I few days ago, I noticed that she was on Amazon (USA) for retail price with prime shipping. She was either sold out or had an inflated price everywhere else. I also knew that she doesn’t  (at the time of writing this) have any bootlegs/fakes like her regular Nendoroid does. So I decided to get her , fully expecting her box to be damaged or something.

But somehow I got lucky and her box was pristine! I forgot to take a picture of it, but I was way to exited to open her up, and I had other things to do, so I kind of rushed to opening her as soon as I could.

Despite her being dressed up in these photos, the doll comes packaged without her clothing and jewelry, as those are packed separately in her box.

she came the the following

– School Uniform Top
– School Uniform Skirt
– Underwear
– Socks
– Shoes
– Necklace
– Black bracelet
– Silver bracelet
– Magnetic stand with 2 alternate stand support option

With that out of the way, here she is!

I recently got the Loyal Subjects Strawberry Shortcake doll as well, and mine came with such a cute lunch box, that I had to take a picture of it with Marin. I feel like she would think it is cute as well.

But speaking of Strawberry…

I just had to see how the would look next to each other !

Strawberry is probably closer to the size of an Obitsuroid, but I kind of wonder if her outfit would fit Marin…. I will probably do that another time, and I will post it on Instagram if I do.

Marin is a hardcore fangirl at heart, and she loves cosplay and fashion, but I would say she loves the people(?) behind it even more. And I couldn’t help but think that if this doll/character existed in her universe, that Marin would be absolutely obsessed with her. And that is none other then…

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LARVIE

Marin is definitely a Larvie fangirl in this household. It’s already a headcanon of mine now that Marin would want/own a Larvie doll. It just feels right for her in my opinion.

But Yeah. If you have a Larvie or Nendo doll and have/plan to get the other. I personally think they look pretty nice together! The proportions are actually not that different either. Minus Larvie’s fabulous squirminess obviously.

I hope that my rambling wasn’t incoherent or anything if you read it. But if you came just to see the pictures, I hope you enjoyed them!

Thanks for reading!