If you were in Japan at this moment, inside the Volks Super Dollfie store, it would not be unusual for you to see a grown man buying one of the beautifully sculpted two-feet tall Super Dollfie dolls.  Obviously that’s not normal here in North America, but different cultures have very differing attitudes toward dolls.  Both the Asian and Mexican cultures have a very strong interest in dolls.  If you go to flickr.com and search for pictures of dolls almost all the comments on the pictures are by Latina women!  I’ve collected dolls in some form or another my whole life.  When I was little girl it was mainly Barbies, then up to recently it was Takara Blythe dolls.  I bought my first Blythe doll on a trip to Japan – it was love at first sight and I faithfully collected Blythes until I was browsing for Blythe photos online and came across a picture of the most gorgeous work of art! A Volks Super Dollfie named Chinatsu!   After that first sighting it was only a matter of time until I got my own Super Dollfie – she’s the Yo-SD named Suzuna.  The ‘Yo’ in Yo-SD means ‘infant’ in Japanese because the Yo-SDs are smaller and younger looking than either the Mini SDs, SDs, or SD13s.  They are also the cutest.

The Super Dollfies have so stolen my heart that I will not be collecting the Takara Blythes anymore.  I’d like to focus all my attention on the Super Dollfies and since the SDs are really expensive and I need the shelf real-estate I think I will sell my Blythe collection.  That is going to be a ton of work.

To give you a little taste of what the Blythes are like here are some cute videos Blythe enthusiasts made.

I took the liberty of watching just about every Blythe video I could find as a last goodbye.  Here are the best of them.