Bunnies, bunnies, bunnies!

[tikistitch]

Is it......ordinary Alice?



Nooooo, it's FANTASTIC ALICE!!!

Here's a question, does everyone in Japan communicate in superlatives? "How are you today, Hashimoto-san?" "Why I'm SUPER EXCELLENT!"



Alice is one of a series Jun Planniing is doing that might be called "Pullip dolls based on fairy tales and/or books by dead authors." The greatest thing about this: no royalty payments.



The upcoing dolls in the series are Pullip as Red Riding Hood and Namu as the Big Bad Wolf.



Fantastic Alice doesn't have a big furry boyfriend, but she does have a White Rabbit, and yes, he's got a MONOCLE (although, he doesn't seem to have a pocket watch).



She also has a deck of cards, featuring a picture of a rather fierce-looking Queen of Heats.



Here's Alice's card. Wonder if she's thinking about Namu dressed up as the Cheshire cat?

Comments

[twotone]

In the "fairy tales and stories by dead people" line, they also did Anne Shirley, beloved in Japan as "Anne of Green Gables" and increasingly unknown outside of Japan and Canada. :p

Regarding the superlatives... actually, there was some controversy in Japan a few years back regarding the "degradation of the Japanese language", in which kids were adding superlatives to everything rather than expressing emotions through voice and tone. e.g. Instead of "I'm feeling awful", they'd say "I'm feeling super very bad".

I do love Fantastic Alice's props, though... bunny so cute!

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

I love Anne of Green Gables! I have all the books, and even watched the TV show.

I have Anne Pullip too, somewhere. For whatever reason, she isn't on my "real" web page, Attack of the Anime Toys!, but so far I've managed to snag almost all the Pullip dolls.

[twotone]

I think your site was the one that turned me on to Pullips in the first place (+ the awesome FrankenPullip doll) :D

[twotone]

PS: I'm so happy to find someone who actually knows who Anne Shirley is! :D SO many people on LJ's Pullip community seem to have no idea who she is, and keep calling her "Annie" and so forth. :(

[avalonjones.livejournal.com]

This is one Pullip I want to get! I've always liked the Alice stories.

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

It is nice to find a kindred spirit! ^_^ I am sorely tempted to create another Franken-Pullip, with a Nomado head.

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

The Alice stories have always been on my list of Best Books Ever. 'Twas brilllig, and the slithey toves/Did gyre and gimbel in the wabe...." You know, someone on LJ had Jabberwocky translated into another language! And it still didn't make any sense! "I'll tell thee everything I can/There's little to relate/I saw an aged, aged man/A-sittin' on a gate...."