This is what I have learned from watching the first fifteen minutes of The Doll Master, a 2004 South Korean horror film featuring hordes of BJDs by Customhouse. As demonstrated by Young-ha, a BJD-owning character, they’re all sulky, introverted weirdos with no social skills and a tendency to treat their dolls as independent equals, rather than toys.
I’ve wanted to watch this movie ever since I learned of it, partly because my first BJD was a Customhouse Jun [Zephque], partly because the BJD community refers to Doll Master as the equivalent of BJD: The Movie. Further comments when I’m done.
If you’re so inclined to watch a horror movie about dolls, you can find the entire Doll Master film on Youtube with subtitles.
P.S. You know what actually is really fucking creepy? That life-size doll hanging from the ceiling as a lamp holder in the weirdo BJD owner’s room. It looks like it’s being tortured. š Won’t someone please think of the mannequins? :p
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ah yes, just like anime fans. *wry*
It irritated me the way this article in the New Yorker kept referring to how the guy was in the SCA http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/01/14/130114fa_fact_aviv?currentPage=all
“Warm and self-deprecating, she said that she identified with Johnās tendency to become compulsively immersed in his hobbies. Heād spent long periods of his life absorbed in role-playing games, like Dungeons & Dragonsāhe became so caught up in this world that he nearly flunked out of collegeāand the Society for Creative Anachronism, a club that reĆ«nacts aspects of medieval culture. His mother believed that John might have ignored Indy-Girl if only heād been less ‘prone to fantasy.'”