How did you discover the BJD hobby?

In 2008 or 2009, I was looking online for custom Sailor Moon dolls, and came across a Sailor Jupiter Obitsu. I was really interested in their size and poseability, so I did some research on them, which led me to The Junky Spot. While visiting their site and forums, I saw bjds for the first time. I was instantly interested, but deterred by the prices (I was 13 or 14 at the time, and had no income to speak of, haha). I kept an eye on them though, and continued to read up on different doll companies and sculpts until I was able to purchase my first bjd, a pukifee Luna, in 2012.

 

i was looking at anime or manga but a popup popped up and i saw a limhwa half elf but i didn't know what it was or she she was. found her again and found out about bjds

 

I've seen them around before but I had never known what they were. I always liked dolls in general but this was something cooler that I could do as an adult. I had a friend who wanted to have someone to do bjd stuff with, so she showed me all these wonderful dolls. I love her but damn her for showing me all the beautiful dolls I can never buy.

 

I met BJD like a year before high-school, my boyfriend took a picture of an special edition Fairyland BJD he saw in a convention and I loved it, but I didn't know what it was or if there were more like it. I didn't research about it and end up forgetting it.
Then, in high-school, I went to a friend's house to see a movie and suddenly she showed me three cute Yo-SD and one tiny, and I needed to know more xD
She gave me advises and showed me the major companies, so I started searching until I found my first one ^w^

 

I came across a youtube video of a Luts bjd of a unicorn boy? Not sure the name of the doll exactly but that was the first time i was introduced to BJD's!

 

I've known BJDs for a long time ago (when I was a child, I guess) and most of them are from DOD. I remember at that time they're one of the most luxury things to me. They're all so beautiful and hard to reach like the stars in the sky
And a couple of months ago, when I was in the middle of searching for pictures of Japanese nendoroids on flirck, I came across a beautiful BJD portrait. I just thought, what about searching for BJD pictures? maybe I can't afford one, but only looking at them make me feel happy enough.
Then I found out a lovely home for BJD lovers here, where I can find a lot of information about BJDs.
Now I'm saving my money for a little cute girl who I love at first sight.

 

I discovered BJD's starting with a resin doll who isn't an actual bjd. I bought a few hinge-jointed dolls off eBay who were no longer in stores, and one day, up in my recommended items on the app, was an Evangeline Ghastly doll, who's comparable to an MSD, but not really a BJD, cause she isn't strung, and I can't change her eyes. So I searched her on tumblr to find owner pics, and someone had tagged her as a ball jointed doll. I clicked that tag, and wow. One of the first things I saw in the tag was RD's Jack the Ripper, and I was instantly enthralled. I was on vacation at the time, and actually going through a bad break up, so I spent all my nights in the hotel on the tumblr BJD tag, just seeing all the beautiful dolls that were there. I was hooked. The first doll I bought was the first doll I fell for, the rerelease of RD Jack the Ripper, from the Easter event.

 

I've known about BJDs for years but it took a while for me to commit to saving money for one. But the more I saw my friends posting pictures of their dolls, it made me want one even more. Even reading up on them and looking at other people's doll plans makes me so inspired

 

Well, 5 years ago, I was on this social chatting site called IMVU and while I was looking through the groups, I saw this picture. I thought it was really pretty(D.O.T Calla.) So searched it and I found these dolls. I didn't really understand the name of them or what they were for, I just thought they were really pretty dolls. I thought they looked really real and cool. I saw the price and they were extremely expensive and said "Who would even pay that much for a doll? o_o" So, I went over and found Pullips, but they were still a little pricey. I was around..13 or 14 years old, so I wasn't able to buy my own doll. I asked my mother, but she told me no. I pretty much looked into Pullips for a while and really wanted one until one day. I said to myself "What are those realistic dolls..they're really cool. I don't know the name of them though." Or something along those lines, so I Googled for a while trying to look for them and I found them. I still thought they were crazy expensive. I asked my mom if I could buy one and she called me crazy. Mind you, I had no idea what these dolls were for. I just thought they were pretty. I was pretty frustrated, but I continued to do research on them and I found out that you can actually customize them and that they're handmade. I thought it would be really great since I'm an artist and they'd be worth it. I told myself that I would save up money to get it, even if it took a year, but I never could. So, I just kept window shopping and looking at all the pretty dolls. Finally, two years later, I was about 16, I got the chance to purchase a Souldoll Key because my step-father gave me money for it, but my mom took it from me and we bought a Wii instead ;_;. A year past, I was 17 and I really wanted to save for a Luts FLOOD, so I saved up at least $200, but we always needed it for other things. So, my money was pretty much eaten away. So, I just continued with the window shopping and researching(Yes, I've lost interest a few times because of price), watching people do box openings. Pretty much watching every BJD box opening video there was, all the way up until now. I still continue to watch YouTube box opening videos and prompts. But, guess what? I now have a job and can afford buying a BJD. I plan on buying one two weeks from now. That's pretty much my journey and how I discovered BJDs. I probably left some details out, but that was years ago, I have a rusty memory.

 

I was really into Pullip, Dal, Taeyang, etc. and one of my friends who also collected Pullip dolls ended up getting a BJD, I then went on a quest to learn everything I could about it.

 

I was looking for drawing references. Superpowered or industrial or unique mannequins to draw.

Then I got redirected to BJDs because of their poses and I kind of can't stop.

 

My first ever anime con! I was looking about in artist ally and a woman was carrying a 60cm male that looked like David Bowie as the Goblin king from Labyrinth! I have been collecting porcelain dolls since I was a child so seeing a bjd was eye opening..I asked her what he was and a bit about him,I have been obsessed ever since

 

I feel like I've posted this before but I don't see a post from me. In the early 2000s I was really obsessed with Sailor Moon. One of the fan artists that I loved was Aurore Blackcat (she's still amazing, she's a professional illustrator now). At some point she did a fan art of her friends bjd, but I didn't know what that meant. THEN she put up a link to her bjd site, and I saw the full beauty of ball jointed dolls! I tried Googling "ball jointed doll" and visited Luts, Volks, Peakswoods, and a bunch of others that I don't remember right now. But I fell in love with Delf dolls designed by Cerberus Project. I loved Senior Delfs too, and Eveline is on my "to buy" list. At first I was REALLY picky about how it looked where their heads attached to their necks, and Peakswoods dolls bothered me, LOL. Now nothing phases me. So anime was my gateway drug! I still love the anime-ish looking sculpts with big eyes and tiny noses (But I'm really not into Dollfie Dreams or the anime-style sculpts Luts has put out recently). I love dolls with big eyes! I have a Leeke Noella and I just had to order 22mm eyes for her because her 20s were too small. And I just bought a Delf Angel Elf Soo and her eyes are also huge. And I really want a Peakswoods Goldie...who has huge eyes. And a Leeke Arien, again with huge eyes. ^_^'

 

My mom got into the hobby first. We share her amazon prime account, and I saw a few other kind of dolls being bought so I talked to her about them. When she got into bjds I started to get interested because my mom was getting some really cool stuff for her dolls. I like that it's a hobby my mom is into and I can take part in as well, although I don't currently have a doll I am really interested in what she does with hers. I do plan on getting my own bjd soon!

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I found them on youtube when I was 13, it was a channel called alysonsfriend that introduced me.

 

I began with pullips in 2013.
Almost one year later I tried to understand bjds. I went to see the site "Luts" and I had crush !!

 

Several years ago a webcomic I read (Real Life) mentioned a character going to an ABJD convention. Since the comic didn't really explain what ABJD were, I looked it up myself. I didn't want one instantly, but I'd always loved miniatures and dolls growing up, so I thought it would be nice to eventually get one someone down the line

 

I saw several pictures of DoD when i were a child but i didn't know they were BJDs ~
I think it's more accurate to say i found out about BJDs last year; after playing the game called Nameless and after surfing plenty of websites, BAM, this hobby got me =]]

 

I wanted to be a doll for Halloween one year, before I had ever heard of BJD's. While I was looking makeup tutorials on YouTube, most of the ones that I liked the look of had this weird acronym I had never seen before in the description box: "BJD makeup". So that's when my research started and I discovered the dolls, and while people trying to look like them for everyday wear is (in my opinion) kinda weird, the dolls themselves were gorgeous. After about a year of looking, I finally found the doll that I really loved and decided to buy her.

 

At an anime convention in 2004 (I think). There were several people carrying these doll as well as a Domuya stall there.