Imagine wiping yourself with this towel lol~ XD
Title: DIABOLIK LOVERS Syu Specially created “love absorber” towel ディアボリックラヴァーズ) シュウ 特製吸愛タオル
Price: 4,800 Yen (w/tax)
Available: end February 2013
Size: 60 cm (width ) x 120cm (length)
Order link: http://ebten.jp/eb-store/p/7015012103110/?aid=cluster (does not ship international, so you’ll need a proxy buyer or forwarding service to get it)
Preorder deadline: 31 January 2013
Created by Rejet, an otome cd and games company, DIABOLIK LOVERS started off as a series of situation CDs that features bishie vampires who have sadistic streaks, commonly known as do-esu (どS). The setting of the CDs is that the listener is a high school student who ends up living with 6 sadistic vampire brothers in a mansion after moving to the country, following her father’s job transfer. Although she has to endure daily bullying and abuse from each brother, the protagonist finds herself beginning to look forward to it… (In other words, her masochist side awakens lol~) Please feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.
Situation CD Official site: http://rejetweb.jp/dialover/
Diabolik Lovers Goods Galore
Remember a period of time when do-S characters were popular? I wrote about situation CD Shin Ai Aru Batou a while back where the listener can get to enjoy being verbally abused by the characters lol. Listeners of Diabolik Lovers series can also get the same thrill plus an additional experience of sexy blood sucking scenes with the use of the dummy head microphone.
The first volume was released in December 2011, followed by one volume each following month. There are a total of 6 volumes. They’re still available from Amazon Japan.
1) DIABOLIK LOVERS ドS吸血CD Vol.1 逆巻アヤト 緑川光 Ayato (Midorikawa Hikaru) Oresama 俺様 Do-S
2) DIABOLIK LOVERS ドS吸血CD Vol.2 逆巻スバル 近藤隆 Subaru (Kondou Takashi) Tyrant 暴君 Do-S
3) DIABOLIK LOVERS ドS吸血CD Vol.3 逆巻カナト 梶裕貴 Kanato (Kaji Yuki) Tsuntsun ツンツン Do-S
4) DIABOLIK LOVERS ドS吸血CD Vol.4 逆巻ライト 平川大輔 Raito (Hirakawa Daisuke) Hentai 変態 Do-S
5) DIABOLIK LOVERS ドS吸血CD Vol.5 逆巻レイジ 小西克幸 Reiji (Konishi Katsuyuki) Butler 執事 Do-S
6) DIABOLIK LOVERS ドS吸血CD Vol.6 逆巻シュウ 鳥海浩輔 Shuu (Toriumi Kousuke) Lethargic 無気力 Do-S
From left: Subaru (vol.2), Shuu (vol.6), Kanato (vol.3), Ayato (vol.1), Raito (vol.4), Reiji (vol.5) I like the artist, Satoi’s (さとい) style. I find Kajikaji’s character, Kanato who has huge under-eye circles (=_=) expecially cute haha.
Generally speaking… I only enjoyed the blood sucking scenes cos they’re darn HOT (especially due to the dummy head mic effects). But like I told most of my friends, I’m probably not do-emu (do-M/masochistic) enough to like the style of verbal abuse and bullying in this series ^^;; It’s like they try too hard but I’m sure many people enjoyed it because the series has spawned 3 more spin-off cds, a PSP game and some cute figure mascots since the release.
1) DIABOLIK LOVERS ドS吸血CD VERSUS 1 アヤトVSシュウ (CV.緑川光&鳥海浩輔)
2) DIABOLIK LOVERS ドS吸血CD VERSUS 2 ライトVSスバル (CV.平川大輔&近藤隆)
3) DIABOLIK LOVERS ドS吸血CD VERSUS 3 カナトVSレイジ (CV.梶裕貴&小西克幸)
Color collection by Movic. These guys are tiny, only about 4 cm in height. I only want the Kanato (the one with the teddy bear) :( but the whole set costs over 4,000 Yen orz;; So I skipped it. Did you order it?
Anyway, the character featured in the made-to-order towel was based on B’s-Log 10th anniversary event where fans can vote for their favourites and who they want for the special goods. Shuu came up on top with 1641 votes and this is the result :) illustrated artwork by the artist Satoi さとい. A pity that they didn’t make him a dakimakura cover but then again, that would probably mean he would cost double lol. I wonder if the print quality will be affected since it is a towel.
You can also download special wallpapers from the otomate website here:
Info – http://www.otomate.jp/dialover/result.html
1st set: http://www.if-lupinus.com/download/dialover/DLS_rank01.zip
2nd set: http://www.if-lupinus.com/download/dialover/DLS_rank02.zip
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I am wondering how popular this is? The response of Hakuoki (undoubtedly) and amnesia seems good. This looks cute, but never bothered to check out the game so I don’t know.
Btw, this is off topic but quite a few mentioned about one coins. What’s so good about them? because the magnetic head isn’t magnetic enough and they keep falling off – very annoying issue for me.
@urusaiii: I’m quite looking forward to Amnesia and heard good things about it. Probably make a post about it soon. I like Diabolik Lovers artwork but story-wise… hmm depends on the character :P
I like Kotobukiya’s one-coins cos the head sculpts are usually very well-made and high-quality. Most of the chibis I display are from the nitro chiral series and they’re not magnetic heads so… so far so good ^^;; I never displayed my Hetalia ones (kept safely in box cos I have no space for display orz) A suggestion, buy a really powerful magnet and use it to magnetise your one-coins. It should help!
I really hope they will make 1/10 or 1/8 scale detailed figures ,I will buy the chibis tho I really would like to have a detailed figure of at least Laito ….. Also I saw some hugging pillows of them I still can’t find them in online stores,I hope they will be available soon I’d like to have Laito’s and Shu’s if they are not too expensive . Also too bad we need a proxy buyer in Japan for Shu’s towel :/ …Why don’t they freely sell those DL goodies on ebay …only the game there and some ugly wigs ….
Hm, sounds like something a communist country would do, such a shame.
@Katya: This is the only official one I know of. Where did you see the other hugging pillows? :D
Maybe there are licensing issues, language barrier etc… it could be complicated for them I guess.
@ponytale I saw the pillows on Tumblr,idk if is retail product or not,but still it would be nice if they get mass production http://mcreijizz.tumblr.com/post/37976209450
@Katya: icic, I’ll find out more about them and see if there’s any update. If I’m not wrong they seem to be otomate event exclusives?
@ponytale: I see, thank you. I don’t have much info about it tho I know there are some events in Jp giving cool items like that …well I can only hope they get to the western market(or online stores with world wide shipping) someday as well.
@Katya: Hopefully they do that :) When they make it into anime which seems like a growing trend for otome games, we’ll definitely see more goods pop up!
@ponytale: Ah I really doubt they will turn it in to anime it is Shoujo smut + S&M and they don’t tend to turn those genres in to anime……they prefer fan-servicing only male otakus with the stupid ecchis …..And if they turn it in to anime they will probably castrate it completely which will suck big time,still yes the merchandise will get bigger. But my bet is they will stay at lvl drama CDs and mangas and maybe make another game or remake of this one.
@Katya: well if they make the anime mainstream at least we still get the goods made :D although it’ll be a pity. You know they are making Amnesia right?
ponytale: Yes ,but still I doubt .We can always wait and see tho,and hope for more good things to come ^_^.
Yes I did hear about Amnesia I think this month it should start airing or?
The products look nice. I wonder if they’ll make one-coin figures of these characters.
@King Rein: I hope so too! :)
Waaaaant!!
But damn, why these things have to be sooo expensive? .-. WHY???
Ah, I’ve missed your posts! I love this series and have listened to practically all of them. Love this towel (would prefer a dakimakura..), may have to put this on my list.
@Prettyvillain: *HUGS* I miss posting and chatting with you guys too. So busy! Yeah, I’m also putting this on my list. Be mindful of the cut off date!
I am but a poor college student, well poorer than ever, though even if tiny the set is just all shades of awesome. Also, really liked the visual of the characters so am glad they’ll make a game out of it. Might give the cds a try in a year or so, when my hearing skills get better.
I would keep the towel in my closet, as to never be used by anyone, not even me – just admired from afar from time to time.
@Oru: You can start listening to them already. Don’t have to wait till you think you’re ready :D improved hearing skills are built upon daily exposure lol~ I’m speaking from experience ;)
I think I might do the same but then again, we can convert the towel into a small pillow case too.
i really would like the movic set…but that price for that size is just….they have a K set too….oh my god…so cute, but so expensive….
i’m kind of hoping koto would pick up these series and make one coins, that would just be awesome!
@iced_wine: AHHH I know!!! For the K set, I only wanted Misaki (;o;) Yeah Koto one-coins would be so cute and awesome <3 Let's keep our fingers crossed!