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Picture containing my custom Saber dakimakura and custom Arcueid couch cover among other TYPE-MOON linens/etc
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(ext link) (*NSFW*)
Hobby Heart is an online dakimakura store that, alongside a pretty wide selection of dakimakuras and bed sheets/duvet
covers, also provides custom printing services. It is run by a single person by the name of Fong. In this article, I review two
custom items purchased: a custom Arcueid bed sheet (used as a couch cover) and a custom Saber dakimakura.
Disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated with the store, just a random customer who's posting this after receiving numerous PMs
about both items.
Custom Arcueid Couch Cover
So a while back, after moving into my new apartment and getting a cheap futon couch from Target (ext link), I decided to try
finding an anime themed couch cover. When I was in college, I had tried once and failed to find any interesting ones, so my
roommate just covered our couch with a random table cloth she found somewhere. I quickly discovered that no one sells
anime-themed couch covers (supply-demand, yada yada), so the closest I could get would be finding a bed sheet of fitting
dimensions.
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I thought about it... but no.
After much searching, I came to the conclusion that none of the currently existing bed sheets/duvet covers interested me or
were appropriate as a couch cover (the majority of them were NSFW). And then I came across this blog entry about a custom
Tony Taka duvet cover (ext link) (NSFW). Followed the links and ended up discovering Hobby Heart's custom bed sheet item
(ext link)
Picture unrelated
After much image searching and photoshopping, I finally settled on a design. Emailed Fong the design and after a few backforth emails, it was off to get printed. Below is the final submitted design. This is actually the post-processed version that Fong
sent back to me. The original version that I sent him (found here: (ext link)) was way too small so he applied some filter magic
and blew the image's pixel dimensions up from 1280x896 to 5669x3969. The original source image can be found here: (ext
link). And yes, of course, it's Tsukihime/Melty Blood's Arcueid Brunestud, because she's my favourite character.
Final Arcueid bed sheet design that was sent off to the printing press (original image (ext link))
A month or so later, the package arrived. Came in the same packaging as the custom Tony Taka one from Wolfheinrich's blog
post. My old phone camera doesn't do the sheet quality justice - the colours are a lot more vibrant and colourful than what you
see below.
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In its packaging
Laid out flat on the carpet
Over top the couch, I blame crappy phone camera's poor colour balance
At 140cm x 200cm, it barely fits over my couch (I have to occasionally re-shift the cover to one side or another each time I sit
on the couch), but I couldn't be happier nor do I think I'd ever find any better couch cover ^_^
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A large-scale couch cover of Arcueid perfectly complimented the TYPE-MOON side of my room
Custom Saber Dakimakura
A long while later, after going through a few random blog entries here and on other sites, I was convinced to try getting a
dakimakura. Before I moved in to my current apartment, I stayed a week in corporate housing with huge beds and lots of
pillows. One of the pillows was a plain body pillow (I've never actually seen a body pillow in real life before then), and I soon
discovered the soothing relaxation of hugging one while sleeping. And so I scrounged the internet once again, this time for
Fate/stay night's Saber.
Gilgamesh understands.
Of course, almost all the Saber dakimakura I found were either extremely perverted (I'm looking for a sleep hug pillow, not a
sex toy) or lacked the artistic charm of Takeuchi Takashi (the original TYPE-MOON artist/co-founder). And so once again, I
opened up Photoshop and fired Fong an email. The below is the final image I sent him (this time in the dimensions specified
on the site). The source images (ext link) and (ext link) were heavily edited to work nicely for a dakimakura. Didn't fit perfectly
(left Saber's legs are cut off in the original picture so I just faded it out), but was still much better than any other Saber
dakimakura design I had come across (let alone the Arcueid ones - I wish there were more merchandise of her, QQ).
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Can't find a good dakimakura design? Photoshop your own! Original images (ext link) and (ext link)
Came in the same packaging as my Arcueid couch cover, with roughly the same long wait. This time, however, there was no
back-forth emailing as I had sent him an image in the requested pixel dimensions (1417x4252) as well as the Photoshop .psd
file I was working with. Unfortunately, this probably lead to him not doing any post-processing like he did for my Arcueid cover
as the end resulting printing was quite blurry and nowhere near the same line clarify as the bed sheet (despite being printed on
higher quality material).
In its packaging
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Side one flattened
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Side two flattened - at this point, I was still using my crappy phone camera
Prior to receiving the dakimakura cover, I ordered a generic body pillow insert off Amazon. When the Saber dakimakura cover
arrived, I was disappointed to discover that dakimakuras apparently don't use the standard 20x54" body pillow inserts but
instead are much longer (I didn't notice the 50x150cm dimensions listed on HobbyHeart's product page (ext link)). Since the
dakimakura was made from stretchy 2-way tricot material, the pillow insert I originally got barely filled the dakimakura cover
width-wise too. To account for this, I ended up emailing custom pillow maker Reynoso Home Decor - I really liked the firm
pillow insert picture #586204 I got for my mini Saber pillow item #111003. The store kindly put up an Amazon listing for me of
the requested dimensions of 22x62" (56x158cm) (ext link) (there also happened to be a sale going on at the time for them so
my total ended up being $45).
Box it came it - I was glad they shipped it lengthwise instead of flattening it out and folding it like the first pillow insert I bought
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Out of the box, was surprisingly firm and shape-retaining
Comparing the longer, firmer 22x62" pillow insert from Reynoso (ext link) on the bottom with the shorter, easily bending 20x54"
insert from Sleep Better (ext link) on the top
Putting the dakimakura cover over the pillow insert was quite a challenge. Since the insert dimensions are larger than the
cover itself, the only way the insert could go in would be by squeezing it and cramming it into the cover. I managed to do it
through a nifty trick: turn the dakimakura cover inside out, then "unpeel" it over the insert slowly, constantly tugging downward
so the parts that do get covered don't have folds. Kinda like this: (ext link) It took a while and lots of care but the end result
looked good (no empty corners like I see in many dakimakura photos) and the dakimakura itself could be stood up straight
firmly (I always found it odd seeing pictures of super flimsy dakimakura flopping or folding over like (ext link))
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With pillow insert - by now I had bought a Sony DSC-RX100 so I can actually take good quality pictures like picture #602483
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Close up of the dakimakura
With Saber Alter Nenderoid Plus plushie for scale
Material Comparison
Here's a few close-up pictures of the material. While the custom dakimakuras and bed sheets from Hobby Heart are
manufactured in the same factories that produce official products, the fact that the images used are user edited and lower
resolution means that you won't ever get the same level of detail.
The Arcueid couch cover was made from peach skin material. It's the cheapest material and quite durable (good for something
you'd sit on) but it's not stretchy and has a coarse texture. The printing quality was much better than I had expected on this,
and the colours were very vibrant. The image quality turned out decent since it was corrected through some Photoshop filtering
techniques, though only artificially sharpened.
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Close ups of the custom Arcueid couch cover
The Saber dakimakura cover was made from two-way tricot material. Most expensive but very stretchy and soft. Apparently a
lot more durable than it looks, but I wouldn't risk doing anything that might damage it. The printing quality was quite
disappointing with generally washed out colours. Not sure if this is related to the material it's printed on though. Apparently the
resolution of the images I sent were too low, as shown with very blurry lines, noticably blurrier than the image I emailed out.
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Close ups of the custom Saber dakimakura
For comparison purposes, I also took close ups of the mini Saber cushion item #111003. Not entirely sure what the material
is, but it's just as stretchy as two-way tricot but nowhere near as durable overall (it actually unseamed when I was putting in
the pillow insert so I had to sew it back together). The printing quality is alright but hard to judge comparatively due to the
limited colour palette (for the version of the artwork that I used for side two of my custom Saber dakimakura, I actually added
an orange gradient to the hair and shifted the hue a bit to better match the other side). The image quality is of course vastly
superior with crisp lines, as expected of an official product.
Close ups of the official mini Saber pillow
Bonus
My current collection of TYPE-MOON linen. Custom Arcueid bed sheet being used as a couch cover, custom Saber
dakimakura, mini Saber pillow, C72 ALL AROUND TYPE-MOON Towel, TYPE MOON -10th Anniversary- muffler, and a few
plushies. Not in the picture is Comp Ace July 2008 Appendix's TYPE-MOON HEROINES microtowel. Soon to join the
collection is the smaller Neco-Arc plushies item #15888 and maybe a huge Kyuubey plushies item #123006 (only because it
won't fit on my office window sill along with the other non-TYPE-MOON plushies)
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This is no couch boy, no couch!
Hope you found this post interesting! Kinda curious on what other MFCers have, so please answer the poll below!
~Keripo
Do you own any anime dakimakuras, bed sheets, pillows, or other linen?
Dakimakuras
22.58%
Bed sheets
3.23%
Pillows
9.68%
Towels
6.45%
Multiple linen items (Cancel my vote)
None
Not yet, but I will
9.68%
25.81%
19.35%
Dakimakura, Bed sheet and Pillows
3.23%
31 vote(s) - Votes are public
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