Happy Girls' Day, everyone! Today, Hina Matsuri, is also known as the Doll Festival in Japan, when everyone drinks sweet sake, eats sugar stars and pink mochi, and everyone who can afford to celebrates the daughters of the household by busting out their expensive sets of empress and emperor dolls. Even if your daughter is a Gothic Lolita, that doesn't matter! Just tailor your hina dolls to her tastes, like this:









Wow! Much Goth, so Loli!





But even if you don't have a set of Girls' Day dolls for the occasion, who cares? Necessity is the mother of invention, so why not improvise by putting that teeny-tiny Acchan sex voodoo doll you made yourself together with your favorite American Girl doll, and playing a sexy version of Attack of the 50-foot Woman? You can't claim you haven't fantasized about this at least once. You can try to deny it, but we know you're lying.













The future is ripe with possibility!



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After all, just look...there are a whole horde of them to choose from, all begging in tiny voices for you to come "play" with them!









"Play with us..."







"PLAY WITH US!!!"









This one even has its hand on its...what has it even got there? On second thought, please don't tell me, I don't want to know. "Dolls" and "balls" are two words I don't need to hear in the same sentence.









And this one even has a scarf on its head!









With dolls like this, who needs real people? He even has sculpted veins and muscles! You can mold him to your will. He will never betray you. He's your coin operated boy. He will love you forever.





But that's neither here nor there. The main point is, if you, like us, prefer real live humans, you're in luck. I t is not yet Mr. Sakurai's 50th birthday, and we have, true to our word, gotten our ...drumroll...



*** LIVE REPORT of The Mortal's virgin tour ***



all up on the interwebs before the big day, so go read it! And if this inspires you to order a copy of the Immortal DVD through us, you can still do that - we're taking reservations till Sunday, just send us an email. As always, if you enjoy the live report, we ask you to please leave a comment here.





As for the album review, it isn't quite finished yet, but we aim to get it up within the next few days (that's what he said.)





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In the mean time, would you like a cookie?



