Entering the Uncanny Valley: Orient Industry’s sex doll Otome Expo exhibition at Ginza’s Vanilla Gallery in August
While the Orient Industry showroom in Ueno is officially by appointment only, a great new way for both fans with discerning eyes and the more casually curious to experience the wonders that are Orient Industry’s luxury sex dolls have now dropped anchor in Ginza for August.
You should definitely go check out the Otome Expo IV, an exhibition of Orient Industry high-grade silicone sex dolls at Vanilla Gallery in Ginza, open every day from August 5th to August 23rd.
So forget the homoerotic cringe-fest of Abercrombie & Fitch or the vintage plush of the department stores. Where it’s really happening in Ginza is at Vanilla Gallery!
Vanilla Gallery in Ginza frequently features amazing erotica and avant-garde sex art. And this Otome Expo is also not the first time the exhibition has happened.
It costs ¥1,000 for adults (obviously, it’s adults only) and promises to show Orient’s best “maidens” (Otome) dressed up in amazing costumes.
Orient do a great job of taking their work out of the fringe hard-core and presenting it to mainstream audiences as something to be admired, not scared of or laughed at. This series of exhibitions is one example, as is teaming up with Lady Gaga to create the Gagadoll.
For obvious reasons they are out of the budgets of most people but if you’re serious enough, Orient Industry’s current range of silicone companions are available exclusively for overseas customers via KanojoToys, along with many other luxury Japanese sex dolls.
*Update*
TokyoKinky went along to see the show. It’s a bit small for ¥1,000 yen but is still a great way to see several dolls at once in an unusual setting. The showroom is by appointment only so is hard to just walk in. Here, though, you can get up close to several dolls and they have been nicely exhibited like they are having a kind of party, with one dolled up (excuse the pun) like an Oiran courtesan and another like a server at an exclusive party.
There is also information about and examples of the older dolls in Orient Industry’s 37-year history, plus a video. Sadly no photography was allowed so we don’t have any pictures to share, but there is a doll you are able to touch in one of the exhibition spaces, so it’s a great way to experience the delicate touch of their skin… Feel free to grope her breasts too!
There are only two rooms and neither is large, so fortunately it wasn’t so crowded. Saying that, there were a few other visitors and it was a very mixed demographic.
On a side note, Vanilla Gallery, despite only ever seeming to host erotic events, is apparently staffed exclusively by young girls.
2 Comments
Orient dolls are absolutely the most amazing dolls ever, but for regular guys they are just too expensive a luxury. Its like wanting a car and the only ones available are Rolls Royces. Why don’t they make dolls more like Hondas and Toyotas for the common masses?
@Doll Luver
That’s a nice analogy. Well, they are expensive because of all the time, skill and materials that goes into them. We have firsthand experience of this as we actually once went to their studio and saw them at work! It’s real monozukuri-style. It’s probably impossible to create a lifelike, satisfactory doll that is much cheaper, and probably Orient Industry wouldn’t want to do that. They’d rather only have a top quality doll that sells a modest amount than have a doll that sells more but is lesser quality.
Fortunately if you can’t afford it (including us!), there are cheaper types of dolls on the market, from plush/foam ones to air dolls, and also some cheaper silicone ones.