Orient Industry Love Doll Photo Content Winners

Remember how we posted a few weeks back about the awesome Orient Industry love doll photo contest?

In the competition, the proud owners of Japan’s best high-grade silicone sex dolls were asked to take loving portraits of their companions and submit them to the judges.

Well, the winners have been announced.

The overall winner is SAKITAN for his culinary-themed image of a faithful doll in the kitchen, temptingly holding out a cherry…

Here are some of the other runners up…

The entrants ranged from younger guys (people used pseudonyms so I guess in theory there could have been some ladies as well!) right up to people in their sixties.

Judges included photographers Ryosuke Handa and Kyoichi Tsuzuki, and novelist Genichiro Takahashi.

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Japanese Sex Dolls Documentary and Real Love Doll Videos

Regular readers will know how we adore Japanese sex dolls, aka “real love dolls”, especially the luxury models made by Orient Industry, such as the now classic Candy Girl series.

Ten years ago it was completely different really, but the web has helped legitimize the erotic art of 100% silicone love dolls.

We wanted to a little round-up of all the videos and clips there are available for easy viewing…

And if you want the even better Japanese thing, the Orient Doll love dolls made from high-grade silicone? Check these clips out!

Candy Girls have since given way to other new ladies, such as the amazing Real Love Doll Ange.

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Dekunoboo’s Ecstasy Body Plush Doll

Dekunoboo make Japan’s best foam sex dolls (aka “plush dolls”) and a new model, the aptly named Ecstasy Body, on offer to international customers is for people who don’t want the fuss of heads and wigs — and all the maintenance they require.

Instead the Ecstasy Body “just” provides you with a gorgeously rendered physique and lets you deal with it in your own way.

Check out the large bust, beautifully curved butt and slender waist.

There are many benefits to plush dolls, as opposed to blow-ups or silicone love dolls, including their modest cost, their durability, ease of maintenance and so on. You can also add costumes and holes as you like, slipping in a range of different sized masturbators between Ecstasy’s legs.

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Orient Industry holds love doll photo contest

Orient Industry, Japan’s biggest maker of high-grade silicone sex dolls, is celebrating its thirty-five years of business with a photo contest for customers to send in their shots of their precious love doll companions in all sorts o unusual poses and places.

People have been sending in photos of sexy sex dolls in over the summer and the winners will be announced in September, judged by a group of professional and established photographers.

There are shots of single dolls, multiple dolls… dolls at train stations, dolls in bed… naked dolls, dolls in wedding dresses, lingerie, uniforms… everything you can imagine!

It is also planned to have a commemorative album featuring the photos, plus an art exhibition somewhere. We hope to catch this after details are announced.

The winners not only get the glory of being called a true love doll fan, they also get cash prizes as much as 100,000 JPY (around $1,000)!

Looking at the entries is also a very interesting way to see how varied love doll owners are, with ages ranging from twenties and thirties right up to fifties and older.

We’ve included a few samples here but you can see more entries on the Orient Industry website.

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i-doloid love doll magazine for sex doll fan readers

It’s not often we like to use the term “only in Japan” but sometimes it’s just about right.

Though it’s defunct, at the height of the love doll boom in 2004-2005 (at least, boom in its recognition in popular culture), when TV shows were finally taking an interest in the amazingly ultra-realistic silicone brides of Orient Industry, and there were even doll rental services — then in your book store you may have been lucky enough to get a copy of the glossy magazine i-doloid.

Made by Core Magazines, who specialize in adult or underground mags, sadly it’s now no longer in print, it seems, but there were lots of editions and even some spin-offs (i-doloid petie [sic], i-doloid vista), dedicated to certain genre of incredible real love dolls.

Let’s hope they can bring the magazine back some day!

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Orient Industry Factory & Showroom Visit!

Recently we were fortunate enough to be kindly allowed to visit our friends Orient Industry in their factory and then their amazing showroom near Ueno in Tokyo.

Naturally, treating their products very seriously, Orient Industry are sensitive about the special creation process for the dolls, so we refrained from filming inside the factory itself (but check out the great slideshow at the start!)… but all we can say is: Wow!

Rather than anything “kinky” or strange, the laid-back and welcoming staff at Orient Industry seem more like master craftsmen (and women) in the traditional of Japanese monozukuri.

You can see the utmost care and precision with which they make their premium love dolls, like true artisans. While we were visiting the factory we witnessed several dolls being handcrafted, each one made to order, from their beautiful body frames to the ample busts, realistic silicone skin and, finally, the alluring faces.

Meanwhile, back nearer the center of Tokyo, the modestly sized but packed showroom is a veritable tribute to the artform of sex dolls.

It features exhibits on the history of Japan’s top sex doll brand, not to mention a whole feast for the eyes with numerous wonderful doll models, all arranged for the discerning visitor to admire.

Check out more about Orient Industry love dolls.

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Rent-a-doll: Japan’s former Love Doll rental sex services

Way back in 2005 there was a boom for a certain kind of sex doll. Well, to be precise, a sex doll service. Sure, Orient Industry’s amazing love dolls, durable plush dolls and the like have been popular for many, many years.

But not everyone could afford to have their own luxury lifestyle companion. Nor did they necessary have the space. Perhaps they lived with their parents or with their wives and families. Or perhaps they were just unsure about the whole arrangement and wanted to give it a “test drive” first.

Well, trust Japanese consumer service to come up with a solution for this niche. Rent-a-doll services. There were two many kinds of service: delivery or rental for use in a set place.

Delivery would see the company bring the doll to your house and then pick it up again after, say, an hour. The other service would see you go to a certain place — normally a small one-room apartment — where a doll and bed would be set up.

Far from being “perverse”, these kinds of services were ideal for the elderly or disabled, as well as the chronically shy — or just the curious. It was said by one service that the majority of their customers were normal salarymen in their thirties and forties.

After the call girl-style services started in around 2004, they rapidly increased over 2005. One business even claimed to have forty “branches” around Japan.

The services declined after the boom and are practically no longer available in Japan anymore, though around 2009 certain English blogs based in Japan started to pick up on the story.

The main reason was because the wear and tear was too great for the business operators. Although customers were required to be careful and to use new onaholes masturbators every time, as you might expect, when it’s not your own multi-thousand dollar love doll, you don’t take as much as care as you should.

When you are the owner yourself then you develop respect and affection for your companion — and not just because you’ve paid a lot of money. But in the end, a rental doll is a shared object, although cleaned (cleaning costs for hygiene also added up for the businesses), so you will likely take certain liberties with the “lady” that otherwise you wouldn’t dream of.

Very famously, there was a “kidnapping” of two love dolls in 2005. A man ordered a rental doll and then gave an excuse to the deliverer why he could only take it from him in the entrance. When the courier came back to collect the doll, he found the apartment was totally empty. This process was repeated twice with a different service provider and it seems that the perpetrator had shown them fake ID. Likely the devious thief then sold the dolls on an online auction.

We still reckon by far the best thing is to own a love doll for yourself. But if that’s too expensive or difficult for your domestic set-up, the Japanese can still solve their dilemma. There are plenty of sex clubs (fuzoku) were you can play with love dolls as much as you like, without having to worry about maintenance or your family discovering your “dirty” secret!

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Feeling lonely? Hug this cushion with a heartbeat!

Japanese people like to use cushions when they feel lonely, even in historical times.

If you have some imagination and a bit of money, you can invest in one of the massive range of dolls around — from blow-up air dolls to lap cushions, “love cushions” to full-out silicone love dolls from Orient Industry.

Otaku in particular have always liked to have cushions of their loved ones as pillows-cum-partners. This is probably more out of companionship than anything physical (i.e. they don’t actually fuck the pillows… maybe).

Now some boffins have developed Hugvie, a huggable cushion… with a heartbeat! You just slip in your phone and then you can transform the cushion into something — or someone — who feels real.

The idea is you put in the phone while you are talking to someone special. The “vibrators” and sensors match the characteristics of the person’s voice, so you can basically be hugging the person on the other end of the line.

It doesn’t surprise us at all that this Hugvie is from the same wacky scientist who has been traversing the “uncanny valley” with his android mannequins, Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro.

Now all they need to do is equip the Hugvie with som breasts and a face, and hey presto, this one will be a bestseller! Professor Ishiguro even talks several times very temptingly of “vibrators” and making it more “human-like”. (He forgot that other vital element, the hole!)

Well, we know where to go if we want full realism in a companion…

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Azumagata Ningyo: Japan’s historical sex dolls

We’ve talked before about Edo era Tokyo sex shops. Well, the locals also had their own sex dolls as well, called Azumagata Ningyo (吾妻形人形).

After purchasing your “dutch wife” from Yotsumeya, you took the Tenga of its day back home for some fun. It was a crude device, something like a picture school, covered with a bundle of clothing, but made from Tortoiseshell material and so could be heated up with hot water for the natural touch. The piece de resistance was surely the “onahole”, in this case a leather pouch.

We should point out that there seems to be no serious historical evidence for Azumagata Ningyo, as far as we can tell, though it apparently is mentioned in eighteenth century texts and was at some point painted by the great print artist Hokkusai. It might be a bit of an urban myth — but knowing the reputation for Edo as a pleasure capital, we doubt it!

There are said to have been other contemporary sex dolls, such as the Zuiki and Harikata, which were dildos for women. There was also a preference for using cucumbers or konnyaku as masturbators. Those with money could get their hands (and more) on the more up-market “Chasen”, made of leather.

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i Doll Satori Japanese Schoolgirl Sex Doll with own swimsuit

In this day and age, getting two for one is something we should celebrate. But when it’s three things in one, hell, we start jumping with joy.

Especially when it’s a love doll in the sexy shape of a young Japanese schoolgirl. When KanojoToys sent me a sample of the i Doll Satori, I admit I was skeptical.

Having recently experienced the ultimate realistic delights of such silicone wonders as the new Ange Real Taste love doll, I wasn’t sure if a blow-up doll would pass muster.

And yet, for practical purposes, it’s still one of the best — light, flexible and easy to “play with”. If you are looking an experience that leans predominantly towards the penetrative, a doll like i Doll Satori is where you must start. Premium silicone love dolls, as we know, are about a whole lot more than just actual penetration.

And Satori comes with her own special hole, lotion and even swimsuit, so you can practice undressing this nubile, sexy school student!

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