Here is a small, cute one that came along with my latest Mandarake shipment...
I've always been a big fan of dolls, especially antiques and the modern, more elaborate bjd variants (*not* those weird-ass western dolls with huge heads). It's always been a bucket list item of mine to own a proper dollfie, but due to a sort of nomadic lifestyle and former lack of funds, I could never quite do it. Maybe soon?
Anyway, we're talking dolls because the aptly titled ドールをお迎えした2 (literally Welcoming the doll) by Koruse is a short, b&w A5 manga from 2022 exactly on this topic: how to better welcome a doll into our homes? the protagonist has found her a nice maid dress for her new purchase, but something doesn't seem right... maybe a special setpiece is in order?
Koruse is not just a dōjin artist, under the circle name "Studio Iwashi", but also a professional mangaka, currently serializing 伽藍の姫 in the well known yuri magazine Comic Yuri Hime - and yes, in case you hand't guessed it, yuri seems to be Koruse's jam. ドールをお迎えした2 is the first work I read of them, and it's a short but sweet piece: very well drawn, especially when it comes to the doll, perhaps at the expense of the human protagonist and the backgrounds, which are for the most part barely sketched. No big deal, as the doll's features and attire are rendered with plenty of luscious detail, a real piece of eye candy. You can see plenty more, of both dolls and maids (yes please!) in their Booth or their Bluesky.
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