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is a Japan-based corporation that produces garage kit
Garage kit

A garage kit or resin kit is a predominantly Japanese type of scale model kit casting in polyurethane resin, most commonly figures portraying female anime characters....
s and mecha
Mecha

Mecha, also known as meka or mechs, are walking vehicles controlled by a pilot, often appearing in science fiction or other genres involving a fantastic or futuristic element....
 kits as well as the Dollfie
Dollfie

Dollfie is a playscale vinyl doll that is produced by Volks, located in Japan.Dollfie is a highly-poseable hybrid of fashion doll and action figure, first created in 1997....
, Super Dollfie
Super Dollfie

, often abbreviated SD, is a brand of ball-jointed doll, or BJD, made by the Japanese company Volks. They are Casting in polyurethane resin, a porcelain-like, hard, dense plastic....
 and Dollfie Dream lines of dolls. The company's headquarters is in Kyoto, with some 30 shops worldwide, and annual sales of about $50 million, as of 2008.

s began as a small hobby shop in 1972. In the late 1990s they produced the first Dollfie
Dollfie

Dollfie is a playscale vinyl doll that is produced by Volks, located in Japan.Dollfie is a highly-poseable hybrid of fashion doll and action figure, first created in 1997....
 dolls, and in 1999 the first Super Dollfie
Super Dollfie

, often abbreviated SD, is a brand of ball-jointed doll, or BJD, made by the Japanese company Volks. They are Casting in polyurethane resin, a porcelain-like, hard, dense plastic....
 doll was created by Akihiro Enku.






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is a Japan-based corporation that produces garage kit
Garage kit

A garage kit or resin kit is a predominantly Japanese type of scale model kit casting in polyurethane resin, most commonly figures portraying female anime characters....
s and mecha
Mecha

Mecha, also known as meka or mechs, are walking vehicles controlled by a pilot, often appearing in science fiction or other genres involving a fantastic or futuristic element....
 kits as well as the Dollfie
Dollfie

Dollfie is a playscale vinyl doll that is produced by Volks, located in Japan.Dollfie is a highly-poseable hybrid of fashion doll and action figure, first created in 1997....
, Super Dollfie
Super Dollfie

, often abbreviated SD, is a brand of ball-jointed doll, or BJD, made by the Japanese company Volks. They are Casting in polyurethane resin, a porcelain-like, hard, dense plastic....
 and Dollfie Dream lines of dolls. The company's headquarters is in Kyoto, with some 30 shops worldwide, and annual sales of about $50 million, as of 2008.

History

Volks began as a small hobby shop in 1972. In the late 1990s they produced the first Dollfie
Dollfie

Dollfie is a playscale vinyl doll that is produced by Volks, located in Japan.Dollfie is a highly-poseable hybrid of fashion doll and action figure, first created in 1997....
 dolls, and in 1999 the first Super Dollfie
Super Dollfie

, often abbreviated SD, is a brand of ball-jointed doll, or BJD, made by the Japanese company Volks. They are Casting in polyurethane resin, a porcelain-like, hard, dense plastic....
 doll was created by Akihiro Enku. In November 2005 Volks USA opened their first American Tenshi no Sumika store in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
.

Overview


Volks is organized into three different enterprises. Volks Inc. is the main umbrella company. They operate the Tenshi-no-Sato museum in Kyoto, the Volks Showrooms in Japan, and the Tenshi-no-Sumika shops in Japan, Korea, and the United States. Zoukei-Mura is Volks' sculpting, designing, and assembly department for Super Dollfie. Virginal Art is Volks' marketing and design department with a focus on the hobby market.

Hideyuki Shigeta is the president of Volks Inc. Several sculptors are working under Zoukei-Mura, most notably Akihiro Enku, the creator of Super Dollfie. Artist Gentaro Araki briefly worked with Volks creating the U-noss line of dolls. There are also several designers working with the Super Dollfie line of dolls. The main designer, Mikey, is the daughter of Volks' president Shigeta. Some other notable designers are K. Mayura, Valico, Aone and Ciera.

Volks regularly publish the magazine Volks News with information about new products from all of their lines.

Volks have created resin kit figures of characters from a large variety of anime and manga, for example My-HiME
My-HiME

is an anime series, created by Sunrise . Directed by Masakazu Obara and written by Hiroyuki Yoshino , the series originally premiered in Japan on TV Tokyo from September 2004 to March 2005....
, Love Hina
Love Hina

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ken Akamatsu. It was originally serialized in Weekly Shonen Magazine by Kodansha from October 21, 1998 through October 31, 2001 and was published in 14 tankobon volumes by Kodansha....
, Neon Genesis Evangelion
Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise

The Media franchise is a multi-billion dollar umbrella of Japanese media properties generally owned by the anime studio Gainax. The central works of the franchise feature an Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction mecha action story which centers around the efforts by the paramilitary organization Neon Genesis Evangelion glossary#Nerv to...
 and Oh My Goddess!
Oh My Goddess!

, also known as Ah! My Goddess!, is a Japanese seinen manga series written and illustrated by Kosuke Fujishima. A spin-off of Fujishima's series You're Under Arrest, it premiered in the September 25, 1988 issue of Afternoon where it is still being serialized....
. They also have their own line of figures called A-Brand.

They have also created Super Dollfie
Super Dollfie

, often abbreviated SD, is a brand of ball-jointed doll, or BJD, made by the Japanese company Volks. They are Casting in polyurethane resin, a porcelain-like, hard, dense plastic....
 dolls based on characters from anime and manga such as Chobits
Chobits

is a Japanese manga created by Clamp . It was published by Kodansha in Young Magazine from February 2001 and November 2002 and collected in eight tankobon....
, Maria-sama ga Miteru
Maria-sama ga Miteru

, often shortened to , is an ongoing series of Japanese shojo light novels written by Japanese people author Oyuki Konno, and illustrated by Reine Hibiki....
  and Rozen Maiden
Rozen Maiden

is a manga by the group Peach-Pit , with an anime series of the same name. The story centers around Sakurada Jun, a young hikikomori boy that finds himself indebted to a living doll by the name of Shinku, a doll of the Rozen Maiden series, who was created by a mysterious but extremely talented dollmaker....
. Volks have also collaborated with Gothic Lolita
Gothic Lolita

Gothic Lolita or "GothLoli" sometimes "Loli-Goth" has two definitions. The term "Gothic and Lolita" is used by the Japanese to describe a sub-culture of teenagers who wear a wide range of fashions....
 brands like Baby, The Stars Shine Bright
Baby, The Stars Shine Bright

is the name of a Japanese people clothing boutique chain created in 1988 by Akinori Isobe and his wife, Fumiyo. The original fashion house is located in Shibuya, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan....
, H. Naoto
H. Naoto

Naoto Hirooka, better known as H. Naoto is a Japanese people avant-garde fashion designer. H. Naoto's style of clothing and accessories could be classified under Japanese Punk fashion and gothic lolita, and he has been called the "most visible and successful of the labels fixated on that style."...
, Black Peace Now and Atelier-Pierrot to create Super Dollfie outfits.

See also

  • Super Dollfie
    Super Dollfie

    , often abbreviated SD, is a brand of ball-jointed doll, or BJD, made by the Japanese company Volks. They are Casting in polyurethane resin, a porcelain-like, hard, dense plastic....
  • Dollfie
    Dollfie

    Dollfie is a playscale vinyl doll that is produced by Volks, located in Japan.Dollfie is a highly-poseable hybrid of fashion doll and action figure, first created in 1997....
  • Ball-jointed doll
    Ball-jointed doll

    A ball-jointed doll is any doll that is articulated with ball and socket joints. In contemporary usage when referring to modern dolls, and particularly when using the acronyms BJD or ABJD, it usually refers to modern Asian ball-jointed dolls....
  • Garage kit
    Garage kit

    A garage kit or resin kit is a predominantly Japanese type of scale model kit casting in polyurethane resin, most commonly figures portraying female anime characters....


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