50–65cm Dolls Volks Saitou Hajime

SO, for a very long time I had been adamant about how I already had my grail and all this talk of grail dolls was silly and oh no it means something totally different to me, and then naturally that all came apart when I actually got the chance to purchase a Volks Saitou Hajime which had been a silent little pipedream of mine because I've always really enjoyed the 'character' of Saitou Hajime in whatever anime uses historical figures for their fictional versions of them. Plus, I've always really wanted a Volks doll which was something I wasn't super vocal about but, actually having held one now, posed one and just felt the resin, I can safely say Volks fans I totally get it now, LOL!

I am beyond happy with him! Even though I have been going for larger/heavier dolls lately, I absolutely adore the size/weight of this guy. His body is a dream to pose and I can pretty much plunk him down flat foot and he'll stand. I usually have to fiddle a bit around the ankles but nope! He feels super solid and I can honestly say out of all my dolls, he is hands down the best sitter. He needs no support to sit upright and that's awesome to me.

His fullset was great quality and I was so impressed! The shoes kind of fell apart when I tried to get them on but ... I expected that and shouldn't have even attempted to do so, I'm planning on getting him some black boots! The belt/swordholder was also delicate because of the pleather so I had to treat them very gently! I'm not entirely sure if I'm going to keep him in his original fullset or not. I'm going to see what it looks like with new boots and make my decision then! I'm also a bit torn on keeping the original face up/eyes too. I'm sure we will see! Regardless, I love him and he's already fitting in.