Greetings everyone,
My full review for all to see! I may have to span a few posts, but I’ll fit in as much as possible 
There has been nearly 6 years since I last bought a new doll.
I’ll start by saying there has been a distinct advancement in silicone dolls over the last few years!
Some of you may already be enjoying the benefits of the improvements with your own brand of choice of silicone doll!
I only wish that I could have had a doll like this current EX around ten years or so ago, when I started dolling! But that’s progress.
Initial opening revealed suitable foam packing, with a now customary clear plastic bubble over the entire face. You may be able to make out a thin yet sturdy metal sheet at the neck end of the box to stop the tall neck post from poking through the box, then getting damaged. All carefully thought out, and a massive improvement on my previous DS Evo doll wrapped in just a thin sleeping bag, being allowed to rattle around in just a few polystyrene chips!!
Straight out of the box, I was astonished by the soft feel of all the dolls limbs and body parts, but mostly by how it closely resembles the feel of human flesh! Young, toned flesh. The body has an amazing skin feel to it. Smooth and ‘velvety’. That older DS ‘shiny’ type skin look has gone now, to be replaced by a soft, matte style texture very close to human skin!
Her boobs jiggle nicely and are a great pleasure to hold! The bounce is good, but not quite 100% how a real womans’ breast behaves when jiggled and left to hang under the influence of gravity. A vast improvement over my previous EVO 168 experience though. The Ukiyo Sevo boobs are on a par with the best other silicone doll I have had in my collection.
Her 165cm body shape is incredible: It is practically the perfect bikini-type model of doll I was after. A slim-ish frame, with a fairly generous thigh girth and sensuous legs, torso section and nicely modelled arms & hands. The back dimples and belly button are so well defined. Her figure proportions mean I can easily get appropriate adult sized clothing for her; I expect all XS stuff, UK dress size 4 to 6/US size ‘0’? UK size3 to 4 for shoes. Some clothing for a previous slim-frame 160 B-cup model doll is fitting her fine.
This attractive [in tan], ‘Yukiho’ head fits perfectly with her shoulder width, so no odd looking out-of-proportion body/head issues here.
The head skin surface is also very detailed with a pore-like approximation of real skin. The face expression is relaxed and very pretty. The make-up is superb. There is a slight lip-glossy look to her luscious lips. I wanted her to have the pinkish colour selection. This doll head is of course a closed mouth type, solid with no oral orifice. I don’t mind this, since I personally have never ventured into oral with any of my dolls, even if they were/are capable. I simply loved the look of this face!
Moving onto the skeleton, I found several nice little touches here too:
I selected ‘tight’ for my doll model joints, as she was mainly going to be used for a photo model and cuddle companion.
The limbs move in a nice smooth fluid motion, not overly tight as per my previous experience. Stiff enough for posing and even standing though!
The neck joint is an improvement over my old DS Evo, and has a bit more motion without the ‘jolting’ or slipping around whilst posing, or trying to put on a wig! The manual I received with the doll is a basic one, covering the 100cm & upwards models, without going into much detail about the actual angular limitations, yet good enough as a guide to inform what positions might harm the doll.
The big advances in EX doll technology come from the noticeable hands & feet skin detailing & their ability to pose: The wrists now move from side to side as well as the usual rotation & up/down movement. The fingers and toes are all articulated! the fingers in particular can be posed almost the same as real digits. I’ll show later on, in my forthcoming crop of images, how realistic this looks & see how well she can hold various [lightweight] objects. Her fingernails are very slightly translucent with a lovely nail varnish type of coating.
