/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>8854576
No. Their superior beauty comes from their artificial status and incorruptibility. Actual women or any other living thing, apart from being mere pretexts for love (i.e. something people live under the delusion that it matches/embodies their beloved beings, wich are nothing but characters/signs created in their heads), will inevitably experience decay, corruption and death, reaching the point when it becomes obvious that they are not what one actually thought them to be, rendering one's love and fascination for them as fatally deceiving.

So, to have figures (to collect them and surround yourself with them, populating and beautifying your microcosmos with their lasting beauty) is a way to counteract this in physical form. Moreover, figures (just like vocaloid) may very well represent a step ahead and closer towards the andreide; i.e. towards the hope of a better future (for both genders) when women may finally be out of men's lives, as poor pretext for dolls, being replaced by the only thing we've ever really loved: actual dolls.

>>8854608
It depends of the seller, of course. But I'be bought figures through Amazon safely, at least twice.