Azone Sera of Blue Gables arrival

I received my Sera yesterday morning :) She is the Direct Store version, meaning that it was not possible to order her from Amiami, Hobby Search or other similar stores. I had to use a shopping service to buy her straight from Azone's web store. Wanting this version instead of the red-haired Sera was an obvious choice for me, since I like this smiling mouth much more. Black hair and blue eyes is also such an adorable combination ;3; (I'm blaming little Miu...)

I've been thinking of naming her Nozomi (meaning wish) after my favorite character in Love Live, but I'm not sure yet whether or not that'd be the perfect name for this girl... I'm still thinking about it :) She's the first Sera in the house, so for now we're just calling her Sera-chan~

The cover of the leaflet

As always, there is a little story written in Japanese

Last page, showing the outfit piece by piece

Sera out of the box! 

Her front hair seems really long, I might have to shorten it a little bit so that her pretty eyes would be more visible! Other than that, I have no complaints about this doll. She is really adorable and her outfit is gorgeous ♥ I wish I had taken more photos of her yesterday - I did have the time, but I was feeling dizzy and my head hurt so I pretty much just laid on the coach the whole day :S At least this new cutie was giving me some company and cheering me up a little bit~

The suitcase looks really nice and detailed as well!

I was surprised to notice that the suitcase can actually be opened! The inside is lined with this beautiful white & light brown square fabric and there's even a little pocket ;3;

Close-up of the shoes~ The shoe laces were really long, I had to cut them quite a bit before they looked nice like this :)

Hair color comparison with Miu~ I've noticed that sometimes the hair of Azone dolls might look black in pictures, but is actually not 100% black in person. This Sera has perfectly black hair, just like I had hoped :3 It's pretty similar to Miu's (though could be a bit colder shade?), which is nice since I was thinking that they could be cousins!

By the way, Kotoko posted a box opening for Sera of Green Gables, which is the other version of this doll :) She blogs in Finnish, but even if you don't understand the texts, you can look at the cute pictures!

I got my April loot from Amiami yesterday as well, but I'll be making a separate post for that later! And later today (or should I say soon, since I should leave already X'D) I'm going to see the blooming cherry blossoms and take some photos with Xaya :3 I still haven't written about last Saturday's mini meet-up either... Oh boy, I have lots of blog posts to make ^^;;