"What is that creepy thing?"

So today begins my research cyberspace, and like any teenager and even some adults I start with my research on wikipedia, mainly due to the fact that it is waay too late to ask about the history on the forum and get any sort of decent answer, and the other most reliable site I think I just might be able to get information off of is entirely in Japanese.

So for the sake of not dying, and this is the only part I'm interested in, I will only be covering a basic history and Asian Ball Jointed Dolls, if I was doing Ball Jointed Dolls in general, I think I'd die, considering that the whole idea actually started as far back as the Egyptians. So here is a brief history of the current world of BJDs provided mainly from what I know already and the wikipedia entry.

The birth of modern Asian Ball Jointed Dolls began about ten years ago. Volks, a company from Japan that had been previously creating mecha kits which in general is a mainly male hobby. After an executive director from the company saw a one-off doll, the company began thinking about how to produce these dolls for a larger market.If the idea actually paid off the company would be able to capitalize on a more female demographic as well as the mainly male hobby of the kits that they were already creating.

Thus far the idea has paid off, tomorrow I will be talking more specifically about the dolls themselves, such as what they're made from, size and the world of customizing.