Lady Saiyuki Copying Dolls?

The following was posted on the LadySaiyuki.com forum by user ABailey82 (who interestingly appears to have joined specifically to post this):

I’m not really too far into the doll community, not even a member of doa,

I was one of the people who bought 1 of ls’s Pear heads that mismatched it’s body. due to all this crap that’s happened, I more and likely will not keep the pear head, but I did take a few pics for comparison for ls when she sent me her prototype head. and I know she’s been really busy with moving into a larger house, her baby, and all the other crazy stuff that’s been happening to her. she’s been mia from the internet for a few months and I heard from the cosplay crew she was just in the hospital again.
but I seriously believe these photo’s really need to be here asap, so I’m, posting the side by side lineup that I sent to ls….shows 5 different views of BOTH heads together:

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I’ve sent this image of the lineup comparison to ls along with all the separate files and a couple others, these pics show pretty well that Ls’s head is not a modded copy like the false slander that’s going around says.

There are obvious differences between the two heads. but I think I’ll let ls post more in detail as to what is obviously different.

I honestly told ls she should go after the moc and ae companies as well as dod for the false slander they’ve put against her, especially being that they had no physical evidence, just a few photoshop layovers done by people that have hated ls long before this ever happened. but ls told me back in feb, that she was so sick and tired of a guilty until proven innocent community and that fact that no matter what she did or said or proved it’s not like she can ever get back on doa anymore and that she has more important things to do, like taking care of her child, moving into a new home, and getting healthy again among other things. it’s a shame really, as I was just an anime convention hopper and it was ls that introduced me to bjd’s and now that I’m starting to get interested in them, the one who got me into them now doesn’t want to do what she loves anymore.

well I’ve said my peace and I’m just glad now that this evidence is now up, hopefully ls will get back on her site and fill in the rest of the blanks on the “doa scandal/nasty email she got from the new doa owner” and all the other drama surrounding this terrible incident.

And a later followup:

I was told by a cosplay buddy of mine she was in the hospital for possible appendicitis. I think she’s ok though.

as for moc and doa, neither will budge. armeleia told ls straight out she would never be allowed back on doa no matter what she did or proved and she also said that moc and ae would never retract those false statements either, I’m tempted to post the email that armeleia sent to ls, but I really think ls should post it, I’m going to call her tonight to try and get her to come back to her forum and make a public post on what has happened over the past few months. she’s been away for too long and from what I see here she’s missed.

and I’ll find out how she’s doing as well, I hope she is well or at least recovering well. she is a tough cookie so I’m sure she’s ok. but it doesn’t hurt to check in on her now and then.

I really hope that she’ll make her msd doll as she is very very beautiful and she’s really my type of doll. and I really hope she continues with her msd line as I was hoping for a larger eyed cutie made by ls one day.

Now, to step briefly out of the impartial blog updater role:

First of all, those photos make me more convinced, not less, that the doll is a copy.

Secondly, I would put money on ABailey82 being LadySaiyuki gone incognito. For someone who just happens to know her, she sure knows (and cares) a lot about exactly what’s going on in her life.

Third, considering that from a legal perspective I am Den of Demons — I pay for the webhost, the domain is registered to me, the VBulletin registration is in my name — I must admit that I can’t be totally impartial when she’s possibly plotting legal action against me (theoretically DOD could stand for Dream of Doll, but I don’t think they ever got involved so I assume she means Den of Demons). That said I do  not take the threat seriously at all, considering she doesn’t even know that had DOD made false and damaging statements about her, which we have not, that would be libel.

More updates as events warrant!

A comparison of the DoC fist hands and Serenity’s fist hands.

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A helpful Den of Demons poster provided images of the new-type DOC girl body compared to Lady Saiyuki’s doll’s arms and torso, speculating that Lady Saiyuki’s doll uses a modified (breasts removed, parts sanded) DOC type 2 torso, arms, and feet. The poster notes that details such as the collarbones appear to be a perfect match.

LS Kodomo Elbow
DOC Type 2 Elbow

LS Kodomo Sitting
DOC Type 2 Sitting

LS Kodomo Hip Piece
DOC Type 2 Hip Piece

LS Kodomo Unstrung Torso
DOC Type 2 Unstrung Torso

In unrelated housekeeping news, the template has been changed because the old one broke commenting. Commenting should now work.

One of the major inconsistencies in Lady Saiyuki’s story since she’s started to produce “progress photos” of the sculpting in progress (as of January 7, 2010) is the fact that the EXIF data on the photos either does not match the date the photos were supposedly taken, or have other major inconsistencies.

A Den of Demons user noted that in the EXIF data for one of the supposed in-progress sculpt photos the date was listed as January 7, 2010, the day the photo was posted — not mid-2009 when Lady Saiyuki claimed to have been working on the sculpting. As the date indicates when the photo was taken, this indicates that the photo was not in fact taken until January 7, 2010. This was true of all the progress photos posted, with the exceptions of photos of the original sketch. Unfortunately I only have screencaps for one image.

Screenshot of EXIF data. Another Den of Demons user managed to save a few of the photos, and screen captures of the news post on ladysaiyuki.com.

I posted on Lady Saiyuki’s forum asking why the EXIF data on the progress photos indicated that they were taken that day. My post was deleted, my account was banned, and LadySaiyuki pulled down all the photos and reuploaded them with the EXIF data stripped.

Lady Saiyuki later replaced these with photos with EXIF data showing that they were taken May 28, 2009. However, the EXIF data for these photos also indicates that they were taken with an iPhone running version 3.1.2 of the iPhone OS. This version of the iPhone OS was not released until October 8, 2009, over four months AFTER the photos claim to be taken.

Screencaps of conflicting EXIF data in these photos: [1] [2]

After this was revealed the photos once again vanished temporarily, and are once again uploaded with their EXIF data stripped as of this posting.

Comparison of the DOD DOC type 2 body and the Serenity body torso, as always, after the jump:

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Comparison between Serenity legs and Dollmore legs after the jump:

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Overlays of the Serenity head vs. Asleep Eidolon Pear head, after the jump:

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