The Evolution of Takara's Licca-chan Dolls

Have You Heard? - A Fashion Doll Retrospective

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Have you heard about Licca-chan? Licca-chan is a Japanese fashion doll that is often considered the Japanese equivalent of the Barbie doll. For more than 50 years, Licca has been a companion for children and collectors alike and has been celebrated for her "kawaii" style. In this video, we will be looking at the history of the Licca-chan doll and its evolution over the past five decades.
Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
01:23 - Background & First Generation (1967 - 1972)
07:25 - Second Generation (1972 - 1981)
10:32 - Third Generation (1982 - 1986)
14:37 - Fourth Generation (1987 - present)
17:12 - Fifth Generation (1992)
17:50 - Early 90s Struggles
18:29 - Back on Top
20:12 - Post Merger
20:59 - 50th Anniversary and Modern Day
22:09 - Conclusion
22:54 - Ending Screen
Media Credits:
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Music Credits:
Limo Ride - TrackTribe
Float - Geographer
Psychedelicacy - Doug Maxwell
Take it Slow - SefChol
Here Come The Raindrops - Reed Mathis
Morpho Diana - Rachel K Collier
Mizuki - Bad Snacks
Robot Boogie - Quincas Moreira
Smile - Slynk
Kazoom - Quincas Moreira
Time to Spare - An Jone
Friday Fugue - Trevor Garrod
Copyright Disclaimer:
Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship and research.
Licca and associated characters are the property of Takara-Tomy.
#licca #liccachan #takara

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@segantoycollector7735 2 года назад

can you make a video about "clone barbies" from each country? Like Sindy, Fulla, Tanya, Susi, etc.

@CodenameSailorEarth 2 года назад

Oh! And clone Bild Lilli dolls from the 50s, before there was Barbie! I found out there were clones of Bild Lilli in Hong Kong and Spain with dark skin.

@Eepop_stuffs 2 года назад

I love Fulla sm😊

@AlineDreams 2 года назад

I liked talking Debbies because her clothes and shoes were perfectly interchangeable with Barbie's, with the added bonus that she could talk

@EeveelutionStorm Год назад

I wish Mattel was this consistent ngl...

@DannyoffireAwaken 2 года назад

I don't own *any* Licca dolls, but God I wish I did. They are absolutely beautiful and I love Japanese culture

@Eepop_stuffs Год назад

They can be found for cheap on aliexpress! You can either buy the head, body, and clothes separately (if you want something specific) or a full doll. All for really cheap. It takes a while to ship tho.

@PopPrincesss 9 месяцев назад

@@Eepop_stuffsOMG Ty!!!!

@imuy31yumi13 8 месяцев назад

ebay has them and the play sets, theyre so fun and cute, i have 7

@kylekreep2887 2 года назад

Yes! I’m so glad you uploaded! I would be interested if you could possibly cover obscure dolls from around the world? Stuff like Steffi Love and other country’s versions of barbies.

@HaveYouHeardDolls 2 года назад

Aww thanks! Definitely interested in covering more international lines in the future!

@christiannightshade5886 2 года назад

@@HaveYouHeardDolls please do Brazilian Susi dolls!!

@CodenameSailorEarth 2 года назад

So glad you're back! This video makes me want to start collecting Licca-chan now. My mom said she used to have one from a friend ages and ages ago. We both think they had a major influence on the 1988-1992 Skipper dolls.

@HaveYouHeardDolls 2 года назад

That's so cool - by any chance was it a Lisa? 80s and early 90s Skipper really had that doe-eyed, shoujo manga vibe.

@CodenameSailorEarth 2 года назад

@@HaveYouHeardDolls it may have been, I'm not sure. I know she had the doll way before I was born. There's also Emi, a really popular knock off with a line of school clothes that people love on eBay.

@Valentineatelier 2 года назад

BLACK LICCA I CANT BREATH In seriousness though I love all of your videos! This was really well made !!

@4everbratz 2 года назад

Fantastic video! ✨ I’ve always been fascinated by Licca Chan, since I’ve always been interested in Japanese culture and fashion. I don’t have one, since I’m not from Japan, but I would love to own at least one (maybe of the new streetwear dolls).

@HaveYouHeardDolls 2 года назад

Thank you!! I have a Hello Kitty Licca and she's incredible - highly recommend. I've heard that some dolltubers were able to order the #Licca dolls directly from Amazon Japan - though I'm not sure about the shipping.

@PipimiOden 2 года назад

@@HaveYouHeardDolls I know a bunch of ways to get the dolls via proxy shopping! Shipping's expensive, as per usual with imports, but I'd like to get some dolls this way eventually!

@segantoycollector7735 2 года назад

I'm from Brazil and I have a Jenny doll.

@4everbratz 2 года назад

@@HaveYouHeardDolls When I have the time and money, if I find one I really want, I’ll have to buy/import one from Amazon Japan 😊

@4everbratz 2 года назад

@@segantoycollector7735 I would love to have a Jenny doll too, she’s my favorite Japanese doll besides Licca.

@UncleMarco 2 года назад

I love the neo Licca Line

@HaveYouHeardDolls 2 года назад

Me too! I really wish they made more

@Ashimuro Год назад

Wow wow wow! This was such a great video! Had a nostalgia kick in wanting to start collecting Licca Chan dolls again and this was a great launching point!☺️💝

@osalima 2 года назад

Ahhh I'm so happy you uploaded again! Your videos are amazing

@HaveYouHeardDolls 2 года назад

Thank you so much!

@darrellwallace4182 2 года назад

So informative and interesting! I'd really like to collect some of these. Please keep up the good work. Would love to see something on the Dawn fashion doll. Thanks again!

@stockicide 15 дней назад

Very interesting! Thanks for the well made video.

@thepowerisyetunknown7710 2 года назад

Your videos are very well made! Loved it

@HaveYouHeardDolls 2 года назад

Thank you so much!!

@alishasnecklace 2 года назад

LOVED this video ❤️

@arthurpendragon2570 2 года назад

Thank you so much for this video ! Your channel is a really amazing place for people that love to know more about fashion dolls! Have you ever thought about doing a video of the Fulla doll or perhaps Bild lilli?

@HaveYouHeardDolls 2 года назад

Thank you! Would love to do videos on these at some point - so many dolls, so little time!

@bekka20 Год назад

I'm so sad, my younger self would've loved these dolls!

@joniroooooo 2 года назад

loved this video i didnt wanted it to end i really loved learning about this doll .

@ashleyw116 2 года назад

This is awesome! Thanks!

@virginiamontaldo440 2 года назад

Licca is a very cute doll, I'd like to have some but seeing how her and her huuge group of friends mostly have blonde or light brown hair must have impacted many Japanese girls in a not good way.

@now591 Год назад

Japanese girls don't have hang ups about that.

@virginiamontaldo440 Год назад

@@now591 Japanese girls and women have internalized a beauty standard that is, like Licca, 'haafu' - half Japanese, half 'whatever European country is more fashionable at the moment'. In Licca's time of creation, that was France (by the way, in Japan 'European' always means blonde and blue eyed as a rule. Even most Italian characters in anime are like that - speaking from experience). This is why many Japanese women dye their hair lighter colors (not really blonde because it looks fake, but lighter browns), have monolid surgery and contour their nose bridge with makeup to make it look taller. Of course they will deny they do that to look 'haafu', they can't say it outright to save face, but it is what it is.

@Dollworld25 2 года назад

i love ur vids!! its so interesting to learn more about different doll lines and ur videos are so informative 💞 you should totally make a video about the history of the Jem and the holograms doll line!!! it was so short lived but really cool nonetheless

@alexcrochets351 2 года назад

Horray another video 🥳🤩 thank you ❤️ I adore your videos

@HaveYouHeardDolls 2 года назад

Thank you so much! 😊

@alexcrochets351 2 года назад

@@HaveYouHeardDolls Literally, your content is addicting and so entertaining to watch 👏🤩

@YuuchanP 2 года назад

Do TAKARA JENNY please !!!

@romeymuller539 3 месяца назад

someone needs to make a full on history video of JENNY and her friends! I believe in the future, the Jenny line will return and will no longer be only found at Licca Castle

@zallmir3459 2 года назад

Wow great video. It would be interesting to make a video about licca-chan sister brand fashion doll Takara Jenny. I know you already make a video about Barbie's history in Japan but i think we need a more information about jenny dolls.

@divastarz5039 2 года назад

we would love more foreign doll content!!

@iriemonmon 2 года назад

There's so much raysisum to unpack here lol this toy company was doing a LOT. I absolutely love your videos!

@xxxxxxcx156 Год назад

amazing documentary tnx

@monsterbratz5049 2 года назад

Hi 👋 I have several ideas for your next video you can make videos on Diva Starz, Jem, Moxie Teenz, Beauty Cuties, NoviStars and Once Upon a Zombie☺ I hope that my comment can help you😉 otherwise very great video👍😍

@LukasVonIncher 2 года назад

Very interesting as all of your content! Coul u do a video of the history of Tammy or Gene Marshall? Thanks in advance.

@PamelaRubel 2 года назад

Gene Marshall would be great!

@giorgioemilioramirezcerril2266 2 года назад

Nice!

@happyyuk 11 месяцев назад

I played with a few Licca-chan dolls growing up and I remember my grandma would put them in a display cabinet because they were just so pretty. I believe they are still in the same display cabinet because I was the only child, the dolls got preserved very well. The attention put into creating them can be easily seen on their clothes, shoes and accessories, they even come with a stand so that they can stand up straight in the display cabinet. They sure elicit fond memories from my childhood. Now I am a mother-of-two and looking to buy one for my youngest upcoming birthday but they are hard to come by in the UK. I believe the one I had (and still have in my family home) as a child are the fourth generation and it's interesting that they needed to revert back to the 4th generation after poor reception of the 5th generation. They are simply gorgeous, some of my friends played with barbie and western toys but I didn't see their appeals after being introduced to Licca-chan.

@Frenchmisto 2 года назад

Very interesting video! How about a story about the Gene Marshall and friends by Mel Odom ? They were first made by Ashton Drake and then Integrity Toys/took over for a few years

@dollsareageekbestfriend1777 2 года назад

What about a video of the Disney princess doll line evolution?

@HaveYouHeardDolls 2 года назад

Ooh that is something I'd love to do! I might split it by princess just because some have more releases than others.

@dollsareageekbestfriend1777 2 года назад

@@HaveYouHeardDolls Ariel could bee a great start since she was who started the doll line (there never was and official doll line untill the 90ths)

@DiscothecaImperialis 5 месяцев назад

0:42 Original designer is Miyako Maki. an espouse to the late Leiji Matsumoto. a very legend in his own right as Mangaka. And at a time Matsumoto even drawn women in the same style Miyako Maki does (and maybe with or without unusually long hair, something that might be his very own thinking). and this ultimately led to his evolved beauty standard that will eventually eclipsed her in Mid and late 70s.

@lalaland2107 2 года назад

Her fashion is amazing and she is a beautiful doll.

@nothanks7263 2 года назад

Licca is just so damn cute!

@angelusmagnocine Год назад

I love Licca-Chan, she's so adorable! I live in Brazil, but someday I'll buy a Licca doll. Wish I had her in my collection 💖💕

@DiscothecaImperialis 5 месяцев назад

3:11 An item of note. TWO (or more) most infuential mangakas who's very much famous in Shonen and Seinen genre-Shotaro Ishinomori and Leiji Matsumoto- began their career with Shojo. For Master Zero. Shojo is his art evolutionary path, one that he gives the same Licca eyes to so many female characters even in Shonen genre (Battlefield series, Lightspeed Esper, Sexaroid), and leads to love of his life.. (3:43) he has to begin with Shojo because it once had bigger market. even Shueisha's flagship brand before Shonen Jump (founded in 1968), was Ribon (And Matsumoto did submit his manga works there).

@Cuteyhoney57 2 года назад

Ohhhh I love Licca Chan!!! When I travelled in Japan in 2015 with my 6 years old daughter, we discovered these dolls who are absolutely lovely, imaginative !! For me it was like the mangas I watched when I was child (Sailor moon, and many many popular shojo anime in France in the 80s/90s!!) I bought some of these dolls, unfortunately in France it’s not found, and extremely expensive in Internet! In Japan it’s really cheap and with so many cool accessories !

@AngieColors 2 года назад

Me encantan estas muñecas. Gracias por compartirlo ☺️🌙💛🌟💓

@tulip811 7 месяцев назад

The princess liccas are so pretty🥺🥺🥺 i love their jewellery

@CodyLee94 10 месяцев назад

Omg these dolls are goorrrgeous

@dollsareageekbestfriend1777 2 года назад

I'm pretty surprised you talk about the Chabel doll, she was quite popular on the 80ths but it's still unknown if she was really done with Takara's conset or if feber just copied the sculp

@HaveYouHeardDolls 2 года назад

In my research I saw some Chabel stickers that were basically copies of 90s Barbie promo photos (www.flickr.com/photos/98328300@N08/10730137636). I wouldn't be surprised if Licca-chan's likeness was used without consent, like what they did with the stickers.

@lacymacy471 2 года назад

And I saw a unlicensed Madonna style / life doll

@morganlefay195 2 года назад

@@lacymacy471 Yes, and she is named Chabel Madonna. I own two of them.

@demelmelton2969 2 года назад

Could you do a video on unrealesed doll lines that never made it to release

@HaveYouHeardDolls 2 года назад

Great idea - there's a lot of unreleased Mattel dolls I would love to cover at some point!

@demelmelton2969 2 года назад

@@HaveYouHeardDolls wild childz is one I recommend

@kyliethelittlespider-mangirl94 Месяц назад

I actually ordered myself a Licca doll (Finally), three of them actually all from offers from EBay.

@user-oi9em4om5y Год назад

I had the Lovely Lisa Nintendo DS game! It was my favorite. I had no idea it was from a doll.

@BRAIN_R0T87 2 года назад

Could you do the tammy doll and its many versions like in brasil amd england

@SideOrder755 2 года назад

I've heard of these dolls before, they're so expensive to buy second hand. I honestly like the 1st to 2nd generation dolls, they look more child-like(since she's 11), modern licca chan looks more like a teenager/young adult. But she's still beautiful.

@callmethecommentcountess9329 Год назад

Yes

@cqntralls Год назад

they remind me of dolls you find in daiso japan stores.

@mollyhagan3593 11 месяцев назад

Licca has got more friends than me and I have been here for 18. Years

@princessmarshellaaur 2 года назад

I have a ds game about this doll and it's literally named lovely lisa oh my god 😭😭

@stephanieavila2333 Год назад

Innove this doll so muchhhhh

@wazburg 2 года назад

Please do a history of Takara Jenny!!

@gangurogeisha 2 года назад

I second this.

@nniieemmaanndd 2 года назад

Could you do a Novi Stars video? :D

@nathanblevins158 2 года назад

So super doll was a Mix of pokemon and sailor moon. I know it maybe a rip offs. But this is a good idea. And I like it.

@jesslivessometimes597 2 года назад

Could you do a video on the Lady Lovely Locks dolls?

@Girlgirlughwhatever 2 года назад

where did you find the picture of that mermaid licca?

@chloefitzhughrohaly3724 2 года назад

The receptionist chihiro at my physio had a licca chan doll

@mimithedoll 2 года назад

Please make Jenny Takara History Up Next

@FRANCISCARUSOworld 2 года назад

Can you make a video about Sailor Moon? 😁

@DiscothecaImperialis 5 месяцев назад

4:39 Orie name will be reused in Transformers Unicron Trilogy. along with Pierre Miramonde. but not Rika/Licca.

@charlieni9614 2 года назад

Jazzie doll, the cool teen cousin of Barbie

@mattsandwich 2 года назад

City Pop Licca-Chan??? I Need

@tabithaprovan957 2 года назад

Is that red and white dress with a collar at 22:44 the same as Penny Brite's outfit?

@HaveYouHeardDolls 2 года назад

It definitely looks like it - great eye!

@tabithaprovan957 2 года назад

@@HaveYouHeardDolls thanks. Maybe Penny Brite can be a future video, who knows.

@chloefitzhughrohaly3724 2 года назад

The receptionist at my physio had licca chan

@the_star_aries9297 2 года назад

Can you please do a history of super dolfie

@nathanblevins158 2 года назад

Who else like this better then Barbie? Is it just me?

@seraphina3322 2 года назад

Please make a video about mell chan japanese dolls

@DiscothecaImperialis 5 месяцев назад

1:15 if Licca ever goes to space. as anything. either as an insert character in G1 Transformers (Also a big hit in Japan, the franchise itself eventually becomes 'genderless' and even advertised with girls). or a passenger of Galaxy Express 999 :P or if Takara even released Maetel winter garments (fur cap and fur trimmed overcoats). ?

@user-cb4hk4wj9y Год назад

Can you please do a fulla video?

@unluckycharm1340 2 года назад

Do a monster high and ever after high next pls

@DiscothecaImperialis 5 месяцев назад

Did Takara ever released G1 Transformers themed Licca costumes?

@stevenallen9992 2 года назад

Part 3

@BRAIN_R0T87 2 года назад

Could you do sailor moon dolls?

@gagamine1983 2 года назад

i have one

@chloefitzhughrohaly3724 2 года назад

The receptionist of my physio had licca chan

@chloefitzhughrohaly3724 Год назад

I have a licca chan doll hello kitty

@benjaminandres7063 2 года назад

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS NEW VIDEOOOOOOOO

@stevenlisten 9 месяцев назад

Can you do jazzie

@lauraleecreations3217 Год назад

❤️❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍👍

@DiscothecaImperialis 5 месяцев назад

3:58 This hairdo is not what Leiji Matsumoto gives to female characters he create. even with anyone that would... in Galaxy Express 999... bully or even tried to kill Tetsuro (or even Maetel) outright . eyes however were. (and eventually evolved to be even shaper in the end). with longer eyelashes)

@mattsandwich 2 года назад

City Pop Licca-Chan??? Need

@chloefitzhughrohaly3724 Год назад

I have a licca chan doll