Corporate Structure and Products
Volks is organized into three different enterprises. Volks Inc. is the main umbrella company. They operate the Tenshi-no-Sato museum in Kyoto, the Volks Showrooms in Japan, and the Tenshi-no-Sumika shops in Japan, Korea, and the United States. Zoukei-Mura is Volks' sculpting, designing, and assembly department for Super Dollfie. Virginal Art is Volks' marketing and design department with a focus on the hobby market.
Hideyuki Shigeta is the president of Volks Inc. Several sculptors are working under Zoukei-Mura, most notably Akihiro Enku, the creator of Super Dollfie. Artist Gentaro Araki briefly worked with Volks creating the U-noss line of dolls. There are also several designers working with the Super Dollfie line of dolls. The main designer, Mikey, is the daughter of Volks' president Shigeta. Some other notable designers are K. Mayura, Valico, Aone and Ciera.
Volks regularly publish the magazine Volks News with information about new products from all of their lines.
Volks have created resin kit figures of characters from a large variety of anime and manga, for example My-HiME, Love Hina, Neon Genesis Evangelion and Oh My Goddess! They also have their own line of figures called A-Brand.
They have also created Super Dollfie dolls based on characters from anime and manga such as Chobits, Maria-sama ga Miteru and Rozen Maiden. Volks have also collaborated with Gothic Lolita brands like Baby, The Stars Shine Bright, H. Naoto, Black Peace Now and Atelier-Pierrot to create Super Dollfie outfits.
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