Saturday, 05 May 2018 / Published in Product Updates

Cuddly Octopus Update – May 2018

Greetings!

There’s not too terribly much to announce administratively this month. Unfortunately, the prices for us to ship our covers is increasing very marginally over what we currently offer. For one cover, we will be switching to JCEX. The shipping time will take slightly longer, but our price will only increase from $17 to $18. Shipping for two or three covers will remain with UPS, but the price will increase from $25 to $27. Prices for four or more covers should remain the same.

Beyond that, we have a total of 9 new covers for you to drool over this month!

Disclaimer: The lines and octopodes on the sample images are a watermark and won’t be on the printed cover.

You can also view all of the designs from our store in this Imgur album. And, of course, you can purchase all of our designs from our storefront!

The premium P80 2-Way Roika versions of most covers will be available on Sakura-Palace.

As usual, we also have a lot of projects in the pipeline. Right now, we can announce the following work is currently in progress:

As always, thank you for your continued support of Cuddly Octopus!

-The Cuddly Octopus Team

Sunday, 01 April 2018 / Published in Product Updates

Cuddly Octopus Update – April 2018

Greetings!

Wow, can you believe Cuddly Octopus is two years old as of today!? As with each of our anniversary updates, we’re kind of amazed and humbled to see what you guys have helped our tiny little circle to become. So first things first, we want to truly thank each and every single one of you for your support of Cuddly Octopus over these past two years! We hope to continue forward for many anniversaries to come!

Onto our administrative announcements… as we mentioned in our February update, due to the rising cost of manufacturing our covers, our base price will be rising from $55 to $60 beginning this order period. This price increase only impacts payments in USD and not EUR, due to the way exchange rates have fluctuated since we set the pricing. We’re sorry we had to raise prices, but it’s what allows us to keep paying our artists to draw more designs!

With the bad news out of the way, we also wanted to announce that Cuddly Octopus is now expending into the wonderful world of tapestries! If you’ve been paying attention to our home page over the past year, you may have noticed that we’ve been changing the home page image to represent each season. Our initial offering of tapestries will be these four illustrations drawn by our very own KyuriTizu! Each of them is a Japanese-styled, B2-sized beautifully printed tapestry starting at $25/unit. For now, you won’t be able to find them publicly listed on the store, so look below for links to the item pages directly. We hope to expand our tapestry selection in the coming months and years, as well as adding a dedicated section for tapestry designs.

And for a limited time, we’ll also be offering a promotion where if you buy five or more covers (custom-prints not included), you’ll get your choice of tapestry added to your order for free! Just specify which design you’d like in the order notes field at checkout.

So with our April 2018 update, we are adding the following 8 dakimakura designs and 4 tapestry designs:

Dakimakura Covers

Tapestries

Disclaimer: The lines and octopodes on the sample images are a watermark and won’t be on the printed cover.

You can also view all of the designs from our store in this Imgur album. And, of course, you can purchase all of our designs from our storefront!

The premium P80 2-Way Silkete versions of most covers will be available on Sakura-Palace.

As usual, we also have a lot of projects in the pipeline. Right now, we can announce the following work is currently in progress:

As always, thank you for your continued support of Cuddly Octopus! We hope to see you all again for our third year anniversary!

– The Cuddly Octopus Team

Wednesday, 28 February 2018 / Published in Product Updates

Cuddly Octopus Update – March 2018

Greetings!

Welcome back to another month and another cuddly update! First, some administrative stuff, we want to give you all a reminder that starting on April 1st, we will be increasing the price of our covers from $55 to $60 per cover. This is the last month that covers will be available for purchase at the reduced rate, so be sure to get your orders in this month if there’s something that you’ve been eyeing!

As for the fun stuff I’m sure you’re all here for, this March we’re updating our site with the following 10 designs:

Disclaimer: The lines and octopodes on the sample images are a watermark and won’t be on the printed cover.

You can also view all of the designs from our store in this Imgur album. And, of course, you can purchase all of our designs from our storefront!

The premium P80 2-Way Roika versions of most covers will be available on Sakura-Palace.

As usual, we also have a lot of projects in the pipeline. Right now, we can announce the following work is currently in progress:

As always, thank you for your continued support of Cuddly Octopus!

– The Cuddly Octopus Team

Tuesday, 06 February 2018 / Published in Product Updates

Cuddly Octopus Update – February 2018

Greetings!

Before we get into the fun stuff, we’ll start off with a bit of bad news for you all. After the Chinese New Year, our manufacturing costs for a number of items will be increasing marginally. Therefore, starting on April 1st, we will be increasing the price of our covers from $55 to $60 USD per cover. Our Euro pricing will remain unaffected. We’re greatly sorry that we need to increase the prices on you, but we felt it a necessary step to maintain our current trajectory. We hope this 2-month lead time allows you to buy all those covers you’re still interested in before our price rises up!

With the administrative stuff out of the way, let’s get to the fun stuff! This month, we’re updating our site with the following 11 designs:

Disclaimer: The lines and octopodes on the sample images are a watermark and won’t be on the printed cover.

You can also view all of the designs from our store in this Imgur album. And, of course, you can purchase all of our designs from our storefront!

The premium P80 2-Way Roika versions of most covers will be available on Sakura-Palace. We will also offer the All Ages versions of Albedo, Ping Hai, Yggdrasil, Abigail and Prinz, in addition to their R-18 counterparts. We hope you enjoy them all!

As usual, we also have a lot of projects in the pipeline. Right now, we can announce the following work is currently in progress:

Friday, 05 January 2018 / Published in Product Updates

Cuddly Octopus Update – January 2018

Happy New Year everyone!

We’re hoping to ring the new year in with a bang by showing off a bunch of our new cover designs for you to ogle over and purchase. With that, please check out our eight new designs for January 2018!

Disclaimer: The lines and octopodes on the sample images are a watermark and won’t be on the printed cover.

You can also view all of the designs from our store in this Imgur album. And, of course, you can purchase all of our designs from our storefront!

The premium P80 2-Way Roika versions of all covers, except Raccoon & Fox, will be available on Sakura-Palace. We will also offer the All Ages versions of all these designs, with the exception of Beatrix, in addition to their R-18 counterparts. We are also releasing the All Ages versions of some of our older designs, specifically shuffle’s Jibril, Kuromomo’s Miyu, and KyuriTizu’s Chino. We hope you enjoy them all!

As usual, we also have a lot of projects in the pipeline. Right now, we can announce the following work is currently in progress:

Friday, 15 December 2017 / Published in Product Updates

Cuddly Octopus Update – December 2017

Greetings!

Starting this month, we will move our order period from 21st -> 20th to the 1st -> last day of the month. This change will hopefully cut down on the confusion regarding when each order period runs and ends. All orders made from the 21st to the 30th of November will be added to the previous (November) order period.

Onto the normal part of our monthly update! This month, we’re updating our store with the following nine designs:

Disclaimer: The lines and octopodes on the sample images are a watermark and won’t be on the printed cover.

You can also view all of the designs from our store in this Imgur album. And, of course, you can purchase all of our designs from our storefront!

The premium P80 2-Way Roika versions of most of our new character designs from this month will be available for pre-order on Sakura-Palace. We will also offer the All Ages versions of Chloe, Mahira, and Shuten & Ibaraki, in addition to their R-18 counterparts.

As usual, we also have a lot of projects in the pipeline. Right now, we can announce the following work is currently in progress:

Friday, 03 November 2017 / Published in Product Updates

Cuddly Octopus Update – November 2017

Greetings!

Happy Halloween everyone! There’s not much of anything to announce administratively this month, so let’s instead get into all the new awesome covers we’re releasing to you guys. This month, we have updated our store with the following six designs:

Disclaimer: The lines and octopodes on the sample images are a watermark and won’t be on the printed cover.

You can also view all of the designs from our store in this imgur album. And, of course, you can purchase all of our designs from our storefront!

The premium P80 2-Way Roika versions of most of our new character designs from this month will be available for pre-order on Sakura-Palace. We will also offer the All Ages versions of Ferry, Miku, Stephanie and Heles, in addition to their R-18 counterparts.

As usual, we also have a lot of projects in the pipeline. Right now, we can announce the following work is currently in progress:

Tuesday, 03 October 2017 / Published in Product Updates

Cuddly Octopus Update – October 2017

Greetings!

We’re back with another one of our monthly updates! This month, though, is one of our lightest updates since we first started Cuddly Octopus. Unfortunately, a lot of working (and nearly completed) projects ended up not making it by the deadline. So this month, we are updating our store with only the following three four designs:

Disclaimer: The lines and octopodes on the sample images are a watermark and won’t be on the printed cover.

All of the designs in our store can also be viewed in this imgur album.

And, of course, you can purchase all of our designs from our storefront!

Additionally, the premium P80 2-Way Roika versions of most of our new character designs from this month will be available for pre-order on Sakura-Palace. We will also being offering the All Ages versions of Jeanne, Darkness, Magilou and Vampy in addition to their R-18 counterparts.

Per usual, we have a lot of projects upcoming that we hope you’ll enjoy. Currently, we can announce the following artists are working on these projects:

As always, thanks for your continued support of Cuddly Octopus.

– The Cuddly Octopus Team

Thursday, 31 August 2017 / Published in Product Updates

Cuddly Octopus Update – September 2017

Greetings!

Not a lot of news this month besides a healthy number of new designs! The only thing we want to announce today is that we have decided to adjust the estimated shipping window from the 15th to 20th of each month to the 20th to 25th. While most of our orders are completed and sent before the 20th of each month, orders that end up with products that fail our quality control process take slightly longer, due to the requisite reprinting. Really, this update is just in the vein of expectation management and doesn’t represent any changes on our end. Moving on to the fun stuff…

This month, we are updating our store with the following eight designs:

Disclaimer: The lines and octopodes on the sample images are a watermark and won’t be on the printed cover.

All of the designs in our store can also be viewed in this imgur album.

And, of course, you can purchase all of our designs from our storefront!

Additionally, the premium P80 2-Way Roika versions of most of our new character designs from this month will be available for pre-order on Sakura-Palace. We will also being offering the All Ages versions of Elizabeth, Aoba, and Orchid, in addition to their R-18 counterparts. We are also doing a re-print of shuffle’s Jibril and Brora’s Tamamo for those who might have missed out on their original runs!

Per usual, we have a lot of projects upcoming that we hope you’ll enjoy. Currently, we can announce the following artists are working on these projects:

As always, thanks for your continued support of Cuddly Octopus.

– The Cuddly Octopus Team

Thursday, 03 August 2017 / Published in Product Updates

Cuddly Octopus Update – August 2017

Greetings!

Let’s start this month off with the bit of good news before we get into all the cuddly stuff. If you’ve visited our site in the past week, you’ll have noticed that all our glorious anime boobies have returned to the storefront. This is because we have recently acquired a merchant account with a new payment processor that has cleared our store for use on their platform! Unfortunately, this new payment processor, at the present time, can only accept payments in EUR. As such, all purchases from the United States and Japan will still be processed with Stripe, while payments from any country outside those two will be processed in EUR with Mollie. This is, however, subject to change at any time.

Onto the updates that you can cuddle with, this month we are updating our website with the following 10 designs:

Disclaimer: The lines and octopodes on the sample images are a watermark and won’t be on the printed cover.

You can purchase these and all of our past designs from our storefront here!

Additionally, the premium P80 2-Way Roika versions of most of our new character designs from this month, including our old Papi design, will be available for pre-order on Sakura-Palace. The All Ages versions of Anzu, Zooey, Astolfo, and Momoka will also be available on Sakura-Palace, in addition to their R-18 counterparts.

As per usual, we have a lot of projects upcoming that we hope you’ll enjoy. Currently, we can announce the following artists are working on these projects:

As always, thanks for your continued support of Cuddly Octopus.

– The Cuddly Octopus Team