Anime-Beta TNG

This may not look like much, but it's actually THE double cross in the series, where Kanzaki is getting Shin drunk and having him sign his life away in Area 88.

Show me something completely adorable.

This bill is to create a museum. While the goal is to preserve animation and manga art (with the goal of keeping it in Japan), nowhere does it make illegal the sale and export of anime or manga art. They want to preserve it in the country by putting it in a museum, but they still have to acquire the...

Collecting for over 20 years now, I mostly miss the people. I miss hanging out on IRC, Animanga forums (even though they got crazy sometimes), beta being more active, and livejournal. Facebook helps make up some of that, but it's not quite the same. I also miss the supply. Massive updates to website...

Just wanted to add, I've had boxes of manga I've won stored in Japan and shipped to me directly from Japan by SMJ. If it's too heavy, they won't automatically ship it to the US. I typically choose to ship those by the cheapest possible method, so they sometimes take a few weeks, but for thirty books...

One of the biggest problems preventing a new boom is that so many shows are moving away from hand drawn paper art, period. First it was the death of cels when digital ink and paint became prevalent, now douga is getting phased out as in-between and corrections work is being done digitally. Younger a...

For what it's worth, modern led scanners almost all have issues with certain shades of pink. It seems to be an inherent issue with the technology. I was talking to a guy at office depot about it the other day, wondering if any of the newer scanners have fixed the problem. He said if I want I can bri...

Hey, everyone! I'm not sure what madness took me, but I decided to sign up to present a panel on animation art collecting at Comicpalooza in Houston on May 13th. It's currently on the schedule for Saturday morning at 10:30. I'm putting together my presentation. I wanted to invite anyone who might be...

If so, if there's any chance you could stop by Tokyo Sky Tree, let me know. They're supposed to have some Nintama Rantaro cels and production materials on display as part of a 25th anniversary event. It costs 500 yen to get in though, so I can understand if you're not a fan not wanting to bother. Bu...

I finally decided to sit down and translate a couple of dvds that I own so I could watch them with friends who don't know Japanese. I figured out how to work Aegisub and spent a bunch of time the last few weeks on them. So far I finished the first Nintama movie and I'm about halfway through the Otoh...

I always love your cels! Looks beautiful. I'm going to bask in your PSME collection.

One of my regular sellers put up the first Teddy Ruxpin cel in quite a while (at least a year), so I bid on it along with another DIC cel (Bill & Ted). Holy cow, I don't know if it's because of the app or what, but that was some seriously intense competition in the last 20 seconds of each auctio...

Looks like I didn't respond to that topic, but that was also around the last time I actively updated my webpage.... X| Been actively collecting since then, just not keeping up with the online bit. I started collecting anime cels right around 1996, when I first started making actual money in a real j...

Thank you!!

It finally arrived today! Thanks for all the commiseration. I hope everyone eventually gets what they are sent. So frustrating!

First it got stuck in customs. Now my package has been stuck at a sorting facility since Dec. 15. It was supposed to be delivered on the 18th. What are the odds that I'll ever receive my new cels and genga? argh. So frustrating. Feel like crying. Just ugh. I hope they eventually make it here. :bawl