Anime-Beta TNG

No problems: in doing some of this trolling I found some really interesting pieces (from the same general animation era) that I would not have seen otherwise. This is, of course, the constant peril a collector faces whenever you're looking for something in particular.

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This takes a little more ingenuity if you are not competent in Japanese, but you can do a search on Yahoo Japan with the Japanese title. 生命の科学ミクロパトロール and add セル画 ("celga" the Japanese term for "cel") Another possibility is to Google the two terms. That will sometimes turn up an ...

Wider-ranging collecting friends? Where do you find your most inaccessible cels and sketches? I can only suggest trolling the Mandarake auctions, which frequently are filled with series names that are unfamiliar to me.

The series is listed in Anime News Network's Encyclopedia under the first of your titles: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=11517 It seems to have been popular in international licensing. Made for a French TV network, I can see that it was also dubbed and broadcast in Polish...

my question here is how do you find them, the series themselves? I don't have a lot of patience and I certainly have a very hard to please palatte when it comes to anime, but I want to know where y'all come up with your obscure favorites. As an earlier post by Vapalla notes, some of it was word of ...

From what you say, you are doing the right things. Like tara, I'd only suggest that you put the MicroChamber paper inside the cel bag. Like her, I use an extra (smaller) sheet of cel bag (usually scavenged from the good side of an old one) behind the cel, and the paper behind that. This is chemicall...

Some popular series also have the genga/douga sequences broken up and sold separately. I don't know about Naruto, but this item-by-item sale was done with Fruits Basket, Wolf's Rain, Yamibou, Kino's Journey, and Rozen Maiden. It's better for collectors if these sketches are sold as a unit, but alas ...

That's realistic: but stay alert. There was one CCS cel that I wanted badly, but the price (on eBay) went up and up so steeply that all I could do was watch and congratulate myself for having good taste. Then a sequence-mate showed up on a dealer's page for one-tenth the amount of the cel I'd covete...

Yes, better to have a limit and stick to it rather than get caught in a bidwar and be tempted to go way beyond what your finances can bear. Bad news: you don't get to own that cel or sketch. Good news: you get to keep your money. And I've had many experiences where I unsuccessfully bid on an item an...

I did once get a phone call from my credit card about a Mandarake charge. The contact person was not at all pushy or discourteous, but actually interested in my experience bidding on a Japanside auction site, which he'd never run into before. I looked up the two wins and worked out a rough guess at ...

Still the basic principle for me is "Primum non nocere," or "Above all, don't damage the cel." I have had paint peel off of the back of the cel in places regardless of the method, and so I'd say if the cel is a valuable one or one precious to you, leave the paper in place. If it ...

Microchamber does stick to paint, but not quickly and not tightly. And no service that I know of provides it free of charge. It might be rice paper which was commonly used to separate cels during studio use and storage and does stick tight (over time ... simply putting a sheet of paper in with a cel...

Also try the Facebook Groups for Anime Cel Collectors and RubberSlug & Anime-Beta. Some folks with photographic memory and wider experience than mine hang out there.

Doesn't help much, but the SHAFT logo on the layouts is not the one the studio uses now, and Wikipedia shows another logo used from 2010-17. So it's likely that your series is pre-2010, the period when the studio became really respected. You might browse through various "Ten best series from Sh...

As the damage is caused by chemical action within the cel itself, I would not suggest repairing by painting its surface with something that would keep it from outgassing. However, I did make a paste out of distilled water and baking soda (calcium bicarbonate) and applied it to the back painted surfa...