Anime-Beta TNG

I'd say that it's true of all artwork - you should buy the art you like best, not what you think is going to be most valuable. Most artwork is a very, very poor investment unless you find a lost Picasso at a yard sale or something like that. You're unlikely to be disappointed in the future if you bu...

I've actually been scanning stuff this past week. Not even close to finished, of course, but I scanned one of my newest, most wonderful acquisitions of the past few months: this hanken genga from Mandarake. It's the cover to the Nintama Rantaro season 20 volume 4 DVD. http://www.jcaliff.net/cels/nin...

I know it's a little late to reply, but I think this is a copy douga compilation booklet - 78 copies stapled together with a title sheet. If you look close, there's a silver Toei merchandise sticker on the bottom right of front cover right above the copyright, price, and "movic" informatio...

A few years ago I picked up this cel from Yahoo Japan auctions. The seller had no idea what it was from, and neither did I, but I thought it was interesting. I only discovered what it was last summer when I read one of the columns on Cartoon Research . Fred Patten wrote a column about Sanrio films, ...

When is a cel too damaged? I recently bought a set of cels. I knew in advance that a lot of them were bad, but there were basically two sets and one set (the reason I bought them) is fine. The second set, however, seems pretty much beyond salvaging, and I don't say that lightly. The damaged set is a...

My favorite way I've seen people display these are on a cork board using pins. My friend used to do this and decorate the board with fancy paper backings, ribbon, post cards and other things. I found a few simpler examples on MFC: http://myfigurecollection.net/picture/814266&ref=category%3A4 ht...

Christmas Tree Onaments At first I thought, that's a cute idea! But a little seasonal. But your idea gave me the idea to look at ornament hangers on google. They don't all look like trees, there are some really cute ones out there. I think for now I'm going to buy some inexpensive wire ones. I like...

So I recently (as in yesterday for the Alliance) got in some ridiculously cute Legend of the Galactic Heroes figures. Pictures as shown. :) They don't stand on their own, but they do have little clips in the tops of their heads, so I was thinking about hanging them somehow. Does anyone have any good...

I don't know if anyone on Beta was even the buyer, but a few weeks ago there was an "unknown cel" auction for a large lot of cels of Alice from Alice in Wonderland (Nippon Animation version). If anyone on Beta did buy them, if there is any interest in selling one of the cels (not picky whi...

Hey, I was checking out the beta schedule on the San Japan con website, and I don't see your panel. Do you know what day and time you're expecting to present? I can't come for the whole con, but might drive in for a day.

I bought this cel from Asylum at AnimeFest in 1998, nearly 15 years ago. http://www.jcaliff.net/cels/slayers/zanggcel.jpg This weekend I won this auction: http://page11.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/n112484046 Check out the third image. 8O Of course I had to bid. As Gourry and Zangulus are forever...

Gimp can be pretty powerful, especially if you download some of the python scripts that are out there. I tried buying a mustek scanner not long ago, but it had the exact same problem with scanning certain pink colors as my other scanner, regardless of driver and software. Please let me know if you r...

That's awesome!

I sometimes think about bidding on series that I don't normally bid on, but I worry about running into legit (or non-legit) reproductions. Obviously for recent series you can figure that pretty much any cel is a reproduction (or releizu). But for some of the older series that have a ton of reproduct...

I would totally bid on these Chacha cels if the second one was a little cheaper.

http://page7.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/g124873731

http://page9.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/k154287989

Ha ha!

<- is easily amused