DBZ Hanken Cel Question

Goldknight · Post by **Goldknight** » Sun Nov 02, 2008 1:01 am

http://ekizo.mandarake.co.jp/auc_e/item ... 9830100001

Is it really hanken? Anyone know where it may be from. It's obviously missing a layer and I don't think I've ever seen hanken with sequence numbers.

Killua · Post by **Killua** » Sun Nov 02, 2008 8:26 am

Occasionally hanken have sequence numbers like A1 or just a number, I believe. However, I have no idea if that's a hanken.

majinuub · Post by **majinuub** » Sun Nov 02, 2008 9:42 am

It looks like it's from an advertising commercial. I can picture Goku being a missing layer in the center holding some ad or product.

BTW, I love the expressions on Vegeta and Trunks face

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Goldknight · Post by **Goldknight** » Sun Nov 02, 2008 10:47 am

Vegeta's boots are miscolored.

Cordelia · Post by **Cordelia** » Sun Nov 02, 2008 10:50 am

You might want to check with Mandarake on which product it was used for, and why there are seq nos. They have been quite helpful in the past.

Moop · Post by **Moop** » Sun Nov 02, 2008 12:58 pm

It's also an End cel; I agree with majinuub - it looks more like a commercial cel than a standard hanken.

Xelloss · Post by **Xelloss** » Sun Nov 02, 2008 4:48 pm

Doesn't "hanken" literally translate to "commercial"? That might explain the confusion in this case...

- Karen

Moop · Post by **Moop** » Sun Nov 02, 2008 6:13 pm

I think that a closer translation would be 'copyright'.

Hanken monos are the first thing I think of when something is being sold as a hanken, but I suppose that any time an advertiser has to pay a studio for the rights to use a character image, each piece of resulting artwork is technically a hanken in its own right.