Those darned cel siblings! ^_^

[sensei]

As a person who just bought (without knowing it) all 93 cels in an important cut in the Nakamura film A Tree of Palme, I'd say I'm ambivalent. (Have you ever tried to lift a stack of 93 oversized cels lately?)

First, I do like to have the entire run of gengas and/or dougas in CGI sketch sets and dislike it when owners/dealers break them up for individual sale, as if the dougas were like individual cels. When I've been able to, I've gotten and maintained these groups as sets.

However, in the case of series of cels, I'm not terribly anxious to get sequence-mates for most series. In fact, if I get two cels from the same sequence, I'm more apt than not to dispose of the one I like less. But there are exceptions:

• 1. When cels from the bank where (Cardcaptor) Sakura captures The Fly Card in Ep. 1 where plentiful and cheap, I bought up a dozen of them and made a gallery out of them. Unfortunately, people realized that I was collecting them and did rather mean things when they came up for auction, which meant, I guess, that the apparent value of the cels I already had got automatically increased about fourfold. (Meh, a dozen from this cut is enough, anyhow.)
  
  2. When Vapalla got a wonderful "smiling Raphael" from the last episode of Tenshi ni Narumon, she traded one to me from earlier in the cut. But I loved hers so much that when a sequence-mate like hers came up, I bought it and kept both of them. (Happily, I also got a cel of Natsumi from the little cut that was inserted into the middle of the Raph sequence, so actually I ended up with a nice little anime tripych.)
  
  3. I have four cels from the great piggy henshin from Tonde Buurin and am not likely to get rid of any yet. (Ai to yuuki no Pig Girl Roorock!)
  
  4. I also have three sequence-mates plus a test cel from an especially dramatic cut where (CC) Sakura uses The Sword.
  
  5. Overall, if I can find cels that go with series of gengas that I already have, I'm more apt to get them to reunite them with the related production art than if I simply have a related cel.
  
  6. In several cases mixed batches of cels have come through the same jobber, who made up lots by picking cels from the same stacks over and over. This is true of Tennimon and Tree of Palme as well, where even before the 93-cel wonder I'd managed to put together little runs of 2 or 3 from the same cut.

Overall, though, these exceptions support my general practice: if I have a cel that I like, and I paid what I thought it was worth (or generally less) then I'm no more than passingly curious to find a sequence-mate for sale and more interested to know who bought it (so I can add a link to it in my gallery) than how much it went for. While I'm sure that in some cases I paid more for my sequence-mate than other collectors did, I prefer to remember the cases when the reverse was true.

[glorff]

How do you think that it feels to find a dream cel of the ending sequence of the X movie and then discover that it is A77

There are several of you that I have five to ten sequence mates with across out collections. I kind of like it since I admire each of those collections the most since we have similar tastes.

[cutiebunny]

Like a few others, the only thing that I dislike is when a person who owns a sequence mate paid substantially less that I did for it. The feeling doesn't last long, but, it can be a tad vexing. But, it's very common for Sailormoon collectors to have sequence mates, especially during bank sequences where you have a character that rotates a seasonal weapon around for a good part of them. I know of one case where I own a frame of one bank attack sequence and another collector owns the same frame when the character is in super mode.

I have bidded/purchased cels from sequences that I already own a cel of. If it's a sequence I like, then, I go for it. Sometimes I do it for the appeal of seeing it animated in my gallery, but, with Sailormoon, animated douga/genga is more of a reality than winning multiple cels in a sequence.