Wow, I remember those 2 cels. I originally saw them during Christmas (december 2004). One of them went for $175 and the other went for $150 on Ebay. The winner was roe43. I had tried to keep records of people and prices in the beginning when I didn't know anyone and I knew that should I ever make offers, I would at least have a grasp of what is a good offer or not. But in the end I decided that it was futile since bidding wars were common back then and even if you have an average price in mind, someone could have easily paid more or less. So it was better to just ask what people want with what I was interested in. In the end, I never did collect Baketsu Hunter Cels and a ton of other series lol. Plus, I was trying to make sense of who was who on beta, animanga, ebay & rubberslug.
Your friend must have gotten those cels down the pipeline after the original ebay winner. Thanks to Keropi for mentioning old records from a different thread, that's how I found out that I bought my first Sketch set from Saiyuki in September 6, 2004 (yeah, I keep old records, but I don't usually like going through them often

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graymouser: I don't think that is a Hanken, I saw one other like that and I think it came with a LD or something. I saved the auction link, but when I clicked on it, it went to an expired link. Sorry I don't have more information.