Anyone else here collect anime cels?

[Jet_Jaguar]

Does anyone else here have any anime cels? I don't have a very big collection yet, but here's what I have:



This is a cel from "A Tale of Two Robots," a segment from the anthology film A Tale of Two Robots.

Here's the movie on YouTube (I don't like the dubbing in this version, but it's the only one that's on YouTube):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdOieEsk918

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdqhD5NAv9w

I got this cel from eBay for about $8, which I thought was pretty reasonable. (I saw a few Miyazaki cels that were going for about $1,000!)



For some reason this cel actually has two layers, does anyone have any idea why it was done this way? (The bottom layer cel is stuck to a piece of paper with the paint on the back of the cel. I tried to gently peel it off, but I couldn't get it to come off.)





I managed to find this cel in the movie:



As a bonus, the seller also gave me a cel from Hakugei, a sci-fi anime series loosely based on the famous Herman Melville novel Moby Whale (the #@!$% filtering on this board won't let me type the real tite):



This cel came with a piece of paper with this drawing on it:



Here's an amv with footage from Hakugei (It's the only clip from this show that I could find on YouTube):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlGFb62AI0E

I've never seen this show. Has anyone here seen it?

I think that having an actual physical artifact from the making of an animated movie that I like is pretty cool. Somehow, it gives me a new appreciation of the insane amount of work involved in making animation.

[Gallennon]

I have one from Magic Knight Rayearth 2. I scored it for 15 dollars years ago at Otakon.

BTW Robot Carnival is one my favorite anime. Wish I could find a DVD version, but sadly it is out of print in the US. Though I am not as fond of the English dub, after seeing it in Japanese and realizing they cut out large parts of the script in many of the short films with dialog.

[Jet_Jaguar]

BTW Robot Carnival is one my favorite anime. Wish I could find a DVD version, but sadly it is out of print in the US. Though I am not as fond of the English dub, after seeing it in Japanese and realizing they cut out large parts of the script in many of the short films with dialog.

I agree. Robot Carnival is one of my favorite anime movies, so it's a little frustrating that we've never had a DVD release. If what I've read is correct, complicated rights issues are holding it up. If there were a Robot Carnival DVD, I bet it would sell. It's a movie that probably served as an introduction to anime for a lot of people (I first saw it on either the Cartoon Network or TNT in the mid-90s), so I would be willing to bet that it's a movie with a special place in the hearts of a lot of anime fans.

The English-dubbed version of "Presence" isn't too bad, but if you've seen the original Japanese version of "A Tale of Two Robots," you can tell how dumbed-down the script for the English version is. If anyone ever releases a Robot Carnival DVD, I kind of hope that they re-dub "A Tale of Two Robots."

[Gallennon]

Agreed. The funny thing is I have seen the Japanese version, and I really felt all they should have done was keep the villains voice in English dub because it sounded better then the Japanese one, and left the Japanese characters in Japanese with subs. since part of the jokes revolve around how neither side knows what the other is saying.

[mickmoart]

I wish I could find a cheap one or 2 from Gasaraki. Seems like I don't collect cells. But if I did, that would be the one I would get!