Cels Forum

>I very seldom see other kids collecting cels....I don't think I have ever
>seen any other gradeschool age kids collecting them here in Japan. I've
>asked some of my Japanese friends about that and they said that cel
>collecting is too expensive. But shoot, those darn Nintendo games that
>most of the kids play cost more than most cels. There are cels sold here
>within the price range that my kids can buy with their spending money.
>Marie got some cels of Guru Guru Mahojin (please forgive me if I mangled
>the name on that....she always gets onto me for getting it wrong) for like
>$1 a piece. Natsumi just picked up a cel from Kiki's Delivery Service for $5...
>yes, it is rather itty bitty but she still loves it and it was within her budget.
>You'd think that more kids here in Japan would be in to cel collecting since
>they see so many of the anime on TV.

   Interesting point.  You seldom see kids collecting cels... especially 
in the United States.  Long ago kids actually did collect cels.  (This 
was the time before adults came in and commercialized the hobby :)  I 
always hear those old stories of how Walt Disney used to sell cels from 
the Art Corner Store on Main Street at Disneyland, for a dollar or so.  
Original Disney production cels for only a dollar!  Now they sell for 
the thousands...  He wanted kids to be able to take home a souvenir.