Cels Forum

I agree with you that rising art prices are the reason
that selling and buying douga is becoming more popular.
However, the extra money isn't what bothers me about the
practice of separating cels and douga.

I really like having as many sketches as possible with a
cel I buy.  It can give interesting insight into how that
cel was produced or used, or what corrections were made
in the design.  It's just neat to have another piece of
the production process.  Once the cel and sketch are
separated, the sketch loses this extra value, and becomes
valuable only as another piece of art.

Sure, $100 for a douga from a $2000 cel might be a good 
deal, but if I bought that $2000 cel (yeah, in my dreams) 
and found that the dealer had sold my douga on the side to 
make an extra $100, I would be pretty mad.  Once there are
no more cels, there will be no question of separation, and
it won't bother me to see douga sold.

--Atiya

I know not everyone collects cels for the same reasons that
I do...to me, cels, backgrounds, sketches are much more
important as pieces of a beloved show than just as pieces
of nice art.  Anything that increases the connection between
a cel and the production of the show increases its value for
me out of proportion with the value of the extra object.