Aye, it's becoming insane. Great way to keep me on my cel 
diet, though. >_^

I know there's been a lot of talk concerning WHAT the networks 
are going to do to the anime that is starting to trickle into 
"mainstream" (e.g. CCS - which I have YET to catch on TV! 
When the hell is it on?! Well, I'm not a dub fan anyway), 
from bad dubbing to the cost of collectables. Sad sad sad.

But, like someone else said on a different thread, I think, 
American animation collectors are QUITE used to paying the 
premium buck for Disney [crap], WB and other US studio cels. 
And if you've visited any of those galleries.... My god...

Here's another thing (I'm guilty of occasionally visiting a 
cel shop ;_; can't help it!) - has anyone noticed the markup 
of prices on non-OVA Washu cels on Japanese sites? Is it just 
me? The Shi...shi..Shin stuff, I mean. >_< I've always felt 
the prices on most of the Japanese dealer sites are much more 
reasonable than many of the prices in the US sites (depends on 
series, blah blah blah), but specifically for Washu the prices 
seems to have gone up. Argh!!

I'm not sure what to make of all of this. A part of me is 
actually hoping that studios will quickly move to non-cel 
production or contractually refuse to release cels, at least 
it would give me a great reason to collect cheaper posters 
and shitajiki because the prices would REALLY be insane. The 
steady climb just has me antsy... @_@


p.s. Washurocks - nice page ^_-