Ah, how could I forget Doreamon?  I think that's 
one of the most institutionalized animes in Japan 
and will most likely definitely survive.  We seem 
to all agree, though that one of two things will 
happen: very few cels will have value because no 
one will remember them (and the cels that are 
remembered will be very pricey) or, most all cels 
will retain value simply because they aren't 
produced anymore.  Personally, I don't think this 
will be the case, but what becomes a valuable 
antique is impossible to predict (otherwise people 
would collect only whatever would be valuable in 
20 yrs and thus... they wouldn't be so valuable 
anymore!) and, often, what DOES become valuable 
would have completely confounded the generation 
that they came from (I can imagine my 
farm-dwelling grandparents pondering the fact that 
people pay hundreds of dollars for fruit-crate 
labels!) so it's completely up in the air as to 
future value... sorta what makes this interesting 
to me.

>I'd put it in the same category as Litchenstein, 
>and I love his art.  

>Actually I'd put cels on par with the comic book 
>artists

Hmm... that's a more reasonable comparison in a 
way, but I just see manga artists and *some* 
animators as having more creative freedom than the 
mindless drones that get shifted around on 
American comics (I know that's not true, though)

>that Litchenstein copied and put into an 
>entirely different context. He often just 
>reproduced frames of comic books and this doesn't 
>diminish what he did 

~ Depends on what you think of modern art! lol  He 
produced comentary on popular culture (and I 
classify his work as pop art, too) in the same 
manner as many of the other artists of the 50s-70s  
as the nation finally came to grips with 
disillusionment and alienation of the 20th century 
but I'm way digressing here