As Joseph so keenly predicted a couple of days 
ago... *grin*... I've done a wee bit of an 
update to the Hunter x Hunter section of 
evilminion.com.  ^_~

A total of 31 new cels are now scanned and 
available for your browsing pleasure!

(If by some chance you recognize the scene or 
even just the episode number of any HxH 
cel which still lacks a description, please-
please email me?  I will squeak cheerfully at 
anyone who helps me locate those last, elusive 
IDs.)

Here's a preview, just for fun:



As for the warning, I'm afraid there's been a 
rash of fake Hunter x Hunter cels sold as 
production cels lately.  It was bad enough a few 
weeks ago, when I was taken in by a fairly 
pricey Kuroro auction that later turned out to 
be a studio repro.  But this most recent batch 
contained no less than four fancels, mixed in 
with the real ones.  I've spent hours 
painstakingly verifying that the rest of my new 
purchases WERE real -- finding a cuckoo's egg in 
a wren's nest makes you a little bit paranoid 
about the species of the other eggs.

If you plan to bid on HxH cels on Yahoo 
Japan, I highly recommend that you check each 
auction image VERY carefully against the scene 
you believe it's from, paying special attention 
to details of shading and color.  The fancels in 
my shipment all had detailed sketches, complete 
with pencil shading in all the right colors and 
callout information in red ink -- so just 
because something has a sequence number and a 
sketch does not necessarily mean that it's 
real.  I would never have guessed from the 
seller's photos, since the fakes looked just as 
good as the real cels next to them, but the 
difference was much more obvious once they 
arrived.  The only way I could have saved myself 
a bad night and a new ulcer would have been if 
I'd scrutinized the images extremely closely and 
realized that there was less shading than there 
should have been, and the colors seemed a 
bit "off".

Just a heads-up, and probably good advice for 
collectors of other series as well.  Here's 
hoping that I got the bad repro/fancel luck for 
EVERYONE this year, and we're all now safe.  
*grin*