Well, as for what affects me, i haven't seen the
prices of the cels from the series i collect to
drop because of the recession, maybe just the
opposite. Of course i always talk as you mentioned
about the japanese market, not ebay of course. 

The only thing that really affects me is that now
you can rarely try to sell a "decent" cel on ebay
because the price is way higher than what people
there are used to pay these days.