>If you need something to ponder, how about 
why Japanese camera manufacturers use 
English text on their cameras... that's 
something I've always wondered, anyway :)

Easy. Japan loves excuses to use foreign 
languages. Try going to Japan and find a t-shirt 
with actual Japanese on it, instead of English 
(or even french). It's a lot harder than you'd 
think.

Anyway, my opinion on the CG issue:
I agree, the actual shows are more important to 
me than the cels. I got into cels as a byproduct 
of being so obsessed with a particular show that 
I was buying everything from it I could get my 
hands on. I became rather enamoured with the cels 
from this show I bought, and decided to branch 
out into the other series I liked.

I actually collected 'cartoon art' long before I 
was even watching anime, but these were from 
American comic book writers, not cels. I actually 
like the drawings better than cels, and if there 
was some way that I could get ahold of orignal 
pages from the production of manga, I would be 
far more interested in collecting that then the 
cels. So while I like cels a whole lot, I am 
actually really content with collecting the 
sketches used for CG production. There is 
something about the way they mark the shadings 
with the different colored pencils that I find 
really asethetically appealing.