Ugh!  I hate it.  I wish there were some better 
alternative that the studios could have used 
other than nasty tape.  I hate the way it turns 
brown and brittle, and leaves nasty marks on the 
backgrounds and sticky residue on the cels.  

The reason I'm posting this message is because I 
just got an amazing and incredible cel that I 
still can't believe I won.  However, it's a tape 
nightmare.  It's an oversized, vertical pan, 
multi-layer book cel - altogether it's three cel 
layers and two layers of background stock.  Some 
of the tape is easily removable, espcially around 
the top of the cel where there isn't any paint.  
However, the worst is around the bottom of the 
cel.  

To attach two pieces of cel together, they used 
the kind of tape that's only translucent, and 
it's taped across the front and the back of the 
cel.  It looks like a big nasty white line across 
the cel.  If I remove the tape, I'll have to 
replace it with something else - it's the only 
thing holding the cel together.  I could use more 
clear tape, which has a very limited life span, 
but I was hoping that someone on this forum might 
have some better ideas.  

Here's a partial scan of the bottom part of the 
cel.  Sorry, I won't post the full scan on this 
forum right now because it's a major spoiler for 
episode 26 of Legend of Galactic Heroes. So does 
anyone have any advice?  

Jennifer