Yes, the repro cels are done by the studio and 
are probably better quality than the production 
cels (which I imagine are more quickly painted 
and more rougly handled). But they're still not 
the cel that was under the camera. And that is at 
least half or more of the reason I collect cels 
in the first place. (But tell me what makes game 
cels less than production cels? Game cels were 
used to film the sequences in the game and thus 
they ARE production cels.)

Another reason I'm not interested in repros is 
because, while they may be limited, they're 
usually limited to a few hundred. o_0; Of the 
same. . . exact. . . shot. When I buy cels, 
another part of the attraction is a level of 
uniqueness. Everyone and their brother doesn't 
have the same thing sitting in their gallery. 
Even for *production* cels, a cel isn't as 
valuable to me if it's from one of those 
sequences from which *everyone* seems to have a 
cel. . . Exactly matching repro cels definitely 
don't "do it" for me in the uniqueness regard.

Now a completely different reason. . . The frames 
the studios pick to turn into repro cels are 
usually frames where if I saw the *real* cel, I 
would say "oh, that's nice" and walk away anyway. 
They're usually up-close, portrait shots. I prefer
cels with characters interacting, panned back 
cels showing a character's costume, or cels from 
a scenes I especially liked. I've seen only three 
repro cels with more than one character in the 
frame. For all the Fushigi Yuugi and YuYu Hakusho 
repro cels, I can't even ID the scenes the frames 
came from without checking the video. They're 
just usually not cels I would pick to begin with.

That said, I was very impressed with one Mononoke 
repro cel I saw, and also with what I've seen of 
the set of AMG movie repro cels which were made. 
But then you get into price. If I'm going to drop 
hundreds of dollars on something, it's going to 
be on a *production* cel - definitely NOT on a 
repro of any kind, irregardless of how pretty.

For a show that was CG, I would still have little 
to no interest in "post production"/repro cels. 
If I collected anything from the show, it would 
probably be just the production drawings.

Many Sharp Smiles,
--Drac