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AirCooledMan_2006
Joined: 09 Jul 2006
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Location: Delaware, U.S.
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Epic collection is epic.
I don't have near as much anime as that couple does, yet my own library is bigger than those of two record stores near where I live combined, and about equal to half the anime library at my local Best Buy. Even then, my shelves are busting at the seams.
Then there's double-dipping, which I noticed with their Slayers, Escaflowne, and Martian Successor Nadesico DVDs. That's something I don't usually do--when I buy single discs of a show and then buy a box set of that same show, I sell off the singles I had before. But I haven't been able to sell them off lately because Delaware's now got this stupid-ass law banning trade-ins on used DVDs, CDs, and video games. Why they'd pass such an idiotic fuckhead law is beyond me. |
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ShugoYotsuba
Joined: 26 Feb 2008
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Location: Tokyo, Akihabara, Japan
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| Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 3:59 pm |
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HOLY MOTHER OF AYA HIRANO and RIE TANAKA IN THEIR BIRTHDAY SUITS!!! 
GOOD LORD!!!
Words cannot describe how wonderful that collection is!!!
That will BE MINE someday!!
I hope I marry an otaku wife, although I have a fetish for tomboy chicks with flat chests, who dress, act, and speak like guys, with long hair of course, maybe a ponytail (spiked) and also dig giant robots (think the theme to Megas XLR) I know I have a weird fetish !!
But then again to quote Mayumi Thyme from SHUFFLE! and Konata in episode 4 of Lucky Star, "A flat chest is a STATUS SYMBOL, extremely rare and VALUABLE!!!" |
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Zin5ki
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Location: London, UK
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| Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 4:28 pm |
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| If I had so large a collection, with so many items out of print, I'd probably develop paranoia. I'd keep fearing what I'd do if I were burgled or the house was destroyed in a hurricane. |
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irishninja
Joined: 15 Jun 2005
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Location: Seattle-ish
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| Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 5:42 pm |
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| Zin5ki wrote: | | If I had so large a collection, with so many items out of print, I'd probably develop paranoia. I'd keep fearing what I'd do if I were burgled or the house was destroyed in a hurricane. |
I wouldn't be paranoid, but I would buy twice as much insurance as the retail value of the collection, to cover the hard-to-find stuff. 
...okay, maybe I would be a little paranoid. 
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Bamboo, thanks for another excellent review. When Ouran club was making its pass through the illegal circuit, all my female friends were quite a-twitter about the show. Now that it's finally out in R1, my fiancee and I will have to check it out. Especially after you made it Shelf Worthy.
I'm glad to see RM being continued by Funimation, although I could never get into the anime as much as the manga. |
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icepick314
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Joined: 23 Aug 2004
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Location: Back in the Good Ol' US of A
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| Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 6:23 pm |
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wow
another great collector!!
wish my collection is as neat as yours....
wait a min....what's with that TV and DVD player???
don't tell me with that much stuff, you can't afford a better TV??!?!?! |
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marie-antoinette
Joined: 18 Sep 2005
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Location: Toronto
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| Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 6:26 pm |
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And I thought the usual shelf-obsessed pictures made my collection pitifully small. That is HARDCORE! Awesome!
I'm so glad that Ouran made shelf-worthy, it's such a great series. I was hoping for comments about the dub, but I guess I'll wait for separate review I'm sure it will get. Or just watch it myself. If I can ever afford it  |
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icepick314
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| Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 7:06 pm |
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another thing....
what's the point of keeping them in original wraps? |
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Monster in a box
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 7:15 pm |
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| Geeze, please tell me you didn't pay eBay inflated prices for CCS, Sailor Moon, and Aura Battle Dunbine. |
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bglassbrook
Joined: 29 Aug 2006
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Location: Gaithersburg, MD
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| Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 7:22 pm |
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| irishninja wrote: | | Zin5ki wrote: | | If I had so large a collection, with so many items out of print, I'd probably develop paranoia. I'd keep fearing what I'd do if I were burgled or the house was destroyed in a hurricane. |
I wouldn't be paranoid, but I would buy twice as much insurance as the retail value of the collection, to cover the hard-to-find stuff. |
Try 4-5+ times ... depending on how long they have been out of print, finding new (let alone mint+) condition legit-R1 titles is EXTREMELY difficult.
| LordPrometheus wrote: | After seeing those shelves from heaven, I can only say one thing:
Where can I find a wife who loves anime that much??  |
Heck with that ... are they looking to adopt?
Gotta echo the WOW's ... large, legit, and in alphabetical order ... there but for the grace of thinpaks go I. Then again, they have a slight head start on mine. |
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e-imi
Joined: 28 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 7:44 pm |
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Can you guys just adopt me?  |
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Richard J.
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| doctordoom85 wrote: | | Also, garage sales? Odd place to sell/look for anime (granted, I look, but my neighborhood consists of around 800 houses, and we do a neighborhood-wide yard sale every summer, so there's tons of options. That being said, all I've managed to find are some DBZ VHS tapes. ). |
The horror stories I'd heard weren't actually about anime but another collector hobby. There was a thread on another board about people having to give up their collections for various reasons. I felt sorry for the people who did it to try and pay medical bills but some of the stories were just spouses demanding they get rid of them.
Marrying someone and then, after a few years, demanding they chunk their very large collection that cost God only knows how much and took more than a decade to put together seems a little mean. And it was generally the husband and several of the women had hobbies of their own.
Hence why I think it's just plain awesome that the couple that posted their collection pics can actually enjoy a shared hobby. (By the way, that collection is still leaving me stunned.)
| bci110 wrote: | Plus Suiseiseki is nothing short of awesome, much like that collection in this week's column!  |
No, Sugintou is truly the best and most worthy to be Alice. Though Suiseiski is not to be put down in the least. (I like her best when she's trying not to admit that she likes Jun. She's cute when she's flustered.) |
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Asrialys
Joined: 12 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 8:44 pm |
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Amazing collection. I can only hope mine gets that big in the future. Wish I could get some of those older titles as well.
Heh, even their bookend/tissue box looks in great, unused condition |
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Keonyn
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| Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 9:02 pm |
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I have to agree with bci110 on this one, Suiseiseki is awesome, she's easily my favorite of the dolls (though I haven't seen Traumend thanks to the Geneon collapse). When I first heard of Rozen Maiden, I wrote it off and never gave it a second thought. My interest in the series actually developed after seeing someone link their collection of the dolls in a thread some time back. That inspired me to do a bit more research, and I eventually picked it up, only for Geneon to announce their closing a week later (bad timing).
I liked the show though, sugary episodes and darker episodes alike. Even though Bamboo marked it as a downside, it actually sounds like Traumend at least starts in a similar vein to the first series, so I actually take that as good news.
And yes, that collection is truly epic. I don't feel so bad anymore that I filled a closet with DVDs, since others are filling entire rooms with just anime, heh. |
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Elves
Joined: 23 Mar 2005
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Location: USA
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| Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 9:34 pm |
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An epic collection of immense porportions. Awesome.
Though it must suck to add dvds into it when everything's organized alphabetically; a full shelf equals the rest movin' on down the line until the very end (or space is found to be had). That's a lot of shuffling if you're adding into, say, the B's.
And though I see some still sealed volumes, most of the box sets look to me as though the plastic is cut away from the actual dvds so they're accessible while still protecting the box art. Good idea.
And I have to chime in here too: A nice huge collection and such a small-dinky tv. Awe, poor tv. It needs some love too...or rather it needs to become bigger to match the collection  |
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TsukasaElkKite
Joined: 22 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 9:46 pm |
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HOLY FREAKING MYOOPI! THAT COLLECTION IS EPIC!
ESPECIALLY THE CARDCAPTOR SAKURA AND SM! |
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