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ANN_Bamboo
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>_> It's always a tough sell to say, "Hey, I'm single, by the way, check out my huge anime collection!!!!" Unless you have pictures of yourself lounging seductively all over your DVDs... *drools at the Tenchi set* |
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HitokiriShadow
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Nice analysis on the bio-bullet. And I would love to have a yogurt dispenser like that.
@icepick: Dear God, that collection is huge. Do you have any idea how many DVDs you actually have? I keep selling off DVDs that are only so-so, so I haven't hit 400 quite yet. I end up selling most of the DVDs I get from those TRSI abundance sales, so those don't add much to my collection permanently. Out of the 300 DVDs I've gotten from those sales, I think I've kept about 30 (plus 2 CDs). I think I'll actually hit 400 and stay over that number by the end of this year. Eh, maybe around February or March of next year. After factoring out the DVDs I'm going to sell as soon as I finish Gilgamesh (I'm really glad I got that show cheap), I have 370 DVDs. But I've obtained that over the last 7 years. And you must have about three times that in only two years. 
However, my manga collection is quite healthy. I currently have 588 manga volumes, not including a couple that I've decided to drop and get rid of the volumes I have. Such as Mar which started fumbling the ball around volume 6, juggled it for good measure around volume 10, and tossed it out the stadium in volume 13. That's 12 (since I never actually bought 13) books worth of space I can use for something far better. |
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ichiro3923
 Posts: 167 Location: hiding in your closet watching you |
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Cheer up. If it makes you feel better, the only thing I have is Hellsing: Ultimate Series 1 and Akira DVD. Oh man, I am sooooooooooo behind 
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TestamentSaki
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Don't worry... I just have the Martian Successor Nadesico: Prince of Darkness and the FMA movie. I share your pain. |
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Zalis116
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icepick314
 Posts: 486 Location: Back in the Good Ol' US of A |
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and i stopped counting after i hit 2000 DVDs... |
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LilacShadow
 Posts: 165 Location: Kentucky |
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Jeez, that really is a huge DVD collection...
I'm so jealous! D: My collection is so puny compared to that, and I don't even really have proper shelves. I kinda just have to put my DVDs wherever they will fit, so I probably couldn't take good pictures of my DVDs to send in. I just discovered that I do actually have a camera around here that I was using to take picture of my cats, so I should use that up and get it developed though. I still need to take a new picture of myself too, even though no one wants to see that.
Man, I want to see Le Chevalier D'Eon even more now. I keep hearing about how awesome it is, but I'm pretty much broke from the current TRSI sale. And I don't think my parents want me ordering anything else for a little while... ^^; |
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CrazyCanuck
 Posts: 101 Location: Canada |
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I know that feeling, but I'm still counting... 
Is that 2000 figure just anime or DVDs total? |
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icepick314
Posts: 486 Location: Back in the Good Ol' US of A |
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DVDs total... if i were to collect DBZ and Pokemon DVDs, then anime DVDs probably would reach 2000 easily |
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la_contessa
Posts: 200 Location: Pennsylvania |
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Thanks for letting us know about Linda, Linda, Linda. I've been watching more Asian live action films than usual recently, and I'll have to add that to the list.
Re: icepick's awesome collection, I'm supremely jealous of the quantity, but luckily s/he and I have different tastes in manga, so that saves me from pining away all day at work today  I would clean up at the Right Stuf sales as well, if they didn't always come when I have no money Like the most recent Geneon sale? The same week it started, my new summer job told me they're withholding my first paycheck, so I'm not being paid until the first week of July. You must have a lot better luck than I do!
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sepherest
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A part of me died when I saw that collection. At least I can start collecting now, when I'm still young! (and when people still give me money...)
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MissAsako
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I seriously think I just died after viewing that collection.
I might have one of the smallest collections on this board. It's like 4 DVDs and some manga. It's hard to keep up when you have such an anti-anime mom in the house. D: |
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LightYagami
 Posts: 257 Location: around the midwest |
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I think that ANN should post a poll asking if you died inside after viewing that collection but I don't think that they will. All I know that I was crying in my Pathetism when I saw it. I don't know if my anime DVD collection will ever get that big unless anime DVDs become as cheap as manga, and my current manga collection is approx five times the size as my anime collection. |
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NGE1113
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Le Chevalier D'Eon:
The one episode I've seen of this show so far (from a NewType trailer disc) instantly left me wanting more. I'm something of a history nut, so it goes without saying that the setting of the show itself just drew me in; the setup of the plot and the characters did the rest. I picked up the first volume from an unlisted Best Buy sale, but until conditions improve (read: the next Deep Discount sale) I'm gonna have to hold off picking up the rest. The shelf:
I have something of the same mentality regarding what I buy. Out of everything that I've bought so far, I've probably only sold 15-20% of it away. Mostly because I'd either gotten my fill of whatever DVD, or simply because my tastes had changed. Anyways, that collection still equals win. |
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djarch
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Of course my DVD collection isn't that big, but I think having a big collection isn't always a good thing. In my case, I have too many shows that I didn't really enjoy all that much. Way too often, I watched the first episode on a Newtype Mag disc, and just bought the whole thing based on that - Samurai Gun a good example for this one imo.
Or, I wish I had at least waited for the thinpack release... Scrapped Princess a good example imo. I think almost half of my 200+ DVDs, I've only watched once, because I didn't think they were all that great... of course, this was during the "License everything and run my company into almost bankruptcy" phase. Still, tis better to have more anime than you need, than not enough. Just a blessing and a curse, imo. =D |
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