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Image 1: Shinji and Unit 02 bought for 115,000 yen (~$1,060) from Mandarake Image 2: Same being sold for $3,950, originally listed the day after the auction before it shipped from Japan Image 3: Shinji bought for $280 from Rubberslug Image 4: Same being sol...

Image 1: MPE cel on YHJ for 35,000 yen (~$335) Image 2: Same being sold on Ebay for $540 (seller does not own it) Image 3: Unit 01/02 cel on YHJ for 195,000 yen (~$1,860) Image 4: Same being sold on Ebay for $2,734 (seller does not own it) Image 5: Unit 01...

Image 1: Shinji cel being sold on Mercari for 45,900 yen (~$420) Image 2: Same being sold on Ebay for $790 (seller does not own) Image 3: Kaworu cel sold on Mercari for 85,000 yen (~$785) Image 4: Same being sold on Ebay for $1,390 (seller does not own) Im...

Image 1: Shinji cel sold on Mandarake for 31,000 yen (~$285) Image 2: Same being sold on Ebay for $800 Image 3: Unit 02 cel sold on Mandarake for 35,000 yen (~$325) Image 4: Same being sold on Ebay for $1,000 Image 5: Asuka cel sold on YHJ for 68,800 yen (...

Fan cels are unofficial fan made works. They are typically made by hand inking, printing, or photocopying lines onto acetate. They are then painted with acrylic or cel vinyl paints. Artists can be commissioned to recreate images that would otherwise be difficu...

Hello and welcome to the Animation Art Wiki! This is a small project that a few production animation art collectors started in an effort to preserve as much of the "communal" knowledge related to this hobby as possible. It is still very much a work in progress...

We're always happy to find people who feel as passionate as we do about animation art collecting and want to contribute to the wiki. If you'd like to be an Editor, just comment on this page. (Feel free to include a little introduction about yourself if you wan...

Like most other kinds of art, production animation art is sensitive to UV light. For art on paper, the damage usually presents as yellowing or other discoloration. These two sketches were held in a double frame (supposedly with archival quality glass/materials...

The Basics Shikishi boards are made by laminating Gasen rice paper to a hardboard backing. The edges are generally trimmed in gold, the most common size for collecting autographs and artwork measure: 9 5/8" by 10 3/4".  Shikishi are traditionally used for sum...

The Basics The Japanese have a custom of sending New Year's cards from around the end of December to the 1st of the year.  In most cases if you can get your card in the mail by 12/25 JPost guarantees delivery for the 1st of the Year.  They are meant as a type...

The Basics Original Manga Pages are basically impossible to come by, especially those produced by famous artists.  In fact CLAMP in general still has most of their original pages from the original run of Card Captor Sakura which they exhibited at the Mori Mus...

A bank cel refers to a cel that is used/filmed repeatedly rather than remade for every instance that it is needed. A good example is a cel used in a opening or ending sequence.  Other notable uses for bank cels are for the transformation or attack sequences in...

Seller (lucky-dragon-tiger) was mentioned in a Facebook group for actively trying to sell a cel that is owned by a collector in the group. Collector's Facebook Post   Collector's Image   Seller's eBay Listing   Sell...

Storing your collection is a task, especially if you are storing it with an eye to conserving your pieces so they don't melt into a puddle of Vinegar in a few years.  There are some wrong ways to do storage but there are a lot of right ways to do storage.   T...

Plastic bags / sleeves made of Polypropylene or Polyethylene are a staple in the storage and preservation of animation art. They are usually referred to as 'Cel Bags' in the collecting community. They are safe to use for animation cels, sketches, and backgroun...

Microchamber paper with honeycomb watermark MicroChamber Paper is a thin sheet of paper infused with SPZ zeolite molecules which have the ability to absorb and neutralize acids and pollutants such as those released by the collection itself. They are an essent...

1) A10 Tenchi Muyo Sasami cel ended on Yahoo Auctions Japan at 3,700 jpy (approx $37 USD) 2) item listed on ebay several months later for 149.99 USD at 4x the price.

1) Item sold on Mandarake for 1,600 yen 2) Item listed and sold at a starting bid price of 10,000 yen (over 6x the original price).

1) Vampire Hunter D Test Cel listed for 89,800 yen (roughly $898usd) on Jan 2022. Originally sold for 20,000yen (Roughly $200usd) on Mandarake a month before. 2) Item listed and sold on YJ for 60,000 yen. Item originally sold on Mandarake for 15,000 yen ...