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What's New03/06/10--When you were a kid, was it your life long dream to grow up to be a weather reporter? That's what I thought. I knew many boys that thought it would be great to become a Fireman or Policeman or Doctor or Football Player, but I don't remember a single one that said that they wanted to be a weather man. Girls wanted to be Models or Nurses or Fashion Designers or even Actresses, but none of them said that they wanted to report the weather. Let's face it, we're talking about a no win situation here. If you are right then it is your fault if it rains and someones picnic is ruined. If you are wrong then you are blaimed for that as well. I think that as professions go it is one that is a last minute choice when you consider your options. Maybe I am wrong. Just because I never knew anyone who always wanted to report the weather doesn't mean that there are none with that goal. If you are a weather person and this was your life long ambition then please let me know and I will gladly present your story next week in the update. Until then, why don't we all check out this weeks cool additionas? Check: Ayashi No Ceres, Big O, Edens' Boy, and Robot Carnival. Enjoy. 02/27/10--I find it most interesting that the human race is defined by an aspect of the female anatomy. Not that I mind you understand because I, for one, am quite fond of that anatomical construct. We are known as Mammals. What does that mean? Our children are born alive and the mothers are equiped to provide sustenance without benefit of an outside source. That its how we are defined. So the next time you watch a performer who makes use of this aspect of her anatomey to earn her living, just remember you are only watching some baby's lunch. Now that I have ruined the experience for you, how about an update to get your mind off of it? Check: 3x3 Eyes, Bakuretsu Hunter, eX-Driver, and Ray Earth. Enjoy. 02/20/10--How often to we think about the biggest mistakes of our lives? Fortunantly, unless it happens to be the person we are married to, not very often. We tend to move those things to the back of our minds otherwise we would never be able to move forward. We find that we can give ourselves peace of mind if we can fix those mistakes to the best of our abilities. Only we know what things still weigh on our minds and what we might need to do to make up for those errors. We might think that if we wait long enough that we will not have to worry about them but think about the peace you would enjoy if you took care of everything now. It is up to you and only you can make those choices. The same way you choose the cels that you are interested in. I can only choose the things to include for the update and hope that they match. Check and see. Try: Ah My Goddess, Mazinkaiser, Patlabor, and Ranma 1/2. Enjoy. 02/13/10--Here I am doing it again. I am bringing up a subject which will, undoubtedly, date me and I have no one to blame but myself. This lyric actually is not from my time but was in movies and on the Television back then. When the man sang the song "I want a girl, just like the girl, that married dear ol dad" to whom was he refering in actuality? Did the man wish to marry someone like his own mother, just what kind of complex were we talking about here, or did he wish to marry someone like his stepmother? I guess that is something we will never know for sure. I think that most women treat their husbands a little differently from the way they treat their children so the guy that wrote the lyric wanted to marry a mother figure and that would be the least botherson conclusion we could make. I guess it is better to not even think about some of these things. Since we are now looking for something else to think about, why not think about this weeks update? Check: Cowboy Bebop, Dragon Ball, El Hazard, and Golden Boy. Enjoy. 02/06/10--Nothing good lasts forever. That is what they say anyway. Actually despite what many people think, that also applies to bad things as well. It only seems that the bad goes on forever. An example would be the time you spend in the Dentist chair versus the time between the visits to the Dentist office. It seems like the weeks between visits go so fast and the time in the chair drags on forever. This is not a knock on Dentists only an example of our perception. I bring this up because our SALE is coming to the end. This will be the last week so if you have been interested in anything and even thought about ordering then now is the time. One last update to give you a little more to chose from. To sum it up, the SALE ends midnight of Friday of next week. Hope to hear from you. Here is this weeks update. Check: Gatchaman, Gundam, Ray Earth, and Slayers. Enjoy. 01/30/10--If Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus, then the Post Office is from someplace else that is much hotter than either of those two places. I don't know if you have had reason to check prices at the Post Office recently, but they struck again when we were not looking. I have had to increase what I ask you to add for shipping. I have not had to do that for several years and now I probably will not have to do it again for several more years. There is some good news because the SALE is still on. To remind you about the arrangement it is buy one and get a second one of equil or lessor value for 50% off. It will, however, not last much longer so take advantage while you can. I continue to add new images to give you a wider selection. Check out this weeks update. Check: 3x3 Eyes, Blue Seed, Escaflowne, and Virus. Enjoy. 01/23/10--There is a book for couples by the name "Men Are From Mars And Women Are From Venus." It is a good book to help us understand the different attitudes of Men and Women about many different topics. I cannot say that I have read it, but I know many people who have. From their recommendations I will probably read it as I would like to understand these differences. The differences are not necessarily the things that cause a marriage to go bad, but they might make it easier to understand each other. One example that I was given from the book has proven out to me so see what you think no matter which side of the gender barrior you are on. A man might say that he is thirsty and ask a woman if she is thirsty too while a woman might ask a man if he is thirsty because she is thirsty and wants a drink. If a man is not thirsty he would probably simply say no and not think twice about it while the woman would get mad because nothing is being done about her thirst. Think about it. I am sure it has happened in your life. I have learned enough where my response to the question would be that I am not but I would be glad to stop if she is. This is just one example. I have other examples but most of them are of the update gender so check them out. Check: Angel Links, Big O, Crest Of The Stars, and Ranma 1/2. Enjoy. 01/16/10--We all make mistakes. I know some people who have difficulty getting their feelings around a statement like that, but it is true wheather some people admit it or not. Some mistakes are small and we do not spend much time in worry about them. Other mistakes are pretty big and more difficult to deal with. One of the hardest things that we ever do in this life is to forgive ourselves for the larger goofs that we make. Some people never seem to get past the guilt that they feel of these blunders. If they dwell on the things like that for too long it can put them in the hospital; both kinds. Some people spend all of their energy finding ways to blame anyone or everyone for the mistakes that they make or turn themselves into martyrs over the smallest little thing just so they do not have to deal with even their smallest mistakes. That is not healthy. If we accept that mistakes happen and get past them then we can live in peace with ourselves as we try to make it better. It would be a mistake to not take advantage of the SALE that we are doing right now so check it out. Hope you can find something that you want. I am adding more choices this week and I hope we can help you avoid one more mistake. Check: Jojo's Bizarre Adventures, Roujin Z, Tekkaman Blade, and Virus. Enjoy. 01/09/10--Boy, the person who runs this web site sure is weird. Do you see the strange things that he writes about when he does the updates? If you have not noticed, check the section entitled "What's New" and you will see the updates for the last few years. Hey! That weird person would be me. Gee, see what happens when you aren't looking. I think that I know why I do it. You can go to just any web site and they will have a dry listing of whatever is new for that week. How boring! I give you ideas and subjects that let you think. I know that can be dangerous, but hey it makes life a little more interesting. I have had no complaints so far so until I do, I shall try to give you different things to make it just a little more spicy for you. To top that off, the SALe continues so check it out. I am adding more each week to give you more choices. Thanks again for joining us and check the update. Check: Ah My Goddess, Bakuretsu Hunter, Ranma 1/2, and Urusei Yatsura. Enjoy. 01/02/10--Welcome to a new year and a new decade. Wow, did you ever think we would get this far? We fooled them all, didn't we. I would like to start off the new year with a serious question. What is truth? I have heard and read some thoughts that seem to say that truth itself can depend on the point of view of the person who, at that moment, is seeking the truth. That is not truth, that is opinion. Long ago most people believed that the world was the center of the universe and that everything revolved around the earth. The fact the most people believed that to be true did not make it true. In fact, many people who expressed different opionions, wheather correct or not, were put to death for daring to disagree with those in power. The power to put someone to death did not make the belief into truth. Some times that common belief might change from one error to another. Just because a point of view is new does not mean that it is correct. If something is true it will be true yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Science has brought us the means to confirm many things as being true and not simply the opinion of the majority at that moment in time. The truth might well be the most important thing that we will ever seek or find in this life. I hope you will seek it just like I do. If different people find the truth about any subject no matter how far apart they are then they will agree even if they never meet. Did I get your juices flowing? The truth is that our SALE continues so take advantage if you can. We add a little more for your consideration. Check: Dual, eX-Driver, Infinite Ryvius, and Mazinkaiser. Enjoy. 12/26/09--Hope you had a really fabulous Christmas with lots of joy and love and good cheer and all that. I hope you did not overindulge in anything other than good cheer as that can bring all kinds of consequences. Since you are back again for another update then I would guess that everything turned out alright. How did mine go? Thanks for asking. It went great. My son and family had to leave early because of other requirements but it did go really well. This is the last update for this year and I really appreciate your support over this last year so to pay you back I will be offering a special to finish off the year in style. It is known as "Buy one and get one for half price." It is simple. Just order one and pay full price and a second one, of equil or lesser value will be half price. They do not have to be the same title. Just don't tell my wife. She is not very understanding about my generosity. Check the update and then check everything and let me know what you find. Check: Big O, Crest Of The Stars, Gatchaman, and Outlaw Star. Enjoy and see you next year. 12/19/09--Believe it or not, only six more shopping days until Christmas. What is even worse, that includes today. One last subtle reminder, cels make terrific gifts for the Anime fans in your life or even perfect strangers for that matter. Knowing how short the time is, I will not take much of your time this week as I know how busy you are so let us get right to the update. Check out: Cowboy Bebop, Dragon Ball, Inu Yasha, and Ranma 1/2. Enjoy and have a great Christmas with family and friends or perfect strangers for that matter. 12/12/09--It goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway, that noone is perfect. Still, we can be perfect about something or a little bit at a time. I pride myself, but not too much, on being honest with my dealings with my customers and with the people I know and can say that I can be perfect in that and that my name can mean something that is very important to me. I have seen over the years that not every one tries to be honest in their dealings and to some people, the end justifies the means. I dearly hope that you do not have that attitude. Some of these people just seem to be able to get away with it and make other people feel bad when they see these people who never seem to have to pay the piper. I know someone like that and it is she who took advantage of me more than any other single person in this world. Most of you do not know who she is, but a few of you might. I always thought that she would only have to deal with the results of her dealings with others in the world to come, but apparently the piper has come to collect and she is facing the results of a lifetime of cheating and lieing. I know that it is not right for me to be happy at the pain of others, but it does bring a smile to my face to see that justice will be served in this one case at least. I think that I will be walking around with a big smile for a little while at least. While I am smiling I can still do an undate so check out this weeks update. Check: 3x3 Eyes, Blue Seed, Dominion, and Galaxy Express 999. Enjoy. 12/05/09--We are so used to the way things are and how they change that we do not always take note of the changes as they happen. We recognize the difference between the way things are and how they used to be, but in a broader sence. We know that the world is different with bigger, faster cars and freeways and all of the little things that make up the world we live in. We know that computers make the world much different from the way it used to be, but it has not really been that long. Most of us remember when people used to carry around pagers to tell them that someone needed to talk with them and now almost everyone has a cell phone. We can remember when we had to go inside the bank and cash a check to get cash and now ATMs are as easy to find as convenience stores. When did that change happen? Change happens in small ways so that we are not surprised yet when we add it all up, it is quite different. They used to try to estimate how our world would be today and frankly they did not get very much of it right. It really makes my smile to think about it. Still, the world has changed and will continue to change and we will hardly notice and simply accept the change as natural. This site changes every week with some things coming off and new things going on and you have grown to accept that as the natural course of things. It has changed this week as well so take note and think about it. Check: Dirty Pair, El Hazard, Urusei Yatsura, and Yu Yu Hakusho. Enjoy. 11/28/09--Now that we have Thanksgiving out of the way, we can now concentrate on my Birthday. It was not a planned thing that my wife and I have our Birthdays so close together. Actually, when my wife and I were dating I thought that her Birthday was in October because her documents and other things showed that month because they were going be the Chinese calender which is a little off from the one we use. In fact they have some really strange customes over there. When I child is born he is considered one year old and when they come the the chinese New Year, the child becomes two and then on the next birthday they become three at the time that a child born on the same day over here is just one year old. That, however, is where they stop so a child born in Asia tends to be about two years older than a child born over here on the same day. I guess that is alright when you are young, but when you get older, it doesn't sound like a very good idea. Now, are you not glad that you were born over here? While you are considering your options, why not check out this week's update, they are timeless after all. Check: Ah My Goddess, Angel Links, Crest Of The Stars, and Nadesico. Enjoy. Oh yeah, my Birthday is Monday. 11/21/09--Today is the birthday of my beautiful wife, Helen. I believe that only happens about once in every seven years. All together now, HAPPY BIRTHDAY HELEN. Thanks everyone, I am sure that she appreciates your kind support. Gee, if you have to have a birthday, and we all do, then we can certainly use all the support we can get. Next week is Thanksgiving for those of us who happen to live in the good ol US of A, so big cheer out there on that account. Wow, what a week of celebrating. So since we are celebrating anyway, why not add to that the celebration for this weeks update. That's right, another big cheer. With that out of the way, why not check out the update, you never know what you are going to find. Check: Big O, Gundam, Macross 7, and Tenchi Muyo. Enjoy, and why not one more cheer for the road. Happy, happy, joy, joy. Etc. 11/14/09--At least we got Friday the 13th out of the way and no worse the wear for it. That brings me to this weeks subject, the word Irony which, in many cases, is just another word for justice. Again my thoughts are brought back to the old saying, big surprise, which says "He that lives by the sword, dies by the sword." That really seems that justice is catching up with someone who deserves what they get. Other times irony applies, but can be rather sad. I think of the person who is never sick a day in their lives who dies from a sudden heart attack or similar sudden onset. In something similar, I had an artist friend who was never sick and claimed to have never been sick in his life. He smoked heavily. He usually lit the new cigarette with the dieing ember of the one that he was finishing. That was true nintynine percent of the times. He would stay up most of the night working and smoking. I never saw him buy a single package of cigarettes or a single carton for that matter. When I would suggest that he cut back he would tell me that the smoking causes cancer was a lie and that it would never bother him. Then one day, as you can imagine, he decided that the cough that he had for six months was not getting any better so he went to the doctor and found that he was dieing of lung cancer. Big surprise! It did not make me happy, but it made me rather sad to know that he wasted his life in the stupid belief that he was above the limitations on the rest of the human race. Irony can be just, but not always pleasant. Still, it would be ironic if you read all that without checking the update so try it now. God to: Bakuretsu Hunter, Golden Boy, Inu Yasha, and Ranma 1/2. Enjoy. 11/07/09--Hey, I was right. Apparently many stores have picked up my idea and are running good prices already. They want to allow a longer shopping season. With that out of the way, back to my favorite topic. Yes, if it not old, it is not worth saying. This time it is not the old saying that "If you can't say anything nice about someone, be vicious." That is an old standard and goes without saying. This time it is "Time waits for no man, it only waits for a few select women with good plastic surgeons." So men, keep that it mind and move ahead with whatever you need to do. While setting you schedule or looking for a good plastic surgeon, why not check out this weekes update? Check: Crest Of The Stars, Gatchaman, Outlaw Star, and Ray Earth. Enjoy. 10/31/09--I hope you have a good time tonight at whatever party or shindig you attend. Most of all I hope you will be safe which generally means don't do anything stupid. Parties often mean doing stupid things so keep a low profile and try to have a good time while being safe. About this time of the year I remind everyone that you need to get your Christmas shopping done so that you do not end up trying to finish at the last minute like so many people do. I know that some of the best prices of the year come at around Thanksgiving, but it might be easier to budget if you spread it out over a longer period. It is not a good thing if we create a big debt doing the shopping. Another thing that I like to point out is that cels make a really good gift for the Anime fans in your life and you know who they are. This site is a really good one for that because we cover so many different interests. Thanks again for shopping with us and check out the update. Check: Cowbop Bebop, Escaflowne, Mazinkaiser and Orphen. Enjoy. 10/24/09--It is time again to prove that I have too much time on my hands. As you know, or should by now, I am interested in how language works including old sayings. In this last week I have discovered some more built in contradictions in the language that I know best. Let me give you an example. When an elderly person falls, bones break. The point here is the connection between fall and break. The statement is both obvious and generally true. Now some more using the same criteria, but with different results. The night falls, the dawn breaks. See my point. Here is another. The tears fall, the heart breaks. Ah! Here we have the same composition and different results. Lastly, the production falls, coffee breaks. Get my point. See how many you can think of. While you do, check out this week's update. Check: Blue Seed, Dr Slump, Sakura Wars, and Virus. Enjoy. 10/17/09--Last week I mentioned the coming rain. It did come alright, but not much where I live. I think they should do something about the weather man. This is terrible. The only place where they got much rain last week is the mountian area north west of us where they had a very big wild fire that had destroyed over 250 square miles of brush. I think we only got about enough rain to turn the dust on our wind shields to mud on our wind shields. Oh well. Maybe some day. So how was your week? That's good. Mine too. Don't celebrate too soon because things have a way of turning around when you least expect it. While waiting for the turn around, why not check out this week's update? Check: eX-Driver, Ranma 1/2, Saber Marionette J, and Vampire Princess Miyu. Enjoy. 10/10/09--I heard good news last night at the football game. We are expecting rain some time next week. I know that doesn't sound like much of a big deal for most people, but we have been having pretty much drought conditions in California for several years and we have restrictions on watering our lawns, if we still have any, and flowers and vegetables and so on. What it means to us is that all our good stuff will get watered anyway and we don't have to deal with restrictions or limits. I hope that we get more rain this year and finally get over the water shortage. I hope you are not having water shortage where you are. While you are checking to see if you have a water shortage, why not check out this weeks update? Check: Dragon Ball, Roujin Z, Tekkaman Blade, and Weiz Kruz. Enjoy. 10/03/09--Is everyone there? I had a problem this last week with my web site. Apparently there was a problem with the domain registration and I needed to pay to extend it yet they did not tell me that there was a problem so suddenly the link was broken. After stress and concern, I was able to get it paid so they got it back up yesterday, but they sent me a warning that there may yet be places where the link might not be fixed yet so I hope you are getting me. I would ask anyone who isn't getting my site to let me know, but then again, if you are not getting me then how would you know to let me know? Oh well! All I can do is hope that you are getting me. Still, some people don't get me even if they get me. While you are figuring that one out, why not check out this weeks update? Check: Big O, DNA, El Hazard, and Yamato. Enjoy. 09/26/09--In Korea they have a saying that I just learned this week. It sounds like they have hit the nail on the head with this one. Their saying goes that life goes bye at the same speed as your age. An example would be that when you are ten years old, life goes bye at ten miles per hour. When you are old it goes bye faster. When you are age fourty, life goes bye at forty miles per hour then when you get to my age, you will surely get a ticket for going too fast and you insurance will go up. Frankly, I am glad that it seems to go a little faster now because all the good things in life, like conventions and holidays get here sooner. I stopped counting the minutes long ago and have been counting the days ever since. Soon, I believe I will be counting the months and simply pass counting the weeks as unnecessary. Still, I must count the weeks in setting up the updates for this site so here we are agin. Check: 3x3 Eyes, Bakuretsu Hunter, Dominion, and Inu Yasha. Enjoy. 09/19/09--How big is your heart? Your heart keeps you alive and will beat some 60 times per minute for as long as you live. We also think of the heart as being the center of our being. We love with our heart. It is that heart that I was refering to. How big is that? Is it big enough to love more than one person? If you have children, can you love all of them or only the first two or three? Can a widow love only the husband that she lost or can she truely love the man that she marries? Some day, when you have grandchildren, can you love them all as much as your children, and spouse, and pets and so on? The answer is simply YES. That heart, that we love with, is bigger than we are. I find my heart swelling when I hear beautiful music and poetry. When that happens, I don't love the other things less, I love them more. It is perhaps that capasity that really separates us from other animals and not our big brains. If that is true, and I believe that it is, then I am really quite happy. How about you? How big is your heart? While it swells, why not check out this weeks update? Check: Crest Of The Stars, Noir, Ranma 1/2, and Slayers. Enjoy, and I mean that with all my heart. 09/12/09--There is an old saying, and you know how I am about old sayings, "If it's not old, it's not worth saying." Where were we? Oh yes, the old saying. It simply says, "Buyer beware." Very good advise. The reason that I bring that up is the fact that recently I was checking ebay listings for a couple of friends of mine and saw something that bothered me. Under the listing for Alex Nino, a very old friend, I observed what was described as a pinup featuring Cousin EERIE from Warren publications. I can guarantee you that this illustration, which is selling for a fare amount of change, is not something that Alex would have done. It is not his style. The person with the listing said that it was published in EERIE, but could not say where. I checked the picture and could not find Alex's signature and he does not do anything that does not have his signature. With no signature and no listing of where it was published then I am very dubious. The other thing that I found was under the listings for the artist, Sanjulian. I previously mentioned that I had met him at Comic Con in San Diego and we have been regularly corresponding since then. I had checked his listings on ebay and then communicated with him about the things that I saw. Unfortunately none of his paintings had been returned by Warren after publication though they have not made arrangements for the publisher to keep the artwork and so you will sometimes find something of his going up for sale. On ebay they show a listing of some color illustrations as being his that were used on a publication with no reference where the art was published. I mentioned these to the artist and he told me that he did not do these. I checked and there is not signature on the artwork. Again, with no reference as to where the art was published then cannot verify the sourse and in this case the artist disclaims the work. If you bought any of these believing that they were done by the artist that you like, you would be disappointed. I have made some mistakes over the years in my listings but everything on my site right now is exactly what it claims to be so you can shop with confidence. Speaking of shopping, why not check out this weeks update? Check: Mazinkaiser, Nadesico, Outlaw Star, and Pretty Sammy. Enjoy. 09/05/09--So, where do you stand? Actually, I need to rephrase that. Where do you park? We have a strip mall on the main street of the city where I live. Usually, I make a general rule to stay far away from anything with the word strip in the title, like Strip Search, Strip Mine and Strip Tease, but in this case, I made an exception. They have a shoe repair in that little mall and that is what I needed. There are about ten store in the little mall and parking for about twenty five cars or so, but it is always difficult to find parking there. I had to go there twice yesterday and the first time I had to park on the street. I looked at all of the cars that were parked there and thought that there just could not be that many customers. When I went back to the shoe repair later, I mentioned the parking to the owner and he told me their problem. Several of the stores have seven or more employees and they all come in their cars and park in the paking for the mall. The self-employed, like him, park on the streets around there to leave parking for the customers, but the ones who are only employees do not care and don't bother. It is very frustrating for the self-employed because they are losing customers because of the employees that just don't care. I took note of all of the cars and trucks that were parked there on both of my visits yesterday and I have to agree with the shoe repair owner. It would not be difficult for the employees to park on the street and walk a little farther twice each day and leave the parking for the potential customers. Where would you park? If I were an employee there, I would park on the street without anyone telling me. So, while you are looking for a place to park, check out this weeks update. Check: Fam And Iri, Ray Earth, Shamanic Princess, and Yamato. Enjoy. 08/29/09--At times it must be very clear to most of you that I have too much time on my hands. Much of this spare time comes when I am out walking my dog with nothing really important to occupy my mind. To give you an example, this week I started thinking about smiles and this is what I came up with. I believe that these versions are original to me so if you like them, you know who started them and if you don't, you know who to blame. First: A Smile is an investment that always shows a return. Second: Noone looks into the mirror and complains about having too many smile lines. Third: Laught, and the world laughs with you, cry, and they put you on medication. While you are waiting for the medication you can look at this weeks update. Check: Angel Links, Cowboy Bebop, Galactic Hero, and Saber Marionette J. Enjoy, and I will try not to think too much this week. 08/22/09--Are you one of those who enjoys when a friend is successful in something that they try to do? Are you one of those that wants your friends to feel happy about themselves? Do you try to make them feel better when they try and fail? If you meet this description then obviously you feel good about yourself. I have heard many stories of those who put down those they know and do not give them any support or reinforcement in their efforts. This is a trait of weakness that most often is found in men, but can also be observed in women as well. A truely strong person does not need to put others down in order to feel better about themselves. A person with good self esteem does not need to make others feel less. We might even do this without really even realizing that we are doing it, so think about you actions and see where you fall. When you can be truely happy with the success of others then you can truely be happy. Speaking of happy, I am sure that this weeks update will make you happy. Check: Big O, Jube Chan, Nadia, and Ranma 1/2. Enjoy. 08/15/09--After an eternity of waiting, it is finally here. No, not this week's update, but the latest movie by Hayao Miyazaki. They did build it up. I, like many of you, have seen it and the theature was about half full, which is not too bad for a matinee. For those of you who have not seen it yet and you know who you are, I will not ruin any plot points, but I do wish to make a few comments. You know that Ponyo is a goldfish pincess and that she falls in love with a human boy. That is no surprise because they have already told us that in all the advertising. So much depends on the love between two five year old children. They do not even understand the concept of love. How will they feel about each other after another fifteen years or so? If Ponyo was a goldfish then she was wearing a skirt. Rather odd if you ask me. One thing that I did like was that they clearly show that the story takes place in Japan and give the boy an obviously Japanese name. The boy's mother works in a senior center taking care of elderly women and obviously cares about them. The artistic style is different from most of Miyazaki's efforts. I would compare this style as cartoony versus illustrative. Not bad, just different. I would recommend it though I doubt that I would be interested enough to buy it on DVD when it comes out. I hope you enjoy it as much as you enjoy this week's update. Check out: Galaxy Express 999, Grandizer (someone in Florida asked about this title,) Mazinger Z (another with matched background and not stuck,) and Shadow Skill. Enjoy. 08/08/09--Truely, when they sing that there is no business like show business, they know of what they speak. That is absolutely true. It takes a special kind of person to even want to make their living in that business. You must have an overwhelming level of self confidence. Let's face it, when you are selling anything in life from soap to knuts or soup to nuts, you can depend on the product selling itself to some degree while in show business you are only selling yourself. You sell yourself to agents, directers, and finally the audience. Your greatest ability as a performer is to not be yourself, but to be someone else. It is hard enough to stand and speak in front of an audience, but to stand and sing is much, much harder. Why do you think that most Karaoke are in bars? It is called liquid courage. Why my son chose that field is beyond me, but he has always had self confidence like you would not believe. When he was the age of eight, his elementary school was having a fund raiser by selling chocholate Easter Eggs and he went door to door in the neighborhood and sold more Eggs than all the other children in the school combined. They had three prizes for the top three sellers and they gave them all to him. Some day his name will be in lights. It has been fun for me to watch and I am proud of every step he has made both big and small. If ever anyone with my family name becomes famous, it will be him. Still, we have time yet so why not check out this week's update while we are waiting. Check: Ah My Goddess, Ray Earth, Yamato, and Yu Yu Hakusho. Enjoy. 08/01/09--I do not often mention the fact that I am bilingual. Considering my hobby, I often wish that my second language were Japanese, but it is Spanish. Last weekend at Comic Con, I was glad that it is Spanish. I made a new friend. My new friend is from Spain and speaks almost no English. I think that he was glad to find someone with whom he could converse and I was very glad to fill the bill. He is a well known artist. In the United States he is best known for covers for magazines that were published in the seventies and eighties known as Creepy, Eerie, and Vampirella. His pen name is Sanjulian and I really liked his work before I ever met him and I like it more now. I had a really good time at the convention as well. We are doing all we can to get back again next year. We, however, still have time to do our weekly updates so here we go again: Check: Cowboy Bebop, Crest Of The Stars, Pretty Sammy, and Tenchi Muyo. Enjoy. Or as they say in Spanish, Que tengas buen tiempo. 07/18/09--Where will you be next weekend? If you will be at Comic Con in San Diego then you will see me there. If you will be anyplace else then it will be too bad for you because Comic Con is the place to be. There will be more actors, movie stars (not necessarily the same thing,) producers, directors, artists, and "interesting" people per square inch than anyplace else in the world. They film TV shows there and have some live broadcasts and lots of cool stuff. It is, of course, very difficult to get from one side to another, but well worth the trip. This is convention number fourty so that is something of a hallmark event. There are very few of us that have been to all of them. Many of you were not even born yet in 1969 when they had the first one. I would guess that you have figured out that there will be no update next week since I will not be here. Make good use of your time and see you in two. While you are here anyway, why not check out this weeks update? Check: Grandizer, Moldiver, Nadesico, and Saber Marionette J. Enjoy. 07/11/09--Gee! Seven/11, where have I heard of that before? Oh well! I have a good excuse. I was up past my bedtime last night at my first "Rock" concert. Lets just say that I am revealing my age again. I think it was a very good group to see for my first such experience. The group is led by two middle aged women. The group is "Heart." And I had a grand time. The middle aged women in the audience were almost as interesting as the ones on the stage, but for a very different reason. To an extent, I feel a little sorry for them because they are having a hard time accepting that they are no longer teenagers. Some just dressed "young" and others dressed stupid. When you are as old as these ladies and gravity has been pulling on your bodies as long as these ladies, let us just say that they do not look quite the same in really low cut outfits as they did thirty years ago. It seemed that the cleavage went farther down that their navels and that is a little scary. I thought that they were looking for oil in all the wrong places. You, on the other hand, are looking in the right place for here we have our update. Check: Burn Up W, Midnight Eye Goku, RG Veda, and Speed Racer (the new one from Taksunoko.) Enjoy. 06/27/09--Do you know what is next weekend. It is just the biggest Anime event of the year. Guess where I will be. Yes, I will be there too. And where will I be? I will be at Anime Expo in all my glory. People often ask me at different events if I have all of my cels on my site. No, I do not. If I did then there would be no reason for having an update. Also, I doubt that there would be quite enough room for everything on my site at one time. It holds quite a bit, but images take lots of space and images of everything would really be hard to fit. I hope I see you there, but if not, I hope you have a good time wherever you are. Again, I would suggest that if you see something on the site that you are interested in you need to order before I go or it might not make it back. Quick, check out this weeks update before it is too late. Check: Ah My Goddess, Ranma 1/2, Tenchi Muyo, and Yamato. Enjoy. See you in two. 06/20/09--They say that old habits are hard to break. Actually, when you think about it, all habits are hard to break. That really gets to the defenition of a habit. Any habitual behavior is difficult to deal with. In the situations where you add something else to the problem, like nicotene or alchohol, then you have made it even more difficult. The habitual use of drugs is the most difficult of habits and to that you can add the use of nicotene as in cigarettes. I have some habits and not all of them are good, but none of them are in the categories that I have described. No matter hard hard a habit, it can be broken. Experts say that you can break any habit if you can change your behavior for 21 days. That is only three weeks. Think about it and you will find that it is true. That does not mean that you cannot start the habit again if you are not diligent, but that is all you need to break a habit. I hope that your visit of my site is not just a habit but a choice. If it is a choice then I hope you choose to check this weeks update. Check: Cowboy Bebop, Crest Of The Stars, Dominion, and Silent Mobius. Enjoy. 06/13/09--Time to think. Why on Saturday morning? Why not? Rhetorical question: What are you worth? I am not talking about your bank account balance, but rather what is your feeling of self worth. Many people who are very worthwhile have low self esteem and think that they are worth little. Obviously, that is an error. Your individual worth is beyond our ability to calculate. How can we judge such a thing? As an example: You might be the person who gives a word of encouragement to someone who is at the brink of dispair. You might be the one to offer forgiveness to one who is unable to forgive himself. You might be the one to smile to one who has given up all hope. You might be the one to say, "You are loved" to someone who is unable to love himself. See what I mean. Something very small could make all the difference in the world to someone and how do you put a price tag on that? You do not need to look for kind things to do for people, just live your life in such a way that you do it without thinking and the chance that you can make a difference to someone is always going to be there, even without trying to find it. Your worth is more than you can ever know. You can know, however, the worth of the cels in this weeks update because they come with a price. Check: Angel Links, Bakuretsu Hunter, Ghost Sweeper, and Rurouni Kenshin. Enjoy. 06/06/09--So why is it that people collect cels? There are so many things that are related to our hobby, so why this? Of all the things that can be enjoyed, this really is the closest thing to the animation that we can find. The cels are actually part of the animation. We collect the shows and movies that we like and no picture, book or even model is closer to that animation. The cel is actually used to make the animation and we can find it, if we look close enough, if we know where to look. It is an image that brings us emotions related to the caring we feel about the story, characters and look of the original. If we have it on our wall then we can look at it every day or if we have it safely stored then we can look at it any time we are in the mood. A cel is closer than the pencil drawing because it is what we see when we see the animation. There is really nothing closer to what you love than the cel and it is a beautiful part of the collection that will be with you for as long as you want. Since you are in the mood to want today, why not check out this weeks update? Check: Ray Earth, Saber Marionette R, Totoro, and Yu Yu Hakusho. Enjoy. 05/30/09--For those of you who have not figured it out already, we were in San Jose last weekend for Fanime Con. We had a great time and, from what I can tell, the economy seems to be turning around based on the way people were spending money at the convention. Perhaps a little more carefully and trying to get the best deal possible, but still a good stimulus for everyone involved. We are back for awhile so let's make the best of it. Much animation artwork is very beautiful by any standard. It can be the cel or the background or both. When you consider the short time that many of these images are actually seen, the quality is stunning. A number of this weeks additions fall into those categories. I especially like the Shadow Skill, but the Fushigi Yuugi is stunning also. Don't depend on me, check them out yourselves. Check: Eatman, Fushigi Yuugi, Lupin III, Noir, and Shadow Skill. Enjoy while you can or until someone decides to add these to their collections. 05/16/09--I just flitter around like a butterfly. I'm back this week, but I will be off to a convention next week. You had better enjoy it while you can. I will provide you with two weeks worth of update this week with all of the cool stuff that I promised you awhile back with the sneek peaks. Please keep in mind that everything will be going with me to the convention so if you see something that you like, you had better order it because it might not make it back from the convention otherwise. This is not all of the really cool stuff, but it is a nice selection. Some of this stuff just jumps at you. Example: I have not seen a Captain Harlock this good in years. This is original series. That is just one example. Also, I have never seen images from the original Mazinger Z to match these. This is a very old series and is one of the creations of Go Nagai to set the pattern for all the anime that followed. Go ahead! Check them all: Bakuretsu Hunter, Captain Future, Captain Harlock, Cowboy Bebop, Dominion, Mazinger Z, Orange Rd, Ranma 1/2, and Saber Marionette J. Enjoy. 05/02/09--There is good Gnus. There can be bad Gnus. Oh wait, I already did that one. Never mind. Still news can come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. This week we have good news and we have better news. You can't beat that. The good news is that you get next week off as I will be out of town so no update. The better news is that the following week I will start having all the bright shiny new things that I promised you a long time ago when I did the sneak peek week. Now that is what I call good news. Lest we forget the reason why we are here we have a bright and shiny update so check it out. Check: Photon, Ray Earth, Samurai Troopers, and Virus. Enjoy. See you in two. 04/25/09--Alright class, come to order. You in the back row, stop talking. This class will cover the difference between adaptation and adaptability. What, you did not know that there is a difference. Yes, there is. Let's get right to our example. Animals that live in extreme climate areas in the world have changed, over time, in order to survive in that given area. A polar bear can survive living in the snow while a brown bear could not. The polar bear would not be able to survive in the forrest or mountains where the brown bears live. Many animals that live on the planes of Africa could not survive in the jungle of South America. The strange thing is the man survives in most of these areas and have very limited adaptations to the surroundings. About the only adaptation that I can think of would be high levals of skin pigmintation to survive in areas of constant sun and heat. We wear more or less clothes depending on the weather. We become irritable and cross if we live in the conditions found in the big city. The best example of that would be the people who live in New York City. A rather interesting adaptation would be the fact that women often go topless in areas of extreme heat and humidity. Actually, it is the men that make the adaptation in that circumstance. We pretend no to notice. That is how we survive in that environment. Good job guys. The difference is that animals change and men do not. That brings us back to change which is what the update is all about. This week you will find some changes in: Corrector Yui, Inu Yasha, Nadia, and Sailor Moon. Enjoy. 04/18/09--If you remeber, last week I mentioned that it is a good thing to wonder about thing from time to time. If you don't remember, then all you need to do is check the What's New section in the menu. All my updates for the last few years are reproduced there. Either way, I did mention that. It brings me to this week. To wonder about things is not the same as our sense of wonder. They are probably related. I believe that our sense of wonder is related to our imaginations and that is somewhat related to our ability to reason and to plan ahead. Our sense of wonder is also related to our ability to see beauty in the world around us. Since you are reading this, you enjoy animation and, of course, animation created in Japan. That surely means that your sense of wonder is still alive and well and living in Saint Louis. Or then agin, maybe not. If it is then I think you should go meet it there. Please note that my belief in Wonder is so strong that I had it included in the illustration on the menu page. I feel that this is a really good place to "feel the wonder." While you are feeling it, why not check out this weeks update? Check: Blue Seed, Escaflowne, eX-Driver, and Golden Boy. Enjoy, you wonderous person you. 04/11/09--I think that it is most interesting that we can go on the internet in many places all over the world and we will be going on at different times even though we are going on at the same time. As an example, if we go on the internet at exactly 9:01 AM in California, it will be 12:01 PM on the east coast and will 12:01 AM in Japan and Korea and, with a little effort, you can figure out exactly what time it is any place else in the world that you wish. This concept is not really new to us nor particularly complicated. Yet, how long has it been that this concept has been understood? I think that our current travel in Jet planes which allows us to travel great distances in relatively short periods of time has brought this home to us. Back at the century before last I am sure that it would not have been considered with much clarity at all. Before you could talk on the telephone to someone who lives half way around the world or travel there in less than one day no matter how far, the concept would have been beyond the average person. What would have been the chances that a person back at that time could have even understood the concept of time differential much less estimated what time it would have been in one place while something was happening in another place half way around the world? Not much. Could it happen? Did it happen? I will leave you to wonder. Hey! wondering is good. I wonder what we will have for this weeks update? Let's find out. Check: Dragon Ball, Flame Of Recca, Macross 7, and Sailor Moon. Enjoy. 04/04/09--I have always enjoyed numbers in our lives. They can be most imformative and entertaining. They can also mean nothing at all, but either way, it is fun. Take today's date. The four repeats. That happens every month up to December 12. Five years ago, this date was a real winner. This year they plan on releasing a movie called "9" on September 9,2009 or if you wish-09/09/09. I like to watch house number for the real fun ones like 1234 or 9876 or something like that. Still, the most important sets of numbers are the prices we pay, so good luck. While you figure out some really good prices, why not check out this weeks update? Try: Ah My Goddess, Cowboy Bebop, Orphen, and Patlabor. Enjoy. 03/28/09--Often I think that we overlook the fact that what we think of as genius is often as much work and perseverance as it is anything else. People who we think of as being great successes have failed many more times than we have, but they keep at it until they get it right. People who succeed admit that genius is really 90 percent perspiration and 10 percent inspiration when it all comes down to it. The good news in all of this is the fact that you too can be both a success and considered a genius if you stick with it and, as Dorry says, just keep swimming. Then one day when you are rich and famous you will think back on this update and say "He was right." Still, you have a little time today so why not check out this weeks update? Check: Crest Of The Stars, Eden's Boy, El Hazard, and Infinate Ryvius. Enjoy. 03/21/09--When you think about it, all of the economic problems of the world can be blamed on one thing. If there were no Dominos then there would not be any problems. When everyone learned that you can stand those blokes up and then push one down and cause all the rest to fall, that lead all of the problems that we are having. Think about it, even just one person has a bad investment and looses one dollar, he cannot spend that dollar at the store so that store goes out of business and has to fire 500 employees and go to the Government for money to fix their problems and give their CEOs big bonuses. It is all because of the dollar that was lost in the stock market. You cannot blame the business that want to give the big bonuses to their CEOs, after all, it was their wise leadership that caused the store to go under just because of the one dollar that was not spent there. It could not have possibly been all of the money that the business was paying their leadership to make really stupid decisions could it? Naw! Oh well, at least we are not dependant on Dominos. We are dependant on cels so check out this weeks update. Check: Big O, Dr Slump, Dual, and Gatchaman. Enjoy. 03/14/09--I have heard that there is no such thing as stomach flu. I guess it comes down to definitions of terms. On the other hand, if there was such a thing, I have it. I have been under the weather much of this week. I hope you have done better than me. It used to be that when I would go to bed at night, I would hope to feel better when I wake up in the morning. Now, when I go to bed at night, I simply hope to wake up in the morning. Funny how your priorities change as you get older. Still, I made it this far so how about an update with me? Check out: Inu Yasha, Lodoss Wars, Nadia, and Outlaw Star. Enjoy. 03/07/09--Which is better? You have a choice to do right or wrong and sometimes chose wrong, but then again, you also chose the right. You have no choice at all so you always do right? For me it would be something like facing life where nothing you ever tried to lift weighed more than 10 pounds. Life would be easy, but then again you would reach a point where you could not lift over 10 pounds even if you tried. You would not get stronger. If you have choices then the strength would be on the inside and your choice muscles would get stronger so you would be able to chose the right more easily. That is how I look at it anyway. You have the choice to visit my site or not so I am glad you are flexing your choice muscles by visiting me so while you are here, check out the update. Check: Fatal Fury, Gundam Wing, Slayers, and Urusei Yatsura. Enjoy. 02/28/09--I would like to thank everyone who wrote and expressed interest in seeing some of the new things that will be getting here very soon. It is very exciting for me. Some of these titles are new and others have not had anything to show you for some time. Just to get you excited too, the titles include, but are not restricted to, Angel Links (oversized,) Captain Future (all you fans in Europe take note,) Captain Harlock, Fam And Ire, Galaxy Express 999, Grandizer, Mazinger Z, and Queen millenia. This week we provide previews of DNA, Dominion, Mazinger Z, and Sabor Marionette J. If you see something that you really like, you might want to put in your reservation now before it is too late. Enjoy your sneak peek week. 02/21/09--I had no volunteers to explain my conumdrum of last week so I would expect that either I am not the only one who cannot figure it out or it is too philisophically complicated to be understood by a mere infidel. Too bad, I was very curious about that one. I would present a possibility this week for consideration by my customers. I am in the process of obtaining some new material from Japan for my cel buying public. My wife, the world famous Helen, will be visiting over there and bring them back with her and I have the images and I thought I could do a little sneak preview. Some of these titles I have never had before or I have not had anything new in three or four years. They include Dominion, Galaxy Express 999, Mazinger Z, and Sabor Marionette J. What do you think? Want to see some of these even though they are not here yet? You can put in first dibs on things that catch your eye for when they do arrive. Let me know what you think. Still, that does not mean we will not have updates to catch your fancy so here we go. Check: Ah My Goddess, G Gundam, Robot Carnival (including from the famous opening sequence,) and Roujin Z. Enjoy. 02/14/09--I am afraid that I just do not understand. I hope that there is someone out there who can explain it to me. No, I am not talking about this effort that the congress is making to try to get the country out of its financial doldrums. What I am talking about is why some woman over in Iraq decided that it was God's will that she blow herself and a bunch of other women and children all to pieces. I have heard that men can expect a reward of a harem of virgins in paradise for blowing themselves up as long as they take of bunch of infidels with them. What then was this woman's motivation? She wanted to be a man with her own harem? She wanted to be one of the virgins? It seems to me that women really are second class citizens in that society. If I am wrong, I am sorry, but they cannot own property, go to school, or many other things that we take for granted. This woman apparently believed in that system and that such is the will of God. Still, what good comes from blowing up other women and children? When you figure that one out, let me know. Until then, I will go under the impression that this woman was totally screwed up. I am, after all, an infidel and do not know any better. To tell you how screwed up I am, I have not blown anyone up in the last few weeks and have never blown up women and children at any time. (I am being sarcastic.) Still, it gives us something to think about while reviewing this weeks update. Check: Cowboy Bebop, Gundam, Hana Yori Dango, and Nightwalker. Enjoy. 02/07/09--Do you try to pay your debts? Do you limit your expenses to try to live within a budget? Do you wait on major expenses so that you do not have to go into debt? If you do any of these then you would seem to be in the very small minority. I hear many advertisements on the radio and see them on the television to offer to get people out of debt and save them a great percent of their debt. What is this debt of theirs except things that they bought that they could not afford. Perhaps the credit card companies made it too easy for them to get the cards so that they could buy those things, but still it all comes down to the things that they wanted and could not afford and did not want to wait for. A very large percent of people who are going to file bankruptcy will buy like crazy just before going to court to relieve their debt. Our leaders saw what was happening and tried to make it more difficult to file for bankruptcy and they became the villains in the ever growing problem. The problems with the economy all come down to people spending money that they do not have on things they cannot afford. Even if it means that you wait to order things from me, I hope you will live withing your means and avoid the stress of growing bills you cannot pay. In the mean time, I will give you more to look at and buy if you can. Check: Crest Of The Stars, Dirty Pair, Orguss, and Outlaw Star. Enjoy. 01/31/09--I do not know if you have noticed or not, but this is going to be a very good year for Anime fans at the movies. Many Anime fans are also fans of Video gaming and the like and obviously there have been many games based on some of our favorite Anime. Not only do we have the sequil to Transformers in June of this year, but there are some surprises as well. The earliest is February when we get to watch "The Legend Of Chun Li" based on the very popular video game and resulting Anime. We also get a live action version of the toy line and animated series of "G.I. Joe" in August. There will be a live action movie on the video game series called "Prince Of Persia" and then, perhaps the most Anime related, "Astro Boy" live action in October. There will be a live action movie called "G-Force" but it is not what you might hope. I will let you take note of that one when it gets here in July, but all in all I would say we are going to have a very good year. There will be a "Dragon Ball" movie as well, I have seen the advertisement, but I don't have the release date written down. aT last the rest of the world is finally catching up with us. You will be hard pressed to lose that smile all this year as you watch these features unfold before your very eyes. Till the live action catches up you can still enjoy the undates so check out: 3x3 Eyes, Dragon Ball, eX-Driver, and Giant Robo. Enjoy. 01/24/09--Some of you may check my updates earlier than the normal Saturday morning and thus will find that I am slightly ahead of schedule. It is not intended, but I deem it necessary because I am unsure if I will be able to do the undate at the accustomed time. I have received notice from my web hosting service that they will be doing some necessary undates to their services tomorrow (Saturday) and I cannot say with complete assurity that I will be able to do my update when expected. Nothing else will be different so enjoy it when you see it for the first time. Check out: Bakuretsu Hunter, El Hazard, Infinite Ryvius, and Nadesico. Enjoy. 01/17/09--We will soon have a new president in the United States. Many people are very excited because it represents a new chapter in this country. It also represents one of the truely magical aspects of the political system which we have here. No, it is not the fact that money buys the election. That is no surprise and is certainly nothing new. It is the fact that we have these radical changes every few years without the army being involved or use of arms in any significant way to determine the outcome of the election. That is the part which is truely surprising and almost magical. It has been that way from the beginning. We will not last long without it. It makes me smile. If you are smiling, perhaps you can also check out this weeks update and that can make you smile as well. Check: Big O, Blue Seed, Eden's Boy, and Flame Of Recca. Enjoy. 01/10/09--With the coming of the New Year, we find that many people make resolutions to try to improve their lives. I have done the same thing this year and in so doing hope to make this year even better than last year. The resolution that I have made is to give you the best service possible at highly competative rates. Sounds good? Wait a minute here. I already do that. Never mind. Lets talk about your resolutions. Typical stuff? Thats fine. Do your best. While you are working on it you can check out this weeks update. I am sure that is part of your resolutions. Check: Cowboy Bebop, Crest Of The Stars, Inu Yasha, and Ray Earth. Enjoy. 01/03/09--Welcome to the new year. We now all have to remember to write 2009 rather than 2008 on our checks. Gee, I just barely got used to writing 2008. Some of you actually beat me to 2009 because of where you live. I probably only beat a very few because almose everyone got to midnight before California with the possible exception of Alaska and Hawaii. Still, it is good to be here and we all look forward to prosperity in the months ahead which, of course, means many new cels for your collections. While plotting this gloreous future why not check out this weeks update and get an early start. Check: Escaflowne, Outlaw Star, Sakura Wars, and Tenchi Muyo. Enjoy. 12/27/08--Here we are at last. The very last update for the year 2008. Can you believe it? Hope you had a really good Christmas and that Santa Claus was very generous to you. We enter the last phase of our holiday specials. The SALE will end with the update next week. We will add even more titles to the 50% off and a little more update as well. Check update in Marmalade Boy and Wedding Peach. The titles on SALE are: Angel Links, Arc The Lad, Ayashi No Ceres, Maris The Chojo, Marmalade Boy, and Wedding Peach. Enjoy. 12/20/08--We continue with our SALE this week. The two titles we put at 50% off last week continue and we add two more. Next week we will add two more which will give us a total of six titles at the reduced price until the end of the year. What more could anyone possible hope for. (Besides world peace that is) This week we will add Arc The Lad and Marmalade Boy. Our update this week is Arc The Lad, Ayashi No Ceres, Marmalade Boy, and Wedding Peach. The SALE will only run until the end of the year so check it out. Enjoy. 12/13/08--I have decided to join the rest of the world in the seasonal activity. The seasonal activity that I am talking about is price reductions. I will run 50% off on two titles this week and then two more next week and then again two more by the last week of the month. That will make a grand total of six titles at 50% off by the last weekend of the year. Still, if you see something in the first two titles that you like then you will probably not wish to wait because they may not still be around. This week the SALE titles are Ayashi No Ceres and Master Mosquerton. There is an update in Ayashi No Ceres, Big O, Vampire Princess Miyu, and Weiz Kruz. Enjoy. 12/06/08--Glad you are still with us. It has been a very interesting year. We look forward to better things. I do not know about you, but I am certainly enjoying the dramatic drop in the price of gasoline. When you are pretty much on a fixed income, any time something like that rolls around, you really appreciate it. We still pay more in California than many places due to the high cost of additives to help fight smog, but still it is less than half what it was six months ago. That leaves money for more important things like cels for your collection so no wonder you are here with us. I hope you enjoy the visit so check the update. Check: Crest Of The Stars, Dirty Pair, Nadia, and Outlaw Star. Enjoy. 11/29/08--The shopping season has certainly started now. I hope you enjoyed your feast if you celebrated Thanksgiving. I was able to spend some time with my son. I have certainly mentioned him many times in my updates so you have a pretty good idea who I am talking about. Yeah, that one. We are hitting the downhill run to the end of the year, and for many of us, the really big shopping season. Everyone is out shopping. In fact, if you are reading this then you are probably shopping too so welcome. I shop all year round as I run into specials and I encourage others to do the same thing. I am totally surprised by the people who do not even start until Christmas eve. Go figure! Still, some habits are hard to break. Obviously, you are not one of them otherwise you would not be joining us today. Relax! Take it easy and enjoy the experience. While thus occupied why not check out this weeks update? Check: Bakuretsu Hunter, Dragon Ball, Dr Slump, and Noir. Enjoy. 11/22/08--We all have Thumb Rules about the things we do. Then again you might call them Rules or Thumb which are your guidelines for doing things. As you have probably noticed, I do not normally sell pencil drawings or genga. Rules, and especially Rules of Thumb, are made to be broken. I am doing this as a favor this week. As much a favor to you as to the person I am offering it for. There are times when the pencil drawing far exceeds anything that can be turned into a cel. This is certainly one of those times. The cel and the drawing were not intentionally separated at the sale of the cel, but it happened and we have just now discovered the hiding place of the drawing. It has all the earmarks of being used to make the cel and therefor to make the movie. Very clearly the production people at Mad House did not place much importance on the pencil drawing once the cel was made. I could be wrong, but it looks like they cleaned the brush on the pencil drawing while painting the cel. Fortunately they did not much impact the drawing itself and it is still breathtaking. It is well worth owning. Check it out as you check out this weeks update. Check: Anne Of Green Gables (early Miazaki,) Kiki, Vampire Hunter, and X. Enjoy. 11/15/08--Times change and with changing times comes unexpected situations. Like, we are having a wild fire to the east of us here. It is very unfortunate and many people have lost everything. Why dry, hot weather arrives we seem to get these fires. I suspect that it is not completely by accident. They have not said anything, but perhaps we will find our more later. The results of these fires is that we have not got mice that have moved into our home. These are not the cartoon mice that we all know and love, but real ones that knaw and eat and make messes. I don't like it, but what do you do except put out the traps. I believe the fires have upset the natural order of things and these little things are being forced in our direction. Sigh! Still, life goes on and so do the updates. Check: Angel Links, Cowboy Bebop, Dirty Pair, and Photon. Enjoy. 11/08/08--Have you noticed how close we are to the end of another year? Wow! Not long ago we were celebrating the start of a wonderful new year full of promise and hope. Now, the year is almost gone and so is everything else. We cannot depend on others to make our dreams come true. Dreams depend on our imaginations, work, and willingness to see it through to the bitter end. Like this wonderful new year that is almost gone. The great thing is that we can do it. Noone can stop us if we try hard enough. Never lose faith in yourself no matter what others think or say. Be realistic and work hard and you can write me later with the details of how you made it work out for you. Till then, like many other things, you can take a little time out to enjoy and update, so here we go. Check: Big O, Nadesico, Roujin Z, and Sailor Moon. Enjoy. 11/01/08--One of the constants of life is change. With the election just around the corner then we know some kind of change is coming. For some it will be good and for others, not so good. As I warned you before, when you go to the poles, give serious consideration to the abilities of the candidate you choose and not their promises. If there is another constant it is that polititians make more promises than would be possible for a single person to keep in a lifetime even if they had nothing else to do. The fact that a candidate may have minimal experience will simply mean that they would not really know how to keep the promises they make even if you vote for them. They have a knack of making it sound like it will be easy to do and it never is. All I can suggest is that you hold them accountable for their promises and don't look the other way. Also, remember that there are things that happen over which our leaders have no control and only responsability. We, here in the States, are holding this current president responsable for the economic problems which were, in great meassure, started before he got in office. So, if all else fails, you should use your heads and then keep them under pressure. While so engaged, you can still check out the undates so here we go. Check: 3x3 Eyes, Dual, Shamanic Priness, and Virus. Enjoy. 10/25/08--There is an old saying, and I know you know how much I like old sayings, that tells us "If it can go wrong, it will go wrong." Actually there is more truth than fiction in this and tells us that we should be prepared any time we enter into any project. It probably refers to the law of probability. You need to prepare as best you can to eleminate the options where things can go wrong. With diligent preparation we can eleminate almost all of those possibilities. If we simply go for it then we will face the outcome which we would hope to avoid. That would seem to tell us that it we hope for success that we need to eleminate failure as an option. I know we can do it if we try hard enough. I hope you will make a habit of preparing to succeed. While preparing there will still be time to check out this weeks update. Check: Dirty Pair, Lodoss Wars, Nadia, and Slayers. (One of the Lodoss Wars is especially nice as it is from the opening credits of the original OVA series with Parn and Dedlitt and is autographed by Mr. Yuki.) Enjoy. 10/18/08--It seems that different people have different ideas of what is right and wrong and what applies to them. I know of many people that are under the impression that nothing they do for their own benefit is wrong. It is only wrong if they get caught. If they get caught, oh, "it was a mistake," or "I misunderstood." Actually, so many people are that way that we have laws to tell us what is right and wrong and even then those same people stretch the limits of their behavior until finally they get caught. Even then, it was a misunderstanding or mistake or something. These people are never happy with what they have and always want more. It is not wrong to want to move forward or to be better off than you were before, but not if you have to step on others to get there. "The end justifies the means" would certainly be their mantra. Fortunately, that is not true. The only good thing about daytime television here is that it shows that is not true constantly. One word of advise to couples, don't live together without marriage and think that you are better for it. When it finally breaks apart, you will find that you would have been better if you had a contract like any other type of business dealing. Perhaps you needed it more because so much emotional investment had taken place and so many promises that are broken. A broken heart is not easy to fix. In some ways, it may never be fixed so think about it. While thinking, why not enjoy this weeks update. Check: Big O, Crest Of The Stars, Ray Earth, and Weiz Kruz. Enjoy. 10/11/08--We almost did not have an update this week and boy was I concerned. I knew how much you are depending on me. Of all the things to have go wrong, imagine being isolated from the world because of a dead mouse. This last week the computer froze up and nothing would work because the cursor would not move. We tried everything. As usual the last thing turns out to be the problem. No one expects that the easiest thing would be the real problem so that is why it was last. As you can see, we are up and running with a brand new fancy mouse to make all of our mouse dreams a reality. As you bask in our glow of pride, why not check out this week's update that we almost did not have? Check: Gundam, Night Walker, Orguss, and Outlaw Star. Enjoy. 10/04/08--Everyone has a different concept of success based on their background and avocation. You might consider yourself successful only after completing some long and difficult assignment at work. You might feel that you are a success only if you are at the very top of your field of endeavor. Someone who plays professional sports would not consider themselves successful until they have won the championship in their selected field no matter how well they might do otherwise. Someone might set individual records but feel incomplete until they have won it all. It may also be said that you might feel that you are successful when you have added something really nice to your cel collection. I, on the otherhand, will only feel that I am a success when I have helped you achieve that lofty goal. In little ways I feel a success when I have completed each weeks update so I will briefly pat myself on the back and turn the rest over to you so you might be successful as well. Check out: Blue Seed, DNA, Dragon Ball, and Escaflowne. Enjoy your success. 09/27/08--If you look at my updates over the last year or so (find them in the "What's New") you will see that I like to wax philisophical some times and whimsical at others and totally silly on others. So what will it be this week? You tell me. One classic episode of Twilight Zone was an examination of the concept of beauty and how different people can have a different concept. If you are talking about humans then quite frankly I believe that someone who would be considered as beautiful would be considered beautiful to everyone no matter their background, culture or race. Still, the concept that they were describing is "beauty is in the eye of the beholder." The thought is well considered and well presented, but I would like to offer for your consideration another point of view and that is "beauty is in the heart of the beholder." I have seem many couples over the years where I say to myself, how did he end up with her or she with him? A really handsome man might have a somewhat dumpy wife or a beautiful woman have a rather drab looking husband. Huh? It happens. I often wonder how my wife ended up with me. She could have done so much better. I thought that she was beautiful when I first met her and I will think of her as beautiful until they cart me away. Is that not the point I am making. Your heart really tells you what is beautiful. I would not have it any other way. Enjoy it. While in the process you might enjoy this week's update. Check: Big O, Cowboy Bebop, Dirty Pair, and Shamanic Princess(here is another one that qualifies as beautiful.) Enjoy. 09/20/08--It is possible for real pearls of wisdom to come from the least likely sourses. A lady I was dating a long time ago had been in numerous relationships over the years and none of them had come out well. We were finishing our meal at a Chinese restaurant and she had received her fortune cookie. I read it to her for her amusement and I found that it was probably the best advise she had received from any sourse. It read "Judge others by their qualities and not their charms." Think about it. You can say this in many ways like "Don't judge a book by its cover" and so on. It is very common for us to think a person is a good person by how they look. Some really beautiful people are beautiful from the inside out and others on the outside only. You can only really know how another person is really by how they treat others. If we depend too much on our relationships and judge ourselves by the people we are with on the basis of how they look then we are probably as shallow as they are. Look inside your hearts and be the kind of person that you want to have around you and you will probably be around that kind of person for no other reason than they find that kind of person in you. While you are doing your soul searching you can still take a moment to check out this weeks update. Check: Ah My Goddess, Galaxy Express 999, Kabuto (a new title,) and Mazinkaiser. Enjoy. 09/13/08--If you are well acquainted with this site you will notice that some very nice cels are no longer available. It is sad, but true, that some items that were made available have run their course and are no longer available. In some cases the title may have been one that is not highly collected now so was hardly noticed and in other cases it may be that the item was of interest but noone quite willing to pay the price. Whatever the reason, the chance is over for now. I cannot say that the item might not show up again, we don't know how the future will be, but for now, we will have to concentrate on other things. At least we have some really nice other things for your consideration so please check out this weeks update. For cat lovers, you really should check the update. Check: Arion, Crest Of The Stars, Dirty Pair, and Rurouni Kenshin. Enjoy. 09/06/08--Seasons Greetings! Many happy returns! Of course, it is not the holiday season yet. It is Football Season. When I say many happy returns, I mean, punts and kick offs of course. My favorite time of year is now. I really enjoy watching my football. I like the Pros, Colleges and High School. For me, the rest of the year is just rest between the seasons. Hey, I have always admited to being a little strange. After all, I'm an Anime Fan. Since you are probably an Anime Fan also, otherwise why read this, then check out this week's undate. Check: eX-Driver, Inu Yasha, Tekkaman Blade, and Tenchi Muyo. Enjoy. 08/30/08--There are special times when I am very lucky and able to offer things of exceptional merit for a brief period of time. That is happening right now. It has been years since I was last able to update anything to my Dirty Pair file and now I have some to offer for you. Unfortunately the pieces are on consignment and not likely to be available for very long. If you have any friends, relatives, or total strangers that collect this title, you had better let them know that we have something that they are going to want. I don't know how long I will have them, but I will keep them up as long as I can. The update, however, is not just one title so check out everything. Check: Dirty Pair, Mazinkaiser, Patlabor, and Virus. Enjoy. 08/23/08--Have you ever noticed how the future seems to sneak up on us? Think about all of the fiction which has predicited how our time would be. The world in 1984 was supposed to be terrible. That year came and went with hardly a flinch. Then there was 2001 and next there will be 2010. Things happend but change seems to be pretty natural. They predicted that we would have flying cars and computers the size of buildings. Our cars still do not fly, but the computers are stronger than they predicted and small enough to carry around with us. We are bigger, stronger and faster than ever, but not as big or strong or as fast as the predictors would have thought. Who could have predicted a world wide web? We do have tall buildings, but our cities are not at all like the fantastic predictions of fifty and sixty years ago. Hey we can hardly predict the weather from one day to the next so cannot reasonably expect to have anything else figured out. We can, however, enjoy what we have and live life to the fullest. Part of that, of course, is your weekly update so here we go. Check: DNA, El Hazard, Outlaw Star, and Sakura Wars. Enjoy. 08/16/08--I know that not everyone has been watching the Olympics, but I would guess that enough are to get a reasonable sample reaction from those in attendance. By show of hands, how many believe that the Chinese Womens Gymnastics Team is the required age to participate in the Games? Just as I thought. I think that they should change their name to the Chinese Girls Gymnastics Team. I doubt that any of them have hit puberty yet. They are supposed to reach their 16th birthdays in the year of the Olympics. Based on newpaper reports of the rising young stars in China, these girls would only be age 14 this year. They must be using the Chinese calander to arrive at those ages as well. In my wife's homeland, they say a child is age one when born and age two at the Chinese New Year. They have so many good Gymnasts coming up that they can afford to throw these girls into the ring at a very early age. They have been in intense training since age 3. I am sure that they love the sport, but they did tell of one of the girls who became depressed and wanted to quit but her family wouldn't let her come home because they would gain so much from the State of she were to be successful. It seems to me that there was a similar situation in the Soviet Block countries years ago. I think that they will outgrow the need to prove themselves and still contibute greatly to the world community. I love to hear about examples of good sportsmanship in any sporting event and especially the Olympics, but something like this certainly distracts. Well, enjoy while you can and take a little time out to check the update. Check: Cowboy Bebop, Crest Of The Stars, Nadia, and Weiz Kruz. Enjoy. 08/09/08--I didn't bring it up last week because the fact that we almost didn't have an update was more pressing on my mind, but things got a little shook up out here. Actually the earthquake was pretty close to to us here. The center was just about twenty miles away so we felt it pretty strong. It happended at about 20 minutes to 12:00 Noon. I was out shopping and standing in the middle of the store when everything started to shake. Actually, being a native southern californian, I rather enjoyed it. Yeah! I know. I'm strange, but what can I say. I knew what it was and could see that it was ending too soon to be any real danger so I went about my shopping and everything was back to normal. In the world of things that can go wrong around you, I would rather have the earth quake than a tornado or hurricain come through. There is no such thing as a small tornado coming through town like that earthquake. The tornado is going to really tear things apart not just knock a few small things off some shelves. If a really big earthquake comes, like they say that it will, then the chances are that it will be centered far enough away from me that I will survive in pretty good shape. I will keep my natural disasters and you can keep yours. I do not want to trade. What I do want is to check out this weeks update so here we go. Check: Big O, Dragon Ball, Mazinkaiser, and Nadesico. Enjoy. 08/02/08--I am afraid that this weeks update got shorted a little due to circumstances beyond my control. I was not sure until late yesterday that I would even be able to do an update today at all. We have been having trouble with settings and things where we access the internet. Obviously, if I am unable to access the internet then I am unable to do any update. Still, a small update is better than none at all so be my guest. Check: Dougram, Dunbine, and Galaxy Express 999. Enjoy. 07/19/08--Sometimes it takes unusual experiences for us to fully appreciate what other people live with every day. Now I have a much better appreciation of what it meant to be Captain James Hook up against Peter Pan. I hurt my right hand and tried to take care of it but did not do a very good job and it got infected. It pains me and is stiff and I have to wear it in a sling and, worse of all, I am right handed. Everytning is difficult for me. Little wonder that Captain Hook was always in a testy mood. I am taking my medecine and trying to do the right thing by my right hand because I am going to need both hands for Comic Con next weekend. Yes, that means that you get another day off so make good use of it. If I owe you an email, you know why you havn't gotten it yet. Despite it all, we still have this weeks update so check: Crest Of The Stars, Flame Of Recca, Hana Yori Dango, and Noir. Enjoy. 07/12/08--How many movies have you seen this year? What a year for movies for Anime Fans. There has been something good almost every week. I, myself, am heading off to another one today after I finish this. Sonetimes the only thing keeping me away are all the conventions. That just means that I have to have a little patience, which is not that easy for me. I know that I am keeping you away from something you want to see so I will get right to it. Check out: Ayashi No Ceres, Lodoss Wars, Samurai Pizza Cats, and Utena. Enjoy. 06/28/08--Time marches on. Seconds become minutes. Minutes become hours. Hours become days. Etc! I think you can carry it from here. In a few more days we will turn one more page of the calendar and we will pass the half way point of the year. Convention season will be in full swing. Everyone will either be at the beach or wish they were. A few more pages of the trusty calendar and here we will be at another football season to carry us to the end of another year. Wow! Enjoy the moments while you have them as you will never pass this way again. So since we were talking about convention season, next weekend will be another day off for you while I am attending Anime Expo 2008 in Los Angeles. I know that is close, but it is too hard to put together the time for an update so you will be on your own. Since it is a holiday you can do something really fun and get a sunburn or something creative like that. This week we do have an update and so you can stay out of the sun a little longer. Check out: Bakuretsu Hunter, Nadia, Night Walker, and Photon. Enjoy. 06/21/08--Some times it really astounds me the international aspect of Anime collecting and the world wide web. The last three sales that I have had on my site have been customers in countries other than the United States. When they go into what passes for search engines it will show my site. Also it is rather surprising that these people from totally different backgrounds would like the same things that I do. These customers are from France, Italy, and Japan. I guess that they would like the same things in Japan since that is where Anime comes from, but other places as well. I have met big fans from Germany, Australia, New Zeland, Spain, France, Austria, Sweden, England, Canada, and more places than I can spell. I am rather proud of how our hobby has caught on. I think that we can expect fans from many far away places at our conventions over the summer. If you meet them, treat them like brothers and sisters since they are. If your weather is good, enjoy it. If it is too hot, like where I am, then hang in there as it will get better soon. Either way, check out the update, try: Blue Seed, Nazca, Orguss, and Samurai Pizza Cats. Enjoy. 06/14/08--Welcome to the most dangerous day of the year. People used to fear Friday the 13th as being unlucky. Now we know that Saturday the 14th is worse. Still we will make the best of it. In an effort to overcome the stigma, I am introducing another Anime classic this week. In my opinion, even if Hayao Miazaki had never made another movie, he would still have a claim to fame just from this one alone. It is absolutely beautiful. The passage of time can obscure the greatness of many of the finest things we can, but this one will shine forever. The full name is "Nausica And The Valley Of The Winds." We just call it by the name of the main character. Check the whole update: Nausica, Ray Earth, Votoms, and Weiz Kruz. Enjoy. 06/07/08--It is not every week that I get to introduce a classic so I consider myself very lucky. In the past I have discussed the differences between Anime and other animation. This example is the top of that list of very detailed works. It is hard to believe the level of detail that they were able to maintain for the entire movie. It is a very beautiful Science Fiction story called "Five Star Stories." If you have seen it then you will know what I am talking about and if not, see if you can find it and watch it. It is not recent but it is worth it. Right to the update so you can check it out. Check: Angel Links, Dougram, Five Star Stories(this is one of the Fatimas who are synthetic women needed to drive the giant robots,) and Roujin Z. Enjoy. 05/31/08--Are you totally rested? With a whole week off, I am expecting much from you. We are almost recovered. I guess that it takes us a little longer because we are getting a little older. Naah, it can't be that so there must be some other reason. Still we had a good convention. It turns out that my wife was sick during the whole thing so it is taking her even longer to get back on her feet. We had a good hotel and could walk to the Convention Center each morning and it went very well for us. Hope you had a good time too. Now that we are back in the swing again you are in dire need of an update so here we go. Check out: Ah My Goddess, Captain Harlock, Card Captor Sakura, and Robot Carnival. Enjoy. 05/17/08--As they say, "What goes around, goes around." It has gone around enough for us to be facing our first convention for the year. Next weekend we will be in San Jose for Fanime Con. We hope we see you there, but unless you live in Northern California then it will probably be too far for you to go and I could not blame you. It has been months since you have had a weekend off so I hope you make good use of it. Still, this weekend comes first so check out this weeks update. Check: 3x3 Eyes, Ah My Goddess (This is a very important scene because it is Belldandy's very first appearance in the series. Hope you enjoy.) Cowboy Bebop, Gatchaman, and Outlaw Star. Enjoy. 05/10/08--There is a right tool for each job. Often, we cannot do the job at all unless we have the right tool or else the job is much more difficult than it would be with the correct tool. Some tools, however, are just not right for the job. If you are trying to swat a fly then you would best use a fly swatter and not a sledge hammer. A fly is small and fast and not very easy to hit and a sledge hammer is just too heavy and hard to control. Also, it would not be a good idea to try to use gold plated tools to work around the house. It would be a terrible waste to use a hammer that is gold plated to drive a nail. That kind of hammer would look good but would not be very useful. Some government agencies get the biggest tools they can find to try to do their jobs because they have to justify the cost of the job they are doing. An example of this would be the agency that administers our homeland security in this country. They want to patrol our boarders with unmanned spy planes. They would have to fly pretty high and use very high tech instruments to spot unwanted intruders. Each of these planes would cost 26 million dollars and would require considerable support to do their jobs. I am an old fashioned kind of guy and do not like waste in my life or government either. I think that they could have many more of the regular planes with pilot and crews and more people to help inforce the laws with the same amount of money they would spend on spy planes. That is just me, of course, and I am sure that the people running those agencies would be able to justify the expense. (To themselves anyway.) Still, if more of us knew about the decisions that these people are making then perhaps they might be just a little bit more thoughtful when making decisions as far as spending. After all, it is our money, not theirs, that they are spending. With the little money that you have left, I hope you will consider spending some with me. Check out this weeks possibilities. Try: G Gundam, Gundam, Gundam Wing, and Inu Yasha. Enjoy. 05/03/08--They say that no good deed goes unpunished. I really think there is truth in that. It is very unfortunate, but that seems to be what happens. When you help someone or are kind or forgiving or whatever, it always comes back to bite you where it hurts the most. You really can start to wonder if it is worth it to even try. My only advice is to just keep swimming, just keep swimming. That is from "Finding Nemo" the musical and just means keep going the same way you have been going. It will cost you more in your heart to change and not care about others than you lose by trying to be that kind of person that cares. If it helps, I am with you. For a few moments, you are with me so we might as well take care of business and check out this weeks update so check: Cowboy Bebop, G Gundam, Inu Yasha, and Vampire Princess Miyu. Enjoy. 04/26/08--Sorry that I am late. It is going to be hot here today so I took my dog for his walk before it became too hot to handle. I am not too late, I hope. My wife's SALE is over so you will have to check everything out when you see us at one of the conventions this year. Unfortunately, everything will be full price, but what can you do. No good thing lasts forever. Bad things go on and on and on, etc. Not only is convention season getting started, but the season of good movies is getting started as well. That will put us pretty close to sensory overload, but we love it. Check out this weeks update, grab a cool drink and enjoy. Check: Crest Of The Stars, Inu Yasha, Orphen, and Tenchi Muyo. Where's that cool drink? Oh! There it is. Enjoy. 04/19/08--Time flys when you are having fun. It also flys when you are really busy. You might even say that it flys when you are busy having fun. My wife's SALE on her web site is almost over. When I think back to all the time that we had spent getting it ready, it seems strange that it is to this point already. If you have not had the chance to visit her site and see all of the really cool things that she is selling at 50% off then you need to do that while you still have the chance. Her site is www.helensasianfashions.com and there are alot of cool things for dress up for conventions or to wear around the house. If not, that's cool too. Still, it is fun and that is what it is all about. Since we are talking fun here, how about checking out this weeks fund undate? Check: Inu Yasha, Orphen, Tenchi Muyo, and Weiz Kruz. Enjoy. 04/12/08--Can you believe it? Here we are about to start the convention season again and that is without the convention that usually starts it for us in Arizona. I guess they need to reorganize or something so have had to postpone until next year. If you add up all the attendance at all of the Anime conventions the total would shock you. When compared to Comics and Science Fiction then Anime is the new kid on the block, but I think we out number all the rest combined. It is just my opinion, but I think this hobby is more fun too. You see more people in costumes at conventions and just having a good time and that is more like it was before at the Comic Cons. I have seen it all so I know because I was there. I have so much to look forward to each year, it really keeps me going and I hope it keeps you going too. While you are going, I hope you still stop to smell the roses and even check out the updates so check out this weeks: Big O, Crest Of The Stars, Outlaw Star, and Slayers. Enjoy. 04/05/08--I was rather worried last night that we might not be able to do our update today because we were having a series of brown-outs and we were losing power. This caused dimming of lights when the refrigerator kicked in and caused the computer to turn off at the same time. It is not completely over so I can only hope that I will finish before the electricity drops again. You can tell most of the new things on my wife's site because of the new manaquin that we have been using to take most of the pictures for her update. We have added so many really beautiful things. We have some really cool things for men as well so do not think this is ladies only. Again, her site is www.helensasianfashions.com and we hope we hear from you. Since you are mostly here for the cool stuff on this site, we do have an update for you so please check out: Big O, Crest Of The Stars, Outlaw Star, and Slayers. Enjoy. 03/29/08--We have been working very hard in your absence and I bet you will not be able to tell the difference. We have mostly been working on my wife's site to get it ready for the big SALE. We still have a long ways to go to add all of the new items. Again her site is: www.helensasianfashions.com. Everything will be 50% off except for the asian style men"s school uniform which will be 25% off. In case you cannot tell, this is the real thing. It looks so nice that Helen's younger son wanted one and he graduated high school in Canada and that was a long time ago. Please check it out if you like really beautiful asian style clothing. The SALE starts on April 1, which gives us a few more days to get everything ready. While you are waiting, check this weeks update. Try: Big O, Cowboy Bebop, Ranma 1/2, and Slayers. Enjoy. 03/22/08--Often, one of our biggest complaints is that we never have enough advance warning when something good is coming. We would have more time to save up and prepare. This week, I am going to help you out that way. Noone will be able to complain that they did not have enough heads up. If you have ever met us at a convention, you will know about my wife's business of Asian Fashions. She sells very attractive clothing of Asian, mostly Chinese, Style. It is not terribly expensive and is very pretty. She sells dresses, both short and long, lady's tops, robes that work for both men and women and items for men which employ the classic Mandarin collar. If you like Kung Fu movies, you will really love some of this. She has a web site which is www.helensasianfashions.com and what the heads up is all about is that we are getting everything ready to run a huge sale. She will have nearly everything at 50% off. What we are doing is complete inventory to show what is actually currently available and the sizes that she knows that she actually has. This will take at least another week to get together. We also will be taking more pictures to add to her site of styles and colors that she has but which are not shown. These will be great additions for everyone to wear at conventions, parties, and even Prom. Most of the robes are reversable so work in different ways depending on your mood. I will update you here and we will on her site as well. Before you add her site to your favorites, please check out this weeks update. Check: Ah My Goddess, Angel Links, Big O, and Slayers. Enjoy. 03/15/08--Here we are with Daylight Savings Time already. I think it is a good idea myself and perhaps they will forget about changing it back in the fall. To be frank with you, and I always am, I do not save much time either way. It always takes me too long to do almost anything. This week, to help you out, I am going to save you a little time and go right into the update so check it out. Check: Big O, eX-Driver, Fatal Fury, and Slayers. See, didn't I save you some time?. 03/08/08--I will try to answer a question that has been posted to me many times over the years. My answer is based on many years of experience and contact with quite a few collectors in Japan. Many want to know why some shows are much more difficult to locate than others. This may result in much higher prices when located or perhaps not really, just much more difficulty in locating a certain title. We all know that all of what we seek is becoming more rare because they do not make cels any more and that has slowed down the whole cel collecting market. Even if a title is fairly popular over here, if there is not much interest in Japan then the cels do not circulate. A show has to be collected for the cels to become available. The most common way that cels become available for collectors outside of Japan is for someone to collect the show and then decide that they no longer want that show so start buying another show and sell off the ones that they have in order to finance the new title. If there is no new title that is desired then there is no movement. I met a guy in Japan that was selling off his collection of the series Macross. I was able to buy his whole collection and other Japanese were following me around wanting to trade me for my new collection, but I knew that there would be even more interest back here. I have never seen that many of that title in one place since then. There are probably other collections like that one that are being held even today. So you ask what happened to all those Macross. That was about fifteen years ago and they were bought up by collectors over here. With no new cels then the whole collecting exchange is done. It will eventually totally disappear over time. Everything will become even more expensive and your heart's desire will probably never show up at all. There are still cels, but not as many so a specific scene will not show up for those holding out for something special. I have collected certain characters, but others have their own approach. Hope you will be able to find what makes you happy. If I do not have the special cel that you are looking for, it probably means that I never will so I hope your search will broaden and that you will see something that you like. While you are looking, why not check out this weeks update? Check: Dragon Ball, El Hazard, Inu Yasha, and Sailor Moon. Enjoy. 03/01/08--So, what is the hardest thing that you will ever have to do? You know, it may be a different thing for each of us depending on our particular set of circumstances. For example, when I was growing up, it was very difficult for me to speak in public. Like many things, the more you do it, the easier it becomes. By the time I was finishing high school it was no longer difficult for me and I was the best in my class. It made me feel really good. When we conquor ourselves, that is one of the things in life that give the greatest feeling of accomplishment. For many of us older people it would have be be losing weight. Any body else have a problem with that one? When you think about it, one is the truely difficult things to do in life is to firgive ourselves when we seriously mess up. Self recrimination can make it very difficult to get past certain experiences and move on in your life. It can be harder to forgive ourselves than to forgive someone else. That problem can lead to very real mental problems. Let go and move on. While you are moving take the time to smell the flowers and read the updates so check out this weeks update. Check: Dragon Ball, Dual, Nadesico, and Sailor Moon. Enjoy. 02/23/08--Did you have a good week? Did you notice that we are at the last Saturday in February already? Hope your year is going well for you also. It is not always easy to be the person you should be or even want to be. You need to apply yourself and keep working at it. Chances are good that you may never make it that far, but really the bottom line is that you are working at it all of the time. Are you the same person you were ten years ago? Obviously the answer is no. Are you even the same person you were just last year. Again, probably not. The real question is, are you better than you were? That answer takes work and dedication. If you are not yet the person you want to be, I hope you are working on it and happy to be where you are. Since you are where you are and that can only change over time, you are in a good position to check out this weeks update. Check: Dragon Ball, Escaflowne, Outlaw Star, and Sailor Moon. Enjoy. 02/16/08--I was in the Boy Scouts a very, very long time ago. I enjoyed the activities. Some people really enjoy the camping, but my reaction was that it made me appreciate civilization that much more. I admit that I did enjoy the beauty of nature and all the rest, but I was never very good at it though I have alway thought it was worthwhile. Now, my nephew got into it much more than I or even my brother, his father, and he has reached the next leavel. Today, he will receive his Eagle Scout award. I will leave here soon and drive to Bakersfield so that I can be there also. He is the first in our immediate family and all of us are very proud. If you need me, I will be back tonight. Try to tough it out until then. To help you along the way,why not check out this weeks update? Check: Corrector Yui, Dragon Ball, Outlaw Star, and Sailor Moon. Be prepared to enjoy. 02/09/08--When you watch what goes on in California then we who live in California must really seem to be strange. On the primary ballot we had some agreements that the voters had to ratify where some Indian Casinos would be allowed to grow in exchange for a little more money to the State. Those who were against the issues at hand tried to tell the voters that they could vote no and force them to do an new agreement that would have given the State even more money. The ads selling the agreement did not quite say that there would be no new agreement if not ratified, but they implied that. The agreements were approved. You have to wonder at the power of advertising and watch as people are turned into willing sheep. I am sorry that we did not force them back to the nogotiating table and I think about the money that the State will not be getting. The Casinos spent a huge amount on their ads. They knew they were going to win because the new slot machines were in place a matter of days after the election. I wish that people were not so easily led, but if they are going to be easily led then they should be led to this web site and the weekly updates. Speaking of which, check out: G Gundam, Hana Yori Dango, Inu Yasha, and Little Nemo In Slumberland. Enjoy. 02/02/08--It's almost over with. Not my cold, Football is almost over with. Yes, the really big show is tomorrow and then we get to start watching baseball all over again. The seasons come and they go. They come and they go. And then they do it all over again. At the end of each political season I sigh that I won't have to watch the political ads again, but then that comes around again. I dare not say anything about the candidates for the major parties because I know that I will probably step on someones toes and that is never a good thing. But, I do think that most of these people are polititians rather than leaders. From the dawn of time these types have promised to unite the people and get some really great things done, but it never happens. You never know if they ever even thought they could accomplish what they promised because even they know about the checks and balances and the compromises that must be made. If you vote for someone for office because of the promises they make then you should not be surprised if you don't get what you paid for. We never do. Still, if you don't vote then you can't complain at all no matter how it turns out. Protect your right to complain and vote for someone and then you can grouse for the next four years no matter who wins. You can complain if the other guy wins and screws things up or if your guy wins and screws things up. That right alone is worth a few minutes in a booth alone with your conscience. Till then, how about an update? Check: Utena, Vampire Princess Miyu, Wedding Peach, and Weiz Kruz. Enjoy. 01/26/08--If you check this update regularly then you will know that my wife just got back from an extended trip last week. She brought me a present. She brought me my first winter cold of the season. Oh joy! Not that she wanted to, but she did. She had been trying to get rid of it for a long time without much success. I did my best to avoid getting it, but did not much success either. I am doing the update a little later than usual, but I am doing it so I hope you are reading it. Hope you don't catch my cold. Follow the sound advice and get plenty of rest and drink lots of liquids. You know the drill. While resting, you can still check the update so go right ahead. Check: Angel Links, Bakuretsu Hunter, Blue Seed, and DNA. Enjoy. Cough, Cough! 01/19/08--For reasons that will become apparent later, I have decided to go over a subject not usually discussed but still very important to the world of collectors. You understand that if you buy a page of original art that has already been published in a comic at some time, you cannot publish that artwork again even though you own the original. The artist did the work as work for hire and he did not have the copyright. I have a page from a portfolio that was published about twenty years ago and I am not allowed to publish the artwork again because of the original copyright holder. Actually that also applies to the world of anime cels. Even if you had enough cels from a TV show so that you could piece the whole episode together, you cannot do it. Obviously it would be very expensive and not worth the effort to refilm and have dialogue recorded again, but even if you want to and could afford to, you are not allowed to. I have used a cel from an OVA as the title page for my site for about six years. The studio could have me stop if they wanted to, but it is not worth it for them to make me stop. I am offering that cel as part of this weeks update, but not because I will not be using the image any more. I will continue to use the illustration even if someone buys the original. If you took a cel and turned it into a poster then you could run into problems with the copyright holder, but I am not making any money out of the cel I have been using. It is rather interesting to think about. While you are thinking anyway, why not check out this weeks update? Check: Cowboy Bebop, Rurouni Kenshin, Shamanic Princess, (Gee, where have you seen that one before?) and Variable Geo. Enjoy. 01/12/08--Welcome back to the marvelous world of 2008. Glad to have you with me. Several months ago my altruistic side said it would be a very nice thing for my wife to have a chance to spend Christmas with all of her family together. This is something she had not been able to do for many years for various different reasons. You just knew that it was a nice thought but kind of lonely for me here all alone. She was with her family and probably not thinking too much about me here. That was OK. That was how it was supposed to be anyway, but it did turn out to be very, very, very long. Well, time is up. The little lady is coming home. I have been smiling much more these days. Next week, when I do this, she will be here. We will have our own Christmas when she gets here and we will be dancing the night away or something like that if you know what I mean. Wink. Wink. We have to do this week first so check out the update while it is still hot. Check: Robot Carnival, Ray Earth, Slayers, and Tenchi Muyo. Enjoy. 01/05/08--Happy New Year, everyone. Time seems to be slipping through my fingers like grains of sand. One good thing about it is that I still get the memories. Unlike many of the revelers, I still remember what I did on New Years eve. It is kind of sad, to me anyway, the way that so many people so depend on alchohol in order to have a good time. It was about twenty years ago after my divorce and long before I remarried that I went to a big dance for singles. They had a nice live band and lots of very pretty women all over the place. The whole idea was to meet other singles. It was not any kind of celebration just a good time to be had. One thing that bothered me was the fact that most of the women, when I asked to dance, said that they needed to drink more before they would be able to dance. I am not a good dancer, but I did not need to drink at all in order to be able to dance. The more I thought about it, the more I came to understand that these very attractive women needed to drink to lose their inhibitions and get up and dance. I am sure that I could have played my cards right and gone home with whomever I wanted that night. The only thing that stopped me is that I am too honest with them and with myself. I did no want to be someones disappointment in the morning when the alchohol wore off. I guess I must be stupid or something. Can you imagine a guy turning down the opportunity to take advantage of some "hot" gal who just happens to be plastered? Well, that happens to be me. I hung in there until Ms. Right came along. I can still look at myself in the mirror in the mornings when I shave. I often wonder how many of those attractive women ended up with Mr. Right and how many of them another jerk like their first husband or second or third or whatever. You are not going to be real happy about what you find hidden under some rock and especailly if you are drunk when you are looking. Hope your celebration was both safe and sane. Since you made it this far, how about the update? Check: Big O, Crest Of The Stars, Outlaw Star, and Roujin Z. Enjoy. 12/29/07--Someone ask me about my trip. Please! How was my trip? Wonderful, thanks for asking. I was in Orlando, Florida visiting my son who is a principle performer in the "Finding Nemo" musical. He plays the part of the father, Marlin, who goes to find his lost son. He is one of three who play the part and he has been doing it since about September of this year. I also got to see him sing with the barbershop quartet on Main Street in the Magic Kingdom. What was fun was that he was in street clothes and managed to fit right in and that brought more attention than when they were singing alone. We went two different days and he sang with them both times. I do not think it necessary to tell you that I am very proud of my son. Wherever he got his singing ability, it was not from me. I hope your holiday as as enjoyable. This is our last update for this year. Next year should be a great year and we all have much to look forward to and I hope you will enjoy it along with me. Since it is the last update then we need to do that too so check out: Gundam (F91 to be exact and this cel is the perfect example of the difference between American animation and Japanese animation because it is so incredibly and finely detailed that you might think it is real. They simplify here and go for smooth movement while they go the other way in Japan. This is a truely beautiful piece,) Midnight Eye Goku, Pin Ups (more beautiful pieces by Gerry Talaoc,) and Sakara Wars. Enjoy. 12/15/07--I will have to take this opportunity to say Merry Christmas and/or Happy Holidays to you all. Next weekend I will be far from my computer visiting my son for the holidays. I hope you will have as good a time as I will and that you will have your batteries re-charged by the time we meet again. There is so much going on at this time of year with parties and family get togethers that it is almost a relief to make it through and start real life all over again. That is until you run into New Year and start all over again. As our Governor here once said, "I will be back." Till then, enjoy family and friends and good cheer all over the place. There is an update for those who are reading this so please check out: 3x3 Eyes, Jojo's Bizarre Adventures, Little Nemo In Slumberland, and Virus. Enjoy. 12/08/07--Since I was young, it has been the mantra of the teaching class or those who teach class (as you will) that you need to start each day with a good breakfast. The reasons for this are especially sound for the young people who, for the most part, populate these classes. If your stomach is growling then you may pay more attention to your stomach than to your teacher and so on. I do not dispute the sound logic in this, but just as a good breakfast is essential to start a new day, then a good update is essential to start a new weekend. I am ready and willing to try to help you in your hour of need so check it out. Try: Mazinkaiser, Night Walker, Noir, and Pretty Sammy. Enjoy. 11/24/07--I am very sad to say that things did not turn out the way that I had hoped. That seems to be my lot in life. I have posted the cel that I mentioned last week so that everyone can see what I was talking about. Unfortunately only two people answered and indicated any interest. At this point it seems most likely that I will not be selling the autographed cel. If you wish to make an offer, go right ahead, but unless someone makes an offer that I just can't refuse then I will. I will leave the cel on my site for a few weeks and then take it off unless someone makes that un-refusable offer in the mean time. It has been a great adventure for me. I have been so lucky over the years. Much I owe to a man who I first met at San Diego at the Comic Con about thirty years ago. He was only a teenager then. He was already working as an editor for Manga and I was able to meet many giants in the industry because of my friendship with him. You would not believe how many famous people attended his wedding. It was a regular who's who. Along with them was Yoshitaka Amano who, though not a manga artist, is quite well known in the business. He showed me the pictures that were taken. You know what the really great part is, they are all his friends. I know that I envy him and I am not ashamed to admit it. While you are wishing that you were him too, why not check out this weeks update? Try: Captain Harlock, Midnight Eye Goku (also autographed by the creator of this rare little series,) Project A-Ko, and Urusei Yatsura. Enjoy. I know I did. 11/17/07--If you could have the autograph of just one of the famous Manga artists that has molded and set the direction for this beloved hobby, which one would it be? Would it be Monkey Punch who created the single most popular character in the history of Manga and ultimately in the history of Anime? Would it be Go Nagai who came up with the ideas that truely molded the direction for all those who followed. He created the first Giant Robot to have the person who drove it on the inside or the Giant Robot that was made up of more than one robot or plane or whatever? Where would it have gone without him? Then there is the lady genius who gave us the most popular and influential series of anything whatsoever in the History of the World, Rumiko Takahashi, Anyone interested in her? I have met all three over the years. Yes, I have been very lucky. Of these three Giants of Manga, the one who has been available least to the American fans is Rumiko Takahashi. I do have an Urusei Yatsura cel that I was able to get her to sign at Comic Con a few years ago. Anyone interested? I am serious. I might make it available if there is enough interest out there. Please write over the next week and let me know if you would be interested and how I should sell it. I am leaning toward having an auction where you send in your bid and the one with the highest bid wins. That way it would not be a matter of who sees it first, but who wants it most. If, however, noone writes in the next week to say they would be interested, then I will not bother and just keep it in my collection. Tell your friends. Tell strangers in the street. Tell whoever you want, I don't mind. In case it makes any difference, the cel is of Lum. Still, you have a week to think about it so check this weeks update to see if it moves you. Check: Dream Hunter Rem, Golden Boy, Gundam, and Maris The Chojo. Enjoy. 11/10/07--Someone once asked me if I would rather be happy or healthy. It is an interesting question. Your health is, of course, very important and it would be difficult to be truely happy if you did not have your health. Some people are happy or at least think they are happy but do not have their health. These would be what we carefully call the learning challenged. There is another term, I am sure you know, that they don't want us to use any more, that really describes the plight of these people. They are mostly very happy because they do not know any better. At the other end of the spectrum you might have a very healthy person who is very unhappy due to the circumstances of their lives. Some people are healthy, famous and, you would think very happy, who spend all of their time trying to make their lives a total mess. They don't seem to be able to deal with their lives despite their fame and fortune. I know you have seen lots about these people on TV. Though I am neather rich nor famous nor in perfect health I am good enough and well enough and happy enough that I feel very well indeed so thank you for asking. Food for thought. A snack? Still while considering, please check out this weeks update. Try: Angel Links, Nadesico, Ray Earth, and Tekkaman Blade. Be happy. Enjoy. 11/03/07--In many fields of interest there are things that would be considered classics. There are classic cars and there are many books that would be considered classics because they set new trends or opened new boarders in some way. In animation it would certainly be correct to call "Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs" a classic. The few cels that are out there from that movie would be very expensive and difficult to find. In the world of Anime there a number of classics and the series that we know as Kimba would be one. It is the first color series and one of the first to be brought to the United States. I am very pleased to bring a cel to you from this classic series. It is perfect for you to hang on the wall because the lines are hand painted and you would not have to be concerned about line fade or anything like that. I am sure you want to see it so check out this weeks update. Check: Big O, Cowboy Bebop (a very difficult character to find,) Genocyber (autographed by the design artist,) and Kimba the White Lion. Enjoy. 10/27/07--"Fire!!!" That does not have a good ring to it now matter what. That would mean trouble in one of two ways. You have to get out as soon as possible because the place is going up in flames or else the firing squad has their sights set on you and the next thing you will know will be nothing at all. Not good, not good at all. Actually we have been pretty much surrounded by fire in many communities in the area. We are lucky because I have never had the money to live in one of those high fire areas. How unlucky can you get. Still I am more concerned about many of our customers in this area who might be losing homes or property. I wish you all the very best. Those of you who live everyplace else, I wish you the best with whatever threatens you. If you are not being threatened then perhaps you would like to check out this weeks update? Check: Lodoss Wars, Plastic Little, Shamanic Princess, and Trigun. Enjoy. 10/20/07--So, how was your week? As usual, mine was very busy. I seem to have more to do now that I am retired than I did while I was working. One thing that I have learned is that you need to keep the fact of your retirement to yourself otherwise there will be a line of people who need your help now that you have so much free time. Here I am telling you all this. I am breaking my own rule. I know that I can trust you so I don't have any problem telling you. You won't take advantage, will you? See! No problem. Now as a special treat, here is the update that you have been so looking forward to. Check out: DNA, Dragon Ball, Dr Slump, and Outlaw Star. Enjoy. 10/13/07--Very glad to be back. Hope you missed us very, very much. The sad truth is that you probably didn't even notice that we were gone. Oh well, what can you do? Either way, glad to be back. One of the truths that we are dealing with here is the fact that cels are artwork. From the most simple cel to one with matched production background, they are all the creation of artists. It is not just one artist either. But, you know how they do it. It is one of the things that makes this a most interesting hobby. I will be offering one this week that truely is an example of the best of the craft. The cel is detailed and intricate while the background is breathtaking. The piece is truely worthy to be frammed and placed in central place for desplay. Of course, they are all good in their own way, but this one really stands above the rest. Check out: Nadia, Project A-Ko (Yes, this is the one. They are both from the first movie. I do not believe that they actually go together in the film, but they look marvelous together,) Vampire Princess Miyu, and Wing Of Honneamis. Enjoy. 09/29/07--Just before adding a new title to my list I checked other sites to see if they had any of this title and I could not find any at all. When I offered them before, these would sell out very fast. It is a very unusual little series and I am proud to add the title to my list. You can check it out and see what I mean. You will have next weekend off also as I will be attending Ani-Magic in Lancaster with my wife. Not many cel collectors there, but I will help my wife with her clothes. If you havn't already checked out her site, you really should. It is www.helensasianfashions.com and features really great fashions from China. We will be adding more and taking some off, but you will get the idea. Better check this weeks additions fast because some of these will not last long. Check: El Hazard, eX-Driver. Lain (I believe the original title was "Serial Experiment LAIN,") (not just a cell but comes with full, matched, production background,) and RG Veda. Enjoy. 09/22/07--Sorry for the delay in doing the update. I have been away and just got back. I was taking care of some of my duties as a grandparent. Actually, I was watching my son's dog so that is almost the same thing as being a grandparent. I had stayed at his house for three days and that is a little rough. She had been a little sick so they could not put her in boarding so I was the next best thing. She is only seven months old so still acts like a puppy. However, it is good to get back to you. I hate being late. We are ready to go. This week, the eyes have it. Some series have the best eyes you will ever see. Check out the new additions and you will "see" what I mean. Check out: Bakuretsu Hunter, Kiki's Delivery Service, Plastic Little, and Shamanic Princess. Enjoy. 09/15/07--When you think of the business of movies you would usually think that movies are made by the big corporations here and then translated for virtually every other place in the world. Actually, in most cases, that assumption would be correct. There are exceptions, as they say, to every rule. We got Godzilla from Japan and Kung Fu from Hong Kong and you can go down the line. There is a new movie that just opened here yesterday that is stranger still. A foreign producer, from Korea in fact, filmed most of the live action here in the U.S. with mostly American actors. The movie was first released abroad to great success and now it has made it here. The name of the movie is D-Wars or Dragon Wars and I saw it and enjoyed it. Some of the dialogue was a little strange, but when you consider that it was first written in Korean and then translated into English it is totally understandable. Still, it is very well done and the special effects are as good as they get. I do not think that an American company could have done any better. I would recommend the movie to anyone reading this. If you are into Anime then you also enjoy this. Before you go, however, please check out this weeks update. Try: Orphen, Porco Rosso, Sailor Moon, and Super Cat Girl. Enjoy the undate and then the movie. 09/08/07--I think that in the past I might have mentioned here that I am retired from my "normal" employment. One of the down side results on this state is what you might call day-time television. It is no wonder that they call it a vast waste-land. That is not just "killing" time it is cold blooded murder. One thing that I have noticed, when I do choose to rot my brain cells a little, is that many, many people are very unhappy with the consequences of the choices that they have made. It is becoming very common, on many shows, to deal with people who want to find out who the father of their child really is. That, all too brief, moment of passion has resulted in a child who will have to suffer all their life because two people could not say no. On one program there is a lady who has been back to the show thirteen times trying to find the father of her child and has struck out every time. I do not feel very sorry for her because she deserves this shame for doing what she did. I do feel sorry for the child. When I go to conventions, I often wonder about what might go on behind closed doors. You have young and attractive people of both sexes together to enjoy themselves and I can only hope they don't enjoy themselves too much. You probably think that I am a party pooper, but being a parent, on purpose I might add, I know how a small child can poop on all kinds of parties. Also, supporting a child for the next eighteen years due to a one-night stand, is just not worth it. Not all consequences are bad. The consequence of checking this web site is that you find really cool stuff you can buy for your collections. Check out: Bakuretsu Hunter, Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star, and Totoro. Enjoy, within reason that is. 09/01/07--Over the years many people have written to ask about certain titles and have asked me to put them on a list to contact them if anything becomes available from their wants. I have kept a record, but as I review the record I have made the conclusion that there is not a fare way to let people know because someone is going to get the information first. I guress their might be a way to send a message to everyone at the same time, but I have a list of names rather than e-mail address and it is possible that some addresses have changed over the years. I decided to simply put these things on my site and let the chips fall where they may. First come, first served. Check: Evangelion, Giant Robo, Kiki's Delivery Service, Last Unicorn, Lupin III, Nadesico, and Sailor Moon. Enjoy and Good luck. 08/25/07--It is with great pride that I introduce a new section to our cel list this week. This one is different from the rest in that it does not represent production cels as the other titles do. That is usually a very important point because most are looking for cels which were actually used in the production of the animation. These new items were not and I am telling you this from the beginning. The new section is called Pin Up and represents the work of a friend of mine, Gerry Talaoc from the Philippines. I have added some background information to the section "About Us," but I will give you an introduction here as well. Gerry Talaoc is a long time comic illustrator. He worked for years where he was published in many comics in the Philippine Islands. Finally his work, and the work of many other fine illustrators, was brought to the United States where they were seen in DC Comics. Gerry worked on many of the Horror titles like House Of Mystery and House Of Secrets, but was perhaps best known for his continuing work on the title Unknown Soldier where his strong illustrative style was a great match. He also later worked for Marvel and is best known there for work that he did on The Hulk and a long stint that he did for Alpha Flight. Gerry's biggest fans are amongst the other comic illustrators. Later Gerry became involved in animation that was being done in the Philippines and worked as art director on Heavy Metal Movie II. When I asked him to find something that I could use as illustration for my Menu Page, he did it himself and it graces my web site even today. He did other cel Pin Ups and that is what you will find when you check the new section. You will find cel versions of his own creations, Tarzan, Conan, Marvel characters like Wolverine and Phoenix and the main character from the Heavy Metal Movie II. These are one of a kind and ready to be frammed for your wall. Please check them out. This weeks update includes: El Hazard, eX-Driver, Inu Yasha, and Pin Up. Enjoy. 08/18/07--So how is your Christmas shopping coming? Don't tell me that you havn't even started yet. You are not one of those who haunt the hallowed halls of the many Malls come December 24. I hope not anyway. I do not mean to critisize, but it is always better to get an early start so that you can save some money along the way. Sure, many stores hold big sales at the end of the year to attract your attention, but if you really shop then you will find that you can get the item at the same price on sale during the year. They have almost as many sales as they have weekends during the year so perhaps you can avoid debt by spreading it out over a larger period of time. Yes, I have done about half of my shopping otherwise I would be in no position to mention it. And, less we forget, cels make great presents so go ahead and shop till you drop. Check out the update this week. Go with: Big O, Crest Of The Stars, Dragon Ball, and Outlaw Star. Enjoy. 08/11/07--Treasure can take many forms. The most obvious would be gold and jewells. That is what we think of when someone says treasure. Can you name another kind of treasure? I have heard said that a Virtuous Woman is a treasure beyond compare. I would agree. I believe that you can probably say the same thing about a virtuous man because they are even more rare. I am going to suggest one that you may not have considered. How about a car mechanic that you can trust? If that is not a true treasure then I do not know what treasure is. Let me know if you find one. I hope that he is close to me because I am still looking. While we are all looking, how about an update? Check out: Angel Links, Gatcha Man, Hyper Police, and Slayers. Enjoy. 08/04/07--Welcome back, honored guests. As you well know, I use this time each week to cover many different topics and often to crow about what is going on in the family (the good stuff, anyway.) Well, why not? My wife's son is visiting us here from Korea and is involved with many projects. If any of you get the new "Lord Of The Rings" game for the internet you will see his work. He was involved in creating all of the music. He has recorded three albums in Korea and written the scores for movies so he is very busy fellow and working on new things with well known at this end as well. My son, as you may remember, is working at Disneyland. This is his last week and then he is moving to Orlando, Florida to take the lead in the "Finding Nemo" musical that they are doing there. His part will be Nemo's father and that is really great so watch for him there. While you are watching, why not check out this week's update? Check: Escaflowne, G Gundam, Jube Chan, and Vampire Princess Miyu. Enjoy. 07/21/07--If I were but a little bit younger, I would be joining the other fans lined up outside the book stores at midnight to buy my copy of the new Harry Potter book. Ah! to be sixty again. As soon as I finish the update I will be leaving so that I can go buy my copy. Even if I had bought the book last night, I doubt that I would have started reading until this morning anyway. I know there are many more of you out there. I am sure that I will be discussing the book at Comic Con next week with quite a few people that I know. Speaking of Comic Con, (notice how I so sneekily brought up the subject) we will be in San Diego next week for Comic Con so you have the day off next Saturday so you will have more time to read your own copy of the Harry Potter book. Does that make us all POTT(er) Heads? Oh well, I guess it is too late to worry about that now. Check out the update and enjoy until next time. Check: DNA, Giant Robo (some oversized here. I could not get even half the image in the scan,) Violinist Of Hamlin, and Weiz Kruz. Wow. 07/14/07--So much to talk about and so little time. Hope the year is going well for you. We are just glad to be here and have you visit us every week. There was a time, and not so long ago, that the idea of having literally thousands of people visit you every week from places all over the world would have been thought to be totally crazy. Really, it was not that very long ago. I can remember when they were first working on making the internet. Back in the good old days, if we can call them that, we needed a computer the size of a house to give you the power that you get out of your little notebook PCs that you carry around with you. One little breakthrough usually leads to others and away you go. I love the fact that I can be in communication, so easily, with people all over the world. I get a little tingle thinking about friends for Australia to Austria and Neatherlands to New Zeland. You can throw Japan in there too. No big surprise that one. Still, since I have your attention, wherever you might be. How about an update? Check out: Dr Slump (people still remember that one,) Nadesico, Shamanic Princess (some of the most beautiful images in all of Anime,) and Slayers. Enjoy. 07/07/07--They say that good things come in small packages. Personally, I believe that this view is espoused by those who make small packages, but then again it is probably true anyway. It is my belief that good things can also come in medium and large packages as well. I am receiving nothing from the makers of medium and large packages to make that statement and it is freely given. As an example, we do enjoy many small conventions as well as medium and large conventions. Anime-Expo has joined the elete group that qualify as a large convention and we had a great time, but we also enjoy the rest as well. Hope we were able to see you there. Since we are back, as we promised that we would be, we have an update for you to make it all worthwhile. Check out: El Hazard, Macross Plus, Ray Earth, and X (actaully in this case it would be XX or the music video that they made around the time of the movie and which is much more rare even that the movie.) Enjoy. 06/23/07--As you must already know, next weekend is Anime Expo. It is the biggest event in the world for Anime fans. Even if you cannot go, you know all about it and most would love to go, if they are not going to be able to make it. We will be there. We hope we see you there as well. I do not plan on leaving you empty handed either way. This weeks update will be for both weeks so it will be almost as if we had one next week as well. So, what do we have for you this week? Check out: Blue Gender, Cowboy Bebop, Fam And Iri, Photon, Steam Detectives, Tenchi Muyo, Vampire Hunter, and Video Girl Ai. Enjoy. 06/16/07--How time flys when you are having fun. It was just over a year ago that my son tied the knot. He also got married. This last week they celebrated their anniversary. A happy time for all. They are also enjoying the patter of little feet around the house. Yes, they have their first puppy. I bet you thought I was going to say something else. They finally have an apartment where they can have a dog and they went for it. They are very happy. It has really changed their lives. They are not as free as they once were to go out and do things any time they want. They have to arrange for a puppy sitter and guess who usually gets the chore. Still, as you know, I am a dog lover from way back so I enjoy the job. I enjoy this job as well so let's get on with this week's update. Check out: Crusher Joe, Dragon Pink (a new title,) Saint Seiya, and Tenchi Muyo. Enjoy. 06/09/07--Don't you hate when that happens? This last week we tried to respond to messages and found that they were just sitting in our outbox and not going anywhere with some kind of error message that doesn't mean anything to me. That is just so frustrating. What must people think when we don't write them back in a timely way. It reminds me of the commercials about dropped cell phone calls where you are in the middle of a conversation and don't quite know what to think when it goes silent at the other end. After several days the problem seemed to clear itself and we seem to be back to normal. Hope it stays fixed in case you need to reach us. Hope we give you reason to try to reach us. Like, check out the update? Check: Ah My Goddess (Yes I know it isn't a matched background, but it makes a really beautiful image,) Infinite Ryvius, Orange Road, and Tekkaman Blade. Enjoy. 06/02/07--Did you miss us? Did you even notice that we were gone? We were in San Jose for the convention. Hope we saw you there. Conventions are work, but they are also very enjoyable. They are very different with much more enphasis on active participation with cosumes and weapons and all kinds of fun things. All the creative energy that goes into these things and could light up a small city. I was at the first one of this convention and remember when it all could fit into one small room. I am proud of how it has grown. It is great to see lots of people into this fun hobby. Glad you could make it too, even if it is only to this web site. Since you are here, how about an update, just for fun? Good! Check out: Big O, B'TX (a new title,) Captain Future, Card Captor Sakura, Crest Of The Stars, Outlaw Star, and Vampire Hunter. Enjoy. 05/19/07--We have good news for you and we have bad news for you. That is kind of how things go these days so what can you do. I will give you the bad news first and get it over with. We have had to raise the cost for shipping on orders within the United States. We have absorbed the last two rate increases without passing it along to our customers so I do not believe that this will impact too very much. In fact, the increase will not even cover my current expense in shipping. It will be closer and I think that you will understand. The good news is that you will have another weekend off next week because we will be out of town attending the Fanime Convention in San Jose again this year. You can sleep in and get a well deserved rest while we are working our fingers, etc, to the bone. A fare trade if I ever heard one. We do have an update for you so let's do it. Check out: Big O, Cowboy Bebop, Crest Of The Stars, Inu Yasha, Outlaw Star, Ray Earth, Slayers and Tenchi Muyo. Enjoy and see you in two. 05/12/07--Perhaps you think that I am just bragging. Perhaps you would be right. I think that I am entitled to be proud of my son. As soon as I finish this I will be off to Disneyland for the day. That would be nice enough, but the primary reason is to see my son perform as part of the Dapper Dans. Anyone who has been to Disneyland will recognize the barbershop quartet the performs in the Main Street area. Yes, he sings with the group this weekend. He is the lead tenor. If you are going today too, watch for him. He is the one with red hair. They have changed the presentation to make it more up to date and it includes more dancing and an actual script rather than simply a list of songs that they are prepared to do. So, on to the update so I can get on with my big treat of the day. Check out: Big O, Cowboy Bebop, Crest Of The Stars, Inu Yasha, Outlaw Star, Ray Earth, and Tenchi Muyo. Enjoy, I know I will. Also, let me add, Happy Mothers Day to all the Moms out there. 05/05/07--It is Cinco de Mayo everyone. It is the most famous holiday for Mexico. It is the best excuse you can find to eat Mexican food. It is not their Independance Day like July 4th is for the United States. It is a celebration of an important victory for the Mexican people in their fight for independance. It would be like the U.S. celebrating some big battle with England in the war for independance. It also seems to be several other markers as well. We are now past the first third of the year and we are entering the meat of the movie season. The Spider-Man movie is out and chances are good that you have already seen it too. It is a great time to be alive. Actually, anytime is a great time to be alive. Since we are celbrating so many cool things anyway, how about the update? Check out: Big O, Cowboy Bebop, Crest Of The Stars, Inu Yasha, Outlaw Star, and Tenchi Muyo. Enjoy, and while you are at it, dance the night away. 04/28/07--They say that the winds bring change. We have had a very windy year here in Southern California this year and I would honestly say that the writing is on the wall. Change is coming. It will not all be good, that is for sure. We know that the postage will be going up some time soon and that will have an impact. Other things will also change. Some good. Some not so good. That is one thing that is virtually guaranteed in life, we will have change. You have been warned. Not that we can do much about it, at least we won't be totally surprised when it happens. Each time we have an update, there is change that isn't too big so you should be used to it by now. This weeks change is our update so check out: Big O, Cowboy Bebop, Crest Of The Stars, and Outlaw Star. Enjoy. 04/21/07--All together now. Happy Anniversary!!!! Yaaaay! Wooopie! Thank you! Thank you! Your kindness is much appreciated. Yes, today is my sixth anniversary of being married to my lovely wife, Helen. I can very truthfully say that I am as happy today as six years ago when we were married. If you have met us at conventions then you know why I feel the way that I do. I certainly hope that you all find yourselves as lucky as I am. My feeling is that if you are lucky in LOVE then it doesn't really matter if you are lucky in anything else. As for me, I am lucky having you read my update also so I am truely a happy camper (wheather I go camping or not.) So now for the good stuff. Check out: G Gundam, Gunbuster (a new addition,) Utena, and Vampire Princess Miyu. Enjoy. 04/14/07--We hope you had as good a time as we did last week and we are all ready to go with this new week and new month. We can get right back into our meaty discussions like we usually have. You never know where the topics are going to come from. This one comes from one of my favorite TV shows. In fact, the episode where this originates, won an Emmey. The title of the episode is "Friends Forever" so that hint may tell you what show it is. The question this week is: "Is it better to do the wrong thing for the right reason or do the right thing for the wrong reason?" I would guess the obvious answer might be that it is better the do the right thing even for the wrong reason. I would wonder. That would tell me that our motivation for doing something is totally wrong and it only turns out right by accident. I would hate to think that I would only do the right thing by accident. I think that we do the wrong thing when we are trying to do right much of the time. At least our intentions are good and the outcome is bad by accident. No matter how hard we try, things that we try to do right do not always turn out the way we want. At least we are trying. Trying to do right is better than trying to do wrong and have it turn out right despite our best efforts. My best effort for this week is to try to do the update so hang in there. Check out: Infinite Ryvius, Tekkaman Blade, Toward The Terra, and Vampire Hunter. Keep trying. 03/31/07--You knew it would not last forever. You have had four months of uninterrupted updates, but we have arrived at the first convention of the year. Why we will be in Arizona and not Seattle, Washington is a long story that we will not bore you with here, but off we will be next weekend so you can sleep in and take the weekend off. We hope you will enjoy it as much as we will. We will not leave you unloved so here is this weeks update and see you in two. Check out: Blue Seed, Card Captor Sakura, Patlabor, and Pretty Sammy. Enjoy. 03/24/07--It is estimated that we spend one third of our lives asleep. What I want to know is, Is that a bad thing? After all, as Albus Dumbledore says, dreams are a world of our own making where we are safe and capable of doing anything at all. Now, if our dreams are a world of our own making then why is it that I end up lost so much of the time and I am seldom lost when I am awake. I manage to find my way around many places where I have never been before. I also tend to have dreams where I am walking around wearing just my underwear. What is stranger still is that I usually sleep naked. I don't remember all of my dreams. In fact, I hardly remember my dreams at all, but still, when I do, it often goes this way. I can't even count the number of times that I dream that I am walking down the street and suddenly step into a pothole or off a curb and my leg jerks. That wakes me up and I have to go back to sleep and hope that when I do, that I have already passed that point and can finally get wherever I am going. Some world of my own making. You would think that I would have better control. Oh well. Still, even at the worst, I have no problem with spending one third of my life asleep. How about you? Still, I am not dreaming that I need to do an update so here we go. Check out: DNA, Fatal Fury, Lodoss Wars, and Nadesico. Sweet dreams. 03/17/07--I can't tell if I am coming or going. I got in late last night after attending a concert with my son. I am sure that I was the oldest one there so I felt a little out of place, but still had a great time. The performer takes rap and other new generation songs and does them in a style like Tony Bennet and Frank Sinatra. Imagine how it would sound if Frank Sinatra was singing all these "F" bombs and you have an idea. It was fun and now I am heading out the door to attend a comic convention here in L.A. Hey, I'm young. I can do that. Still I do have responsabilities so I have your update here for you. Check out: Angel Links, El Hazard, Inu Yasha, and Photon. I'll let you know how I survived next week. Enjoy. 03/10/07--How many times, when a person says that they are sorry for what they have done, what they really mean is that they are sorry that they were caught. If a person is only willing to admit their wrong when they are found out then is that not what they really mean? I can remember that as a kid, when I would break my parent's rules that I would deney and deney until they prooved that it was me and then, and only then, I would say I was sorry. I believe that I have gotten better, but it is still human nature to avoid admitting until the bitter end. I think that you will all remember a high ranking figure in recent memory who denied any wrong doing until the facts were so much against him that he finally admitted it was true. If I remember his story, he only lied to protect his family. (Why, what did his family do that was so wrong in this affair?) We lie to protect ourselves so again he was lieing. If I had ever had any respect for this person before, it ended there. It takes a big man to admit that they are wrong and, I believe, it takes a bigger man to admit it without being found out first. Of course, this is not gender related because the fairer sex will sometimes do things that are wrong too. SHOCK!!! I think you get my point. I did not say it would be easy, only that it would be worth it. Enough! I will put my soap box away for another week. If you have read this far then perhaps you would like an update to make it worth your time? Check out: Big O, Nadia, Outlaw Star, and Sailor Moon. Enjoy. 03/03/07--You all know how fond I am of old sayings. I am quoting them here for you on a regular basis. In fact, some of those sayings are so old that they stink, but that is beside the point. I like old sayings because they tend to be true pictures of humanity in various forms. This weeks saying is: "When the cats away, the mice will play." I am sure that you have heard that one some time in your life, probably from some other very old person like me. It does not require explanation. This week I am out to prove that one wrong. My wife is out of town visiting her family and going on some neat tours and stuff like that in her home land of Korea. While she is there, I am doing everything in my power to get some things done here that have needed doing and not resting on my laurels, or my backside for that matter. The only sad thing is that when she gets back here she will be so preoccupied with all the other things she has going in her life she will probably not even notice if I don't point them out to her. Still, I don't complain because I am doing them because they need it and not because I expect praise. You believe that? Not even I do. Oh well, before I get back to it we have an update for you. Check out: Dragon Ball, Golden Boy, Ray Earth, and Slayers. Enjoy. 2/24/07--This week we bring you a special service announcement. I know that many of you who are Anime fans are also fans of the feature film, "The Last Unicorn." I, for one, wish that I had some cels that I could sell you, but alas, no such luck. What I have come to tell you is that they have finally released this marvelous movie in a wide screen edition on DVD. Now this is something to talk about. It is the 25th anniversary edition of the movie and was just recently released. They have an interview with the writer of the book and screen play. It would be nice if they had interviews with the voice cast, but far too late for that. I am pleased with the quality of the reproduction. I have it on laser disc and this stands just as well. If you had not seen this, it is worth picking up to finally see the movie as it should be seen. No, Mia Farrow still cannot sing, but what can you do? Hope this is of interest to some out there. If not, there is always the update so here we go. Check: Ah My Goddess, Bakuretsu Hunter, Nadia, and Tenchi Muyo. Enjoy. 02/17/07--Hi!!! Enough chit chat. To our update. (Just kidding.) I am sure that you all want to take the time to stop and smell the roses or at very least see what the roses are doing. So many people do not bother to take the time to do something right, but I am sure that you are not that way. We follow the belief that if it is worth doing, it is worth doing right. Now that that is taken care of, now we can get to the update. Check out: Devilman, Pretty Sammy, Vampire Hunter, and Weiz Kruz. See you in seven. 02/10/07--So, how was your week? Good to hear it. Ours was really good too. It keeps looking like rain and then it doesn't. It likes to keep us guessing. We actually need some more rain. The season average is six inches to date and we have just over one inch. I don't mind rain, especially between midnight and six in the morning, but I guess that if we are going to get any rain at all it will be when we have the most traffic around on the freeways so that the traffic can be even worse than usual. Add to that the old saying about it don't rain but it pours and there you have it. That's California in a nutshell. Next week it will be totally different, but then again, that's totally normal too. At least we don't sit around bored with the same ol thing. Since we have time to compare notes, check out this weeks update. Try: Card Captor Sakura, Crest Of The Stars, Develman Lady, and Super Cat Girl. Enjoy. 02/03/07--Here I go dating myself again, but there was a saying during the height of the anti-war movement (the Viet Nam thing) that went, "What if they gave a War and nobody came?" Sounds like a very good idea and something to hope for in any event. Based on that saying we can extrapolate another which goes, "What if they gave a Party and nobody came?" Now that would be both sad and embarrassing. I would hope that never happens, but it probably has someplace to someone. The last one would be "What if they gave a Convention and nobody came?" Something very close to that did happen. I will not give specifics because it would be just too embarrassing for some people. It happened a few years ago. I can give you a hint. It was held west of the Mississippi and east of Los Angeles. I talked with a few dealers that went thinking that it would be a strong convention only to find that there were more dealers than there were guests. The only way that they made any money was by selling to each other. There would be a number of reasons for a failure like that, but I do not want to be judgemental so we will just leave it at that. A convention is like a party for fans so this is kind of sad. I hope that it doesn't happen again. What will surely happen again would be for an update so here we go again. Check out: Nightwalker, Ranma 1/2, Rurouni Kenshin, and X. Enjoy. 01/27/07--It is easy to be surprised when you are not expecting it. It happens to everyone in both big and small ways. It is often described as being caught with your pants down. Now that would be a very big surprise to anyone. Depending on a person's age and physical condition it could be much worse. I would not want to be surprised in that way and you wouldn't want to be there either. This description could be changed a little depending on the person. Now in the case of R. Dorothy, our favorite android maid, you could say that we caught her with her drawer open. Check it out in this week's update. Check: Big O, Gundam Wing, Hana Yori Dango, and Outlaw Star. Enjoy. 01/20/07--Change happens. It does not happen as quickly or suddenly as some might expect, but it does happen. Many writers in the past have considered what the future might bring and to them, where we are right now, seemed so very far away. We made it and, strangely enough, those things have not happened. Nothing very outstanding happened in 1984 despite what was written. The moon is still here in orbit around us despite the grave predictions of Space 1999. We didn't have our space adventure in 2001. I think that those who try to describe our future will be keeping it much farther out and trying to be less exagerated with their views of the changes that will come. When you think of how the world has changed in the last 100 years it has been startling, but it tends to be more natural and organic. Still, it is fun to think about the changes that are coming and compare the present with the future that others predicted would come. I cannot predict why you have come, but it was probably for an update so check out: Cowboy Bebop, Iria, Plastic Little and Ranma 1/2. Enjoy. 01/13/07--Over this last week I made a marvelous discovery that will have a huge impact on the entire English speaking world. I want you to be the first to know. The truth is that William Shakespeare is really from Southern California. Yes, it is true. After considerable research and a little tweeking of some of his famous quotes, there it was. Let me show you. I am not an expert in the subject so some of you might find even more. Anyone that has spent any time in Southern California trying to find a place to put your car will agree that, "Parking is such sweet sorrow." Trying to find your way around you might have said, like he did, "Rodeo, Rodeo, wherefore art thou, Rodeo Drive?" And then, if you have ever gone hunting for a place to live in Southern California you might well have said, "A house, a house, My kingdom for a house." See what I mean. If you find some more of his famous quotes and tweek them also I bet you will arrive at the same momentous conclusion. Exciting, isn't it? While you are tweeking you might like to check out this weeks update to keep you warm. Try: Cashan, Go Kaiser, (a very rare one and new this week) Go Lion, and Orguss. Enjoy. 01/06/07--Welcome to 2007. Glad you could make it. It wouldn't have been any fun without you. We have passed our condolences along to Mrs. 2006 on the demise of her husband on behalf of all of us. I am sure that the feelings are what really counts at a time like this. What, you didn't know that 2006 was married? Well of course, where do you think that the baby 2007 comes from? You don't think he is a clone do you? He better not be or 2007 will be just like 2006 and none of us would want that. It is a little windy here in Southern California, but other than that it has been a good start. Hey, it could always be worse. Still, you are here too and that is the important thing. Since you are here, how about the update? Check: 3X3 Eyes, Outlaw Star, Sakura Wars, and Slayers. Enjoy. 12/30/06--Alas and alack we have reached the end of another year. I hope that 2006 has been fruitful for everyone and that you will have nothing but good memories of the year. I have high hopes for 2007. I will continue my efforts to make the collection of cels a tax deduction, but, if others do not get involved in the efforts, I will be doomed to failure so you might consider joining the cause. As always, I am grateful for your interest and support. It is good to know that you are there, even if I do not always hear from you. If you go out for New Years Eve, please drive carefully and do not drink and drive. I cannot affort to lose any of you to accidents so please come back next week and I will be here. Check out this weeks update and think how great it will be to be back again next week. Check: Corrector Yui, Dunbine, Project A-Ko, and Wing Of Honneamis. Enjoy. 12/23/06--There are habits and then there are customs. You might define a habit as something that we do on the basis or repetition and that is somewhat learned. Some habits are good, but most of them are bad and can be bad for us. A really obvious example of this would be smoking. It is a very hard habit to break because of the drugs that are found in the tobacco. Even if you decide to stop, it is very difficult. We might purposely teach ourselves good habits, like checking my updates every week. Now that is a very good habit. A custom is something that is done more widely. You can see examples of customs all around us during the holidays. There is no religious basis for a Christmas Tree, but we put them up anyway. They come from pagan celebrations in the area of Europe over the centuries. There is nothing wrong with the custom. We do not give any significance to the decorations that we put up. We celebrate Christmas on December 25 even though there is not basis in cannon for that date. I believe that historically it came from a Roman celebration as the birth date of the god of the sun and Christians adopted the date to have their celebration at the same time without causing problems with the pagan worship. They were being picked on enough. Lets face it, there would not have been sheep or shepards in the hills above Bethlehem in the dead of winter. Still, using that date, right or wrong, is not a bad custom so I see no need to change. I know that visits to my web site will never be wide enough to become custom so lets hope it continues as a worthwhile habit. While you are thinking that one over, let's check out the weeks update. Check: Fatal Fury, Tenchi Muyo, Those Who Hunt Elves, and Wedding Peach. Enjoy and have a memorable holiday as well. 12/16/06--Since you are here with us this morning it must mean that you have finished your holiday shopping. That is really good to know. I wish it were true for me. Still, I am very close so it is just a matter of minutes rather than hours so things are looking up for me. I do not have quite what I would like to be able to spend on family and friends since I am retired from my regular employment and live on a fixed income. Still, I love to give and I love to spend time with my friends from all over the world that visit me here. I just received a Christmas card from I friend that I have never met in person who I know from my site and it fills my heart. He lives in Austria and his name is Eric. He is a very nice man and I wish I could meet him. I doubt that I will ever get over there. Maybe he will visit Southern California some day. Be thankful for family. Be thankful for your friends, and most of all, be thankful for each new day that is given you to try to do better than the day before. I thank you for visiting me here and before you go, why not check out this weeks update. Check: Ah My Goddess, Astro Boy, Nadia, and Virus. Enjoy. 12/09/06--The good news is that we are back. The bad news is that we are a week closer to the holidays. There are many different things to occupy your time until then. There is shopping and singing and shopping and movies and shopping and theme parks and shopping and lots of other things to do. I don't know about you, but I am somewhat upset with people who get drunk and say things that they regret later and then try to blame it on the drink. From what I know about alchohol, it can inhibit your thinking and helps you get past your self control to do things that you might not do if you were not drinking. What it does not do is put words in your mouth that you had not already thought of, but would have too much good sence to say outloud. I do not drink at all. I have gotten off of juries several times because of that because the lawyer wants to blame the actions of the defendant on the alchohol. If you ever want to get off of jury duty, you might wish to use that approach and you will see that it really helps. While you are considering the possibilities, why not check out this weeks update? Check out: Cowboy Bebop, Giant Robo, Maris The Chojo, and Mazinkaiser. Enjoy and be back again next week. 11/25/06--A WORD TO THE WISE. (Hows that for starting the day? You just get up and already someone is calling you wise. It just doesn't get any better than that.) If you are tempted to get up for shopping on the day after Thanksgiving for those really big deals, if you are unwilling to spend the night in the parking lot of the store, then you might as well sleep in because there will be nothing left by the time you get in the door. I got up before the crows and still when I got to the store, the line was around the building and, needless to say, when I got inside, everything was gone. Too bad, so sad. Speaking of sleeping in, next Saturday you can sleep in because we will be out of town again so no update. We will be in Phoenix, Arizona for Phoenix Anime Fest. Take full advantage of your day off. We will be back again for the following week and ready to go. Another reminder, we have a new email address that you can find anyplace in the site so, when you write, don't depend on the address that used to work. Everything taken care of? Good! Now our update. Check out: Angel Links, Ayashi No Ceres, Jube Chan, and Nadesico. Enjoy. 11/18/06--NEWS FLASH!!! We have joined the 21st Century. We now have DSL and everything is moving faster. The big result here is that we now have a new email address. If you simply call up our old address from the last time that you sent us a message then it will be going to an address that is no longer in service. All of the listings and links on this site have been updated with the new information, but for your reference, the new address is animeed@sbcglobal.net and we hope we hear from you at this new address. I will be reminding everyone about this change for the next month or so, just in case. As they say, no student (or potential customer) left behind. Now, for this weeks update. Check out: El Hazard, Little Nemo In Slumberland, Photon, and Ranma 1/2. Enjoy. 11/11/06--One slight (with enphasis on slight) problem with being a little (with enphasis on little) older is that some times my frame of reference is different from many other fans. I remember shows and movies that many others have never seen or even heard of. One of this weeks update falls into that category. It is a movie from the legendary Osamu Tezuka and is around 25 or 30 years old. I am not sure exactly. As with others of his movies from this same era, he enjoyed having his other characters appear in guest shots in these movies. It is great fun to watch for them. It might be anyone from Astro Boy or Black Jack to Kimba. This movie is fun with lots of guest shots and an interesting love story and time travel and lots of cool things. If you have not seen it, I hope you get the chance. Check them out, I am sure that you will be able to tell which is which. Check: Bander's Book, Pretty Sammy, Urusei Yatsura, and Vampire Princess Miyu. Enjoy. 11/04/06--If we didn't see you at PMX, we missed you. The hardest thing about going to a convention is that we miss our friends who visit us here. Still, we do what we have to and live with it as best we can. I told you last time that I was having a little trouble with the last update, well, this time it was even worse. We almost didn't have one and then what would you have done? We found that we could not get into our site to make changes like showing what was on hold or sold at the convention and just could not figure it out. We finally contacted our Web Hosting Service and reset some things and we are, happily, back in business. I can't think of a better reason to celebrate or a better way than by having an update so here we go. Check out: Dragon Ball, eX-Driver, Jojo's Bizarre Adventures, and Macross 7. Enjoy. 10/21/06--For whatever reason I have a very low tolerance for frustration. When I deal with things that I do not totally understand, like my website, I tend to worry if things do not go the way they are supposed to. That happened this week. You almost didn't get an update because things were not working and I did not know what I was doing wrong. By force of will alonge, mixed with dumb luck, things finally fell into place and here we are so just be glad. Be very, very glad. I am. You get next week off again as we go off to another convention. Hope we see you there. We will be at Pacific Media Expo or PMX for short. Make good use of your weekend in you are unable to join us, but since you are here already we have the update that I mentioned. Check out: Big O, Crimson Wolf, Infinite Ryvius, and Outlaw Star. Enjoy. 10/14/06--Hope everyone survived Friday the 13th in good shape. Nothing too unusual or scary happened. As for us, don't ask. It is not that it was that much worse than other Fridays, but then again, other Fridays are not something to write home about. Come to think about it, if Friday is the best thing you have to write home about then you are in big trouble. Since we all survived it in reasonably good condition then we should make good use of today and have an update. Check out: Gundam Wing, Mazinkaiser, Patlabor, and Ray Earth. Enjoy your Saturday and the rest of the week too. 10/07/06--Were back! Good thing for you, hardly a dent in the cel inventory. Bad thing for us, ditto. We had a great time and I guess that counts for something. Still we have been having farely steady orders from the site so, as always, you can't trust that something you have been eyeing will be there in the future. With one of a kind artwork, it is always much safer to strick while the iron is hot or it just might not be there. Let's face it, for us it doesn't matter very much which person buys something as long as someone buys it. We are there for you all. Since you are there and we are here and vice versa, how about an update? Check out: Cowboy Bebop, Crest Of The Stars, Mezzo Forte, and Ranma 1/2. Enjoy. 09/23/06--Here you were thinking that you would be safe from further convention intervention when they spring some more on you. Next weekend we will be here in Lancaster, California for Ani-Magic so there will not be any update next week. Considering how many new conventions there are springing up all over the place, this one is not so new any more. I believe that this is their seventh year so they are learning to ply their trade for sure. We will have two more before the end of the year so you can't get complasant. We have a few minutes left before we have to hit the road so how about one last update? Check out: 3X3 Eyes, Angel Links, Mezzo Forte, and Weiz Kruz. Enjoy. 09/16/06--There are all kinds of ways to learn on the highway of life. Many of them are what they call the hard way. For most of us the best teachers are those we find in the school of "Hard Knocks." That does not reflect either wisdom or intelligence, but it is mostly human nature because we seem to find it hard to accept good advise no matter how well intended. Here are some words of wisdom for you and I hope you will consider them wisely because they come from the school that I mentioned above. Never sign anything without reading it from top to bottom and forward to back first. I would even start with the small print. In fact, any time I see small print or print on the back where you might not notice it, I would read even more carefully. Frankly, I would wonder why an honest, above board business would have such a line it it like, "your signature is sign that you have read every entry and you agree with them." It makes you wonder. You will pay the price if you trust too much. Trust me on that one. While you are busy trusting me, how about an update? Check: Escaflowne, Gundam Wing, Slayers, and Steam Detectives. Enjoy. 09/09/06--You know from past experience that I like the old sayings. I like them because they have stood the test of time. So here is one for today: "Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and they put you on anti-depressants." Sad, but true. While you are considering the wisdom of this little jem, how about this weeks update? Check: Fam And Iri, Lodoss Wars, Nadesico, and Nadia. Enjoy. 09/02/06--You know what they say about teaching an old dog new tricks. Yes, it is true. It is darn right difficult if not impossible. I would dare say that I qualify as an old dog. No doubt about that any more. I gave up counting my grey hairs a very long time ago. Still, much to my surprise I have been learning new tricks. I have been learning to help my wife sell on ebay and we are getting pretty good at it too. We are regularly trying to fix her web site and doing all kinds of strange and marvelous things. She sells asian fashions at the conventions and many enjoy what she offers and come back for more with each new year. She sells under helensasianfashions on ebay if you ever get that way so watch for us. Still, I have my old trick to do so how about an update? Check out: Hyper Police, Lost Universe, Maizon Ikkoku, and Ray Earth. Enjoy and WOOF!. 08/26/06--OK! Here we go. POP QUIZ! You shouldn't be all that surprised because we do this every once in awhile. So here we go. This weeks quiz question is: Why do they call it a "Pop Quiz?" I am sure that there are many different ideas and probably someone may even have a really serious historical answer for this question. When you really think about it, though, you know in your heart of hearts that the real answer is as plain as can be. The answer: Because "Snap and Crackle" were already taken. While you are mulling that one over, how about this weeks update? Check: Big O, Escaflowne, Variable Geo, and Video Girl Ai. Enjoy. 08/19/06--There is an old saying that goes: "Pride cometh before the fall." That is actually a misquote from the book of Proverbs in the Bible. What it really says is that: "Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall." Wow! That is even worse. I guess that what we need to do is try to keep everything in perspective and no matter how great we are, know that we are still small potatos and work on being a little better every day. The proverb is word to the wise from the wise. Provers were written by king Solomon to his son and he is known for being pretty wise. I just don't think he followed his own advise toward the end. Hope we can do better. While we are busy doing better we might have a little time to check out the update this week so, check out: Roujin Z, Rurouni Kenshin, Sailor Moon, and Violinist of Hamlin. Enjoy, but do it wisely. 08/12/06--If it can believed what they say then every one of us will have our own 15 minutes of fame. From what I have seen, some people set out with the idea of getting that fame by doing bad things that will make them famous. Obviously, that is totally the wrong approach. As far as I am concerned, I will pass. I figure that my 15 minutes will come when they write my obituary so I am in no rush. I like my idea better. I would rather get to know the famous than to be one. I have always really enjoyed artwork in it's many forms. My greatest treasure is the fact that I have gotten to really know some of the artists whom I really admire. That covers both American comics and Manga. If I gave you a list then I would simply be bragging. What I can do is pass a long a few words of advise that I think that every one of them would agree with. If you too want to be an artist then what you have to do is...do it. Sit at your drawing table when you get up in the morning and be falling asleep at that same table late at night. The only way you can learn how to draw something is to draw it. You can study things like perspective and technique and light and shadow, but you don't really learn these things untill you use them. You draw anything and everything. When you find that your real inspiration comes from within rather than someplace else then you will be on your way. Of course, it doesn't hurt to have a nice cel collection either so here is this weeks update. Check out: Ah My Goddess, Crest Of The Stars, Cutey Honey, and Tekkaman Blade. Enjoy. 08/05/06--There are many slogans out there that encourage you to treat other people with kindness and respect. You have heard them too, I am sure. Such as: "Pass it forward" or "Random acts of kindness." These are very good and the remind us of the value of doing good to our fellows. That is certainly better than bombing each other. I really believe that it would work as well on an international scale, but then I guess there are other things that are more important to our political leaders. On the personal level, we need to remember that treating others with kindness is not simply because they deserve it, which they may or may not, but because of what we do to ourselves when we treat others that way. I like me better when I act that way and you would probably say the same about yourself as well. I would rather like me better than not and that is the bottom line. Other than that bottome like there is also the update so lets do it. Check out: Blue Seed, Eden's Boy, Inu Yasha, Outlaw Star, and Saint Seiya. Enjoy. 07/29/06--You know, when you go off to conventions you some times miss out on things at home. As you know, we were off in San Diego for the Comic Con so were not here for last update. What we missed out on was 100 degree heat matched with 90% humidity. They were actually going to Saunas to cool off. When we make up our minds to miss something, we really do. Wow! Don't you wish you could miss out on a day like that. This week is rather ordinary and nothing to write home about so might as well get caught up with the update. Check out: Big O, Cowboy Bebop, Yamato, and Yu Yu Hakusho. Enjoy. 07/15/06--HOT, HOT, HOT! Boy, am I. In the morning, before I can do anything else, I have to take my little dog for a walk. It is for the both of us. Actually, I need the exercise more than him, but he enjoys exploring and smelling and everything that little dogs do, if you catch my meaning. We accidently overslept a little today so the sun was actually up and that is why I am so hot, hot and hot. By the time we got back, both of our tongues were hanging out. We had a race to his water dish. He won. While my IV drips into my arm, I will try to do the update. Next week you get off again while we are at the really big show in San Diego. Still, we have to give you something to make you happy this week so check out: 3X3 Eyes, Burn Up W, DNA, and Fushigi Yuugi. Enjoy. We will. 07/08/06--Considering the fact that we can never leave our booth at the convention to go to a panel or any kind of presentation or much of anything else, we had a great time last weekend at Anime Expo. We have a great time because we love to interact with all the people who visit our booth. It was busy and fun and we are still a little tired. One thing that is different at any convention is that we do not have to deal with people who's eyes are bigger than their wallets like we do with our web site. We often say that kids want food portions that are bigger than they can eat because their eyes are bigger than their stomachs. People will see things on our site that they order even though they do not have the funds to pay for them or they order from more than one site and run out of money before they can pay for everything or something similar and we have to deal with that. It is not fare to us or to people who are more careful with their funds for their collections. You might look at something on our site and see that it is on hold, but may not be interested any longer, two weeks later when it comes off hold because that person could not complete the transaction. We miss out on a sale and the collector misses out too. Of course, it doesn't happen more than once because we will not take any order in the future from someone who does that to us even once. I would think twice about making an order that I could not pay for if I realized that I would no longer be welcome to order from that site in the future. I have been known to be far more patient than the average, but even my patience runs out eventually. I know that most of us are much more careful, I am just telling you about the few who are not. Still, there is a reason you are reading this and that is to get to the update, so here we go. Check out: Angel's Egg, Big O, Fam And Iri, and Macross Plus. Enjoy. 06/24/06--If you are planning on missing Anime Expo next weekend on purpose, we will need to see a signed excuse from your doctor. I am not kidding. This is the biggest thing in Anime in years. If you are one of the very few people who do not know what is happening then I will let you in on the secret. CLAMP is coming. Yes, all four of the lady manga artists that make up CLAMP will be here. This is a first. They have not even appeared all together in Japan. The word is out and groups are coming in all the way from Japan for this event. I do not know how they will be able to top this year no matter who they bring in next year. Next year doesn't really matter. This year is off the charts. Of course, we will be there and we will be easy to find in the exhibit hall and, if you are there, look us up. No update next week because we will be rather tied up. This week we do. Check out: Burn Up W, Noir, Orange Road, and Ray Earth. Enjoy. 06/17/06--Life just doesn't let me alone, sometimes. After working my tail to the bone all last week, this week, I get sick. Again! Can you believe that? I don't remember doing anything to deserve that. You would certainly think that anything that extreme would be something that I would remember. If anyone out there remembers what I did to deserve this fate then please write it down on a piece of paper and then put it in an envelope and then set it on fire because I don't want to know. At this point in my life, I feel that my mental health is worth more than my memories so I am safer this way. I am sure that it is just me, but what can I say that hasn't already been said and even spelled correctly, for that matter. While I am busy remembering to forget why don't we take a look at this weeks update? Check out: Mazinkaiser, Porco Rosso, Totoro, and Trigun. As Mr Spock once said, "remember" or something like that. Enjoy. 06/10/06--Another major landmark in the history of mankind. Hardly anyone even knows. Yes, my youngest son is now married. Wow! I guess it was bound to happen some day. And you know, he isn't even that young. There is weeping and wailing by young women around the world. Another of the really good ones is out of the running. So sad! Still, life goes on for the rest of us and you are, perhaps, more interested in finding out what great new goodies we have for you this week. If so, you might wish to check out: Bastard, Gundam Wing (OVA,) Hyper Police, and Violinist Of Hamlin. Enjoy. 06/03/06--It is said, "You cannot be in two places at the same time." That is the primary reason why I do not do updates at the same time that I am selling at conventions. This week we are participating in a swap meet that our local community is putting on so I am being stretched a little thin. If we have ever met then you will know that is really saying something. Still, I am taking just enough time to finish the update and then I am going out the door so I will not be here for about seven or eight hours to answer all of your requests so please be patient. Orders are honored in the order that they are received so write right away. You will want to check out this weeks new items so, check out: Black Magic M66, Noir, Vampire Hunter, and Yu Yu Hakusho. Enjoy. 05/20/06--Want to hear another secret? Yeah!!! Well, next week there will be no update because we will be out of town attending Fanime Con in San Jose. You might want to keep that one under your hat because if word got out the results could be, well, I would hate to think what might happen to the world economy. Still, you select people will know and can take advantage of secret insider information. Not you, Martha, you already had your chance. Since you are here today, you can check out what we brought you for this week and have all of next week to gloat about all the people who do not know our little secret. Check out: Devil Hunter Yohko, Sabor Marionette J, Totoro and Variable Geo. Enjoy. 05/13/06--Well you might ask why cels going onto the site as part of an update can be on hold already. I guess it's time to reveal one of my secrets. This isn't a big deal, but it could be a help to you if you are hoping to find something. Usually I will put the new images for the update on my site on the day before the update. That makes it much easier for me to post the update on the morning of the update. Some people go thru different sites looking for new things and might luck into the things that I have added in preparation for the coming update. The items are not officially for sale yet so, in this case, the SALE price did not apply. The officially became available as of this morning. If someone finds the new one and wishes to order then I will honor the request. Now, you all know so you can start checking too. This weeks official update includes: Big O, Cutey Honey, Outlanders and Outlaw Star. Enjoy. 05/06/06--Now the time has come that you all have been waiting for. You have all been asking yourselves when this silly SALE will be coming to an end. It is my extreme pleasure to announce that the bothersome SALE comes to an end on the Friday of next week promptly at midnight. I can hear the cheers all the way here. The rules still apply until then. I guess I can go over them one last time. A reduction of 20% applies on orders up to $399 and from $400 up a reduction of 25% applies. Everything is on SALE except those things that are on consignment. Those are the ones whose numbers start with either "K" or "D." Happy hunting and enjoy while you still can. We add a few more things this week. Check out everything, but especially: Bakuretsu Hunter, Big O, El Hazard, and Go Kaiser. Happy now? 04/29/06--Nothing lasts forever. Certainly, nothing good lasts that long and, even though it might feel that it does, not even the bad stuff lasts forever. This SALE is lasting longer than I would have expected so you are lucky beyond anything you could have expected. You have a little longer to take advantage so strike while the iron is hot. You might fill in any other old saying that would work in this situation. If you did not know about the SALE then back up one page to the site index and check out "What's New" for the details and rules of combat in this one. We are adding even more cool stuff this week. Check out: Ah My Goddess, Corrector Yui, Cowboy Bebop, Maris The Chojo, and Project A-Ko. Enjoy. 04/22/06--So, how ya doen? We are glad to be back and look forward to making your day complete. We had a great time at the convention and hope we met you there. If not, there are always other conventions. Still, you are just sooo lucky. The SALE continues for a little longer while we try to pay our tax bill. Again, everything is 20% off except for consignment items with numbers that begin with "D" or "K." We are going to sweeten the pot a little until the end of the SALE. We will add an additional 5% off on orders $400 and more. Easy enough, an order of $400 will be $300 and so on. We are also sweetening the pot by adding many nice cels this week. Many of these have not seen the light of day for years so take a look. Check out: Blue Gender, Card Captor Sakura, Escaflowne, Gatchaman, I Want To Be An Angel, Lupin III, Macross Plus, Orphen, Ray Earth, RG Veda, Rurouni Kenshin, Saint Seiya, Super Cat Girl, Those Who Hunt Elves, Variable Geo, Votoms, and Weiz Kruz. When I say, enjoy, I mean it. 04/08/06--Next week you will have another day off while we go to Arizona for our next convention. We might even see some of you there. In the meantime our SALE continues. Check last week's update in "What's New" for the rules, but basically almost everything is 20% off. I do recommend that you do not wait until the following week to order because we honor all orders on the basis of when they are received so if you wait, someone else might just order before you get a chance and that is no fun. We do not want to make your visit here a loss this week so check out our update. Check: Cowboy Bebop, Dragon Ball, Eatman, Giant Robo, Golden Boy, Jube Chan, and Outlaw Star. Enjoy. 04/01/06--We've got taxes and are we blue. We've got taxes, how about you? It seems like we do one special each year to help people shop for the holidays and another special to help ourselves out of a jam. Last year our computer crashed and we had to replace it. This year, due to a number of circumstances, we end up with oweing lots of taxes and not getting a refund. You are the lucky ones here. Everything that is not on consignment is 20% off. (Consignment are cels with numbers that start with either "D" or "K.") Our misfortune is your gain so check everything out and let us know. We are adding to the mix with this weeks update. Check out: Big O (as in The Big O,) Lodoss Wars (as in Record of Lodoss Wars,) Nadia (as in Nadia, Secret Of Blue Water,) and Photon (as in Photon.) Enjoy. 03/18/06--Well, here we go again. You get a weekend off and we get another convention. Yes, convention season is starting again already. We are somewhat lucky in that we don't go to all of them like another dealer that we know. I don't know how he does it but the guy in Pittsburg, Kansas goes to everything that isn't tied down and to some that are. Since he has a very wide variety of products, it is lucky for the fans that he does. Next weekend we will be in the Northwest for the Sakura Con in Seattle and meet again with all our friends in that area. What a great way to spend a weekend. Hope to see you all there. Still, we have an update for those who do and for those who don't, so check out: Eden's Boy, Key The Metal Idol, Lost Universe, and Sailor Moon. Enjoy. 03/11/06--What exactly is point of view? This came to my mind yesterday as I was out walking my dog and looking at the many clouds in the sky. It came to me that this one cloud that I was looking it would look very different to a person who was standing in another town 20 miles away and looking up at that same cloud. Then I noticed that there was a plane flying over that cloud as well. Anyone in that plane would see that cloud totally differently as well. The differences of point of view that we experience in life are usually much more complex than the simple difference between where one person is standing and looking and another person standing and looking. Still, the concept is the same. Our point of view is mostly colored by our environment. Still twins who are raised in the exact same environment will still often have completely different points of view on different issues. The real difference is inside us. Isn't it strange? Then again, variety is the spice of life and if we all thought the same about everything then it would surely be a dull, dull place. Still, if your point of view is that you came here looking for an update then, by gosh, you'll get one. Check out: Blue Seed, Escaflowne, Mazinkaiser, and Outlaw Star. Enjoy. 03/04/06--They say that "Time waits for no man." The also say that "Time marches on." (Who are those people that say those things anyway?) And that brings me to a memorable song title: "If I could save time in a bottle." This is a rather timely subject, wouldn't you say? Still, to answer that musical and rhetorical question, No, I would not. Do you know why? I would think it would be obvious. If I could save time in a bottle and had a bottle of time just sitting around the place, I would be the one to drop it and break the bottle. If you look up the word "klutz" in the dictionary you will see my picture so I strongly recommend that you not look it up, just to be safe. Being a world class klutz, I would undoubtedly be the one to be blamed if the bottle holding time were dropped and broken even if I wasn't even there when it happened. How would you like to be known as the person who broke the bottle holding time? I could never live that down. I have enough things to live down now, to add that one to the list, so whatever your answer might be to the magical question, you know mine. With that firmly behind us, we barely have enough time left for our update, so here we go. Check out: Big O, Inu Yasha, Macross 7, and Nadesico. Since you've gotten this far, you might as well enjoy. 02/25/06--Language is a strange and powerful thing. In a world of an international form of communication which is the internet, the differences between the countries and the languages are not the walls that they once were. I see that even within the english language that is spoken in my country. The accents that were so very obvious in the last generation are hardly noticed at all in this one. Still, there is room for misunderstanding and some times that can be fun. One time three foreign men were asked if they knew the english word to say that a woman could not have children. The first answered that she would be "impregnable," and the second answered that she would be "inconceivable," and the third said that she would be "unbearable." I can see how these came to be, but still it is a little funny how it turned out. We here cannot sit in judgement of how others see our language, after all there are people here who think that "innuendo" is Italian for Preparation H. I hope you will forgive my febel attempts at humor and while you are in a forgiving mood, how about checking out this weeks update? Check: Tenchi Muyo, Urusei Yatsura, Virus and Weiz Kruz. Enjoy. 02/18/06--How about something a little different this week? Rather than make you think, I am going to ask you to think---of a number. I have thought of a number between one and two hundred billion, eight hundred million, six hundred thousand and two. Who thinks they know what the number is? Show of hands, anyone? Yes, you in green shirt and purple pants. Your guess is: one hundred and sixty eight billion, sixty seven million, nine hundred thousand and two? Say, that was a really good guess. We have a winner with the first one out. Wow! Who would have believed it? Do you know what your prize is? Yes, you win an update and you get to share it with everyone else. What can I say, our prizes are a little limited. Perhaps next time we can find something better. Not that I think I could find anything better, but hey, who knows? Check out: Angel Links, Arc The Lad, Vampire Princess Miyu, and Wedding Peach. Enjoy and better luck to the rest of you for next time. 02/11/06--You know who Leonardo DaVinci is, right? Who doesn't? Did you know that DaVinci is not his family name but rather the town of his origin? That is true. Do you know the reason he had no family name? I guess that I do not have to explain that one. It is too bad, but I am very greatful to his mother that she did not exercise her right of choice and went ahead and gave birth to her illegitimate son who would one day become one of the great thinkers and artists in the history of the world. I sometimes wonder about today. I ask myself, you know me, what if? Could it be that this choice is actually a baby after all and what if that baby grew up to be the scientist who finds a cure for cancer or some other terrible disease? We do not see into the future. Hey, we do not even consider the consequences of our actions. Perhaps that scientist could have been born fourty years ago and already found the cure that saves his mother's life. Would that be ironic or what? I am not saying what is right or wrong, only, what if? Then again, what if you hadn't checked out my update today, boy would I be depressed. Since you are here, how about checking: Hana Yori Dango, Hyper Police, Iria (a new title,) and I Want To Be An Angel. Enjoy and wonder along with me if you wish. 02/04/06--Have you ever thought about how you can tell the difference between doing something and only dreaming about doing something. This has practical applications which are much more important that the philisophical implications of the differences. If you have not thought\ about it then I think that it is about time to straighten these things out. You do not want to go through life dreaming that you are getting things done to only wake up and find that it is all still waiting there for you. Boy, will you be tired. Perhaps if I explain how I can tell the difference between writing these updates and simply dreaming that I am writing them, it might give you some ideas. Yes, I do dream about writing these things so you can see how boring my life is when this is the type of thing that I dream of. Oh well! In my dreams it is much easier to do this than it is in reality. In my dreams I am a much better speller. In my dreams there is no pain. Yes, there is always pain. I will no tell you where, that is more information than is necessary. In my dreams it is much quicker too. Finally, in my dreams I always figure out that I am only dreaming so I get mad because I know I will still have to get up and do it all over again. How depressing. I hope this helps you. Since I am helping you and not simply dreaming about helping you, why don't you help me and check out this weeks update. Wasn't that easy? Check: Cowboy Bebop, Dragon Ball, Eatman, and Gundam. Sweet dreams and enjoy. 01/28/06--Don't quote me on this (actually wisdom dictates that you may not want to quote me on much of anything, but I digress,) But I have heard that we have memories of everything that we have ever heard, said or done bouncing around inside our brains. We cannot remember it all at any one time, but that would certainly explain why we do not use more than 36% of brains capacity. We are using too much for storage. You can kind of see how this might be true. If you are like me then you too have flashes of insights and memories that go way, way back to our earliest experiences. I can remember the day that my parents had a professional photographer come to the house to take a picture of my brother and I. No big deal except that when I look at the picture I know that I was no older than three years old at the time. I have some pictures of my father wearing this shirt and I remember it clearly even though I was around four or five when he wore it. I am sure that you have some glimpses too. Think about it. So why bring it up. Well, remember when I posted some of the titles on the site as missing in action? Well, I have been able to find replacements for one of the titles. Check out: Ah My Goddess, Bastard, Captin Harlock (early TV,) and yes, that's the one, and Crest Of The Stars. Enjoy and remember. 01/21/06--I guess it is time for me to impose a little more of my values on you, the poor buying public. Here we go again. Oh yes, I have your ear so why not bend it. We have a saying about walking a mile in another person's shoes, which, I believe, is an adaptation of an old saying from America's native residents. What would it be like if you not only walk that first mile, but then go the extra mile as well and then nobody notices? Hey! It happens. Would it even matter? The idea has to do with you trying to understand how the other person feels and acting accordingly. Even if they don't appear to notice, they do. The point is that it is you who is being understanding so if you do try to become more understanding of others, it doesn't matter whether or not they notice. Keep it up. Now, how about an update? Try checking: Cobra, Crimson Wolf, Cyborg 009, and Maris The Chojo. Enjoy and keep thinking. 01/14/06--Not everything that is done by our favorite creators is equally well known. If you sat down and listened to every recording by your favorite singer or group, you will find many pieces that you never heard of before. This is probably just as true for your favorite artists and writers and anyone else that is known for the things that they have created. I am adding a title this week that is probably one of the least known works of a very famous animator. The animator, Katsuhiro Otomo, is best known for his masterpiece, Akira. If you have seen his newest creation, Steamboy, then you have seen references to another creation that is highly regarded call "Memories." Still, I offer you another of his works which you may know nothing about. It is the story of what happens when a hospital bed goes over to the dark side of the force, or something like that. It has action and adventure and mystery and not a small amount of whimsey and is certainly worth checking out. The new title is Roujin Z. The other titles of this week's update are: Infinite Ryvius, Jube Chan, and Robot Carnival. Check them all and see what you think. Enjoy. 01/07/06--HAPPY NEW YEAR. That is to say, we hope that you are having one. By show of hands, how many of you made it safely thru the New Years Eve celebratkions? Most of you are raising your hands so that is a good sign, a very good sign indeed. The next question has to do with adjustment to the new year. How many are remembering to show 2006 on the checks that you write rather than 2005? That is rally the proof of the pudding as they say. When you can write the new year date on the checks without thinking about it then you know you have made the adjustment and you are on your way. Enough chit chat, who wants an update? Most, if not all, hands are up so lets do it. Check out: Giant Robo, Golden Boy, Hokuto No Ken, Little Nemo In Slumberland, and Weiz Kruz. Enjoy. 12/31/05--HAPPY NEW YEAR. The time in California is now 10 minutes after 9:00 AM on this the last day of the year. So, why bring up the time? Well the SALE will continue for the next 24 hours only so will end at this time on the 1st of January, 2006, California time. I thought that this would be the only fare way to do it since so many of the people who check this site are not living in California and may well live in far away places with strange sounding names, like Florida and New Jersey. (Talk about strange sounding names. Wow!) Still, if you saw something that you are really thinking about, better think fast. Our last update for this year is: Big O, Cowboy Bebop, Crest Of The Stars, and Inu Yasha. Enjoy. 12/24/05--The SALE goes on. No way? Way!!! For the rules of engagement, check out "What's New" for the last two weeks update. That is easier than having to repeat it all over again. This is a special end of year treat for our loyal supporters and anyone else daring enough to check out our updates for each week. You will like this, we have one of the largest number of titles in the update as we have had all year so you really have lots of cool stuff to check out. Try: Big O, Card Captor Sakura, Crest Of The Stars, Devil Hunter Yohko, Dragon Ball, Dream Hunter Rem, Flame Of Recca, Ray Earth (One of the most beautiful that I have ever seen,) Tenchi Muyo, and Utena. Enjoy. 12/17/05--WE ARE HAVING A SALE. WE ARE STILL HAVING A SALE. The SALE will continue until the end of the year. The same rules that we told you last week still apply. For the SALE price the minimum order is $100, which is pretty easy to do. The discount applies to everything except for the things that are on consignment, which mean the numbers which start with C, D or K. If you saw something before that we took off to make room for new items and if we still have it, it is on SALE also. If you can describe it, I can find it. We are adding even more and these things are on SALE as well. Check out this weeks update. Check: 3X3 Eyes, Bakuretsu Hunter, Bastard, Blue Seed, Cowboy Bebop, Jojo's Bizarre Adventures, and Nadia. Enjoy. 12/10/05--WE ARE HAVING A SALE. LET ME REPEAT, WE ARE HAVING A SALE. I can't think of a better way to bring a really great year to an end than by having a SALE so you got it. From now to the end of 2005 everything is 20% off on orders of $100 and more. (Example: make an order for $100 and it will cost you $80, but make an order for $90 and it will cost you $90. As usual that applies to everything except the cels that we are selling on consignment. Where the number starts with E thru J, it is on sale. If the number starts with C,D, or K, it is on consignment and not on sale. Still, that is almost everything. Check it out! this is your best opportunity of the whole year. If we had a cel on the site and we took it off, if we still have it, then it is on sale too. Of course, if we already sold it, then it is gone and nothing we can do. Over the year, we did take some things off to make room for new items so you can ask. We are adding new things with this weeks update and they are on sale too. Check out: Eatman, Gundam, Lost Universe, Nadesico, Outlaw Star, Queen Emeraldas, and Variable Geo. Happy shopping and better order that favorite before someone beats you to it. Enjoy. 12/03/05--Pop quiz!!! I really hope that you are taking these serious since many will be included on the final. Still, I will make it an easy one this close to the end of the year. The question is: "How much wood could a Wood Chuck chuck if a Wood Chuck could chuck wood?" (I can imagine what many are thinking. Some will say they have no idea and others would say they could care less.) The answer will be at the end. I had considered putting it upside down, but then I realized that it could be hard for some people to hold their monitors upside down to read it. While you are giving serious consideration to the question, I will give you an update. Check out: Dragon Ball, Dream Hunter Rem, Escaflowne, Patlabor, Shamanic Princess, Tenchi Muyo (Opening Credits,) and Vampire Princess Miyu. Enjoy. Now: The answer: Two pounds, four ounces. Enjoy. 11/26/05--Hello, is there anyone there? I am getting a little worried here. In the past, I would here from someone within an hour or two of the update. Now, I havn't heard anything from anyone in weeks. You don't like my cels anymore? What's even worse, you don't like my updates anymore? What happens if I have a really wonderful or insightful piece here and noone notices? I will simply have to approach it like they do in show biz and simply pretend that the whole world is watching and do my very best even if it turns out that noone is there after all. Well, here goes. Smile everyone, here comes this weeks update. Check out: Ah My Goddess, Big O, Shadow Skill (a pan from the OVA,) Slayers (a pan from the movie,) Urusei Yatsura, and Virus (including a shot from opening credits.) Enjoy. 11/19/05--Just a brief seasonal reminder. Anime cels make the perfect gift for all occasions. You don't have to worry about size or color and you never have to worry that the person will want the receipt so they can exchange. If you are moved by this suggestion, I will try to have an ample selection between now and the end of the year. Let's start things off with this weeks update. Check out: Inu Yasha, Orange Road, Ray Earth, Shamanic Princess, Tekkaman Blade, Those Who Hunt Elves, and Utena. Enjoy and happy shopping. |