My new cels!

Greetings everyone. Since I have reached a point in both expected maturity and practical storage space where it is no longer feasible to be buying collectibles (or what some would call “toys,” including me) I have moved on to cels. Today, the second of my two recent purchases arrived.

For the uninitiated, cels are the original drawings made on celluloid (hence the name) that were used in traditional animation in the pre-computer era. Most recently I have purchased two cels to round out my collection. “Porco Rosso” is a phenomenal film by Hayao Miyazaki, who has continued to make classics like “Spirited Away”. The second cel is from an anime that not only changed anime, but showed me the power of anime and pushed me to think about it in a whole new way. From the brilliant mind of Hideaki Anno came “Neon Genesis Evangelion”, a 26-episode series that my roommates and I watched in a single marathon sitting.

Please join me in welcoming these two new members to the fold.

Porco Rosso

Neon Genesis Evangelion