what animes and/or mangas is the pride of your collection

Animefreak17

Animefreak17

Godhand
as the title says
mines the
dragon ball series
my eechi collection
all my fma series
naruto
ttgl
eva

but you can have sighed photos of famous people like akira toriama or figures or something thats limited edition,
 
My beautiful velvet Rozen Maiden Collection
My FMA set with all 3 tins
My Limited Escaflowne collection with figure
My signed Solty Rei DVDs
My Full FMP DVD run all with Artboxes and other OOP goodness
 
Anime:
the UK eva platinum tin box : now hell rare, very nice set
and Magical Girl lyrical Nanoha (fatpack) + A's: stupidly rare due to low print run, and one of my fav shows.
Tsukuyomi Moonphase (UK boxset), grogeous artbox, love almost all shinbo's works(like Nanoha above)

Manga wise:
Nausicaa; now rare, and very good
Hibiki no mahou vols 1+2 (tokyopop), I'm a huge Key/Visual Art's fanboy.
Touhou Bunkachou ~ Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red, god damn are the Touhou Project fanbooks nice
 
Reaper gI said:
Anime:
the UK eva platinum tin box : now hell rare, very nice set
and Magical Girl lyrical Nanoha (fatpack) + A's: stupidly rare due to low print run, and one of my fav shows.
Tsukuyomi Moonphase (UK boxset), grogeous artbox, love almost all shinbo's works(like Nanoha above)

Manga wise:
Nausicaa; now rare, and very good
Hibiki no mahou vols 1+2 (tokyopop), I'm a huge Key/Visual Art's fanboy.
Touhou Bunkachou ~ Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red, god damn are the Touhou Project fanbooks nice
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iv got the tin set of eva
 
My Urusei Yatsura cels of Ryūnosuke Fujinami <3
My Patlabor movie boxsets which, despite the obvious lack of demand (as they still ended up in bargain bins despite being limited editions), are probably the closest we have ever come to Japanese quality special editions in the UK.
My R1 Gunbuster and FLCL sets for similar reasons.
My GitS: SAC tin boxes.
My Patlabor TV and OVA boxed sets, because despite having some of the most god-awful cover art to ever grace non-bootleg DVDs, the show is one of my great loves and is now sadly very hard to get hold of.
All those Japanese manga volumes I can't read that I bought for next to nothing when the pound was stronger against the yen.
My Dirty Pair TV boxes, because I honestly never thought I'd live to see the day... ::sob::
 
I'll post something a bit later when it wouldn't be going right next ayase's better-than-mine choices (the first item especially). :s

edit: Fabby's UY DVDs are a nice call, too.
 
Reaper gI said:
Manga wise:
Nausicaa; now rare, and very good
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Japanese versions or the first print Viz release? Because the newer, unflipped English versions are widely available (and should be owned by everyone).

For me I'd say my complete collection of Maison Ikkoku graphic novels and DVDs, and my complete collection of Urusei Yatsura DVDs. Many volumes of MI, both anime and manga, are already rare, while the UY DVDs will start disappearing very soon.

Also: the Patlabor movie box sets for being incredibly awesome and so weighy they could kill a healthy human with one blow; and the Honneamise BD/DVD set because it's an amazing film in glorious HD and with suitably classy packaging.
 
GitS SAC 1st and 2nd Gig tins, from having bought the LE versions of them all.
My Love Hina DVDs and manga.
Escaflowne series LE set with Black Escaflowne figure.
Escaflowne movie LE.


I'll think of more later. Laptop battery dying now so gtg.
 
Lawrence said:
For the most part, anything that graces my shelves have hold a place in my heart somewhat or else I wouldn't have bought them over all the other things I could possibly buy.

That said, my Shimada Humikane Artworks is a centre piece in my collection, I do like his art style and the glossy printings. Perhaps someday I'll remember to open my wallet and buy others, one of the code geass artbooks by CLAMP looked rather nice~
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ladies and gentleman meet the heart of a fan
i wish i gave that answer
i guess i wasn't thinking
 
fabricatedlunatic said:
Reaper gI said:
Manga wise:
Nausicaa; now rare, and very good
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Japanese versions or the first print Viz release? Because the newer, unflipped English versions are widely available (and should be owned by everyone).
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Ah they finaly reprinted.
last I checked they were going for $80+ on Amazon.com
 
I have a lot of shiny things so it's hard to pick favourites, though I guess the things which represent something special have extra meaning.

Sailormoon Memorial Song Box. Partly because it's quite valuable now, partly because it's awesome, but even more than these factors, it reminds me of a bygone age where I could actually go to a high street shop in this country and occasionally stumble upon something cool and unexpected. Bought at Piccadilly Tower Records (RIP) on release as an impulse purchase :)

My doujinshi collection. A lot of priceless stuff in there of course, and especially important to me are the items I picked up from booths at Comiket/SCC myself in person or begged/borrowed friends to help with. Lots of memories.

Long DVD singles collections always feel awesome, so I second UY. I was somewhat proud of my complete run of R1 YYH singles too, but now better versions can be picked up for a fraction of the price and shelf space ;_;

My Ranma 1/2 manga set. I have the whole thing in Japanese and English, but what makes the Japanese set special is that I bought it years ago on a family holiday, lugging it through the humid summer to the hotel, and then I had to bring it home with everyone carrying part of the series in their suitcases because of the weight. So it reminds me of the struggle of a hobbyist (and the patience of my poor family, who thought it was quite dodgy but helped anyway).

Final Fantasy XI PS2 (JP) limited edition. It's not that great a limited edition by today's standards at all, but it shows I was there in the game a long time ago and I'll be there on the day it finally crashes and burns. Also, it has a cool box which helps hold some of the stupid extra junk other games give away.

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Rui said:
Long DVD singles collections always feel awesome, so I second UY. I was somewhat proud of my complete run of R1 YYH singles too, but now better versions can be picked up for a fraction of the price and shelf space ;_;
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Hmm, had the same "problem" with FMA, i purchased them as singles, cost me a bombshell but it was worth it :)

Kino's Journey is one of my top ones, why? because i managed to buy it before i expected ADV title prices to head skywards. Its OOP too so chances of picking it up in mint condition where rare but i got it :D Kinda sad that future generations will just stay with the mainstream anime flowing at that moment in time and disregard some really good animes from the past. (not a mecha fan but if you put on any 1980's anime or cartoons and i'll be stuck to the tv for hours, transformers, bubblegum crisis, thundercats, the xmen are the main ones though)

Black lagoon i'm proud of too, managed to pick up both series in a hybrid "boxset" of 6 singles for £18 a few years back, at that price i doubt many would complain :p

And ofcorse my naruto collection that, managed to take up the upper right storage area my anime lives in.
 
Hmm... I don't have any LE DVDs but my Satoshi Kon collection certainly takes pride of place.

Figure-wise I'd say probably the Lancelot Conquista from Code Geass.

I also agree to an extent with what Lawrence has said. I like all my stuff, but obviously some more than others =P
 
As rarities go... I have the LE for Professor Layton, which actually had more content (and a higher RRP!) than even the Japanese limited edition.
Also a Woolworths Pokemon DVD that despite not being rare at its time, hardly anyone knew about and it only came out a few months before their death.
Got all the UK Death Note figurines that were released until Zavvi shut down too, as well as their Bleach tins and Earthsea LE.

The pride of my collection though...
I'd probably have to say my CLAMP manga collection. I have first editions going back to even RG Veda in Japanese, and a complete set of the Tsubasa gorgeous editions, among others.
 
Im not sure if i have anything considered Rare.
I've got the orginal release of the Haruhi suzumiya DVDs, the ones that came with the CD and pillow cases that kind of stuff. Which kind of cool.
I also have the orginal DVD release of akira, still with the stickers. Box is starting toi look a little beaten up now, but it was the first anime I brought.
 
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