Anime/Manga related items we're selling...

[seawasp]

As some have questioned the wisdom of our dumping the stuff on Ebay, I'm posting the list of the first batch of stuff here. What you're seeing would be the "Buy It Now" prices. Many of these we were reluctant to sell for a number of reasons. Postage of course would be additional, price dependent on method and speed of shipping. If a reasonable number of these sell, we have a number of other items we might add to the list.

Dragon Ball DAIZENSHU Hokan:TV Animation Part.3 (Akira Toriyama)   Asking price is $100 This is one of the books from the Daizenshu comprehensive Dragon Ball encyclopedia. As far as I know, this was printed once, and once only. We purchased all items as they were released, imported straight from Japan. This includes material on the series and TV specials from the Buu era. Includes a fold-out poster of impressive content (most if not all characters you can imagine stuffed onto one image).

Language : Japanese.

Year : 1997

Total Pages :  124 pages

Condition : Used Item but Good - Ex

 

DBZ Movie 13 Dragon Fist     Asking Price is $50

Original Movie Artbook from the final DBZ movie (Jump anime collection book)      The movie in question featured the mystery of Trunks' sword, and ended with an unfortunately-too-miraculous last minute save by Goku (the "Dragon Fist"). With another 30 minutes of development to build up to that, this would have been the best of the DBZ movies. It does have some excellent sequences, one of the most popular being Gohan and Videl doing their superhero gig together.  

Language: Japanese

Year: 1995

Pages: 102

Condition: Used but Good-Ex

             

DBZ Movie 12 “Fusion Reborn”: Asking Price is $30

 Original Movie Artbook from the 12^th movie. This movie featured the accidental release/creation of a demon named "Janemba" (sometimes spelled "Jamemba") who appears to be similar in some ways to Majin Buu. Also features the fusion of Goku and Vegita into Gogeta (as opposed to Vegito) and the release of all the bad guys from hell -- said bad guys discovering how bad it is when you've stayed yourself and the Dragonball Power Spiral has continued on for several turns.

Language: Japanese

Year: 1995

Pages: 102

Condition: Used but Good-Ex

Oversized Softcover

 

Dragon Ball DAIZENSHU Cards: Perfect File Part 1 (Akira Toriyama)   Asking Price: $60

     Another of the Daizenshu books, this one is an exhaustive catalog of all the Dragonball/DBZ trading cards ever put out. It also includes 4 unique cards in the back of the book, never removed from their settings, and a fold-out poster.

Language : Japanese

Year : 1996

Total Pages :  140

Condition : Used but Good - Ex

 

Sailor Moon Art Book V3 Naoko Takeuchi Hardcover   Asking Price: $120

Beautiful art book from the Sailor Moon anime/manga series; #3 in the art book series. Includes two fold-out double poster pages. This really is a gorgeous hardcover book.

Language: Japanese

Year: 1994

Total Pages: 70

Condition: Used but Excellent

 

 

Sailor Moon Art Book V4 Naoko Takeuchi Hardcover   Asking Price: $100

Another gorgeous artbook from the Sailor Moon series; #4 in the art book series. Includes two fold-out double poster pages. Slight rip in one corner of dust jacket. Again, this really is a gorgeous book.

Language: Japanese

Year: 1995

Total Pages: 70

Condition: Used but Good-Ex

 

Ginrei Giant Robo OfficialArt Book   Asking Price: $60

A special artbook focused on the lovely Ginrei from the superlative OVA series "Giant Robo". Among other things,  features multiple images of Ginrei as depicted by several different mangaka other than the original, while also including many images, both from the anime and new originals, in the anime style. Includes some PG-13 to soft R images (illustrated breasts, nothing terribly shocking)

Language : Japanese

Year: 1995

Total Pages: 112

Condition: Used but Good-Ex

Pages : 112pages

Comments

[shanejayell.livejournal.com]

Tossing my two cents in... I think the prices are a wee bit high. I go to anime cons and usually don't see art books, even hard covers, for more than $50-60 ish.

ADmittedly, I think the Sailor Moon ones have collectable value, but I wouldn't pay a $100 for them.

But that's just my opinion.

[seawasp]

They may be somewhat high; then again, most of them were BOUGHT for around that price ($50-60) over 10 years ago (in the case of the Sailor Moons, close to 15) and inflation alone would be bringing that to the $80 range easily; add in any collectible value (and most, if not all, of these are one-time-print special material) and $100 doesn't seem at all unreasonable. They also have a small amount of sentimental value for several reasons, and aren't something we'd be selling at all normally.

On Ebay there were of course some similar items that didn't sell; there were also some similar items that went for over twice what I'm asking (I can't see any rhyme or reason in the differences). So yes, they're probably somewhat high, but I don't think unreasonable.