>Fine, how did you get them?
>If you want so badly for people to know the
>truth, then tell us.
The people who have the direct connections would
probably not be very happy to find out I posted
their name/email/anything on a forum when if they
wanted to sell them to the general public, they
would. Do you really think I would violate
their confidence and trust?
>It does seem odd that an animation
>studio would sell cels to 2 american dealers and
>no japanese dealers- but you say they're not
>stolen, so fine.
Why does that seem odd? Why is a site that is
maintained in the USA becuase I speak better
English and to save shipping costs but has people
in Japan, different than one that is run solely in
Japan?
If one of the Japanese sites that you are
already familiar with all of a sudden hired
someone to run their site from the USA, does make
them an "American" site, unable to deal with the
studios?
Here are a few questions for you:
What do you mean by released? This usually means
the studio wants to get rid of their waste and
make some money and sells them all one to one
major dealer.
From there they get distributed in any number of
ways, but it as the discretion of the person who
has them. "Released" as you say, seems like some
formal thing that would be annouced. Nowadays,
studios rarely sell directly to the public and
just sell them to one dealer. Are those then
"released" cels?
Also, the staff from Studio Pierrot was at Anime
Expo 2000. They auctioned off some cels there
and from those prices made decisions regarding the
price of their cels. The prices were high and
that affected the price they charge for them.
The current high prices reflect what the Studio
saw at Expo and knows it can get for the cels.
While they know the prices at the auction were on
the high end, it did give them an idea for how
badly people want the cels.
Now, if the studio knows people will pay high,
and they decide to charge high, perhaps the only
thing left is for dealers' prices to relect that.
Alyssa Lebner
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