Let me start off by saying that I don't read 
Japanese.  Well, that's not entirely true... I can 
recognize the characters that spell "chocobo", but 
that won't get me very far.  *grin*  So when I bid 
on auctions on Yahoo Japan, I kind of have to take 
the scans or photos at face value.

Anyway, about five or six months ago, I saw this 
magnificent shot of Hikaru from Rayearth, in the 
air with her sword back and ready to whack that 
mud monster... backgrounded and gorgeous, and only 
3500 yen minimum bid.  Well, I couldn't resist.  I 
slapped down a max of something or another, and to 
my surprise, got the thing for minimum.  I was 
thrilled!

Okay, fast forward three weeks... I usually let 
Celga stack up my YJ purchases until they have 
enough to ship, so I only get a box about once a 
month.  This time, I get a note from Keigo that 
says that the package he's about to ship weighs 
FOUR POUNDS.  Huh??  I'd only ordered a few cels. 
 But like a good little YJ zombie, I paid up the 
shipping costs and waited to see my goodies.

Imagine my shock when I opened the box and found 
out what I'd actually bought: a complete Rayearth 
action sequence.  Massive, beautiful background, 
one layer of the monster, one layer of Hikaru 
(bald and hovering), every single frame of her 
fluttering skirt and hair, every single frame of 
Presea's tablecloth over the monster's head, every 
douga, several genga, timing sheet, storyboard... 
even a sheet of notes!!  And everything about half 
again the size of normal cels.

One of these days, when I find a copy shop with an 
industrial scanner that'll handle oversized cels, 
I'm going to scan the whole thing, make animated 
.gifs of both cels and douga, and put together a 
"how it all works" page on the animation process. 
 'Cause it's alllllll right here.  :)

Lucky!