I think in this case, a white bacground will work given that's mainly the background color from the actual episode.  Plus, white should be fairly easy to come up with.

I wonder why there are so few Akio cels? I've only seen the one with him and Utena.

Also, I want this cel!

Btw, here are some Shioris with clothes on

http://sletia.rubberslug.com/gallery/in … mID=160111
http://fireye.rubberslug.com/gallery/in … temID=2326
http://kittyfire.rubberslug.com/gallery … mID=149295

but I have no idea where to buy them though :/

Ah, the elusive Akio cel. The stuff of Gio's dreams. Aside from the one pictured (which I believe Yasha has now), I've only ever seen two.



This one was on a cel site for $550 dollars. I was so, OH so close to buying it, but frankly it was too expensive at the time, I was building the gallery and putting all my cash into that. It was the cell or get the CD-ROM galleries. Remember what I was saying about duplicate shots in the series? There's an identical shot of Dios right at the beginning of the 'real' flashback in episode 34.

http://www.ohtori.nu/akio/gallery/brs/Black_Rose027.jpg

This one...ah...this one was the one I wanted. Needed. Would have given limbs for. It was up on eBay, and I won the auction at something like $350. (This was much later, the demand wasn't so high for SKU merchandise, you hardly ever even saw cels on eBay anymore.) However, when I paid for it, the seller refused the paypal and said the price had not gone up to what she felt was a fair amount for the cel, she'd been looking for 450-550. I cringed and offered to buy it for 450 if she'd give me a month to grab up the extra cash (I was broke to an extreme at the time, and honestly had no business whatsoever buying the damn thing) but she refused and put it back on eBay. It sold for 400 the next time and I never saw it again.

COME BACK TO ME, MY LOVE 

I should note that the only character who consistently sold for more was Touga. But there were quite a number of cels of him, so if you didn't have 700bux that week, next week there'd be another one.

Edit: Oh, and I've seen cels of movie Akio. MORE OF THEM THAN SERIES AKIO.

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When I first started watching Utena, I only had up to episode 17 and the movie. I bought the rest of the series off of eBay, completely unaware that  what I was buying wasn't what I thought it was. The person sent me a fansub on two disks. As if that wasn't bad enough, she tried to charge us extra so that she could convert it to DVD format, and sent it to us in computer format when we refused. Didn't she read the FBI warning?

I was stupid enough to use eBay a second time. My second favorite episode, episode 26, doesn't work properly, so I'm going to have to buy a new one eventually... But not from eBay.

Razara wrote:

I was stupid enough to use eBay a second time. My second favorite episode, episode 26, doesn't work properly, so I'm going to have to buy a new one eventually... But not from eBay.

eBay seems scary. o.O I don't think I'd buy much from there even if I could.

Giovanna wrote:

Also FUCK, Shounen Ou is there!! http://page4.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/d64703862

What's that anyway?

Giovanna wrote:

One of you Japanese readers, tell me what this is. I don't believe I've scanned it. http://page2.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/b70913208

That one says it's a collection of character sketches used by the staff who actually drew the animation.

Ger wrote:

Giovanna wrote:

One of you Japanese readers, tell me what this is. I don't believe I've scanned it. http://page2.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/b70913208

That one says it's a collection of character sketches used by the staff who actually drew the animation.

CRAP. It's different from the one in the gallery. I may be missing something.

Yasha, we both seriously need more Utena squashed threesome poster in our lives.

Giovanna wrote:

This one was on a cel site for $550 dollars. I was so, OH so close to buying it, but frankly it was too expensive at the time,
This one...ah...this one was the one I wanted. Needed. Would have given limbs for. It was up on eBay, and I won the auction at something like $350.

550 dolars!!!! O.o Goddmit I can pay my rent and eat with that for a month!!!!

Edit: Oh, and I've seen cels of movie Akio. MORE OF THEM THAN SERIES AKIO.

Maybe the producers kept them them for... personal purposes

I'll risk sounding like a complete idiot and ask - what is a cel, and why on earth does it cost so much?

Animation cels are the result of traditional animation, where several drawings are sequenced, each with a slightly different change of position, to create the illusion of movement. Every little motion a character makes in SKU has a cel that goes with it, so there are actually thousands of cels, but only a few per series ever make it to the fans. Ikuhara's probably sitting on the cels of our dreams. Jerk.

I believe the vast majority of anime is computer animated these days, so cels are a thing of the past. They demand such a high price because you literally own a piece of the series. A cel of Touga smirking is the exact piece of work that went into the smirk you saw on your TV/whatever.

I personally would kill babies to have the production cels of actual series artwork. Like this.

Thank you both [lovely explanation there, Iruka, with the pictures]. I... would really want one if they weren't expensive as hell. D:

lol i've seen utena cels at anime expo perticually that first one but it was selling for 1k but that was like 3 years ago so i dont know how much they knock it down or even sell it...i'll keep a look out

though about framing it just leave it white cause yeah the red black does seem out of place...the cells i won from ceres are framed

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