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Hey, Answerman! - The Dying Breeds

Brian, just wanted to drop in and give you a kudos for the advice you gave to the reader interested in starting their own podcast. Not only does it apply to podcasts, but it can apply to other things as well, such as websites. Good job.

Brian, just wanted to drop in and give you a kudos for the advice you gave to the reader interested in starting their own podcast. Not only does it apply to podcasts, but it can apply to other things as well, such as websites. Good job.

Kubo has gone on record as saying this current 'mini' arc is the next to last, then the series is over.

With the spoiler[huge World Ninja War III in Naruto beginning its concluding part] in a few months, spoiler[depending on what the Raikage and Tsunade do], I don't see why Kishimoto would end it after that. Naruto still has to deal with Sasuke and become Hokage.

And One Piece can run another 20 years and that'd be fine by me. I don't think Oda will take to a break or retirement well. Hell, he only took a week off during the four week break back in September! The man was specifically designed by Japan's top scientists to be a mangaka.

Just as an example, you will never ever find a legit animation cel from the original Neon Genesis Evangelion TV series. Never in a million years. Or until Hideaki Anno collapses into a cloud of dust and debris, dropping a special key, Legend of Zelda-style, that unlocks his mystical treasure vault of production artwork.

Ergo! Ipso Facto! Quid Pro Quo!

So I guess just to summarize what Mike Toole said in his column a few months back, it's actually quite the opportune moment to grab some really cool animation cels on the cheap.

The market sort of burst some years back when dangerously obsessive collectors (see the creepy, almost Borat-ish live-action segment on "The Cel Collector" on Otaku no Video) literally flooded the market with cels that nobody really wanted. They were either from shows or movies that were never all that popular with hardcore Otaku in Japan (Japanese Otaku all love Sailor Moon obviously, but Trigun? Not so much), or were random, out-of-sequence bits of animation of side characters with their eyes closed and their hands in front of their faces.

The rub, though, is that... you kinda have to go to Japan to get a lot of this good stuff on the cheap. A Japanese hobby store will probably toss a pretty cool Trigun cel in a bin for only twenty bucks, but eBay sellers and importers know better - they know that Trigun still has a bit of a following in the West, and aren't afraid to tack an extra hundred dollars onto it. People will pay for it, after all.

Just as an example, you will never ever find a legit animation cel from the original Neon Genesis Evangelion TV series. Never in a million years. Or until Hideaki Anno collapses into a cloud of dust and debris, dropping a special key, Legend of Zelda-style, that unlocks his mystical treasure vault of production artwork.

And maybe this is just the perspective of someone who is WAITING for the next volumes of One Piece to come out to eagerly buy and read, or the next Bleach to get from a friend paw through in moments of boredom, (or the next Naruto to continue to ignore completely), that makes them feel longer.