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Ken Hayashi
 Posts: 752 Location: Singapore |
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I haven't got a photo to show, but maybe I will get off my lazy arse and take one tonight. And my stuff is all over the place, in the house, on the TV rack, etc. I will gather everything together and take some pictures.
Anyway, as of today, I have over 200 anime titles in my collection. And that excludes titles whose names I'm not very sure of and did not include in my list. And also excludes animes owned by my wife (most of the Crayon Shin-chan seasons and 2 Crayon Shin-chan movies, and Candy Candy). About half are DVDs (several DVDs to a season), the rest are VCDs (the more prevalent format here anyway), usually with about 2 episodes per CD for a 12 to 13-disc full set. BTW, I also have several copies of some titles. Such as Spirited Away. Bought the VCD, loved it, and bought the DVD. Then bought another version with the extra DVD (which includes the "making of" special), so I have 3 copies of Spirited Away. And that's just one example. I won't count them as being separate additions in my list, but they are taking up space. And that will show in the pictures. Just imagine how much I'd have to spend on shelves to hold that lot. I'd much rather save that money to spend on anime. And just in case you're wondering. I don't rob, I don't steal. I have a full-time job that pays well. That's all. And I have a secret fund (which was originally intended to pay for mods to my car) that's almost dry now. And lastly, my wife has no idea whatsoever how big my collection is. She will divorce me if she knew. |
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benbboy
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well thanks tony.....one more question then
 ...say you get the collecters edition of some anime.....whats the difference from the regular next dvds as opposed to the slipcover ones. Can you put the slipcover ones with the collecters edition? Whats the best place to buy the slipcover ones..For instance...looking up X on http://dvdpricesearch.com/ i found only 5 and 6 had slipcovers....
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Ken Hayashi
Posts: 752 Location: Singapore |
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As I promised, here are the pictures. I know.
 Everything is in a mess, and only most of my collection are here. Some are.... somewhere in the house. That's all I know. I'll find them, when I have the time, because I'm feeling lazy again.
I had to stand on my chair to take this picture. That's how much I have, spread out. Well, almost anyway. They're still stacked pretty deep. If you look at the next picture, you'll know how deep. Pic 1 This one is a little blur, forgive me for the camera shake. I forgot to switch on the flash. And yes, those plastic drawers are DEEP, and they hold a lot. Besides that, they cheap. Which is the main reason stopping me from getting proper shelves. Because I've lived with having to rummage for stuff all over the house, and these plastic drawers have served me well over the years. Pic 2 Anyway, I figured if I spread out my stuff, they'd cover the whole floor in my house, which is pretty small to begin with (only some 112 meters square). |
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DriftRoot
 Posts: 222 Location: NH |
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Wow, that's amazing. I would love to be able to come home to a shelf like that every day. Most of my anime is stuffed into slim CD cases and shelved snugly and undecoratively on the wall, so it's not much to look at unless you are impressed by 150+ CD case spines. *creeps away*
Ah, but I do have some snazzier things stuck up with my games that I'd snapshot if I had a place to post a pic to. Still is pretty pathetic, though. Oh well, maybe someday anime bargain bins will be a cheap and plentiful opportunity to expand one's collection. It somehow seems wrong that one can buy a newly released hollywood movie whose actors are being paid mega-millions for less than $20 and yet one has to fork over much more than this for three 26-minute animated episodes that may or may not be anything outstanding. Just saying, it seems wrong. Please don't argue, I'm just complaining. |
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IanC
Posts: 685 Location: Essex, England |
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http://homepage.mac.com/iancharles/PhotoAlbum10.html
My dvds are in order  but its not really alphabetical
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Tenchi
 Posts: 4497 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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But I can buy a lot of new anime DVDs with 4 or 5 episodes on them for less than $30 Canadian now, which, until recently, came out to less than $20 American. Just because the MSRP for the vast majority of anime DVDs is $30 doesn't mean that's what you'll be paying. Despite how much anime has grown, relatively speaking, anime is still very much a niche market where each volume of even the most successful anime series on DVD sell maybe 10% of what, say, Family Guy sells on DVD (and an even smaller percentage compared to the really successful Hollywood films), so simple economics of scale dictates that you will pay more per episode to see the adventures of Ran Kotobuki than you would to see the adventures of Peter Griffin or Hank Hill. |
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one3rd
 Posts: 1818 Location: アメリカ |
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I don't have any pictures of my collection nor a digital camera readily available, so I'll encourage everyone to imagine what this might look like if everything was placed on a shelf. I might have more anime if I didn't buy so much music, but I have to keep my priorities straight.
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Alchemist449
 Posts: 341 Location: LED ZEPPELIN! nuf said |
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Uh, IanC why do your .hack\\Sign dvds look like bootlegs?
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cboudreau
 Posts: 69 Location: Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada |
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Holy smokes! You folks have more anime on your shelves then my local video stores and many of the local shops that sell DVDs. Do you buy a lot of stuff online?
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Nagisa
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 Posts: 6128 Location: Atlanta-ish, Jawjuh |
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Why do they look like bootlegs? They're the legitimate releases. If they were bootlegs, they'd only be in one package, plus I recognise the spines. |
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crion
Posts: 41 Location: London, UK |
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I get almost all of my anime online. I only buy at B&M stores when they run big sales. People wanted to see some collection pictures from AnimeonDVD.com... here's a link to a thread about them: http://forums.animeondvd.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=519470&page=&view=&sb=5&o=&vc=1 |
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ChrisBeveridge
Posts: 162 |
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I don't have any pictures handy since they're sort of in far too many different locations, but the collection titles can be found here:
http://www.intervocative.com/dvdcollection.aspx/animeondvd Since the page may not load for some people due to the number of titles (it's crashed me a couple of times), after adding in today's arrivals I'm now at 3309 releases. Not including "live action" porn or DVD-R's of stuff. |
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ChrisBeveridge
Posts: 162 |
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Bamboo has decided to pressure me into post some pictures. These came from an article that hasn't been updated since 11/09/01
http://www.animeondvd.com/news/article.php?article_view=167 The last few pictures show the library shelves that were built and do hold most of the discs, even more so since I thinpak stuff. But the only anime I keep out now are series that are still running, everything else gets packed away in long sleeve boxes, numbered and sealed. |
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Ken Hayashi
Posts: 752 Location: Singapore |
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Is that 3309 different anime titles? Or 3309 pieces of DVDs. Either way, WOW! |
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kusanagi-sama
 Posts: 1723 Location: Wichita Falls, TX |
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Whenever I leave the Air Force, and find a place to live on my own, I will build me a nice DVD shelving unit that is 8 feet wide and about 6 feet tall, and about 6" deep - double sided, using .5"x6" boards and a .5" plywood, and then laquered with your typical brown laquer (I don't think I'll ever own that many DVD's - and a 72" tall shelving unit is what, about 11 shelves?)
Let's see, 96" - 1" for the sides = 95". A DVD is about .5" wide, so that would be about 190 per shelve, and 11 shelves = 2090 DVD's |
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