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SAILORMOON COLLECTION Pt.1

Name/Alias: Kuroitenshi, Tenshi sometimes Usagi or Seiya depending on my mood. Location: Japan-I mean...Ohio. Age: 26

1. How long have you been collecting Sailor Moon items?
It started in fall of 1997. I laugh now because at the time only half of R was out on tv.

2. How many items are in your collection?
I'll definitely have to guess right now, but in the ballpark of 182? (Includes boxsets as one, does not include my card sets, because that would be another 200+).

3. Do you keep your items in the box or are you a ‘de-boxer’?
Depends on the item, if it is US or European I don't care as much about the box, but if it has it's orginal Japanese box I usually keep it, doesnt mean I don't take the item out & play with it for awhile though. *chuckles*

4. How do you display your collection?
I wish I could display it. I have a decent sized room, but most of it is taken up by a water bed. I think this year when I get get some things together I'll see what I can do to at least display some of it. The manga & artbooks are on shelves at least. Oh my love of shelves, never have enough of them. [EDIT] I do have a small top shelf display for what I can. As long as it doesn't all over, it looks good~

5. What was the first piece that started the whole thing?
I would say you'd laugh but because of where I'm at I don't think that will be the case. The Moonprincess VHS tape I picked up from Record Town at my mall in Sept of 1997. I watched those two episodes on there & there was no looking back. I still have that tape.

6. What is your favorite/most treasured/meaningful piece in your collection?
That is a tough call because I ove SM so much there are a lot of items that are very personal to me. I would say one of them is my Seiya card (the one where he's looking over his shoulder), the Eternal Tear Wand & the Character Artbook (more so now because I'm having the VAs sign it).

7. What is your most desired collection piece that has yet to be acquired?
This is easy & hard at the same time, basically anything having to do with Seiya (3Lights) & the Memorial Song & Music box collections (I have a knock off of the first, but I didn't know it at the time) & a nice cel of Seiya. Huh I wonder who my fave is. *chuckles*

8. What is your favorite category (dolls, cels, etc) for collecting from and why?
The wands/broaches (compacts) because when it comes to SM I'm a kid at heart. Someday I'll cosplay my original character. Until then I'm going to attempt to get an SM one together (since I can't so it means I need more money *laughs*). After that would be books & cels since they are both sometimes hard to find and other RARE items like the mini cds.

9. Is there any item/character that you wish had been made into a toy?
I wish they had been more Galaxia stuff, I just recently saw more Seiya items I didn't know about, but I didn't have enough money to get them.

10. Where do/did you find most of the items in/for your collection?
The DVDs I picked up between Media Play, Best Buy & ebay, actually in that order as well. XD;;; Artbooks 1-4 as well as my cels I got at conventions, 5 from a friend selling hers & character artbook through VIZ's catolog forever & a day ago. Best move of my collection. Most of the cards, pencil boards, & other small things I got on ebay. The first three wands I got at KBToys I believe as well as one of the broaches, the knock off cds I got at cons or this store up in MI. There's more but I can't remember where after that. XD That is minus the new stuff I've been getting from sellers on serasell.

11. What is the greatest length you have gone to for a particular item?
That's really hard, are we talking about money, jumping through hoops, something I'm missing? I slapped down about 100 for Eternal Tear, 80 or 90 for my Galaxia cel & about 70 for my Starlight Attack Broach. ^^.;;; [EDIT] New one on that, I spent 152 (includes shipping) for my Starlight Changi Set.

12. What is the most expensive item in your collection?
I probably paid the most for the Eternal Tear Wand Starlight Changi Set. But if we're talking about how much things are worth now it would be close with Character Artbook & 1st Season DVD Box, soon followed by Artbook 5.

13. What was the best bargain you’ve ever managed to get?
Getting the Character Artbook for about $30? Or most of the Japanese manga for about $3-4 a piece (first edition mind you). There are probably more, but those are the ones sticking out & I can't remember how much I paid for some things like the European Star Locket & the American released wands.

14. How do you feel about bootlegs?
Personally I am more against them than for them, I can't say I'm completely against because there are some series or season such as Stars that you can't get here, now I can tell you that I think that my copy was legitly made, but I don't know that for a fact. If you're trying to make a buck off of it then it's not right, but if you're buying a non domestic say to just be able to watch it, I don't see the harm in that, but remember it probably won't be translated as well. [EDIT] Though if you can ever get it domestic, even if you pay a little more, I say go for it, in the end you're supporting everyone that helped make it.

15. Do you have plans to sell your collection in the future?
I would have to be.....VERY VERY VEEEERRRRYYYY desperate. I do not plan to sell. It's for me to enjoy & my grandchildren, no GREAT grandchildren to sell. *laughs*

16. Do any of the items in your collection have a neat story behind them?
*ponders* I tend to get the last one of things. I get lucky when I'm looking for most of the manga, all of the rerelease I've been able to get only one isn't first edition. OH! I know, vol9 (Saturn cover) of the rerelease I happened to buy at Acen last year, well I also found out that the VA for Saturn was there at the con, so I had her sign it.

17. What do your friends/family think of your hobby?
The question my sanity some times. Though I think I've been in love with the series for so long they barely notice anymore.

18. Do you collect anything else, or just Sailor Moon related items?
*chuckles* I collect a lot of things. Anime & manga things (mostly those except in a few cases, Angel Sanctaury, Fushigi Yuugi, Weiss Kreuz, some artbooks), series boxset - Angel, Forever Knight, Bones. Wicked/Wizzard of OZ related things. BJDs, only have 2 so far. Sigs of famous people, Amercian & Japanese. *shuts up*

19. What do you think the lowest quality/least desired kind of Sailor moon item is?
Lowest quality would be bad DVDs. Least desired for me is some of those bad American dolls. Their faces look funny, though I've heard they are better looking ones.

20. Is there anything else you’d like to add?
I'm always looking for friend, especially those that like the same things as me. *chuckles* Also looking for fair priced SM items to add to my collection.

Sailormoon Kaolidascope Wand (4th season); Seiya (Fighter) Plush; keychain, etc; Vol 2, 11, 14 & 15 first edition orinal release, vol 1-4, 1 short stories of the rerelease, most of the film books, Japanese calendars, Memorial Song & Music boxset.

http://community.livejournal.com/sunnysales/2706.html Stickers & cards mostly at the moment.

My Collection will be broken up into severl smaller posts to come.
http://www.scribbld.net/users/kuroitenshi/91007.html PT.2