Question:
One thing that has me wondering is what your anime collection looks like? With all the things you get and watch I wonder how you store and keep your collection? I’m about to move soon and will be getting more bookcases for mine.
Answer:
I’m very aware that my collection is not the largest out there, but I adamantly subscribe to a policy of strictly collecting only what I like rather than striving for sheer quantity. I live in a 1,200 square foot house by myself, and the only room in my house that does not have any anime on display at all is one of my two bathrooms. Here’s a quick tour of my house. Please excuse my untidy bachelor mess.
My living room. The stacked books on the couch are extra domestic Five Star Stories manga I've bagged but not put away yet. The posters in the hall are my signed Miami Guns and R.O.D. TV posters. The poster in the far back is Di-Gi-Charat.Roughly 80% of the items on the shelf are anime or manga.A handful of the old anime production cels I still have on display. Notice the Chobits fridge magnet?The sword above the TV is the Onimusha 2 limited edition Playstation controller. The brown bear is my D&D/Vampire dice bag. It's sitting atop my LD player.I don't have all of my autographed anime posters hanging up right now. They're just stacked up haphazardly.My embarassment. I've run out of shelf space, so many of my anime DVD sets are just stacked on the floor.I've begun to store DVDs in 30-count cardboard boxes, except when I don't have any extra 30-count boxes handy. Then I just stack the DVDs up wherever I can.
This is the opposite wall, where I keep most of my books. The swords are Kill Bill replicas that I received as a birthday gift. There’s a Warriors of the Wind VHS tape just above them, if you look closely.
More books and trinkets. Such a mess! The cardboard boxes in the foreground are more loose anime DVD covers.
Moving on into my bedroom. This is on the left side of my bed. The Fuu sketch is a Kazuto Nakazawa original. Most, but not all of the DVDs, are anime. Ignore the date on the Totoro calendar. I haven’t changed it in two years.
This is the right side of my bed. Excuse the unwashed socks.
A partial stack of reading material I haven't gotten around to yet.
This is to the immediate right of my computer desk. It’s all anime. I suspect that the Chichi figure is a Chinese knock-off, but I'm not sure. One of the signed posters that I do have hanging up.
I'm quite proud of my collection of anime food oddities including Di-Gi-Charat bottled water, Evangelion coffee, Moetan & Initial D cookies, Astro Boy and Black Jack juice, and Hotaru no Haka candy.Just outside of my kitchen is about a metric ton of Risky/Safety genga and production art. AnimeNation sold off the best pieces several years ago, however. Most of this is just the incidental and background art.
A random stack of import manga that I have nowhere else to put. Plus an extra Kamichu DVD boxed set. Sucks that I’m missing two of the Akira film comics, but those are spare copies, anyway.
For God knows why, I also keep large stacks of loose R1 anime DVD covers lying around. This isn't even all of them!Still more stacks of unsorted R1 anime DVD covers & insertsIf you think that's bad, I also keep empty R1 multi-disc cases, digipacks, and thinpacks. My garage is full of literally thousands of empty R1 anime DVD cases stored in 30-count boxes. Why don't I just throw these things away!?Yup. They're all empty. No discs, just cases.
Never played a Metal Gear Solid game in my life, yet I’ve still got a Raiden figure in my garage.My garage is also home to my mountain of duplicate anime DVDs and screener DVDs that I (hopefully) plan to eventually sell & give away.
>>I’ve run out of shelf space, so many of my anime DVD sets are just stacked on the floor.
Heh. My apartment is reasonably sized (i.e., small), so I’ve opted to put all my DVD box sets on the floor, stacked… while all the single-disc DVDs from years past fill a pair of book cases (and sit on top of them as well). I will say, though, that the good thing about box sets is that they stack pretty easily.
>>My garage is also home to my mountain of duplicate anime DVDs and screener DVDs that I (hopefully) plan to eventually sell & give away.
I’m sure you’ve run into a problem I’ve hit into every once in a while through the past years: almost nobody buys screener DVDs. Not to say you can’t go to an auction site like eBay and toss ’em that way, but I’m more of a store-credit kind of guy.
Zhou-BR
Very impressive collection, but I feel like I just had a disturbing glimpse of my own future. Looking forward to your Hoarders episode. 😉
OK, so your collection lives in your house. Where do you live?
dsmattj
Guess we’ll be seeing you in one of the new episodes of Hoarders?
zeroryoko1974
Oh, I love that Ryoko cel. Let me know if you are ever willing to part with it 😀
TheLaughingMan
Dude, we need to start a fan fund and get you a better TV setup. Damn.
poehitman
If you want to get rid of the DVD covers and empty cases, send them to me. Honestly I’d love to start an archive of anime and hentai DVD covers. I’m on social security disability, so I have sh*tloads of time on my hands. And I can ALWAYS use empty DVD cases. I use a lot of them for the used games I get from Gamestop, since the covers on them have usually seen better days.
Wow, you even own a book from Frank Miller’s Sin City !
Very impressive collection ! You also seem to like Sakura Wars a lot ^__^
>>I’ve run out of shelf space, so many of my anime DVD sets are just stacked on the floor.
Heh. My apartment is reasonably sized (i.e., small), so I’ve opted to put all my DVD box sets on the floor, stacked… while all the single-disc DVDs from years past fill a pair of book cases (and sit on top of them as well). I will say, though, that the good thing about box sets is that they stack pretty easily.
>>My garage is also home to my mountain of duplicate anime DVDs and screener DVDs that I (hopefully) plan to eventually sell & give away.
I’m sure you’ve run into a problem I’ve hit into every once in a while through the past years: almost nobody buys screener DVDs. Not to say you can’t go to an auction site like eBay and toss ’em that way, but I’m more of a store-credit kind of guy.
Very impressive collection, but I feel like I just had a disturbing glimpse of my own future. Looking forward to your Hoarders episode. 😉
OK, so your collection lives in your house. Where do you live?
Guess we’ll be seeing you in one of the new episodes of Hoarders?
Oh, I love that Ryoko cel. Let me know if you are ever willing to part with it 😀
Dude, we need to start a fan fund and get you a better TV setup. Damn.
If you want to get rid of the DVD covers and empty cases, send them to me. Honestly I’d love to start an archive of anime and hentai DVD covers. I’m on social security disability, so I have sh*tloads of time on my hands. And I can ALWAYS use empty DVD cases. I use a lot of them for the used games I get from Gamestop, since the covers on them have usually seen better days.