Over the past few years, I’ve read a lot of blogs about anime figures and figure collecting. One thing that I’ve noticed over this period is that a lot of the people who collect figures seem to enjoy collecting other stuff too (myself included). So today I thought I’d share with everyone all the stuff that I collect and maybe find some more people that collect the same things. First I’ll start with the obvious stuff:
Figures
Unless this is your first time here, you’ll know that I’ve been collecting figures for a while. I bought my first figure back in August of 2007 – a 1/8 scale PVC figure of Haruhi by Max Factory. I later found it it was a bootleg, but managed to get a hold of an authentic one a couple months later. The detail that was put into the sculpt and painting really impressed me and that was what got me started on buying more figures. I got my first nendoroid soon after that, Light Yagami from Death Note, and once again I was really impressed with the detail. Currently, over a third of my figures are nendoroids. Pictures of my figure collection are below. Some of my newer figures aren’t displayed because I haven’t opened them yet.
You can see a full list of my figures at MyFigureCollection (aka Tsuki Board).
Manga
Despite watching anime since I was a kid, I didn’t really get into reading manga until much later. The first manga that I read was I”s by Masakazu Katsura. I was a teenager in high school when I read this and it just blew me away. I”s was what really got me off the shonen/action genre and into romance/drama such as Fruits Basket, Love Hina, and Pastel.
Right now my manga collection consists of Chibi Vampire (aka Karin), Comic Party, FLCL, Fruits Basket, The Legend of Chun Hyang, Magic Knight Rayearth, Mamotte Shugogetten, Nadesico, Pastel, RG Veda, Sailor Moon, School Rumble, and Tsubasa Chronicles. As you can tell, I really like Clamp’s works. If I could only pick one series to keep out of all of these, it would have to be Sailor Moon. It was one of the first successful manga in North America so it was extremely hard to find and very expensive, not to mention that Sailor Moon was my favourite show back when I was a child.
Magazines/Artbooks
My magazine and artbook collection is still pretty small since it’s the most recent thing I’ve started collecting. Right now I’m subscribed to Megami, Dengeki G’s, and Nyantype magazines. I also try to get a copy of the Etsu Girls Girls Girls! collections when they come out.
My main reason for collecting these magazines/artbooks is because of the beautiful artwork. After that, I just want the extras that come along with each magazine issue ^.^
Games
Videogames have been a big part of my life ever since I picked up a light gun and shot some ducks in the game Duck Hunt on the NES. Although I only really play on my XBOX 360 nowadays, I still have an NES, SNES, N64, Dreamcast, PS2, Gameboy (original), and NDS.
My favourite games for each console are: NES – Duckhunt, SNES – Super Street Fighter 2, N64 – StarFox 64, DC – Capcom vs SNK 2, PS2 – Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, Gameboy – Tetris, NDS – Ace Attorney Series, 360 – Gears of War. Although I do enjoy playing JRPGs, they never became my favourites, probably because once you’ve finished the game there really isn’t any point in going back other than to get some more items or fight some more monsters. Also, in case anyone is wondering, I do have an XBL account, so if you’re interested in playing a game with me just email me and I can give you my XBL name. Just note that I am pretty busy sometimes so I might not have time to play anything.
Yu-Gi-Oh
I got into Yu-Gi-Oh a bit late so there weren’t many people to play against, but I did manage to amass quite a few cards as you can see here.
I even managed to get the original Kaiba and Yugi decks (though they were opened). Right now, my main deck uses Pikeru and Curran with a ton of support cards to freeze my opponent’s movements and drain their life points while increasing mine. It seems to work great most of the time. My favourite card in my collection is Dark Magician Girl, she cost quite a bit, but she’s such a cutie that I had to get her.
Sailor Moon
The collection that I’m most proud of is my Sailor Moon card collection. Like I said earlier, Sailor Moon was my favourite show when I was a child, so naturally I wanted a bunch of Sailor Moon merchandise. I started my card collection when I was 8 years old and I would trade cards with my friends once or twice a week. My collection didn’t really get very big until several years ago when I started buying cards off of girls that had grown out of Sailor Moon and from parents whose daughters had moved out and left behind their cards. It’s kinda weird knowing I’m one of the very few guys in the world that collect these cards while most other collectors are female. In total I have over 1300 unique cards in a very thick binder, but my collection is far from being complete. What sucks is that most of these cards are over a decade old (some are approaching 2 decades) so it’s getting harder and harder to find the cards I need to complete my collection.
As you might be able to tell from the above pictures, I have some cards that I’m missing here and there. I’ve listed my complete collection below:
Hero Collection
Hero 1
1, 4, 8, 9, 16, 17, 20-22, 24, 27, 29, 31-34, 36-38, 40, 42, 45, 48, 51, 52, 56, 60, 63, 65-67, 74, 76, 77, 82, 89, 90, 99, 100, 104-106, 108, 109, 122, 127, 132, 137, 142-144
Hero 2
145, 146, 148, 149, 245, 250, 252, 254, 259, 264, 283, 290, 293, 295, PC 28
Hero 3
306, 309, 313, 314, 316-318, 320-323, 325-327, 329-336, 338-345, 347-385, 387-384; PC 34, 40-42, 44
Hero 4
385-389, 391-395
Hero 5
WGL 1-3; PC 1-10,12-16; LC 1-12
5th Anniversary Memories
12,14,15,17,19,22,25-29,33-56
Cardass Series
Carddass 2
35-70
Cardass 3
71-112
Cardass 4
114, 118-154
Cardass 5
160, 161, 164, 165, 168, 169, 171-173, 175, 176, 178, 179, 182, 183, 186, 187, 190, 192, 194
Cardass 6
198-201, 204, 206-208, 211-214, 216, 217, 219, 220, 222-226, 230-236
Cardass 7
240-246, 249-252, 254, 256, 258-260, 262, 264-267, 269-273, 275, 278, 279
Cardass 8
281-285, 287, 288, 290, 294, 296-303, 305-308, 312-315, 317-319, 321, 322
Cardass 9
323-343,345-357,359-363
Cardass 10
368-370,372-391,394,396-405
Graffiti
Graffiti 1
1, 12, 16, 25
Graffiti 2
46, 49, 59, 62, 65, 72, 75, 78, 82
Graffiti 3
87-101,104-107,109-117,119-126
Graffiti 4
127-130, 132, 134-136, 138-140, 142-149, 151-159,161-165, 169, 170
Graffiti 5
171,173-175,178-183,185-191,193,195-198, 200, 203, 204, 206-208,211-213
Graffiti 6
215-232,234-256
Graffiti 7
258-300
Graffiti 8
2, 4-9, 11, 13, 16, 18, 19
Graffiti 9
4-21
Pull Pack
PP1
41
PP2
49-58,60,62,63,65-72,74-77,81,83-87,89
PP3
95,97,99,103-105,109,111,114,115,118,119,122-126,129,133,134,139-143,145,146,156,158-161,168,169,171-173
PP4
175-179,181-216
PP5
217,219-222,225,229-263
PP6
265,274,276,277,279-283,286,287,295-302
PP7
315-335,338-368
PP8
377-384,386-424
PP9
425-466
PP10
488,502,503,508
PP11
509-550
PP12
557,560,569,572,581,584,592
PP13
613,615,638
PP14
647,650-657,661,670-678,680,683,691-693,698,701,702,704,706-735,737-741
PP15
742,743,745,746,748-767
Sailormoon World
World 1
N14,N16
World 2
N1-N36
World 4
N6,N17,N28
Battle/Private
Series 1
2,4-20
Series 2
1-21
Banpresto
Sailormoon Set 2
10,14,15,18,20,24,27,29,36
SailormoonR Set 1
1-18
SailormoonS Set 1
8,10,12,13,14,20,22,24
SailormoonS Set 2
10-12,15,18,19,21-24
Sailormoon SuperS Set 1
14
SailorStars Set 1
7,11
If anyone out there has some cards that I’m missing (ones that aren’t listed above), I’m willing to trade. I have a LOT of duplicates so just send me an email with your offers and what you want in return and I’ll check to see if I have extras. Oh, and for those of you who are wondering, my collection is worth well over $1500 and 14 years of searching so I’m not selling it.
So that wraps up all the things that I collect. You can probably tell that once I start collecting something, I can get pretty obsessive with it, which might not be a good thing. Anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed the peek into my other collections besides figures and magazines. I’d love to hear about what everyone else likes to collect so feel free to leave a comment, or even make a post like this one on your own blog, maybe we’ll get a trend going :)
