Lucky_Deity
Death Scythe
2024 Anime Collection (Part 2)
Post a photo of your entire anime collection!
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Geriatric hedgehog
Death Scythe
Great collection and I've never seen the Wonder Egg Priority CE up on a shelf before, it's very striking! And not just because of the bright yellow colour, but with Ai looking squished between the other sets - quite a cool coincidence as I'm assuming it wasn't designed with that in mind! I want to get the CE now, though I also feel there should be a much less cheerful and far more unimpressed face for a post-episode 13 Ai on the other side heh.
For comparisons between this current update and my previous ones, check the links below:
Here's my annual collection update. As a recap, due to the forum's restrictions against Imgur and the limited usage for importing photos, I won't be providing the photos of the shelves in detail in this post. Instead if you want to see more of what is new, you'll have to visit my blog.
- Update #01 from 26th August 2013 (via Blog)
- Update #02 from 14th January 2014 (via Blog)
- Update #03 from 6th September 2014 (for the Blog version: see here)
- Update #04 from 1st April 2015 (for the Blog version: see here)
- Update #05 from 7th September 2016 (for the Blog version: see here)
- Update #06 from 30th December 2017 (for the Blog version: see here)
- Update #07 from 30th December 2019 (for the Blog version: see here - shortcut for all blog posts here)
- Update #08 from 30th December 2020 (for the Blog version: see here)
- Update #09 from 31st December 2021 (for the Blog version: see here)
- Update #10 from 31st December 2022 (for the Blog version: see here)
- Update #11 from 31st December 2023 (for the Blog version: see here)
Here's my annual collection update. As a recap, due to the forum's restrictions against Imgur and the limited usage for importing photos, I won't be providing the photos of the shelves in detail in this post. Instead if you want to see more of what is new, you'll have to visit my blog.
zrdb
Straw Hat Pirate
No, it doesn't bother me at all, as a matter of fact I'm slightly envious of anybody who can amass a collection that size. I live in a small 400 square foot condominium and I don't have much space to store stuff. I was collecting anime at a frightening rate and after a few years came to the realization that I wouldn't have any place to sleep, etc. if I kept it up. So-digital to the rescue. I still buy some stuff occasionally but less than 1% of my peak purchases. It makes me amazed when I think how much money I was spending and I didn't buy any collectors editions, just standard releases. Sigh!I'm sorry my large collection bothers you.
This page is for showing off others collections so what you consider overboard I consider a compliment.
Sorry to hear you downsized your collection due to space but I bet it was glorious.
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Scrambled Valkyrie
School Idol
I know this thread hasn't been posted in for a while, however I just wanted to say I've been viewing it this week and it's inspired me quite a bit. I've been meaning to sort my own collection out a little more and get it arranged nicely to the point where I feel proud enough to show it off here.
I have a dedicated man-cave/otaku room but after a recent brush with mental health issues (Main reason why I haven't been on here consistently in recent years) my Anime fandom wasn't anywhere near my usual obsessive levels.
Which was very weird for me because I've been a fan of Anime, Manga, Japanese movies and all things to do with Japanese culture since I was 13 (Just turned 45 recently). So to suddenly lose a bit of enthusiasm for it (as well as most other things in life) as a passionate person was more than a little alarming to me.
Recently I quit my job to try and pursue something I enjoy more and I feel like a weight has been lifted from my shoulders. Thankfully I'm okay financially for now and my wife is extremely supportive about me doing it as she just wants me to be happy.
Over recent weeks I've been finding my enthusiasm for all my hobbies growing again and I think some of you here might have helped with that without realising.
In short, thanks to everyone who posted. You've helped encourage me a bit. Hopefully I'll see you back in this thread with some cool pics in the future.
I have a dedicated man-cave/otaku room but after a recent brush with mental health issues (Main reason why I haven't been on here consistently in recent years) my Anime fandom wasn't anywhere near my usual obsessive levels.
Which was very weird for me because I've been a fan of Anime, Manga, Japanese movies and all things to do with Japanese culture since I was 13 (Just turned 45 recently). So to suddenly lose a bit of enthusiasm for it (as well as most other things in life) as a passionate person was more than a little alarming to me.
Recently I quit my job to try and pursue something I enjoy more and I feel like a weight has been lifted from my shoulders. Thankfully I'm okay financially for now and my wife is extremely supportive about me doing it as she just wants me to be happy.
Over recent weeks I've been finding my enthusiasm for all my hobbies growing again and I think some of you here might have helped with that without realising.
In short, thanks to everyone who posted. You've helped encourage me a bit. Hopefully I'll see you back in this thread with some cool pics in the future.
Herano
Kiznaiver
Thanks for sharing this, Scrambled Valkyrie! I hope you will find lots of happiness in rediscovering the things you love.
Your post also encouraged me to post my own collection, even if I don't have a good camera, so here it goes
. If you guys want to see more, let me know!
Your post also encouraged me to post my own collection, even if I don't have a good camera, so here it goes
. If you guys want to see more, let me know!Attachments
Scrambled Valkyrie
School Idol
Thanks Herano.
Wow. Nice collection. I wish I had enough space in one room to line everything up in a row like that with my discs. I see a lot of Region 1 DVD sets I've not seen in a long time in those photos! Ah...the sweet tang of nostalgia.
Wow. Nice collection. I wish I had enough space in one room to line everything up in a row like that with my discs. I see a lot of Region 1 DVD sets I've not seen in a long time in those photos! Ah...the sweet tang of nostalgia.
Herano
Kiznaiver
Thank you very much! Ive been collecting for around 20 years now, so there are a lot of classics in my collection
. Its fun! That nostalgia sounds like a good feeling. I would love to see your collection as well, if you would feel up to showing it at some point.
Scrambled Valkyrie
School Idol
Will spend some time getting it a bit more in order and then I will.
sirijo
Completely Average High School Student
If it's not obvious I started my collection very film centric (Cineworld member so I go fairly often) and it was a gamble on Cowboy Bebop and Tatami Galaxy alongside watching Shirobako (then on HIDIVE) in preparation for SLA 2021 that got me into series.
I could go full meme and commit to the bit as a Bocchi fan and say 'Bocchi the Rock!' but that would be too easy. In last years alltheanime xmas sale I gambled on 'Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water' which I demolished earlier this year with aplomb and despite the dodgy episode patch in the middle I was very happy to gamble on that. Anything by Satoshi Kon would be highly rated, Millennium Actress being my most treasured. I still love Your Name which is what got me into anime in the first place. One final side note would be Blue Thermal, very thankful this got a home release.
This is all an aside. Despite the recency bias (only bought and watched for the first time mid-April) it has to be K-On. I laughed, I cried. I knew as I was watching it I was getting the 'Bocchi' feeling, I will rewatch this again and again. This will live in my heart until the end of my days. I'm so very glad I gambled on CeX and £50 on it (despite having the 'error' discs, its really not that big an issue).
I could go full meme and commit to the bit as a Bocchi fan and say 'Bocchi the Rock!' but that would be too easy. In last years alltheanime xmas sale I gambled on 'Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water' which I demolished earlier this year with aplomb and despite the dodgy episode patch in the middle I was very happy to gamble on that. Anything by Satoshi Kon would be highly rated, Millennium Actress being my most treasured. I still love Your Name which is what got me into anime in the first place. One final side note would be Blue Thermal, very thankful this got a home release.
This is all an aside. Despite the recency bias (only bought and watched for the first time mid-April) it has to be K-On. I laughed, I cried. I knew as I was watching it I was getting the 'Bocchi' feeling, I will rewatch this again and again. This will live in my heart until the end of my days. I'm so very glad I gambled on CeX and £50 on it (despite having the 'error' discs, its really not that big an issue).
Geriatric hedgehog
Death Scythe
Sorry to hear you were having a difficult time but very glad to hear you're doing better now and retain the passion for your hobbies and interests. Life is too short and sometimes you just have to cut things out of your life that average out to just a negative impact overall, especially when they start impinging on your passions and what makes life worth living. Certainly not easy to take that first step, as I haven't been able to with some things in my work life, with all the uncertainty involved, so I'm always happy to hear when people have the courage and make a success of it and can inspire others to do the same.
On a more relevant point, my blasted collection is a total mess - I am yet to unpack my AL Christmas sales haul
, much to the chagrin of my wife who cruelly kicks it out of her way...I embellish of course. But have some time off so really hoping to organise it and finally post some pics of it on here.
Geriatric hedgehog
Death Scythe
Tried to reorganize the mess that is my collection earlier this week with kiddo's help, but ran out of time. The ikea kallax shelves are great for displaying objects and partitioning rooms, but not quite so for a mishmash of dvds, blu rays and variably sized CEs. Failed miserably to pacify my ocd-esque nature, but thought about time I post my collection for posterity for myself, for the day I finally get my collection better organized...
Scrambled Valkyrie
School Idol
Nice to see you've taken the first steps to sorting your collection. Strangely enough I just got a Kallax delivered today from Ikea. My other shelves are older ones from all kinds of different places. Annoyingly none of them are deep enough for big, tall and wide artbooks or weird blu ray boxsets that are book-like for example the limited Manga UK Ghost SAC set, the arrow limited Gamera set and the criterion Godzilla set. I have a downstairs shelf I keep em on but it was irritating because most of my Anime and Japanese live action stuff was upstairs. First World problems I know. Order is nice though. Glad to be finally getting round to starting sorting it all this weekend.
Geriatric hedgehog
Death Scythe
Yeah the Kallax is great if you want to display select larger sets (I think I could fit an AL UE like the Evangelion one in one section), plus it's deep that you can display/store on both sides if not against a wall. If I had more space I'd have proper shelves for holding majority of the stuff and keep the Kallax to display favourites only perhaps. First world problems indeed. Good luck getting things organised at your end!
sirijo
Completely Average High School Student
The mismatch of shapes, sizes, distributors etc… lead to me a chaotic solution. My (much more meagre) collection (that grows as affordable things I’m interested in come around) is sorted by Original Release Date.
I recognise this will be unbearable to most but think about how clean it is, knowing the earliest anime in your collection is top left, and the newest is bottom right. For each series, director, distributor, format (as those change and evolve), they follow a timeline and every stop in your collection is something you adore, or find fun, or interesting, or challenging.
Geriatric hedgehog
Death Scythe
The way to organise a collection was also something I couldn't decide on, but as I tend to remember works based on creators more, my overall preference was to split into collections by director/studio and then miscellaneous series and movies, which I sort of did on one side before giving up heh. I used to do alphabetical but struggled to remember what I was looking for and think it'd be the same with time of release
sirijo
Completely Average High School Student
I originally grouped mine on a Kallax by label but I outgrew the ‘cubes’ I could dedicate to them (most are filled with amiibo) and once I went to floating shelves I had to imagine what system would give me the concessions I could live with the most.The way to organise a collection was also something I couldn't decide on, but as I tend to remember works based on creators more, my overall preference was to split into collections by director/studio and then miscellaneous series and movies, which I sort of did on one side before giving up heh. I used to do alphabetical but struggled to remember what I was looking for and think it'd be the same with time of release
The problem I have with auteur, or label, or studio was the reasonable chance releases of related things could be split between different companies. I can’t stand the idea of sorting a media collection by colour and thus I was facing the fairly standard option of sorting alphabetically but the nagging annoyance I have with that is when that groups a series/franchise together but then that doesn’t go in release/timeline order. So you either go pure alphabetical and accept timeline wonkeyness or you ignore alphabetical when you get a franchise with a non-alpha order. Alphabetical also has the dilemma of when releases in a franchise don’t share a consistent name and could be spread out.
For example, if you own Liz & The Bluebird and Sound! Euphonium S1 most sorting systems will end up with these distributed.
Of course that is to say these are just my personal issues with selecting a sort order! We all have to find something we can live with.
Puringa
Brigade Leader
I have different shelves for my anime movies and for my anime series. Region locked anime are also stored in a separate place. Everything is sorted in Alphabetical order, but stuff that belongs together is then stashed away in chronological order.
For example: you can find everything regarding Gundam under the letter G, but all the Gundam stuff is then sorted chronologically (including stuff like Turn a Gundam). So in my case it's a bit of both. It works for me ;-)
For example: you can find everything regarding Gundam under the letter G, but all the Gundam stuff is then sorted chronologically (including stuff like Turn a Gundam). So in my case it's a bit of both. It works for me ;-)