1 - Posted on 11/16/2023

Wow. Is this an original cel or one of the limited edition later issues. Regardless it looks great.  

Posted on 9/6/2024

Thank you very much Jeff and sorry for the long unanswered time, forgive me but I didn't realize at the time that this was a question. So well yes, it is an original cel, it is not a limited edition (I never took limited editions because I only like originals), I also have the original art certificate from the Japanese seller which at the time was a rarity because very few issued it and in Japan they are usually very serious about these things, I found it many years ago, in fact I regret not taking more from Nausicaa my best beloved movie of the master Miyazaki, because at the time those were much cheaper than today but not easy to find , I remember a beautiful one of the antagonist almost all painted, into an action frame from the same movie that I had in my hands and stupidly I didn't take it, anyway the background unfortunately is a print and it shows, it's also incomplete bg and in the movie from Ghibli studios there are no such bad backgrounds, but finding original backgrounds at the time was almost impossible, this one I used I don't like very much, and I think it's not suitable, I was always thinking of looking for a better one. My photo of the cel is also bad cutted in the upper side (it is visible with a zoom on the holes cutted), so it is impossible to see the note of the cel number.

1 - Posted on 1/5/2024

Great looking cel. I used to have 2 from Nausicaa but sold them both cause of the trace line fade. It bums me out that the art will just be ruined even it hidden from light. I hope your cel is holding up better than mine did. 

Posted on 1/5/2024

yes I haven't checked them for quite some time, but I know it's not only the problem of light (especially sun light but non only) but also normal heat differences and in the case of the celluloid of acetates the big problem is also oxygen, the same problem there was with the film material of silent films for example, also flammable. However chemically perishable, maybe by keeping them at controlled temperature and under high vacuum or under resin in the future they can be saved for longer? I don't know, I hope so, but yes it's true paper is definitely easier to preserve over time and that's why douga and genga on even light paper over time are gaining more value while before almost nobody wanted them because colored cel were much more beautiful and flashy.