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Most you ever spent on an anime item

Postby bemanisuperstar » Tue Nov 11, 2003 7:48 pm

Not couting DVDs CDs or Tapes I mean merchendise.

I spent $80 on a Lain Art book
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Postby Straylight » Tue Nov 11, 2003 8:16 pm

£20 for the FF:U series. Not that much basically :)
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Postby Razgriz » Tue Nov 11, 2003 8:20 pm

10 bucks on an Gundam Epyon model

Edit: my bad
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Postby bemanisuperstar » Tue Nov 11, 2003 8:35 pm

I mean stuff like Art books, Toys, games ect. Not actual DVDs
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Postby Mr. Rogers » Tue Nov 11, 2003 8:40 pm

$10!! but thats cause the first thing i bought was the .hack manga yesterday. pretty good so far.
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Postby Haibane Shadsie » Tue Nov 11, 2003 8:44 pm

Hmmmm. Trying to think... probably my 12 inch Dark Vash figure with real vinyl coat... I love him, though. I cuddle him when I sleep at night! I spent... $35, I think. Either that or my artbooks... that Cowboy Bebop art book I got might have been more than that, I do not remember.
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Postby Shinja » Tue Nov 11, 2003 8:55 pm

i bought the angelic layer manga volume 1 , 10 bucks, all my money goes into my cars
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Postby senjutsu » Tue Nov 11, 2003 9:05 pm

$130 vash the stampede custom bust. of course my cat knocked it over and snapped his head off in the first week. down peanut! down! bad cat!
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Postby Haibane Shadsie » Tue Nov 11, 2003 10:08 pm

Oh! I just remembered something!

It's not official merchandise, but I spent $60+ on my Vash coat... made by a friend of mine. I paid her $50 for the coat, with $10 for mailing costs thrown in, and I painted a small mirror for her with her favorite character, Legato - I painted the mirror specificiall for her for the art trade, so throw in costs of materials for that, plus the love I gave it, and there you go. The cosplay coat is non-official merchandise, but is my most expsensive and most prized piece.
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Postby yog^sothoth » Wed Nov 12, 2003 4:40 am

$140 Xbox $100 120 gig hard drive $30 remote control $40/month cable modem

past that. 10 bucks for a big o action figure.

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Postby shooraijin » Wed Nov 12, 2003 5:34 am

I spent $35+tax on my imported Ranma Hot Song Contest CD.
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Postby TheMelodyMaker » Wed Nov 12, 2003 8:56 am

Do games count? If so, I'd have to say my Hamtaro games. (Especially since I also had to buy a Game Boy Advance just to play them. Not cheap.)
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Postby Mave » Wed Nov 12, 2003 9:59 am

art books....Hikaru no Go costs ~$50, shipping not included yet. But it's really pretty! :eyeroll:
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Postby Rogie » Wed Nov 12, 2003 10:56 am

I'd have to say my "Anime Explosion" book by Patrick Drazen. Since I buy mostly anime DVDs, I don't really buy any anime merchandise.

The book's okay, btw, but only if you're going to using it for school or something.
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Postby Iapetus » Thu Nov 13, 2003 4:42 pm

There's this AWESOME Hikaru no Go artbook I want that is $60... but I don't have the money for it.

The most I have spent is (collectively) $60 on Naruto figurines. It is all of team 7, and they look awesome! Kakashi rocks the house.

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Postby blue elf » Thu Nov 13, 2003 6:27 pm

Well, it's not technically anime, but I have a Final Fantasy 7 resin figure of Vincent that was around 75 or 80 dollars. A couple people mentioned Hikaru no Go artbooks and I wouldn't mind having one of those. I love Hikaru no Go! The manga art is just gorgeous. ^_^
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Postby Gypsy » Thu Nov 13, 2003 7:54 pm

I spent quite a lot on my Record of the Lodoss Wars - Chronicles of the Heroic Knight box set. To my dismay ... it's gone down considerably in price now. Box sets are a killer.

For anime "stuff" ... I think my St Tail figure was the most expensive.
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Postby Orange Kitten » Fri Nov 14, 2003 1:22 pm

senjutsu wrote:$130 vash the stampede custom bust. of course my cat knocked it over and snapped his head off in the first week. down peanut! down! bad cat!


Man, that sucks. Sorry to hear that.

Besides the box sets I've bought (Trigun was the most expensive box set for me, $150), I think the 'single' most expensive item was a custom airbrushed Faye Valentine pillow I bought at Anime Expo, $60.

The next was the Limited Aluminum Box for my Evangelion DVDs (only 2,000 made). That alone cost me $50, then included for an extra $15 I got the remastered version of the first dvd (when it was first released it had some audio and menu glitches) So a grand total of about $80 after shipping and tax. It's so shiny and nice compared to all the cardboard boxes around it. :-D
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Postby cbwing0 » Tue Nov 18, 2003 8:09 am

I've got a few things, most of which I have recently purchased:
$60-Transformers: Unicron figure, although that may or may not be considered "anime."

$50-Dragonball Z: Budokai video game for Playstation 2 (the sequel comes out soon! :grin: ).

Over the summer I will probably make some more major dvd purchases (having a job and money helps, after all ;) ), such as the Yu Yu Hakusho complete series.

Oh yeah...my Berserk Fury zoid model cost $45 after S&H.

Edit: didn't see the part about no dvd's. Oops. :hits_self
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Postby Bobtheduck » Tue Nov 18, 2003 5:49 pm

I think I spent 5 dollars once in mexico for a sailor Venus keychain, and then 10 more for another one and a piccolo one for my friends... of course, in retrospect they were prolly all fakes... Too late now...
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Postby Tet-chan » Tue Nov 18, 2003 6:04 pm

I lost count on how much i spent on Gundam Models

The most expensive one was about $200
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