I admit it.
It started slowly, as these things often tend to do, as I browsed my recommendations on amazon.com. If you’re willing to go for “previously owned” merchandise, you can score some amazing deals. I went ahead and bought the artbox editions of Chrono Crusade, Macross, and Gantz (which had two!) for under $10 each. What do I get out of it? The satisfaction of seeing my series in one nifty art-covered box – and some duplicate DVDs. The duplicates aren’t a big deal. I just sell them on amazon’s marketplace.
Things just sorta went from there…
My increasing interest in artboxes became less of an interest and more of an obsession. I was (and still am!) determined to get some of the remaining artboxes in the world. As a matter of fact, I just ordered the artbox for .hack//Legend of the Twilight yesterday.
More to come
There’s a couple new artbox editions coming out in the near future that I have already pre-ordered. In the months ahead, I’ll be receiving artboxes for Darker Than Black, Claymore, Karin, When They Cry, and Shonen Onmyouji.
Just two of the boxes coming my way.
I am incomplete
FUNimation has finally solicited collections for Welcome to the NHK, Red Garden, and Tokyo Majin. All of them will get the half-season treatment like Aquarion and, unfortunately, Pumpkin Scissors. Since I went nuts and bought all the ADV released singles (and boxes!) for Red Garden and NHK, I will be left with two incomplete artboxes. It’s definitely a downer. Hopefully, FUNimation will respond positively to the fans uproar and release the missing volume 6 discs separately.
