The Lucky Finds bragging thread

[greg]

You can post those here. There are so many subforum categories that I get easily confused too. Those sketches are fantastic, btw. The only artist's sketches I have are of Sam & Max by Steve Purcell.

[labsenpai]

Here is an old photo from Acen 2003, capturing Maya Okamoto's signing of a sketch of her character in Irresponsible Captain Tylor. I had the Nurse Harumi sketch from a previous con, but for the life of me I can't remember which Tylor staffer drew it! I think it was the main designer, but I can't tell from the signature. I will be posting more sketches; hopefully I'm not too decrepit to identify them.

[usamimi]

wow, labsenpai, that's so cool! ;A;

No picture, but I got a little lucky last week and found someone selling ALL of Maison Ikkoku on DVD for less than $10. UNFORTUNATELY...it's not perfect because 1. it's just the discs, no cases and 2. half of it's bootleg.

BUT half it is is legitimate at least, which is great, and for the price I really can't complain...considering the last half of the series is damn near impossible to get on DVD now. I'm still holding out hope that maybe someday, someone will get Maison Ikkoku re-released. ;__;

[labsenpai]

Yay for Maison, its my favorite romantic comedy. My old club, Killer Nuts Anime, remastered and showed the whole series at OSU. Club Pres had the LD box set. I have a few items as well, including the rare 1:4 scale figure, a cel from an early episode, and a Kyoko sketch by Yuji Moriyama (character designer for the final MI movie).

[usamimi]

Wow so jealous of all 3 of those! I love the series (and Kyoko) so much! <3

[labsenpai]

Still plenty of guest art to go...
Here are the pieces by Tsukasa Kotobuki, two time invitee at ACEN, who did character design for a few things in the 90's. When I first met him, I asked for "super deformed" versions of the Toshinden gals, hoping I'd get more than one. He managed a trio in just a few minutes! The second year, I think he was kinda wiped from (rumored) partying in a hotel room where there was late night playstation and booze. To get the Cyberteam "Idol" sketch I had to provide some source material from a magazine, which turned out fine.

Kotobuki-san also drew a "MATRIX movie" sketch for the con's group dojinshi, and sold some (18+ version) fan art at his own table. I think the print I bought is supposed to be Mai from Garou Densetsu.

[usamimi]

Ah, Tsukasa Kotobuki! Some of the anime series he did character designs for never really managed to capture how cute his style is, imo. I always liked his work, it was very "90s anime" to me

[Animusubi]

Oh wow, the SD Toshinden crew is awesome! I would LOVE original Kotobuki sketches.

[labsenpai]

I'm going to batch the rest together, including some I traded for other goods. Most of these are from ACEN and Otakon events...
Kenichi Sonoda was a super guest that drew for all his fans, and created pieces for the con shirt and fanzine. The "Priss in concert" sketch I desired took him like 90 seconds.
M. Kikuchi/K. Asamiya was a bit of a grump about his secret identity scheme the first year. The 1st drawing I have from him was his goofy "NOW PRINTING" sign-face signature - worthless. He was joined by a voice actress at a 2nd appearance, and would offer character drawings. I felt obliged to ask for one the actress could sign too.
I forget who drew the drunken Fujisawa-sensei, but he was an artist that worked on El Hazard.
I think the director drew my Moldiver sketch.
PONY METAL was a toy/model mascot I think, from the old General Products catalog?
Range Murata didn't sketch for the crowd, but he would sign/doodle something if you bought his postcard merchandise.

I traded away my Jungle de Ikou and Golden Boy sketches. My friend won a Hidenori Matsubara sketch by raffle after I let him cut in line...2 YEARS in a row. This is what happens when you try to help a newbie. Of course, the easiest way to get a sketch was to buy the nice ones that were donated to the con Art Auction.

[Heero]

Kenichi Sonoda was a super guest that drew for all his fans, and created pieces for the con shirt and fanzine. The "Priss in concert" sketch I desired took him like 90 seconds.

While I love original Bubblegum Crisis, that Misty May is AWESOME!

M. Kikuchi/K. Asamiya was a bit of a grump about his secret identity scheme the first year. The 1st drawing I have from him was his goofy "NOW PRINTING" sign-face signature - worthless.

I'm curious if he was at all humbled by his appearance at Animazement in 2000. I went to that one and he was there along with Yuu Watase who was pretty much at the apex of HER popularity since Fushigi Yuugi had just ended and the Ceres anime was about to start. Animazement lined up people for an autograph session for Asamiya and Watase combined and the line stretched all throughout the convention area. Thinking they had an issue, after a short time the staff made an announcement that they were going to split the line into separate lines, ASamiya autographs on one side, Watase on the other. They made the announcement and maybe 5 people (from a line of hundreds) went to the Asamiya line.

I felt bad for him (and bad for the con, since that doesn't "look" good). But hearing that he was more grumpy the first time you met him makes me wonder. I know he used to be really uptight about people taking his picture also.