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« Last post by JG on Today at 07:41:05 pm »
Games, art books, and most figurines have pretty much stayed in the same price range for the last 10 years or so. Its really only the original art and telephone cards that seem to be accelerating upwards.
And with the Japanese yen dropping like a ten ton weight over the last couple of years compared to dollar (see attachment), we westerners really should be seeing better prices now than we did, but we aren't. People just gone crazy I guess.
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right, a lot of CTR pieces which are very basic and non unique seem to still go for prices well beyond I can/would pay. CTR must have been very popular in Japan. Once I saw those going for the prices they were getting, I knew it was going to be another folly to try and bid on anything.  speaking of.. Yowza!  that is one expensive teleca! That one snuck by me. It's literally an in-game frame with teleca info slapped over it!! The seller only had to post a single low quality front picture for people to go bonkers over it; didn't even put up a picture of the back of it.  All of this just solidifies our conclusion all along with Sogna material. If it's very rare at all it will always go for a very high amount, and if it happens to be a promotional art piece, be prepared to pay a premium on top of that, and if it's an H-scene period (In-game frame or not) be prepared to pay an absolutely insane premium. 
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« Last post by JG on Today at 02:06:58 pm »
Yeah, and a couple of them weren't even good pictures in my opinion. Neither the Lilia photo nor the Miki ending wearing bath towel seemed particularly worth the money they got. The Miki heart shirt looked to be better quality then either of those two but went for less (but still north of $200.) The others were all in the several hundred dollar range. I was in on the colored Ruri cel up to 35,000 yen but tapped out at that point and let the other bidder have it for slightly above that amount (35,800 final price.) I thought it was good art, colored, and a lesser known character drawn by one of the lesser known artists in the series, so I rightly suspected it would be the best deal. But I didn't like it enough to keep bidding upwards on it. I kind of expected the Rise cat girl art to be highly desirable, and sure enough it was. I'd have loved that art, but expected it to be well beyond what I wanted to pay for it (and was.) Frankly, I was more surprised that one of the rare RSR telecas was also on Yahoo Auctions ending this morning and topped out at a staggering 101,000 yen, blowing way past the previous 40,600 record I'd seen on the Series 3 art book cover teleca. The previous two times I'd seen this RSR teleca were a more modest (and reasonable) 5,000 and 8,000 yen. I really don't see how anyone can pay $650-ish for a single teleca, given how small they are and non-uniqueness. Clearly anything very rare in VIPER world is just skyrocketing in premium pricing, if even telecas are now topping 100K.
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just wow, the V16 Rise girls cat piece I kept my eye on was extended for 2 hours and went to a final tally of just above $1430, way above the range i expected. Absolutely insane Another easy $3000 in total for this set. CTR pieces seem to consistently be a favorite to bid on.
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So I did win an art auction lately, but not one from that seller whose bids tend to reach 40,000 yen or more.
I got this one for a more "bargain" price of 27,280 yen ($183.87) - which I think is fair given that it's unique art and not one frame of a sequence. Plus its one of the few The Devil Came arts I really like because of the facial expressions.
This was the only Sogna piece they offered at the time (along with a dozen or so other animation draqings, most of which were animes I didn't recognize) and they haven't posted more so I think it was a one-time seller.
I'd say that is more than worth it given the other options we have. Great pick-up as usual
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« Last post by JG on April 25, 2024, 11:32:35 pm »
So I did win an art auction lately, but not one from that seller whose bids tend to reach 40,000 yen or more.
I got this one for a more "bargain" price of 27,280 yen ($183.87) - which I think is fair given that it's unique art and not one frame of a sequence. Plus its one of the few The Devil Came arts I really like because of the facial expressions.
This was the only Sogna piece they offered at the time (along with a dozen or so other animation draqings, most of which were animes I didn't recognize) and they haven't posted more so I think it was a one-time seller.
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« Last post by uphillbattle on April 25, 2024, 03:18:34 am »
I think i'm going to try and focus on getting this piece. 
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« Last post by uphillbattle on April 25, 2024, 03:15:28 am »
Talk about timing, but I checked right after my last post, and true enough, a new batch is on auction with about 4 days left! This is a pretty good batch if you ask me! One of them is an actual painted animation cel for Viper BTR!
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« Last post by uphillbattle on April 25, 2024, 02:47:40 am »
Those posters are great JG, I'm jealous. I honestly would probably value those even more; literally because of the fact they are very rare but official Sogna merch. And honestly, as much as I'd love to win and own one of these "original" pieces at auction that are constantly going up once a month, it just makes me ponder the authenticity of them even more. We know it comes from the same seller who we can confidently assume is a freelance work-for-hire artist, possibly the real deal and has been doing it for decades, at least to the point he knows how valuable Sogna stuff are.  I get it, there can be hundreds of slides per game, and he probably has done work for all of them, but so many promotional and cover art production pieces are being put up every month as well; there can't be many of those compared to animation slides. For all we know, this guy could be replicating the pieces and passing them off as original production pieces when he puts them up for auction. If he doesn't have any leftover stock of animation sheets, one can still buy cel sheets (more expensive now, but still available) and the animation paper that goes with them too, including the ACME style hole punched ones. So it can be a little sketch (pun intended) when bidding on these. But a lot of the pieces he puts up do have wear and tear marks over the years and really do look like the real deal, I probably just have sore loser auction syndrome Oh well, I can't help it and will probably keep putting in bid attempts anyway 
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« Last post by Saika on April 22, 2024, 06:42:40 pm »
wanna add a animal female girl (wolf, jackel, fox, etc) just one, im not a furry but I dont THINK there was a animal base girl in the whole Viper storys.... correct me if im wrong.
M5 has bat-girl Meg and spider-woman Ryouko.
One of the stories in V-3 has the GTS girls cursed by the angels to replace their horns and tails with animal equivalents.
Additionally, one of the bad ends of GTB has Akira's DNA spliced with cow DNA to make her both more docile and increase her breast size, but she really doesn't look that much different so it doesn't fully count.
Thats nice but, think on like more animal looking. best example I can give is like.... the Starfox team or better point "Krystal".
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