アニメ Republic

Earlier this month I was in Dallas for A-Kon. I’ve been going to this con ……. for a while. The past few years I haven’t really bought anything in the dealer’s room mainly because nothing screams out to me. This year was a little different. While making an obligatory pass though the room I spotted a table selling, among other things, a large number of old anime CDs from the 80’s and 90’s. They were used of course, but all appeared to be in great shape all things considered.

To my joyous surprise, I found amongst this lot a number of older CDs I had been looking for since I had actually sold off my copies way back in the early 90’s. The most notable of these were volume 3 and 4 of the ‘Anime Hot Wave’ series. This was basically a compilation series of anime opening songs from the late 80’s and early 90’s.  You can see the rest here, here and here.

Now for the other shoe to drop. While I was grabbing up these treasures before anyone else could see what was there, I realized that there was a lot of older stuff so I asked the person working the table where the collection came from. He indicated that this was all from one person’s personal collection. A little surprised, I didn’t let my mind think it out before I asked why they were selling such an obviously great collection. The person at the table then informed me that the owner had recently died in a car accident.  At that point I felt rather vulture-like as I held a couple dozen CDs in hand like I had just won the lotto. However after the fact it was brought to my attention that if it were me (who had died and whose collection was being sold off) wouldn’t I want my stuff to go to someone who would really treasure these items? I had to take a moment before realizing that yes that would be the case.

Enjoy!!