Feb 23 2009
My Secret Weakness: Limited Editions
When you are a collector of anything, it won’t take long before you realize that you have a weakness. When it comes to otaku anime collectors, that weakness can take many different forms. For some, it’s a driving compulsion to have as many of the little figures as they can. Some people just have to have those art boxes of all their favorite series or their life won’t be complete. I could go on and on citing various examples but instead I’m going to come clean about my weakness: limited edition releases.
I don’t know why I have such a weakness to the phrase ‘Limited Edition’ but every time I hear it in conjunction to a series that I am a particularly big fan of, I have to instantly stop what I’m doing to find out more. And then come the phases… it starts with curiosity; (Oh, I’ll just have a look to see what kind of stuff that they are including). On some rare occasions when I am lucky, this is where the process will end. Sometimes I take a look at the set and realize that it’s filled with things that I really don’t want or need to have cluttering up my work space and move on.
That’s the rare occasions however. In reality the process is usually much longer; See set (Oooh, it has CDs and a shirt! Well that is special), pretend like I’m weighing both sides of the issue in my mind (Do I really need that Wedding Peach beach ball?), justify it (Yes, I do… for stuff) and finally order it (mine! None can touch it! Back I say!). Luckily for me, working as a starving writer for hire does not allow me to partake in this ritual very often but when it does, that’s pretty much what is going through my head.
