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Anywhere from Days/Weeks/Months... Depending on Complexity, Sophistication,

(BANDAI/GUNDAM Kits are usually Fully Color-molded and Press Fit in Assembly; No Glue and Minimal/No Painting)

- and How Much Spare Time/Motivation you Have.

This Monster, for example, took me about a Couple Weeks to Finish... but then again; A Modern BANDAI GUNDAM Kit
that Nearly Builds Itself... At Least when Compared the Traditional Paint and Glue Kits my Dad built back when i was a Boy;

How come

I find that kind of shit really neat when they give us extra collectable content like that. lol

Lol Sailor Mafia

Im the godfather so I pirate anime illegally 😈

Nice :)

Got someone I can talk to about it once you watch it :)

BTW love the OP too... it's one of the things I love about the series too :)

But over all, it's one of the few series that I love, that I actually like every one of the main character equally. lol

BTW if you are interested in see "Black Cat", you can currently get the entire series relatively cheap on dvds on places like ebay. It's just a really fun Shounen series from the 2000s.

You can look here at what to expect if you ever decide to invest in collecting it on physical media.

https://myanimelist.net/forum/?goto=post&topicid=2150100&id=74230606

I think you would like both, but I tend to think Magikano was more fun to watch. The shit weaponizes tropes when the shit was still fun to do without it seeming like it's all meta. lol

Magic User's Club is an OVA from the 90s. I didn't check out the series that followed. It was entertaining but I didn't find it anything that special at the time. I think i originally rented it at blockbuster video back in the early 2000s the 1st time I have ever watched it. Even barely remember what it was about. lol

Back in the late 2000s, shit like "Black Cat" was the kind of anime a lot of people actually watched at the time, but treated as disposable as seasonal contemporary slop. It wasn’t some massive cultural phenomenon, but it had solid visibility during the early start of Anime piracy. A lot of fans checked it out because it was entertaining and easy to access online for free, where ironically people loved it, but the reality was only a handful actually ever ended up officially buying on DVDs or even renting the shit. lol

Magikano was similar in the sense that it circulated online for free too, although it leaned much harder into trashy Ecchi comedy and was seen way more disposable as entertainment in the west. lol

This is exactly what western piracy did to Anime in the late 2000s. Because for the 1st time we started getting a lot of unknown shit in the medium that came really close to when the shit 1st released in Japan. but easily forgotten about once the next new shiny thing popped up to watch.

I think a lot of anime released in the West during the late 2000s ended up falling into this “watched but forgotten” category. Not necessarily because the shows were bad, but because the rise of anime piracy, fansubs, and constant online access started making anime much more disposable for everyone. Even people who actually paid for the shit too. lol

This time period in the West was when fans were actually suddenly consuming huge amounts of seasonal anime every week instead of slowly collecting or rewatching series like during the earlier DVD era and ironically consuming more Anime than people actually do in Japan. lol

Around that same time, online anime culture also started getting more divided and opinionated. You had people who were only into edgy “serious” anime, people obsessed with moe and fanservice, and constant arguments over what counted as “good”. A lot of middle-of-the-road action or comedy anime started getting dismissed as forgettable or average unless the shit became breakout hits.

The term “mid” itself didn’t originate from anime culture back then, but the mindset of calling anything decent-but-not-amazing “forgettable” definitely became more common in this medium. lol

Recently I have been focusing on completing a lot of Anime that fall into this known but obscure category for my own physical media collection to get all the official Artboxes for shit that I missed out on while planning to re-watch them too. lol

Judging by your taste and the shit I have seen you into, I think you would love both "Black Cat" and "Magikano", which is why I asked. lol

As for "Mezzo DSA", the original western Artboxes for the DVD volumes is extremely difficult to find because it seemed like it was only being circulated in Canada. Not once have I ever seen the shit being sold either at Suncoast Video or even Bestbuy. For the 1st time, most places that sold Anime skipped stocking a lot of regular DVD volumes and just went to straight releasing the thinpack collections in the USA unless people pre-ordered the shit. Which is why the shit is so rare to find now. Regular DVD volumes would still be stocked on Shelves but a large majority of sales started focusing on collection releases. Which is why there is a lot of shit I missed out on getting, as it was actually released in the states and people only discovered what actually got released only after the fact. It felt like an end to an era for physical media collectors because that was when ADV and central park media died out along the rise or piracy.

Gotcha! It always amazes me just how much some of these figures can go on the aftermarket. I guess because they have a limited time to how long the production on them goes. I've seen some figures for One Piece go for four digits USD. Some of which are pretty massive in scale. 😱

Just ended up splurging on Anime recently (I know I shouldn't have). Even after trying to recover from surgery. lol

Not sure if you are into "Black Cat" or "Magikano". But I plan on re-watch both of them this week doped out on the pain meds I was given for recovery. lol

One thing I recently found that should be showing up later this week or early next, is the original ADV "Mezzo DSA" Artbox. I was starting to think that shit was more rare than the Funimation "Tenchi Muyou! GXP" 8 volume DVD Artbox. I will eventually share that shit once I have all of it in hand. lol