Since I was ordering anyway, and I would have felt rather odd paying for a 200 yen cel and then 1200-1500 yen for the shipping, I decided to order this 800 yen Mikael at the same time. He was nice compared to the other Mikael cels on the page and he was only 800 yen... (Looking back now, I probably should have ordered the 1500 yen cel of Sailor Neptune doing her Submarine Reflection attack instead, but I was in a mad mood to get a TnN cel at the time.) So 800 yen cel... 1200 yen shipping. Eh heh heh... See what I mean about Mikael being cheap?

I remember this! This was when I met Eros!

Yes, well, we'll get to you and Eros a little bit later...

And Kael-san wasn't cheap! He charged 100,000 yen for his yakiimo!

That was for the entire cart! And it was Raphael-sama's idea!

Ahem. Don't you hate it when the imaginary characters take over?

Well, this section is dedicated to me, after all.

Yes, I am trying to talk about your cels, if I could get a word in edgewise! Hmph! *peers around to make certain that men in white aren't about to drag her off* Be that as it may, I had a devil of a time trying to identify where this cel came from! It was one of my first cels yet also one of the last ones I managed to place. Finally, I discovered that it comes from episode 19, Power of Love (Sounds like a Sailor Moon episode or a Celine Dion song, doesn't it? ) I actually ended up with quite a few cels from this episode, including my much fawned over bet cel. Spoilers for the premise of the episode are ahead! (Once again, I'm not going to black them out since they're rather incidental.)

This was an iiiiiinteresting episode. At the beginning of the episode Ruka had devised a pair of metallic bloomers for Noelle that could send her hovering/flying through the air by the power of gas. No not that kind of gas-- that kind of gas. The kind that assails you after you've eaten one too many bean burritoes. Since letting one rip at the drop of a hat is a rather rare talent, Ruka goes off to find some hot yakiimos to...err... speed things along. Apparently yakiimos are sweet potatoes cooked in some certain way-- I never really thought that they could be good for... y'know. Maybe it's all in the way you heat them. So Ruka runs into Eros along the way...

Rip-off! That is all you're gonna mention?

I'll go into more detail when I get around to your and Eros' cel! Yeesh, tempermental geniuses!

Anyway, coincidentally (hyuk, hyuk), Mikael has just started his new part time job selling yakiimos from a pull-cart that very day. I guess even angels aren't exempt from paying their bills! In this cel Mikael is looking back at Raphael who is lying atop the cart roof giving him a pep-talk on becoming a yakiimo saleman. I think the potatoes were more enthused then Mikael. Raphael is about to get his head bitten off by Mikael. (Metaphorically speaking, that is. Ack, now I have a weird image in my head! ) I'd love a cel from later in this scene when Mikael is making a face as a smirking Raphael leans close to him and reminds him how attached Mika's grown to the apartment.

I was with him every step of the way!

You mean freeloading every step of the way.

Pish posh-- spiritual support!

The cel is A-24 End and you can see Mikael gripping the handles of the yakiimo cart. I thought the brown thing was a table top or railing at first, which really confused me while I searching for the scene for this cel. Mikael's hair looks really long from this angle too. The shadows in this scan, especially in Mikael's hair, turned out very weird.

Unfortunately the very bottom of the cel has a semi-circular bend in it; not very noticeable, but still there. I'm not certain if it was damaged in transit or what exactly.