
Eww! Look at all those pea-eyed, big nosed, droopy-haired people!
Well, what did you think we'd look like to the Sailor Moon characters? ;)
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Isn't this just the greatest cel you've ever seen? *eyetwitch* This is a sad, sad story. Long, long ago I was browsing through Anime Taro. It was so long ago that Taro hadn't devised their shopping cart system yet-- heck, they weren't even called Anime Taro yet! I was quite bummed out since I'd just missed out on a pretty cheap cel of Princess Serenity & Prince Endymion exchanging the star locket with background (wouldn't you be bummed too?), so I decided to pick up a cel of Super Sailor Moon from the SS movie when she is throwing her tiara. I still remember the cel quite vividly-- it had its matching background too(rare for a Toei cel) and the tiara was just a black blob since it had been animated with special effects. (I don't remember if I'd actually seen the SS movie at this point though. )
However, when I filled out the order I messed up by one number and ended up ordering this instead! Argh! And I even figured out what I had done a few minutes later too. But by then the damage had been done. Someone else had ordered the Super Sailor Moon cel and I was stuck buying this. (I suppose I could've tried to beg out of it, but I didn't want to be a bother and considering that Taro now has a blacklist of flaky bidders... ) I'm very lucky that I actually ended up mistakenly ordering a $17 cel instead of a $300 one or something. 
So here it is, my only Minako cel thus far. (I've yet to find the perfect Minako/Venus cel for myself. Actually I did find one but I had to give up on it when it went past $400.) It's B-6. (I wonder if the other Inner Senshi were on the A-layer?) I'm not quite sure what episode this comes from-- it might come from episode 108, Usagi no dance he waltz ni notte aka Everything is Coming Up Rosy-- along with my cream stew cel; however, Usagi & crew wear these particular party dresses on more then one occasion so it's uncertain.
Once again my scanner is screwing with the colors, especially noticeable in the dresses which are alot creamier in person.
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The cel also came with a matching sketch. Woo hoo!

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