HAI! *raises arm enthusiastically*

*buries head in arms*

See? Raphael agrees! Anyway, seeing how kawaii embarassed, naked Mika is, I was saving up for a 15000 yen cel of him from this sequence. I'd previously missed a 10000 yen one (although his face was turned to the side, so not as attractive to me as this) and had passed on a 25000 yen open-eyed one from a private collection which I just couldn't afford. (I also actually prefer cels from this sequence with his eyes closed-- he just looks so much cuter and more embarassed that way! ) So when two cels from this sequence popped up on Yahoo Japan for a going price less then all of those-- well, I jumped at the opportunity!

Unfortunately, I wasn't the only one jumping! I was beaten to asking Celga for help in proxy bidding on YJ, so I ended up trolling the internet desperately looking for another deputy service. (Now there are deputy services coming out of the wazoo, but back then it was quite an ordeal!) I finally found one, and they even accepted credit cards and wouldn't charge until after the items had been shipped! Woo hoo! And this is how I somehow ended up splurging on $350+ worth of Tenshi ni Narumon cels back in the late winter of 2001. I only wanted the naked Mikael cels at first-- yeah, right.

I ended up getting the naked Mikael lot for 15500 yen which was quite a deal for me since it also included the only cel I've seen where Mikael is still laying peacefully in bed before Raphael's words send him scrambling about. Now all I need to do is a get a background for them both...

Although why Mikael is now acting all cute and shy in this episode when he was running around the room starkers a few episodes prior when he was late for school is beyond me... (So, okay, we didn't actually see all of Mikael, but when the camera shows someone completely clothesless from the low-hip up.. well, then, we can use our imagination can't we? *cackles to self* ) He's even holding the blanket up to his chest! Well, I guess not everyone has the cajones to walk around shirtless like Raphael.

He could pull it off if he wanted to.

Raphael-sama!

This particular lot was sent to the deputy service in some kind of oilcloth(?) it looked like; twas all shiny and waxy. This lot was also the largest inside the package I received-- and it was easy to see why when I opened it up! The seller had shipped the cels inside a kind of plastic portfolio box! (It's really large and nifty too, I'm currently storing several things within it.) And staring at me from the front of the portfolio was-- a cel I hadn't ordered! My heart was going a mile a minute at the time, since that either meant FREEBIE or they had sent me the wrong lot of cels instead. The freebie turned out to be a *green matted* cel of evil, crazy Mikael as he tries to kill Yuusuke on the stairway to heaven! And everything came within its own cel bag, so that was really nice.

The cel is B-30 key with some hiragana written underneath that I don't understand. (Two years of Japanese flew out the window of my mind as soon as summer hit. ) I guess the A-layer would be his bed? *sigh* I need to get a matching cel of naked Raphael in bed! Mmm, naked bishonen... *wanders off in a daze*

And here is the screengrab. I spent alot of time on the scan of my cel getting the colors just perfect... and then I had to go and save it at the wrong resolution thus, more or less, nullifying all my work. Well, at least the scan looks better then the screengrab! Oi, fansubs... I'm so ready for Tenshi ni Narumon DVD!

I'll include my summary of the scene on the other naked Mika cel page, so in conclusion... aww, lookit him blushing! Isn't he all cutesy-wutsey clutching his lil blankie?

*eyetwitch*