Michiru impersonates a Medusa victim

Oi, Michiru, I told you not to look directly at the the Spore!


Isn't this a nifty cel? Another one of those types of cels that I just had to have once I saw it, and it was pretty cheap too, if I remember correctly. (And my cel-collecting friend thought I'd get it when she first saw it. She used to beat me to the cel updates once-upon-a-time ) I bought this in a cel-buying binge at Anime Taro (geez, most of my cels are probably from Taro now that I think about it...) along with the Darun cel from Heroic Legend of Arslan and the key-master set up of the Tamahome & Taka.

Anyway, this is a A-1 End cel of the angel Michiru statue from episode 107, Geijutsu ha ai no bakuhatsu! Chibi Usa no hatsukoi-- Art is the explosion of love! Chibi Usa's first love.(which is rather wrong, I'd think. Mamoru was Chibi Usa's first crush that we saw, nevermind his turning out to be her father in the end) In this scene Masanori, Chibi Usa's current Crush-of-the-Day has a crush of his own on Michiru. He's an artistic genius to boot and decides to sculpt a statue of his love (and then he goes and plops Chibi Usa's head on at the end! The horror! ) This is the only close-up of the angel Michiru statue and is actually missing a layer with Masanori's hand and scalpel as he works on it.

Also included was the matching sketch, unfortunately stuck to the cel, but fortunately stuck facing out. The lines to the douga are really thick and dark, much more so then any other cel I've seen. The top of the sketch was also folded over and taped down for some reason.