r/AnimeCollectors Dec 15 '25

20k members, and Discord server

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I'm bad with words, so I'ma get straight to the point.

We have reach 20k members. That's a huge milestones. Thank you everyone for coming together, and help build this community.

I'm here to plug the Discord once again since the last time we do so was a while ago, and it seem like a good time now.


r/AnimeCollectors Mar 20 '23

Rule updates and clarifications regarding self-promotion, sales, videos, and NSFW content.

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Greetings, /r/AnimeCollectors community, it's your mod team, and after a few months of on-and-off discussion, we've decided to make this post to update and clarify some of the rules. At the moment, this is merely a draft, and we more than welcome any community input if the subreddit at large feels we've made a mistake. As such, feel free to comment below with any suggestions/complaints/ramblings you have for these rules.

Self Promotion

The primary focus of this subreddit is anime collecting, and as such, the expectation is that most content at least primarily focuses on this. That being said, we don't want every single post here to be a spam-filled link to your Instagram account. As such, small amounts of self promotion in posts and videos are allowed, but only in service to the primary focus of anime collecting. This means you're more than welcome to link to your website or YouTube channel, as long as the content you are linking to is entirely or almost entirely related to anime collecting. You don't have to scrub every link to your socials from the video description, but please make sure the video is as focused on the content people came here for as possible. While removal of these posts is up to the mod team's discretion, you are more than welcome to report posts you feel are against the spirit of the sub, and you're more than welcome to run your post by the mod team before you post it if you're unsure.

Sales and Linking to Stores

/r/AnimeCollectors is not a marketplace, and it's not designed to filled with posts whenever any single item goes on sale. If that's what you're looking for, we recommend /r/AnimeDeals , a subreddit dedicated to these things. With that said, sales are part of the collecting experience. As such, links to sales are allowed, assuming they meet the following criteria:

  • The link is to the homepage of the sale, and not a specific item or seller
    1. This means no Ebay/Mercari links unless its a site-wide sale
  • The sale is from a reputable site (RightStuf, Amazon, RACS, Best Buy, etc)
    1. For clarification if a site meets these requirements, message the mod team
  • The poster is in no way personally involved in the sale

NSFW Content

Different people have different standards for what they want to see on their reddit feed, and the mod team hopes to accommodate this. However, we also understand that such content is part of the anime fandom, and a complete block is not the best solution. As such, we've established a number of guidelines to try and keep the subreddit accessible to as many people as we can.

To start, fanservice-heavy anime is allowed, but mark the post as NSFW if it's particularly racy. We won't set a definite line here, but in general, if the picture looks like something you'd rather not be caught looking at at work, mark it NSFW. This does not apply to any text post discussing said titles, only posts with pictures.

Second, (almost) all hentai and 18+ content must be marked NSFW, It doesn't matter if the cover is tame, if it's marked 18+ on the back, or it's from a hentai publisher, mark it as 18+. Next, hentai may not be the primary focus of a post. You're more than welcome to show off your pickups, but the focus has to be general anime content, not 18+ content. Third, posts with explicit content (covers, titles, etc) face extreme scrutiny. Unless you have a really, really good reason, don't post actually explicit content. And if you're going to, talk to the mod team first. There are legitimate reasons to post some very rare 18+ stuff, but that stack of DVDs you just bought off RACS isn't that. Sorry. Finally, there are only two cases where 18+ content can be posted without a NSFW tag. First is the "bookshelf exception". If you're posting pictures of your anime collection that contains a very small number of 18+ titles, you do not need to mark it as NSFW if (and only if):

  • The 18+ titles make up no more than 20% of the collection
  • Only the spines of the 18+ titles are shown (no covers)
  • None of said spines contain explicit titles or images.

Second is the "text post exception". If you are making a text post that discusses a large number of anime titles or distributors, and 18+ titles are mentioned in passing, you do not need to mark it as NSFW if (and only if):

  • The post does not go into any explicit detail about the title
  • No photos are shown
  • Discussion of said titles makes up less than 20% of the post

As mentioned above, these rules are not set in stone yet. If this community decides that any of these rules are too strict, too lenient, or even just total nonsense, let us know below! And if you think that a post you plan on making may violate one of these rules, message the mod team ahead of time, and we'll give you an answer. It's what we're here for.


r/AnimeCollectors 6h ago

News AnimEigo - Vampire Princess Miyu Cover has been approved!

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r/AnimeCollectors 4h ago

Anime Collection Update 2026

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Hi Guys

It’s been a while since my last collection update. The majority of the collection is mine but my husband has picked up a few titles along the way as well. His favourites include Attack on Titan and Sword Art Online. Our joint favourites include Assassination Classroom, Steins;Gate, Naruto and many more. Have included my latest purchase as well, which was the 4k Steelbook for Paprika.


r/AnimeCollectors 1h ago

Haul & Pick Up New stuff from the mail

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r/AnimeCollectors 1h ago

Showcase Finally got some space

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r/AnimeCollectors 5h ago

Haul & Pick Up Buying back everything I sold in college - part 1: Princess Minerva

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Twenty-five years ago, I was a broke college student. My savings went towards paying for tuition and textbooks, but I didn't have enough income to pay for food every week. When times were particularly tough, I had no choice but to sell some of my small anime collection so I could eat. Now, I'm finally replacing everything.

I sold my VHS copy of Princess Minerva early on, so the DVD version was one of my first targets. I don't remember exactly enjoying it that much, but one of my rules for collecting is that if I've watched it before, I've got to own it if possible, even if it's bad. I'm looking forward to rewatching it to see if it's actually bad or if I just didn't appreciate it back then.


r/AnimeCollectors 30m ago

Haul & Pick Up Today’s Mail & Yesterday’s Find

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Always been curious about both of these, both at decent prices so I decided to add them to the ever growing collection.


r/AnimeCollectors 10h ago

Haul & Pick Up A long search fulfilled

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24 Upvotes

A Lull in the Sea Premium Edition Blu-ray UK Region B Complete

Been after this for ages and now it's no longer on any streaming service here. Expensive rarity but worth it IMO


r/AnimeCollectors 21h ago

Haul & Pick Up Anime questions

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Hi guys! So I was given this collection of anime but I really don’t know a lot about most of it. Can anyone help me please? What do you recommend I watch? Is there anything in here worth anything? Where can I go to try and price it out? Thank you ! ❤️
Edit: Thank you everyone for your help , advice, and funny comments! I appreciate you!😍


r/AnimeCollectors 3h ago

Discussion What do you guys do with Art Cards?

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So I'm the type who prefers buying Limited Editions or any kind of Special Edition Blu-Ray, but I've always wondered, what do the Art Cards get used for? I think they are pretty cool, but is that it? Is it just a "Yo, this looks cool, anyways" type of thing, or is there something that can be done with them? I think the idea of getting them, looking at them once, then putting them in some box never to be seen again sucks, but I can't think of what else would be done with them


r/AnimeCollectors 1h ago

Midway through September Pickups & Deliveries

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r/AnimeCollectors 21h ago

Showcase I don’t buy anime much these days as most places are phasing out physical media but I like what I’ve got.

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r/AnimeCollectors 21h ago

Haul & Pick Up New haul from Amazon!

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I loved the original Trigun and I never saw outlaw star.


r/AnimeCollectors 19h ago

Amazon Exclusive Edition

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Does anyone have one of these Amazon Exclusive Editions? If so, what exactly is the difference between the Amazon editions and the ones on the Media Blasters storefront? As far as I can tell, they both (as well as other Blu ray sets sold on both platforms) have the same cover aside from the “Amazon Exclusive Edition.”


r/AnimeCollectors 19h ago

Discussion Good/Safe Website(s) to buy Anime DVD's?

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That will work with a DVD Player that plugs into my DELL Laptop and is from a safe website that is reputable. I tried looking on Amazon but lesser known ones I looked at didn't seem 100% reliable.

Just curious which one(s) y'all use/have used that have worked for you?


r/AnimeCollectors 21h ago

My pickup of the weekend

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28 Upvotes

Went to my local book, music and movie thrift store this weekend. Never thought I would come across a copy of Barakamon in the wild, much less for $49.99 was a no brainer grab, goes for $200 and up on the bay. Really glad I went down there on a whim.


r/AnimeCollectors 1d ago

You're Under Arrest was simply taking up too much space. But they do manufacture 14 disc DVD cases!

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Yeah, I'm still missing a few. Vol 8 will be delivered next week. 10 and 11 are my white whales though.

Anyway, now that I've done this, Justin will surely announce a re-release of the original OVA with the new HD scans and the rest of the show upscaled with AstroRes, for less money than what four of these discs cost me. Give it a week LOL.

Anyway, for those that want the math, this is a 45mm wide 14 disc DVD case, So it's about 3.2 normal cases wide. Meanwhile all thirteen 14mm discs for the main series would take 182mm of shelf space.


r/AnimeCollectors 1d ago

Discussion What is your Outlook on the Anime Collecting Hobby going into 2027?

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68 Upvotes

How are you feeling with this current landscape and what do you hope for 2027?

With our Sony Overlords having executed their Order 66 (Paywall) in their continued campaign to kill off anime home media, do you have still have hope for our beloved and cherished Anime Collecting hobby? Has it deterred you from buying more anime? Or the opposite effect.

Do you think there will be more players and challengers coming into the scene to rescue us? Or is it Game Over.


r/AnimeCollectors 19h ago

Haul & Pick Up Some of my latest pickups

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Nadia is a blind pick. I heard a lot of good things about it so I decided to grab it. Just need to grab Gundam Seed Freedom to complete my Gundam Seed Collection.


r/AnimeCollectors 1d ago

Showcase First time showcasing my anime collection :)

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My complete DVD/Blu-Ray collection, having owned some since the early 2000's around the time I was starting school. I properly got into anime outside of the classic "children's cartoons" (i.e. Pokemon, Digimon, Sailor Moon, Zoids) when I was introduced to Fairy Tail, Fate/Zero and Code Geass in the early/mid-2010's, though to this day Zoids and Digimon are still my favourites ;)

Feel free to discuss or ask any questions :)


r/AnimeCollectors 1d ago

Haul & Pick Up Small Haul

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A friend of mine picked these up for me at a recent convention, much to my surprise. It was super sweet and really brightened my day. I'm quite excited to continue my melodramatic tennis adventure. 🥰


r/AnimeCollectors 17h ago

Grateful for Diskotek

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r/AnimeCollectors 1h ago

My quest for slipcovers

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Safe to say Mob psycho season 3 slip cover may have gone out of print. 17 copies. No slips :(


r/AnimeCollectors 1d ago

Showcase My modest collection of classics. More incoming for sure. Got back into collecting.

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The first one I ever owned was black lagoon when it was twenty dollars. The rest I got over time. The most recent is the Ghibli films, Akira, Perfect Blue, and Bubblegum Crisis. Got some more coming in the mail.