What do yall collect?

This is really cool. I have a roommate who's really into milsurp uniforms, plate carriers, helmets etc. Personally I'm more into the guns than the uniforms, but I think most people are.

As for me I collect typical anime fan stuff. Anime figures, toku sofubi, plushes, manga, LN, Mags, etc. Most of my collection is home video. I have thousands of DVDs, VHS, LD, Beta, and Blu-ray. I think I probably have 2000 anime vhs alone if you include fansubs and TV recordings.

I collect bones.

I don't dig up graveyards, I just find animal bones on my travels a lot. mainly sheep and cows, but a few bird bones too. if the rot hasn't set into the bones I take them home and clean them.

Most of my collection was bought online. Sometimes I'll find stuff out in the wild, but most of my collection was bought on yahoo auctions, eBay, Instagram, etc. Most of my buying recently has been taking advantage of the weak yen. Most of my VHS collection was built before the collectibles market exploded in 2020.

Gym injuries. I don't do it on purpose though.

Having a collection so connected to the people who used them is definitely appealing. I imagine it's a similar feeling surplus rifle collectors have.

When I moved into my current home I had a ton of space to fill and no shortage of interests. my favorite part of collecting VHS and DVD is seeing all of the ways stuff was released. For example I have 6 different versions of Akira on VHS.

Fansubs are also interesting because they were often times just a small anime club pooling their money together to put out these tapes. I'm not sure which club did it, but one of the famous fansubbing stories was about Five Star Stories. The original author apparently hated the film and insisted it never get re-released (or so the story goes). This made the laserdisc extremely sought after, and a club pooled together $500 to get a copy so it could fansubbed. It was then distributed widely among anime fans, and I have one of those tapes sitting on my shelf.

Anything sauropod related, postcards and keychains. Don't have everything in one place so here's a single postcard and a sauropod:

I collect a few different things. I should have taken these pics during daytime, as lighting is dogshit in my house...

Game Consoles


Anime figures & acrylic stand figures


Dinosaur movies (some of them anyway)


Dinosaur trading cards


Train numbers, not very exciting lol

@LightWorker Were you a dinosaur fan too? Strangely, it was very popular at the end of the 20th century, but seems to have gradually disappeared in the 21st.

@0arche Very cool very cool. Why sauropods specifically? And for the postcards, is it the designs or the locations that make them interesting?

@RobertBobert Dinosaurs are kinda like a comfort item for me😅 I loved them since School around 1993-4, just reminds me of happier times. But yes I am.

I collect a few different things. I should have taken these pics during daytime, as lighting is dogshit in my house...

Game Consoles


Anime figures & acrylic stand figures


Dinosaur movies (some of them anyway)


Dinosaur trading cards


Train numbers, not very exciting lol

Manga, beyblade and pokemon cards.

I collected movie brochures as a kid and accumulated maybe a couple hundred, mostly from movies from the early to mid 00s. I also collected non-fiction books for children from one French series, amassing a collection of 6-7 history books. And of course, Pokemon merchandise, video games and Happy Mill toys. In general, much of what was interesting for a child of that time.

@bevarnow thank you!


Was obsessed with them since childhood, no idea why.


Mostly designs, I like all kinds of illustrations:

Only collection I currently have i still add to is bottle caps from beer bottles and sometimes soda bottles and I sometimes addd to my polished rock and crystal collection. Before then I had a small collection of playing cards I pick up from different places but I lost interest in doing that.

Oh yeah and i have a keychain collection but I dont know where it went to :c

If i had the money id probably start collecting anime merch and vintage objects like lighters and old technology and also tarot cards.


Youre not a proper bone collector unless you have a redneck toothpick as in a raccoon baculum.

Anyway I once came across some bones but I just left them be because I felt sorry for the animal and i wasnt sure if it was a cat skull or a raccoon skull, i think it was a raccoon though after inspecting it's anatomy.

That's interesting. When my dad was stationed in Iraq, they had a problem with helmets getting stolen. Maybe it was something like that. Or even one that found its way into the Middle East after WWII, like so much surplus did.

I don't have anything nearly as interesting. I believe I do have a misprinted Fushigi Yugi tape. If I remember right, the slip case says subbed in one place and dubbed in another. So that's definitely something that shouldn't exist.

@MrYujufudan Indeed, thats why I like collecting these items. Theres a story there that I'll never know. And I would think that it being subbed and dubbed in separate places would be somewhat normal, but I take as it not. Why so?

@bevarnow Because VHS could only have one audio or video track you had to buy either dubbed or subbed releases. If I remember right it says dubbed on the front, but subbed on the spine. It should just say dubbed since the tape was dubbed. It was more expensive to dub anime rather than just subbing it, but because subs were less in demand they actually cost $5 more per tape. Not to mention the people going out of thier way to buy subbed tales were willing to pay the price.

@traed I also want to start collecting anime merch, but I yearn for the helmets. And just start collecting iPods or something, you'll be a billionaire in a 10 years lol

@FZREMAKE Tbh I did not know Beyblades were still somewhat popular. Are they still making them? Or is everything you collect used and such

@LightWorker I also have a small collection of consoles. Most of them I paid too much for and don't work lol. With the train numbers, is it something where you identify a train and try to get a picture of it or what?

It was likely just a mistake by the slip designer. If you're designing both sub and dub slips, it's an easy mistake to make. It's fun to find little accidents like that.

Have you ever found a piece of a uniform that was manufactured incorrectly or repaired in an interesting way?

Game Collection



Small CD Collection (It's basically some CDs from my parents old collection + some Linkin Park CDs I added.)



I also collect DVDs, Blu-rays and a few Pokemon cards but didn't take a picture.

It shouldn't be surprising, being on an anime forum but I collect anime and manga. Mostly manga these days. Aside from that, I collect books, typically about art and economics, plushies, figures, games (video games and physical games), art prints, and whatever else strikes my interest.

@bevarnow
Well cosplay helmets is a thing.

Nah no interest in investment as a hobby it's just a goofy approach to things. Id mainly just want stuff i can actually use.

I collect manga light novels.
But also figures and blu-rays.

I also have a small soccer jersey collection.

https://www.blu-ray.com/community/collection.php?u=737174
https://myfigurecollection.net/profile/Madaniel_FL

Manga and light novels, before that were Beyblades. Please don't mind how there's manga across different series but not fully completed, I've made bad choices and will shift my focus to completing the series I collect (the ones I like at least) :)

Oh and above, there's a CSM Youtooz and a M1A4 Juggernaut figure configurated to Kurena's loadout.

Fat, around my midriff...

Aside from that, I have a fairly decent sized MTG collection, and a small retro game collection.