Introduction
1. Watching anime often spawns other related, resource-hungry hobbies such as the purchasing of anime merchandise such as DVDs, artbooks and figurines. This directive codifies the hitherto unarticulated and informal decision-making procedures used by Zyl to regulate anime figurine purchases but does not cover the budgetary aspects directly. The main heuristics covered include no impulse buying, one character only, gatekeeping and no active seeking.
2. Assumptions of this directive are that: (a) Zyl is generally not interested in figurines of anime series that he has not watched or has watched and disliked intensely, regardless of how beautiful the figurine is; (b) Zyl is a character worshipper and is more likely to purchase characters to whom he has offered worship (in the form of dedicated screencaps and anime blog posts e.g. Lunamaria Hawke for GSD, Asa Shigure for SHUFFLE!, Yuki Nagato for The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya etc).
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