There are a few things in life I firmly believe one should never touch with a ten thousand foot pole – Drugs, loli-porn, Nia Teppelin’s cooking and Kyuubey’s contracts. After 2 years collecting anime/2D tapestries (taps), I’m adding that to the list.

If my 2D expenses (consisting of scaled figures, artbooks, anime blu-ray/DVD) were not already crushing enough, tapestry collecting would certainly push me over the financial abyss. My most expensive 2D tapestry to date is 20000 yen (a litte more than my Mai HiME blu ray boxset?!) and the median price of a tapestry is about 10k yen. Frankly, it makes little sense that these printed material should cost so much when a scaled figure which takes a great deal more craftmanship can be acquired for less. (A fact kindly brought to attention by my loving wife who has declared my next tapestry over 15k yen would be wrapped around my infant son’s cute bottom).

In retrospect, my path to taps has been a curious but probably inevitable one. At the core of the obsession is my passion for the 2D bishoujo. It started with anime, mutated into lust after 2D artbooks/figures and is now manifesting in my unhealthy love for tapestry. Indeed the path of anime is a dark and slippery slope to financial ruin.

Anyhow, since the money has been sunk in, here’s sharing my very small tapestry collection which I’m utterly torn about growing.