Christie’s second anime art sale is live through Oct 22, seven months after a debut that made $1.44M on 41 lots

The second PSA 10 Art Academy Pikachu sells for $1,037,000 at Goldin, an eighth of the first copy’s unpaid $8.4M

A PSA 10 2015 Art Academy Pikachu, the Y. Fujishima contest promo with 100 printed, sold for $1,037,000 with the buyer’s premium on an $850,000 bid in Goldin’s TCG Weekly auction that closed Sunday night, Oct 11, per Chase Society and Collectibles News. The first PSA 10 to sell publicly made $8,400,000 at Fanatics Collect on Sept 27 and still showed unpaid 15 days later, per Chase Society, so the paid ladder runs $17,400 (July 2025), $156,250 (Heritage, June 27) and now $1,037,000. PSA’s census has 57 copies at a 10, and Goldin notes nobody knows how many of the 100 ever left the artist’s hands.

A PSA 10 red-dot Typhlosion sells for $1,549,690 at Alt, the week’s top graded Pokémon sale

A 2000 Neo Genesis 1st Edition holo Typhlosion with the red dot error, PSA 10, sold for $1,549,690 with the buyer’s premium at Alt on Thursday, Oct 8, per Chase Society’s roundup of the Oct 5–11 week. PSA has graded 13 copies a 10, dot or not, and its label doesn’t note the dot; the June PSA 10 that made $415,500 at Alt has none, so Chase Society says to read the 3.7x gap with care. The same night a PSA 10 1st Edition Base Set Charizard (pop 123) made $1,385,274, about three times the $462,500 Heritage sale in June, and both lots showed payment pending at Alt four days in.

A sealed early-print Famicom Zelda, CGC 9.2 A+, sells for $32,500 at Heritage

Heritage sold a sealed 1986 Famicom Disk System Zelda no Densetsu: The Hyrule Fantasy graded CGC 9.2 A+ for $32,500, ComicBook.com reported Oct 12; the yellow ‘Disk System’ text on the box marks an early production run, and later boxes carry it in white. The closest comp in our ledger is a CGC 9.0 A+ copy listed as a first print that made $12,000 on eBay in the week of Sept 15–22, per The Graded Games Report, so two grade steps and a label that names the variant bought a 2.7x gap. On the NES side the early-print premium runs much further: Heritage sold early- and first-production copies of The Legend of Zelda for $870,000 (July 2021), $705,000 (Oct 2021), $375,000 (Aug 2024) and $300,000 (May 2025).

Studios painted cels until they moved to digital color around the turn of the century, so the supply of cels is fixed, and it shrinks with every cracked paint layer and every sheet stuck to its background. The drawings underneath, the genga and douga, are still made on paper for many shows, so for anything animated since the switch, the paper is the only production original. Christie’s has a Kaneda cel estimated at $5,000 to $7,000 closing Oct 22. Heritage sold a Kaneda motorcycle cel for $48,000 in October 2023 and an Akira cel for $73,200 in May. Where the Oct 22 result lands against those two numbers shows whether Christie’s bidders price Akira the way Heritage’s do.