I’ve been rearranging my Blu-ray shelves lately, with an eye towards displaying my mecha anime collection at the forefront. In the past when I had less space available I discarded a number of cases in favor of compiling the discs in a binder. In addition, a few of the movie collections or longer TV series were split across multiple cases, and some of the more eccentric bits of packaging don’t fit nicely on the shelves. Hence, printing out my own cases. I thought I might need to put more effort into getting higher quality prints, but the self-serve color prints at Staples look nearly as good as the real thing, especially behind the clear plastic.

If I were capable of cutting in a straight line, and if I didn’t think it’d be neat to get fully clear cases instead of blue ones for my multi-disc sets, it’d be tough to tell the real ones from mine:

Some of the front images are taken directly from official releases, and the spines I tried to make as realistic as possible for shelf consistency, but I’m all over the place on the back artwork. The Cowboy Bebop case is designed to be as close as possible to the record-shaped collection that Funimation put out:

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