Top 9 vintage anime shirts eBay members buy and resell.

In the 90’s, I was an avid anime and manga fan. Some of my favorites were:

• Dragon Ball Z

• Ghost in the Shell

• Gundam Wing

• Yu Yu Hakusho

I can still hear myself yelling out Goku’s energy attack, “Kamehameha.”

To be honest, I would definitely catch up on some of my favorite vintage anime. Thing is, I’m always busy though, in motion from place to place.

The other day one of my students came into class with a reprint of an Akira anime shirt which sparked the thought.

Why have I never actively thrifted for an original anime shirt from the 80's or 90’s?

Granted, it would be a stroke of luck to find in the various clothing racks of Long Island or LIC Goodwill Bins, which brings me to the internet.

You would have a much easier time sourcing vintage anime shirts from second-hand marketplaces like eBay or Etsy.

So I took a look on eBay which boasts 187 million users and 1.6 billion active listings.

After much research (and a lot of lurking US eBay stores), I was able to locate the top 9 vintage anime shirts eBay members buy and resell. That way, you too can buy an original anime shirt, or know what vintage anime shirts to look out for during your thrift adventures.

Click on each of the 9 anime images displayed below to watch a short clip. Enjoy!

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1980’s Vintage Anime Shirts

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Dragon Ball Z

Dragon Ball Z is adapted from the final 324 chapters of the manga series which were published in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1988 to 1995.

The focus of Dragon Ball Z follows the adventures of Goku; upon meeting Bulma at the beginning of the series. The two embark on an adventure to gather the seven Dragon Balls.

Goku later receives martial arts training from Master Roshi, meets his lifelong friend Krillin, and enters the World Martial Arts Tournament to fight the strongest warriors on the planet.

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Akira

Akira is a 1988 Japanese animated cyberpunk action film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, produced by Ryōhei Suzuki and Shunzō Katō, and written by Otomo and Izo Hashimoto.

Akira tells the story of Shōtarō Kaneda, a leader of a biker gang whose childhood friend, Tetsuo Shima, acquires incredible telekinetic abilities after a motorcycle accident.

This eventually threatens an entire military complex amid chaos and rebellion in the sprawling futuristic metropolis of Neo-Tokyo.

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Vintage 90’s Anime Shirts

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Gundam Wing

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing is a 1995 Japanese mecha anime series directed by Masashi Ikeda and written by Katsuyuki Sumizawa.

The plot of Gundam Wing centers on a war in the future between Earth and its orbital colonies in the Earth-Moon system. The story of Gundam Wing begins in the year After Colony 195, with the start of "Operation Meteor": the scientists' plan for revenge against OZ.

The operation involves five teenage boys, who have each been chosen and trained by each of the five scientists, then sent to Earth independently in extremely advanced mobile suits known as "Gundams."

Each Gundam is sent from a different colony, and the pilots are initially unaware of each other's existence.

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Sailor Moon

Sailor Moon is a Japanese shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Naoko Takeuchi. It was originally serialized in Nakayoshi from 1991 to 1997; the 60 individual chapters were published in 18 volumes. 

The manga was adapted into an anime series produced by Toei Animation and broadcast in Japan from 1992 to 1997.

In Sailor Moon, Usagi meets Luna, a magical talking black cat that is searching for the Moon Princess. Luna reveals that Usagi is destined to save Earth from the forces of evil and gives her a brooch to transform into Sailor Moon.

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Inuyasha

Inuyasha is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi.

It was serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday manga magazine from November 1996 to June 2008.

The series follows the adventures of Kagome Higurashi, a fifteen-year-old middle school girl from modern-day Tokyo who is transported to the Sengoku period after falling into a well in her family shrine, where she meets the half-dog demon, half-human Inuyasha.

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Naruto

Naruto is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto.

Naruto was serialized in Shueisha's magazine, Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1999 to 2014, and released in tankōbon form in 72 volumes.

The story of Naruto Uzumaki is about a young ninja who seeks recognition from his peers and dreams of becoming the Hokage, the leader of his village.

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Neon Genesis Evangelion

Neon Genesis Evangelion is a Japanese mecha anime television series produced by Gainax and animated by Tatsunoko, directed by Hideaki Anno and broadcast on TV Tokyo from October 1995 to March 1996.

The series explores the experiences and emotions of Evangelion pilots and members of Nerv as they try to prevent Angels from causing more cataclysms.

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Early 2000’s Anime Vintage Shirts

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Bleach

Bleach is a Japanese anime television series based on Tite Kubo's original manga series of the same name. It was produced by Studio Pierrot and directed by Noriyuki Abe.

The series aired on TV Tokyo from October 2004 to March 2012, spanning 366 episodes.

The story follows the adventures of Ichigo Kurosaki after he obtains the powers of a Soul Reaper from another Soul Reaper, Rukia Kuchiki.

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Fullmetal Alchemist

Fullmetal Alchemist is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiromu Arakawa, and was serialized in Square Enix's Monthly Shōnen Manga anthology magazine between July 2001 and June 2010.

Fullmetal Alchemist takes place in a world where alchemy is one of the most-practiced sciences. An alchemist is a person that works for the government (known as State Alchemists’), and are automatically given the rank of major in the military.

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