What is your collecting philosophy?

(For example: only IPs you know, certain characters or styles)

For context, my philosophy as always been to only collect figures from IPs I've interacted with (watched the anime, read the manga, played the video game), are in my top 5 ever and are the bet figures from their respective IPs.

I recently found a figure I really like (Dan Heng - Inhibitor Lunae from Apex Innovation) and ordered it because I absolutely love the design.

Told myself it would be the only character from an IP I never interracted with (and will never). But I found a couple of other figures I'm really interested in and wonder if I should just embrace it?

I would greatly appreciate feedback from ya'll! 😁

EDIT: Thanks for sharing tour way of collecting! I think that, for me going forward, I'll continue focussing on IPs I know. But I won't hesitate to sprinkle a couple of characters that I just love the design of (looking at you Oberon from FGO and Shu from Arknights 👀).