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Showanemoia Let's have a Shōwa time
https://karageko.com
@karagekon on the former bird site.
pinned post!
The Bobby Book: Toshio Hirata Interview "I wanted to adapt it into a pleasant, animated film composed of a series of imagined landscapes and refreshing, cinematic poetry." Read here:
karageko.com/2025/09/01/t...
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Sean | zimmerit.moe
3 days ago
Our buddy
@spaceleech.bsky.social
cut a new trailer for Gainazine. Now that the Gainax story is truly over, couldn't hurt to go back to the beginning, eh?
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Sean | zimmerit.moe
19 days ago
The next Zimmerit 'zine is juuuuuust about ready to be sent off to the printer. Should be out next week. ~40 pages in b&w and color about '80s garage kit culture.
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Tonight's Movie The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (1983) 2nd time in 5~6 years 1st time with the 4K HDR remaster
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23 days ago
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AnimEigo
24 days ago
A big new selection of Discotek Deep Dives & closeouts, including more than a few old favorites are up to order!
www.mediaocd.com/category/dis...
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AnimEigo
24 days ago
New episode of The Anime Business! John O'Donnell talks about The End of Central Park Media in his final installment on The Anime Business.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYIw...
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Nooo, not the Indian / Nepalese curry places 🙁
news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/87c...
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インドカレー店はあと3年で激減、新大久保は「廃墟」になる? 経営・管理ビザ「厳格化」でレストランが直面する理不尽(AERA DIGITAL) - Yahoo!ニュース
スパイシーなカレーに大きなナン…。インドカレーはすっかり日本人の舌にもなじんだ。だが、そんなインドカレー店やアジア系の小さな料理店に、いま消滅の危機が迫っているという。なぜなのか。 * *
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/87c741e2eb3b79ee37bd536828016af4467c617f?page=1
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NCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会)
about 1 month ago
The National Diet Library is exploring the possibility of extending its Digitized Transmission Service for Individuals (DCTI) to those residing outside of Japan. To understand potential demand, the NDL and CULCON have created a survey. Deadline for responses 3/31!
forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
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Necronomitron
about 1 month ago
The story goes like this, in 1967 a little girl called Takara’s customer service number, and asked to speak to Licca-chan. Not wanting to crush a little kid’s dreams, the operator quickly replied “Hello, this is Licca-chan!” Very cute, totally harmless. …right?
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Sean | zimmerit.moe
about 1 month ago
I've slowly been working on series of article tracing the history of Heavy Gear, the VOTOMS-influenced tabletop game that arrived in 1995 and still exists today. The game's origins lay with a couple of early anime magazines, Protoculture Addicts and Mecha Press.
www.zimmerit.moe/protoculture...
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Mecha from Montreal, A History of Heavy Gear Ch. I: Protoculture Addicts & Mecha Press
Wearing its VOTOMS influence on its sleeve, the tabletop game Heavy Gear rose to prominence in the late ’90s. It had come, albeit indirectly, out of foundations laid in 1987 by a handful of C…
https://www.zimmerit.moe/protoculture-addicts-mecha-press-heavy-gear/
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Picked up from where I left off 9 years ago on the GBA one, and finished all perfects in a day.🥳
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Finally got the Remix 10 Perfect 💀
about 2 months ago
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Anime Home Video Museum
about 2 months ago
Hey all. Ready for a small mailbag day? Well here we have a new format added to the Museum. It's CD Video. You know, the short lived audio CD format that could play five minutes of video on your laserdisc player. Not to be confused with Video CD. Wait. Confusing right?
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AnimEigo
about 2 months ago
New episode of The Anime Business! Jonathan Clements talks about the history of anime in the UK!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g59A...
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George J. Horvath
2 months ago
New Piece: An Overview the Early Years of the "Modern Day Late-Night Anime Infomercial": 1996 & 1997 2026 marks the 30th Anniversary of what now defines our current anime production hellscape! So... how did we get here? I go over the early days of late-night, as well as all of 1996 & 1997!
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An Overview the Early Years of the "Modern Day Late-Night Anime Infomercial": 1996 & 1997
While not technically the first anime to be made for TV broadcast, 1963's Tetsuwan Atom / Astro Boy (based on Osamu Tezuka's most iconic ma...
https://landofobscusion.blogspot.com/2026/01/an-overview-early-years-of-modern-day.html
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So it turns out, not only did I happen to have a downloaded copy of this, but I also found out this Toshio Hirata interview is still publicly available on the FFF Vimeo account (24 views accumulated over the last 15 years, haha). For those interested (Italian subs):
vimeo.com/15835470
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2 months ago
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revolver ocelthot
2 months ago
Also notes/sources/further reading here
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Tangled Up in ‘Blue’: The Making & Unmaking of ‘Aoki Uru’ — Beyond Electric Sheep
Notes, Sources, and Further Reading links from the Aoki Uru panel at Anime Lockdown 2025
https://www.beyondelectricsheep.com/blog-1/2025/8/28/tangled-up-in-blue-the-making-amp-unmaking-of-aoku-uru
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revolver ocelthot
2 months ago
If you missed my Uru in Blue panel at Anime Lockdown a few months ago you're in luck - the VOD is now available! Thanks again to
@gonzodotmoe.bsky.social
for putting on such a great event and letting me ramble to everyone about weird and horrifying Gainax stuff for an hour
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Tangled Up in "Blue": The Making & Unmaking of Gainax's Aoki Uru (Anime Lockdown 2025 Panel)
YouTube video by BEYOND ELECTRIC SHEEP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKgi5lXEfDI
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New Minky Momo OVA announced! I posted this three years ago in Japanese, but it seems apt to say again: "If there's a Reiwa Momo, how's she going to bestow dreams and hopes to children glued to their smartphones?"
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My copy of Anime Herald Magazine #1 has arrived. Voluminous, and from a quick glance, nicely printed. Looking forward to reading it thoroughly. Happy to see more fan publications enter the space 🙂
3 months ago
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3 months ago
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AnimEigo
3 months ago
New episode of The Anime Business! Final episode of 2025! Helen McCarthy (
@glider.bsky.social
) on Discovering Anime, UK Fandom and the Joy of It All!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdEM...
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Justin Sevakis
3 months ago
The final Anime Business of the year, with
@glider.bsky.social
, goes live in 15 minutes!
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The Anime Business - Helen McCarthy on Discovering Anime, UK Fandom and the Joy of It All
YouTube video by AnimEigo
https://youtu.be/wdEMsTXKOVg
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3 months ago
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Will Quinn
3 months ago
Ashita no Joe at the Art of Manga exhibition in San Francisco!! I’m amazed they got such iconic pages to display. Most of the exhibition goers don’t realize…
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This Japanese translation I commissioned of the Animag Royal Space Force interview, which didn't draw much attention when I originally posted it two months ago, doubled its view count yesterday. Of course, I'd rather it wasn't due to unfortunate circumstances, but at least it's getting read at all.
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Shiro: Say, Matti... Suppose that life was a story...... Matti: Come again? Shiro: No, if you were to think about it like that. Matti: Okay. Shiro: Well, have you ever wondered if... If maybe you aren't a good guy? That you're one of the bad guys, instead? Matti: (Puzzled) I dunno?
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Sean | zimmerit.moe
3 months ago
For a very limited time we're offering a complete set of the Zimmerit 'zines at a discounted price. This is a great way to grab all of them at once or pick up a gift for the anime fan in your life. Order now and it'll arrive before Christmas (if you're in the US)
garagekit.club/products/zim...
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Zimmerit 'Zines Holiday Bundle
For a limited time we're offering a complete bundle of all five Zimmerit 'zines as a reduced price. These make great gifts for the old anime fan in your life or work as a great way to grab all of our ...
https://garagekit.club/products/zimmerit-zines-holiday-bundle
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Sean | zimmerit.moe
3 months ago
With a bit of sleuthing help from
@austin.karageko.com
I put together a short article about the Five Star Stories original video that General Products announced but never released. Garage kits. Music by Mamoru Nagano. Animation by Hideaki Anno. What could have been?
www.zimmerit.moe/five-star-st...
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The Five Star Stories Original Video That Never Was
In early 1988 General Products began advertising a Five Star Stories original video that would feature animation by Hideaki Anno and direct involvement from the manga’s creator, Mamoru Nagano…
https://www.zimmerit.moe/five-star-stories-general-products-video-mamoru-nagano/
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It turns out I downloaded a copy of this a while back and shoved it on an external drive and just forgot about it this whole time. Whew! (I'll look into uploading it on IA or something later)
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AnimEigo
4 months ago
New episode of the The Anime Business is available to watch! John Sirabella talks about
@media-blasters.com
, CPM, and Surviving the DVD Crash.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC9H...
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Sean | zimmerit.moe
4 months ago
NEW BOOK: I’m excited to announce that Zimmerit will be publishing a full-color zine featuring the model work of long-time contributor kvltworx. Details and release date TBD.
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AnimEigo
4 months ago
Discotek pre-orders for January 2026 are up at the MediaOCD store! Project A-ko in 4K, Space Adventure Cobra with the Yello soundtrack, the Kikaider movie, Shark Skin Man & Peach Hip Girl, Shin Aim for the Ace, & Tomorrow's Joe!
www.mediaocd.com/category/dis...
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朝日新聞
4 months ago
「泣ける」の評価に「失敗だった」 戦後世代がガンダムで描いたもの
www.asahi.com/articles/AST...
あれはやっぱりよろしくないんですよね。戦争の犠牲に意味を求めると、どうしても美化につながってしまう。 今、ポケットの中の戦争は「泣ける」とか言われますが、泣かすために作ったんじゃないのに……。それはもう、作り手としての失敗です。完全にメロドラマになってしまっているという――。
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「泣ける」の評価に「失敗だった」 戦後世代がガンダムで描いたもの:朝日新聞
1989年の「機動戦士ガンダム0080 ポケットの中の戦争」(日本サンライズ〈現・バンダイナムコフィルムワークス〉)はシリーズで初めて、原作者の富野由悠季さん以外が監督した作品だ。戦争のリアルを描い…
https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASTBZ0SWNTBZPITB00DM.html?ref=bsky_asahi
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D. Merrill
4 months ago
move over Beavis
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Discotek Media
4 months ago
We promised a big announcement today, and it'll take a few posts in a thread to introduce a big one... Project A-ko Perfect Collection 4K! A-ko in 4K is a big deal & this is probably our craziest kitchen sink disc yet, so let's have a quick introduction to what the release will be...
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Sean | zimmerit.moe
5 months ago
Thanks to the efforts of
@geraldawo.bsky.social
the full run of Animag magazine can now be seen on the Internet Archive. I wrote a bit about the magazine's history and the time and place it was published:
bit.ly/animag2
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On the Precipice of Professional Anime Magazines: Animag
In 1987 fans from the Bay Area published what was, for its time, the closest thing to a professional anime magazine in English.
https://bit.ly/animag2
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Anime News Network
5 months ago
To celebrate the English release of his beloved manga, Hōjō-sensei shared memories of his early work, including how his editor backed up City Hunter in the face of criticism.
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Interview with Cat's Eye, City Hunter Manga Legend Tsukasa Hōjō
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2025-10-27/with-cat-eye-city-hunter-manga-legend-tsukasa-hojo/.230071
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AnimEigo
5 months ago
New episode of The Anime Business is up! This time it's Jerry Beck talking about Streamline Pictures, Akira, & anime in theaters!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHg9...
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Justin Sevakis
5 months ago
New Anime Business with Jerry Beck!! Coming up at 9am PDT/noon EDT!
youtu.be/BHg9UMc1fBA
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The Anime Business - Jerry Beck on Akira, Streamline Pictures and Anime in Theaters
YouTube video by AnimEigo
https://youtu.be/BHg9UMc1fBA
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Essence of Anime
5 months ago
We now have the complete run of Animag, the first professionally published anime magazine in English on the
#OtakuArchive
, check it all out!
archive.org/search?query...
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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22Animag%22&sort=title
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Essence of Anime
5 months ago
The last missing issue of Animag courtesy of
@terebifunhouse.bsky.social
has been uploaded to the
#OtakuArchive
. SPT Layzner, Lodoss, Crusher Joe, updates from US Renditions and a whole lot more.
archive.org/details/anim...
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D. Merrill
5 months ago
Just finished uploading Animag Volume 2 Number 2 to the Otaku Archive over at Archive dot Org- enjoy all 72 pages of this 1992 anime magazine, including articles about SPT Layzner, Shurato, Xabungle, Lodoss War, and Maison Ikkoku!
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『オネアミスを翼』を語る、山賀博之氏(監督)と貞本義行氏(キャラデザ) 『アニマグ』という米国発行アニメ雑誌に掲載されたインタビューの初日本語訳を投稿しました 掲載日は明らかではないが1988年前半は確かです 短いですがご興味のある方どうぞ →
wp.me/p96sjb-2g8
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Animag Interview: Hiroyuki Yamaga and Yoshiyuki Sadamoto on Wings of Oneamis (Royal Space Force) I couldn't determine the publication date, but it's clear that it was in the first half of 1988 based on the other contents in Vol. 1 No. 3. Read here →
karageko.com/2025/10/16/a...
5 months ago
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Sean | zimmerit.moe
5 months ago
Long time reader and friend of Zimmeri
@austin.karageko.com
translated a contemporary convention report about Daicon IV and allowed us to publish it. Read it here:
www.zimmerit.moe/daicon-iv-tr...
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Comic Margarita’s Daicon IV Travelogue
A translation of a Daicon IV convention report originally published in the pages of the short-lived Comic Margarita.
https://www.zimmerit.moe/daicon-iv-travelogue-gainax-convention/
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Sean | zimmerit.moe
5 months ago
I haven't seen it mentioned yet (and is isn't even mentioned on Dark Horse's page for it), but the upcoming Gunsmith Cats Omnibus Book Three reportedly includes the original Riding Bean manga by Sonoda that ran in the short-lived Comic Noizy magazine.
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