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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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.

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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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...

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...

Nooo, not the Indian / Nepalese curry places 🙁 news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/87c...

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...

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?

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...

Picked up from where I left off 9 years ago on the GBA one, and finished all perfects in a day.🥳

Finally got the Remix 10 Perfect 💀

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?

New episode of The Anime Business! Jonathan Clements talks about the history of anime in the UK! www.youtube.com/watch?v=g59A...

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!

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

Also notes/sources/further reading here

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

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?"

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 🙂

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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...

The final Anime Business of the year, with @glider.bsky.social, goes live in 15 minutes!

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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…

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.

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?

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...

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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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)

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...

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.

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...

「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――。

move over Beavis

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...

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

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.

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...

New Anime Business with Jerry Beck!! Coming up at 9am PDT/noon EDT! youtu.be/BHg9UMc1fBA

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...

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...

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! archive.org/details/anim...

『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

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...

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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...

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.