Zimmerit is heading to the very first Wonder Festival US with kits and zines. Stay tuned for more details soon. If you’re heading to Momocon we’ll be in the Wonder Festival section, booth WON-711.

why did they use this title for the US release when “supperman” was right there

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New episode of The Anime Business! Jerome Mazandarani talks about the Rebirth (and re-death) of Manga Video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrem...

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On the last day of my trip, on my way to the airport I was barely able to meet the person who runs the Tomcat's Big Adventure twitter account (and the manager of the IP?). He reached out days before, offering to give me some posters as a gift. A good opportunity to switch out my posters!😊

For folks in the UK looking to avoid international shipping, Gosh! London has RESIN PUNKS and some of our other books up for sale. goshlondon.com/resin-punks-...

I went to this because Nobuyuki Ohnishi (lithographs for the OP and ED of Royal Space Force) was one of the artists whose work was displayed. He also showed up in person, so I along with some other Japanese friends got to chat with him. (Well, they did most of the chatting and I mostly listened)

4/21 Log Waiting for the Monochrome Art Print Exhibit to open

4/20 Log Aim for the Ace?

4/19 Log Sustenance

I got to meet Akase-sensei in person and there I talked to her and her non-anime fan acquaintance for 2+ hours on a variety of topics, in particular 80s anime. She's apparently around my age too and also into older anime. Got to talk about Oshii, Patlabor, Dezaki, Gamba, Aim for the Ace, and more...

4/18 Log Sustenance

Bandai Namco Filmworks is starting to stream Magical Sisters LuluttoLilly on YouTube with English subtitles (select regions) Episode 1 youtu.be/lCfLdCGV2yA Episode 2 youtu.be/xMkp2mewd3M

4/17 Log Creamy Mami & Minky Momo Pop Up Store Displayed Hiroshi Watanabe's illustrations for the Animage novels of Minky Mono, the front cover of an issue of My Anime, and also Akemi Takada's settei art for Creamy Mami. No photography allowed of those unfortunately, but everything else was okay.

4/16 Log Paprika 20th Anniversary Pop Up Shop

If anyone reading this happens to be near or in Tokyo, and happens to be a fan of Yuriko Akase (Sazan & Comet Girl, Nightmare Busters), then I highly recommend checking the exhibit out. Or even if you're not familiar with her work, check it out anyway because her art work is really great.

4/15 Log Movie screening

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4/12 Log Flower Dome

4/11 Log Sustenance

Fresh off the 10-min Osamu Dezaki retrospective. Most of the information is well covered, but the big things for me are the on-screen text indicating name and year of past shows interviewing him, and also a brief excerpt of his rental manga work. It's difficult to track these down.

4/10 Log Sustenance

RESIN PUNKS, the latest Zimmerit 'zine, is out and available now from garagekit.club and select brick and mortar shops. 40 pages of '80s garage kit culture including profiles, translated period material, and photos. Grab it here: garagekit.club/products/res...

4/9 Log Sustenance

Unfortunately the timing of my trip is bad in that a bunch of exhibits I would've gone to either ended the day before I arrive, or start the day after I leave. Silver lining is that I just found out a brief 10-min Osamu Dezaki retrospective will be airing on NHK General while I'm here.

4/8 Log Sustenance

If you’re in neither of those places, well, at least you’ll be able to grab RESIN PUNKS, the newest Zimmmerit ‘zine, from garagekit.club this Thursday.

If you’re in Los Angeles this weekend, I won’t be tabling at Brain Dead’s Fantasy Fest (can’t be two places at once) but they have a big stack of my books that’ll be on sale. Plus a lot of other cool vendors and events.

If you’re in central Texas this weekend, I’ll be tabling at Staple! with some books and other things.

4/7 Log SORAYAMA: Light, Reflection, Transparency －TOKYO－

4/2026 Travel 4/6 Log Arrival

I noticed way too late, on the Daicon IV Travelogue article, someone had asked: "What’s the bottomless Daikon/radish game?" I did previously try (and fail) to answer this myself when I originally translated this. I took a look again and found the details. See here: www.zimmerit.moe/daicon-iv-tr...

xcancel.com/eiga_natalie... The new Minky Momo OVA will feature Momo getting a smartphone for her 12th birthday, and her doubts about a shady, unknown app emphasizing the "dream" of craving approval from others and chasing after numbers. I almost wanna say I called it 3+ years ago.

A very special update today, something that's never--and I mean *never* been on the internet before today: scans and a rip of a special 6-minute promotional VHS for The Big O's home video release! thebigoarchive.com/vhs.htm thebigoarchive.com/promovhs.htm #TheBigO #THEビッグオー #Toonami #adultswim

"Fukufuku no Chizu" 10-min short film by Sunao Katabuchi is now online. Produced by Contrail studio for Fukushima Prefecture. >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MqK...

exciting news! some pals and i are opening a little zine bookstore in downtown Seattle, and we'd love to stock YOUR work!!! we are doing an 80/20 consignment split, and you can submit works here: forms.gle/Kt9VrGZWT7Qh...

New episode of The Anime Business! AnimEigo founder Robert Woodhead talks about bringing anime to western audiences & more! And stay until the very end to hear something special. www.youtube.com/watch?v=74J5...

From the Otaku Archive: Anime-zine #1: The first major commercial anime magazine, Anime-zine was founded by Robert Fenelon in 1986. This inaugural issue featured Megazone 23 as a cover story, and an article on Nausicaa. Link: archive.org/details/anim... Uploaded by: clarissag

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

Another Another Another Another Another Another Haul

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...