ZIMMERIT – Anime | Manga | Garage Kits | Doujin

If you noticed Zimmerit getting really quiet after the launch of Resin Punks, it’s because we were heads down preparing for the very first Wonder Festival US at MomoCon in Atlanta.

Released for the Super Famicom in 1995, Squaresoft’s Front Mission brought contemporary mecha action to home consoles as a turn-based strategy game.

Resin Punks, the newest Zimmerit ‘zine, is available now on garagekit.club.

For all of the attempts by writers and artists in the West who tried to capture the anime je ne sais quoi in the ’90s, the Montreal-based design studio Dream Pod 9 came as close as anybody.

My recent dive into Animag reminded me of an often overlooked truth about old anime magazines: sometimes you’ll find gold.

Over on the Internet Archive, the Otaku Archive (spearheaded by Anime World Order co-host Gerald) has been uploading scans of documents from ‘80s and ‘90s anime fandom, including club newsletters and most recently, finished up a complete run of Animag mag…

The translation below comes courtesy of a long-time friend of the site named Austin, who translated this particular Daicon IV convention report from the pages of Comic Margarita.

As I mentioned in our last article, the 10th anniversary of Zimmerit’s first post is this month.

It’s kind of inconceivable to me that in September this site will be celebrating its tenth anniversary.

For the latest ‘zine we’ve worked with longtime contributor Renzo Adler to create an all-new tome about horror anime: Demon Zine Shinjuku: Anime Horror in the Age of Video.