After the release of Dungeons & Dragons in Japan in 1985, hobby magazines began pushing imported metal miniatures to hobbyists. Despite regular coverage for a few years, miniatures as a model hobby never seemed to catch on.
Suehiro Maruo’s Rubber Hell: Showa Horror & Tokusatsu
Suehiro Maruo crafted a world of erotic nightmare, but lingering in the corner are Godzilla and Ultraman. Let’s look at how tokusatsu has influenced the work of this legendary ero-guro mangaka.
Akira Toriyama’s Mechanical Designs
Our latest video explores the history and influences of Akira Toriyama’s work in mechanical design throughout his career.
Super Deformed Swan Song: ARTMIC’s Scramble Wars
While not the last ARTMIC OVA, it feels like the end of an era.
Koba-Kondoh Document Now Available
Just a quick post to mention that we’ve re-opened shop.zimmerit.moe with copies of the Koba-Kondoh Document, our latest Patreon-funded ‘zine. There’s some other new stuff on there, too. shop.zimmerit.moe
Syd Mead’s First Mobile Suits
Tom dives further into the publication history of Syd Mead’s Gundam movie concept art and examines rarely seen original sketches.
Goodbye, Daicon Film: When Gainax Made Appleseed
In 1988, Gainax staff produced a three minute live-action promotional video to help market the Appleseed OVA. In 2024, Zimmerit made a video about it.
Genesis Surviver Gaiarth Setting Materials
The 1992 ARTMIC OVA Genesis Surviver Gaiarth was not the most impressive series produced by the beloved design studio, but it certainly has its fans. It also never received a proper artbook released for it, but at least now we’ve got digitized copies of the original setting materials.
A 1985 Otaku Salad: Fruity Five
From the pages of Model Graphix comes Fruity Five, a photo novel and manga series that was half Sentai, half Gerry Anderson show. 9,800 yen garage kits not included.
Gainazine Restock on shop.zimmerit.moe
For those who missed it the first time around, we’ve just restocked shop.zimmerit.moe with more issues of the Gainazine and a few other things.