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Stubbornly, sporadically, Psychommu Gaijin continues to be an old fashioned print zine. We admit, in the age of WiFi and Twitter that the anime fanzine is no longer needed. But then, anime fandom is no longer needed, either. Anime fandom has become a pointless and outdated community that has lost it's purpose. 20 years ago anime fans organized to watch and share VHS tapes of anime, these days you can watch it streamed on the interweb mere hours after it broadcasts in Japan. It's the 21st Century, and there's no place for these things in this brave new world.

Which is the whole point of doing this zine. And like us oldskool anime fans, it exists even if it no longer has a defining purpose.

Right now, the ground is shifting again. ADV is gone, drawn and quartered in to smaller companies created to avoid it's debts. Kodansha has decided not to renew it's licenses with TokyoPop. And Disney is about to run Naruto Shippuden on it's former Toon Disney channel. The bubble has burst. The future is unwritten. But in these pages we've written about the now and the recent now.