Hi! The mods ultimately came to this decision thanks to prior experience in the zine scene. While an interest check is often a good way to gauge community interest in a zine's concept, we thought that HSR excitement (both ours and yours!) as well as the more general thematic spread of our zine meant that an interest check wouldn't necessarily serve the purpose it normally would! That being said, we don't expect our lack of an interest check to affect production.