I was going through a list of old accounts that I have since I was 10 and found out that I had an old account created in 2010 on this site. Couldn't really remember why I came to the site so I visited it to see what is was about. Curiously, I found that if you visit the site through https:// instead of http://, it redirects you to Zerochan.
At first, I thought that Minitokyo and Zerochan are the same site but Minitokyo has the old interface and Zerochan is the updated version but they both seem to contain different content. I actually do have a Zerochan account that I created quite recently but I couldn't use it to log into Minitokyo and vice versa. The footers of both sites do contain links to each other signifying that the sites have some association with one another and Minitokyo's FAQ references Zerochan but other than that, I couldn't find any info on their relationship.
So what's the deal? Are both of these sites owned by the same people? Seems redundant to have 2 image boards based around anime.