PREVIEW EPISODE! This time on the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, authors Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) examine the box office smash anime that is Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle and the impact it is having on the theater-going experience inJapan! Also, One Piece becomes a symbol of resistance in Indonesia and Pocky sweet treats get a 3-D trademark!
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FULL EPISODE! This time on the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, authors Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) run amok through a mental mindfield of Japanese conspiracy theories past, present, and future running the gamut from mind-control, urban legends, and how the lunatic fringe is setting up shop in the political arena!
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PREVIEW EPISODE! This time on the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, authors Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) face the rise of the Sanseito political party in Japan who have anime and manga on their right-wing agenda. Also, we say goodbye to Ozzy, Hulk Hogan, and a legendary movie theater in Tokyo. And did we mention Pac-Man?
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PREVIEW EPISODE! This time on the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, authors Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) dive into the data suggesting massive viewership numbers for anime on streaming platforms. Also, a look back at anime in 1983, Jumbo Machinder scams, and sleeping in theconbini parking lot!
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FULL EPISODE! This time on the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, authors Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) dive into a new consumer study with some big insights into the current state of the anime biz. Plus, how we survived several big disasters including a massive manga-predicted earthquake that didn’t happen, the Great Robot War and a Backstreet Boy at Anime Expo!
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PREVIEW EPISODE! This time on the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, authors Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) wrestle with Rock Lords and the problem of Overtourism in Japan. Also, the closing of a historic KFC in Tokyo, and the return of otaku dining hot spot Anna Miller’s!
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FULL EPISODE! This time on the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, authors Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) react to a Japanese anime voice actress taking aim at foreigners, the ongoing rice shortages, and some recently discovered Gobot lore among lots of other topics.
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PREVIEW EPISODE! This time on the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, authors Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) race through a flurry of recent happenings in Japanese pop culture including unidentified Hideaki Anno sightings, Hello Kitty outpacing Toyota in the stock markt and, Japan’s vintage anime T-shirt takeover!
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FULL EPISODE! This time on the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, authors Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) discuss the Japanese Foods That Made them the amazing physical specimens they are today, from Top Ramen, to beef Teriyaki, and fancy tonkatsu meals with dining recommendations for your next trip to Tokyo.
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FULL EPISODE! This time on the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, authors Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) say "sayonara" to San Francisco's Japan Video, "welcome back" to the Micronauts toy line, and "good grief" to a deadly prediction about Japan in July 2025!
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FULL EPISODE! This time on the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, authors Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) discuss the Japanese fiction books and authors that BLOW THEIR MINDS from Haruki Murakami, to Masaya Nakahara, Kobo Abe, and beyond!
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In this preview episode of the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, authors Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) try to explain the Japanese holiday known as Golden Week and share their impressions of the ongoing exhibition of manga art by Masamune Shirow (Ghost in the Shell) now taking place in Tokyo.
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FULL EPISODE! This time on the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, authors Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) riff on the Osaka Expo (with a detour back to 1970), the new Ghost in the Shell anime, and what's the best Hard Off?
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In this preview episode of the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, authors Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) dicuss the current state of Japanese pop culture including the Ghibli AI filter, the Trump tariffs effects on anime merch, and the rat in the miso soup!
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FULL EPISODE! In this episode of the Pure TokyoScope Podcast, authors Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) are off to outer space via the Seibu Department store in Shibuya, Tokyo for a floor walk at the Space Battleship Yamato Complete Record Exhibition, produced by Hideaki Anno and YOU ARE THERE!
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FULL EPISODE! This time on the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, authors Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) are off to outer space to save the human race by talking about the new exhibition of Space Battleship Yamato anime art hosted by Hideaki Anno of Neon Genesis Evangelion fame! Also, Japan strikes back at a recent news article about the resurgence in vinyl record sales in Tokyo!
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In this preview episode of the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, authors Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) dicuss the current state of Tokyo's Akihabara shopping district!
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FULL EPISODE! This time on the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, author Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) talks to home video producer Justin Sevakis of MediaOCD about his work with labels such as Discotek Media, AnimEigo, and his new interview series on YouTube, The Anime Business.
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FULL EPISODE! This time on the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, authors Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) go through some recent headlines in Japanese pop culture news including Godzilla’s potential as an ambassador, the old Shogun director takes shots at the new Shogun, and we say goodbye to the founder of legendary model and figure company Kaiyodo!
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In this preview episode of the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, authors Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) talk about 50 years of the Japanese superheroes known as SUPER SENTAI!
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