Pure TokyoScope Podcast 102: Tokyo Summer Heat! The Best of WonderFest!
Pure TokyoScope Podcast 102: Tokyo Summer Heat! The Best of WonderFest!
Patrick Macias and Matt Alt bring you pop culture from Japan!
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) discuss beating the summer heat in Japan, some highlights of the WonderFest hobby show, and take some time out from their busy schedules to ponder Beat Takeshi's face.
Show Notes!
Matt’s New YouTube Channel
GariGarikun Popsicles (Patrick’s Addiction)
The makers of GariGarikun Popsicles apologize for raising prices from 60 yen to 70 yen
Bon Jovi Obon Dancing in Nakano
Mazinger (L) and Great Mazinger (R) Store Displays at WonderFest (Reproductions by Art Storm / Fewture)
Gavanas Flagship from Message From Space, 3D printed kit by Team Strike
Captain Future vinyl figures by Art Storm / Fewture
Captain Future English Theme Song
Beat Takeshi’s Violent Cop (1989)
My Pocket Pager Won’t Beep TV Drama Opening (1993)
What is the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast? Well… Author and fellow Substack writer Matt Alt and I have been recording together for over a year now.
Our show is a mix of Japanese pop culture news and features and some of our best episodes to date have been:
New Book from the Author and Editor of TokyoScope Blog!
Mondo Tokyo - Dispatches From a Secret Japan
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For what it’s worth, here in Michigan it’s been the high 80’s (with a couple of dips to the high 70’s) since the end of June. I feel like a Stretch Armstrong that’s leaked all his corn starch juice out. As a metric, it’s more usual for the 80’s and over weather to hold off until the second week of August.
Great Mazinger showing off women’s clothing,eh? Not exactly what I would expect when its pilot was an ersatz Sonny Chiba. Breast Fire indeed! 😁