Pure TokyoScope Podcast 104: Worried About Japan's Megaquake!
Pure TokyoScope Podcast 104: Worried About Japan's Megaquake!
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) worry about the possibility of a Mega Thrust Quake recently predicted in Japan, and celebrate Kanagawa’s own B-Girl Ami’s big win for Japanese breakdancing at the 2024 Olympics!
Show Notes!
VOTOMS Scopedog 1/1 Scale Statue at Inagi Pear Park
Doozybots Opening
Nankai Trough Megaquake Tsunami could Hit in 2 Minutes; Japan Authorities Urge Caution after Recent Earthquake
No scientific basis for so-called 'quake clouds': Japan weather researcher
Earthquake Catfish Mascot in Tokyo
Cat Transforms into Gundam
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Japan’s B-Girl Ami creates history with first-ever breakdancing gold
Battle of the PBS Stars (SCTV, 1982)
Japan mayor apologizes for biting athlete’s gold medal
What is the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast? Well… Author and fellow Substack writer Matt Alt and I have been recording together for over 100 episodes.
Our show is a mix of Japanese pop culture news and features and some of our best episodes to date have been:
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AHEM! That cat is NOT cosplaying as GunDAM, it is CLEARLY dressed as a GunCANNON and I will thank you to not confuse the two! And look at that face. That cat is plotting a blood soaked rampage of revenge.
Speaking Gundam (“Can anyone help, I can’t understand them!” “I speak Gundam…”) I still to this day can’t get past the horrible, HORRIBLE dumbness of Doozy Bots. Imagine if that was the official entry point of Bandai’s ambitions to conquer America instead of the eventual airing of Gundam Wing.
But more. The visuals, the…cluelessness. That poor kid in a wheelchair. To be turned into a SD robot, but which? GUNTANK. GUN FLUPPIN’ TANK. The Mobile Suit WITHOUT LEGS!!!
I know they had to make the protagonists into the 0079 hero MS which was so limited at the time, and they pawned off the GM on the token girl of the gang, I guess the bad optics of having the girl be functionally useless and on the sidelines was more obvious…
Participation trophies for all! 😆