Pure TokyoScope Podcast 112: Anime Industry - Boom or Bust?
Patrick Macias and Matt Alt bring you pop culture from Japan!
In this episode of the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, author Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) consider the future of big bucks in the anime biz and say goodbye to Godzilla suit maker Keizo Murase!
SHOW NOTES!
WSJ: Anime Is Japan’s Next Global Champion
New United Nations Report Admits the Anime Industry Could Easily Collapse
Legendary Kaiju Suitmaker Keizo Murase Passes Away
US Poster for Varan The Unbelievable (1958)
Mecha Godzilla and King Joe soft vinyl figures from the Marusan 450 series
Shimon Masato sings the Star Wars theme… with lyrics!
Ultraman 80 theme song, performed by Talizman (RIP Harry Kimura)
Talizman’s Image Song for Disney’s The Black Hole
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: