Pure TokyoScope Podcast 117: Will Sony Buy Kadokawa? The Future of Anime Is at Stake!
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) try to wrap their brains around the rumored aquistion of the Kadokawa media group by the 800 pound gorilla that is Sony and ponder what that might mean for the future of anime!
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Ersatz "anime" abounds. It's time to make "Japanese Anime" a protected designation
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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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