Pure TokyoScope Podcast 118: Manga Banned in the USA!
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) celebrate a birthday with a pizza party in Nakano and discuss a variety of topics including recent manga bans in the USA, a new Gundam anime, and more!
SHOW NOTES!
Anime Robot Walking Sticks for Oldtaku
Monster Conversation Scene from Ghidorah the Three-Headed Monster (1964)
In the Wake of a Sweeping Manga Ban, U.S. Readers Are Left Worrying Over the Industry's Future
Power Rangers and D&D Fans Freaking Out Over Rumors Elon Musk Could Buy Hasbro
Matt’s New Transformer Toy
Commercials for Transformers Micromasters
Schlitz Malt Liquor Rufus Thomas Commercial 1974
Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX Special Announcement Trailer
Trailer for the Space Battleship Yamato 50th Anniverary Special Selection Episodes Screenings (edited by Hideaki Anno)
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:
New Book from the Author and Editor of TokyoScope Blog!
Mondo Tokyo - Dispatches From a Secret Japan
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