Pure TokyoScope Podcast 120: Anime Tourism! Anime Burgers... and Pizza!
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 the holidays by going over some recent headlines in Japan, such as the rise o anime tourism the Evangelion x Mickey D's collaboration, and the resurrection of our lord and savior... Shakey's!
Show Notes!
Matt Alt’s Xmas Tree
Anime tourism participants double pre-pandemic levels
Sony is now FromSoftware owner Kadokawa's largest shareholder
McDonald’s x Evangelion Collaboration Commercials
Shakey’s is back! All-you-can-eat pizza chain returns to downtown Tokyo’s Shinjuku
The Mizuki Shigeru Museum in Sakaiminato, Tottori
Meatloaf - “2 Out of 3 Aint Bad” retitled as “66% is Good Enough” in Japan
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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