Pure TokyoScope Podcast 122: The Shogun's Three-Body Problem with Crane Games!

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) catch up with each other post-holidays and go over some recent headlines from Japan including Shogun's big Golden Globes win, a newly announced Three-Body Problem anime, and the invasion of crane games across the Tokyo landscape!

Show Notes!

This episode is sponsored by the Toei Hotel…

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A Very Matt Alt XMas

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Bionic Bigfoot Commercial

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The Street Fighter’s Last Revenge (Trailer)

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Shogun Sweeps the Golden Globes

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Rick James on Judge Joe Brown (1998)

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The Three-Body Problem Gets Anime Adaptation

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New Tokyo nightlife spot blends crane games with DJs, club fun

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Pringles Crane Games in Tokyo

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Zaxxon TV commercial 1982

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