Pure TokyoScope Podcast 127: Fifty Years of Super Sentai! (Preview)

Patrick Macias and Matt Alt bring you pop culture from Japan!

In this preview 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) talk about 50 years of the Japanese superheroes known as SUPER SENTAI!

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Show Notes!

Tariff threats loom over U.S. anime merch imports

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Thousands of convenience stores in Japan to end sale of print magazines this spring

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Listener Question: Is Texas toast sized bread with toppings as popular a breakfast as anime leads us to believe?

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Books Nippan Ransom Note (1980s)

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50 Years of Super Sentai Official Promotional Video

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50 Years of Super Sentai billboard in Shinjuku, Tokyo

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49 Red Rangers appear on stage to promote the new show No.1 Sentai Gozyuger

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Dynaman parody dub (1987)

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The Trial of the Incredible Hulk (1989)

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Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers D.A.R.E. Event

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Sonny Chiba as The Messenger of Allah (1960)

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Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers McDonalds’s Commercials

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