Pure Tokyoscope Podcast 133: The Ghibli Filter Effect! Anime Tariffs! Miso Soup Rats!
Patrick Macias and Matt Alt bring you pop culture direct 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) dicuss the current state of Japanese pop culture including the Ghibli AI filter, the Trump tariffs effects on anime merch, the rat in the miso soup, the Nintendo Switch 2, the legendary Lexington Queen disco… and more!
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You can hear the full episode by joining the Pure TokyoScope Patreon!
Show Notes!
What does Hayao Miyazaki really think about AI? by Matt Alt
Trump Puts 24% Tariffs on Japanese Goods Coming into U.S.
Yeah, we recorded this part before he flipped-flopped…