Pure TokyoScope Podcast 134: Osaka Expo 2025! New Ghost in the Shell Anime!

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

FULL EPISODE! This time on 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) riff on the Osaka Expo (with a detour back to 1970), the new Ghost in the Shell anime, and what's the best Hard Off?

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Show Notes

Crowds, long lines and confusion: Osaka Expo makes turbulent start

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Osaka Expo 2025 Mascot Miyaku-Miyaku

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Osaka Expo 50th Anniversary Japan World Expo Documentary Film

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Tower of the Sun by Taro Okamoto, recent video showing exterior and interior

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New Ghost in the Shell TV Anime by Science SARU Coming in 2016

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Mamoru Oshii Wants to Revisit Ghost in the Shell Again, But There's One Problem

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Excerpt from Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters by Mamoru Oshii (2006)

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The Steamboy Pizza Hut Collaboration Items (2004)

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Listener Question: Which Off is the Best Off?

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Hard Off Rap Music Video By Hachioji Shonen

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