Pure Tokyoscope Podcast 137: RIP Japan Video! The Micronauts Are Back! Manga Predicts Major Disaster!
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) say "sayonara" to San Francisco's Japan Video, "welcome back" to the Micronauts toy line, and "good grief" to a deadly prediction about Japan in July 2025!
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Show Notes
RIP Japan Video (1984-2025) at San Francisco Japantown
Shelves at Japan Video
Takara Tomy Brings Back Microman (aka Micronauts)
Japanese Microman Commercial (1974)
World of the Micronauts Commercial by MEGO (1977)
A Japanese manga claims a natural disaster is imminent. Now, some tourists are canceling their trips
Toilet Hakase (“Professor Toilet”) by Kazuyoshi Torii
New Show Sponsor: Rocket Tubes
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