Pure Tokyoscope Podcast 139: Surviving the Vintage Anime T-Shirt Craze! Hello Kitty Overtakes Toyota!
Patrick Macias and Matt Alt bring you pop culture direct from Japan!
PREVIEW 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) race through a flurry of recent happenings in Japanese pop culture including unidentified Hideaki Anno sightings, Hello Kitty outpacing Toyota in the stock markt and, Japan’s vintage anime T-shirt takeover!
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Show Notes!
GoBots: Battle For GoBotron (1984)
BEHOLD! The Venus Wars Cafe at Nakano Broadway
TAKARA Watch-Q Jet Transforming Watch
Rankin-Bass animation cel from The Hobbit (it belongs in a museum!)
Think You Saw Hideaki Anno? Studio Khara Says You’re Probably Wrong
Hello Kitty Owner Overtakes Toyota in Stock Turnover
Chiikawa Goes Global: “Kawaii” Characters Make It to the Top
Why J-POP and Anime T-Shirts Are Taking Over Japan’s Vintage Scene
Y2k Family Survival Guide With Leonard Nimoy
Vintage Dragon Ball Z club shirt
Kimono My House TV Commercial
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