Pure TokyoScope Podcast #140: Evangelion Star Attacks Rude Foreigners! Japan's Rice Shortage! Gobots!
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) react to a Japanese anime voice actress taking aim at foreigners, the ongoing rice shortages, and some recently discovered Gobot lore among lots of other topics.
Show Notes!
The Last Telekura in Ikebukuro
The Three Foundations of “New Japonism”: What’s Driving the Global Success of Japanese Culture (Interview with Matt Alt)
Machine Robo Promotional Suits at the Tsukuba 85 Expo
ケニー・ロギンス at Tsukuba 85 Expo
GoBots: Battle For GoBotron (1984)
Japan’s Osaka Expo hit by Legionella outbreak 50 times over safety limit
The Dunbine Show at Chibiko Playland (part of Matt’s thread on anime promotional suits)
Foreign tourists outnumber Japanese ones at Kyoto hotels for first time ever
“Anime Figure Shop” in Shibuya, Tokyo
Evangelion Voice Actress Megumi Hayashibara Deletes ‘Invasive Species’ Comment on Blog
The Best Part of the Fat Boys LP (featuring All You Can Eat)
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Emergency reserves, high prices, rationing. How did Japan’s rice crisis get this far?
New Show Sponsor: Kool-Aid + Nerf Balls
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