Pure TokyoScope Podcast 147: Deep Inside Shōnen Jump Magazine!
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) discuss Matt’s New Yorker article about going behind the scenes of Japan’s most popular manga magazine Shōnen Jump! Also a look at Anime NYC and rants about the state of US-Japan postal relations!
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SHOW NOTES
“The Galaxy Express 999” 50th Anniversary Project Leiji Matsumoto Exhibition
How Weekly Shōnen Jump Became the World’s Most Popular Manga Factory by Matt Alt
Matt’s New Yorker Caricature
Anime NYC 2025
The new SEGA store at Shibuya PARCO
The winners and accepting editors of the American Manga Awards 2025
Hiroko Yoda’s Panel at Anime NYC 2025
Anime vendors, fans feel pressure from US tariffs on Japan imports
Ninja High School talks about S.T.Ds
Shonen Jump USA TV Commercial (2004)
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