Pure TokyoScope Podcast 153: Give My Regards to Nakano Broadway!
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) try to catch their breath and make sense of the madness after a speed run through Nakano Broadway, Tokyo’s insane otaku (and luxury watch?) shopping center!
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SHOW NOTES
Not really a tattoo guy but..
Mr. Baseball Movie Poster
SD Gundam the Movie (1988)
Son of Godzilla “onbu” (piggy-back ride)
Dancing Xabungle LP (1983)
Mach Baron Jumbo Machinder with Magic Marker Face
Star Wars Keshigomu (rubber erasers)
Is that Ben Kenobi…?
Dream Master: Nightmare-kun (manga and figure set)
Chewbacca the Merkin?
Playcomic Manga Cover (1978)
Diaclone Figures (60,000 JPY)
Big-size Ultraseven figure by Popy
Space Vampires (aka Lifeforce) pin badge, 1985
Message From Space movie ticket stub (1978)
Ring / Sadako Capsule Toys
Matt’s weird cheap UFO Grandizer toy and the bag
Nakano Broadway Tempura Restaurant Sumitomo (imagine it with a stupid line)
The Mandarake Gynoid
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