Pure TokyoScope Podcast 155: Godzilla Fest and Tamashii Nations 2025 Reports!
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) recount their recent visits to the Godzilla Fest special event in Tokyo and the epic Tamashii Nation toy show in Akihabara. The forecast calls for kaiju, robots, and… Labubu?
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SHOW NOTES
The Resurrection of Golden Wolf (Collector’s Edition Blu-ray) by Umbrella Entertainment (Patrick wrote an essay included in the booklet)
Godzilla Fest 2025
Godzilla Minus Zero title reveal trailer
Godzilla Fes 2: Shinjuku Burning short film
Godzilla vs Destoroyah 10th Anniversary Panel
Kaiju Greeting with Gigan, Godzilla 1954, and Chibi Godzilla
Tamashii Nation 2025
Jumbo Machinder Raideen Reissue from Bandai
Macross Valkyrie VF-1J Reissue by Bandai
Soul of Chogokin Labubu by Bandai
New Show Sponsor: LJN
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