Pure TokyoScope Podcast 160: Netflix x MAPPA x Anime! Akihabara Renovations! Sony to Spin off TV Business!
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) are BACK with their first show of 2026! It’s an all-current events episode with stuff about anime, Tokyo, and tech. Enjoy!
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SHOW NOTES
Out There By Toei Boxset (featuring audio commentaries by Patrick for Message From Space and X-Cross)
The Ropers (1979)
Oni die-cast metal toy from Nihon no mukashi-banashi (aka Folktales of Japan) by Sakura
Ehomaki sushi for Setsubun
Netflix Shares Details on Anime Partnership With ‘Chainsaw Man’ Studio Mappa
How Anime Overtook Hollywood in Japan’s Biggest Box Office Year on Record
TV commercial for Starlog magazine (1978)
AKIHABARA UDX Center turns 20 and closes for renovation
Akihabara Liberation Demonstration (2007)
Akihabara Street Scene 2007
Closing Forever: 50+ Years in Akihabara Tokyo
Sony no longer home of the Bravia as it plans TV biz spin-out to China’s TCL
Mr. Microphone by Ronco
New show sponsor: Hibachi Express
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