Pure TokyoScope Podcast 162: The A.I. in Japan Episode!
Patrick Macias and Matt Alt bring you pop culture direct from Japan!
PREVIEW 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) come face to face with the wild rise of generative AI in Japan. From dead wrestlers, to political parties, to manga piracy, no one is innocent… but some are more guilty than others!
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SHOW NOTES
Wandering Ginza Butterfly Collection Limited Edition Blu-ray (featuring audio commentary by Pat and Matt)
Matt on Bloomberg TV: How Anime and Manga Have Resurrected Japan's Soft Power
The Legendary ‘Father Of Sega Hardware’ Hideki Sato Has Passed Away
Game Shark Commercial, 1992
SEGA R360 demo
Tomino’s Lost Hollywood Project May Have Been an Ideon Remake That Collapsed in Scandal
The Anime Business - John O'Donnell on The End of Central Park Media (and M.D. Giest)
Japan’s AI Affinity - The reasons many Westerners despise AI explain why Japanese don’t (By Matt Alt)
AI generated “closed for New Years” poster, 2026
AI used to create “Andriod Antonio Inoki”
AI could replace foreign workers in Japan, Team Mirai says
Love, engineered in the age of AI
New Show Sponsor: Sci-Fi Channel Global Showcase - Lensman
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I listen to podcasts when I'm out walking so I just got around to this one. I headed out, started the episode, did my shopping and came home just as it was ending. One of the first things I did was check my items on order list to verify I had Wandering Ginza Butterfly on order. Yep placed the pre-order with Diabolik on February 12th.
As for Team Mirai's statement that AI would replace foreign workers, it's simple. Use AI to replace lots of white collar jobs and those folks will have no choice but to do the low wage jobs foreign workers do now.
Shery Ahn didn't offer Matt a coffee too? :)