Pure TokyoScope PODCAST #79: Wonderfest! Warning from Space! Taylor Swift Invades Japan!
Patrick Macias and Matt Alt bring you pop culture from Japan!
In the latest episode of 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) race through some recent headlines from the wild world of Japanese pop culture. Listen below!
SHOW NOTES!
Cybot Godzilla Figure by X-Plus
Cybot Godzilla in action
Sayonara Jupiter kits by MEF&Team STRIKE!
Message From Space Liabe-go kit by MEF&Team STRIKE!
Jumbo Machinder Sized Mach Baron Figures
Martin Scorsese's Superbowl Squarespace Commercial Has Aliens from Warning From Space
Poster for 宇宙人東京に現わる (aka Warning From Space, 1956)
Dragon Quest 3, released 2/10, 1988
Barbaric Behavior at Taylor Swift Concert
Packet Man by Digital Underground
What is the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast? Well… Author and fellow Substack writer Matt Alt and I have been recording together for about a year now. I still can’t believe we’ve made it all the way to episode 53.
Our show is a mix of Japanese pop culture news and features and some of our best episodes to date have been:
PURE TOKYOSCOPE usually comes out every week on Wednesdays (US time), but we’re experimenting with early launches of the latest episode a few days early right here via this newsletter on Substack.
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