Pure TokyoScope PODCAST #83: MONDO TOKYO and RIP Akira Toriyama!
Patrick Macias and Matt Alt bring you pop culture from Japan!
In the latest episode of the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, authors
(Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and TokyoScope writer and editor Patrick Macias mourn the loss of manga and anime legend AKIRA TORIYAMA and get hyped for the release of Patrick's new book Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan on sale now!
SHOW NOTES!
Akira Toriyama, creator of 'Dragon Ball,' dies at 68
LIVE: Tribute to Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama in Argentina
Dr. Slump Key Art by Akira Toriyama
Dragon Ball Z “Club Shirt”
Dragon Quest Game Box Art by Akira Toriyama
Akira Toriyama (R), his wife Mikami (L), and Jackie Chan (Center)
Tarako, Voice Actor for Maruko in ‘Chibi Maruko-chan,’ Dies at 63
Akria Toriyama’s Drawing of Himself in Paradise
Patrick’s New Book MONDO TOKYO, on sale now!!!
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So much to comment on! Can I remember it all? Probably not. 😁
First up, super congratulations on the new book Patrick! I wish I had the funds for such a luxury but not now, so keep that thing in print, please!
I would NEVER say cut back on the Godzilla talk. Never ever.
Viz needs to reprint the Dr. Slump manga in the U.S.. maybe give it the hardcover/color pages treatment this time. AND KEEP THAT S&@T IN PRINT YA DOOFS! grumblemumble stupid American thinking ‘oh we only think we’ll sell 5000 copies nobody cares anyway’ crap….i mean wasn’t the whole point of the manga revolution to be like Japan? I know, tons of books there now get the ‘one print and done’ crap, I blame the Harvard MBA.
A tale of Suncoast: two memories of the DBZ VHS tape section. 1. Some asshat came in daily, DAILY, to go thru the tapes and turn them to make the panorama picture of the spines. GGGRRR I hated that! Pain in the ASS for shelf maintainance and inventory control. And I NEVER CAUGHT THE BASTARD. 2. There was a cloud of weed stink that hung around the section. No lie.
You forgot the other pillar of anime fandom from that time. Gundam Wing. That and Ronin Warriors were what brought the ladies to the party.
I do get sad how little Dr. Slump gets mentioned by all the fans morning Toriyama’s passing. Like I said elsewhere, if not for Slump we probably would not have One Piece.
So thought question for you guys, given the power and smarts of Toriyama’s editor. Do you think that editor was the one who called for Arale to change from that little girl to the more chibi roundular style? Was it to prevent the lolicon fans from getting involved? I say this because Toriyama does like to draw ‘em curvy and young. See also his Toriyama theater stories.
Does this count as a microblog? :)
Oh the blogs, like Livejournal, seem to have died because of some foolishness about the host being in Russia and people got stupid, as is par for the interwebs 😁
Keep on keeping on!