Pure TokyoScope PODCAST 91: Live from Super Festival 88!
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Pure TokyoScope PODCAST 91: Live from Super Festival 88!
Patrick Macias and Matt Alt bring you pop culture from Japan!
In this episode of the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, authors
(Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) take a trip to Super Festival 88 in Japan and bring you a report live from the floor filled with toys, figures, and all manner of otaku madness!
SHOW NOTES!
Official flier art for Super Festival 88
With special guests Ryu Manatsu (Ultraman Leo) and Kento Handa (Kamen Rider 555)
Photo Dump
Popy Great Zaurus Godzilla from Fewture
Vehicle Voltron from Fewture
Groizer X from Fewture
Getter-3 from Fewture
Gundam Shampoo Bottle (US$275)
The Denny’s Sign
The Island of Misfit Toys
Unpainted Gappa prototype from X-Plus
Kamen Rider Tricycles from Fewture
Spy the Pack
When your store is the floor
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This. This is what I want. Everything you guys talked about is what I want. If I ever get to Japan, sure I’ll visit Mandarake and do the whole Akiba jive, but what I WANT is to go to the places that are like Superfest. The old guy who has no fucks left to give, the stacks of Nitto and Nichimo 100 Yen kits, stumbling over deadstock from Anime Police Pero (last year I stumbled over and bought an official dojinshi published by Pero for Adieu GE 999. I wish I could post a pic, Patrick would faint).
There have been times when friends have made the trip and asked if they should look for anything for me. How do you describe something you don’t know exists?
The problem is(besides lack of money😆), I may be too old now to handle the world of Superfest. The old knees don’t like to bend in a squat to rummage thru stuff, the eyes are going, blah blah blah. I guess I need that machine body. 😆
Patrick, Matt, do more stuff like this. Please.
Ah yes! Thank you for sharing. Looks bitchin’