Pure TokyoScope PODCAST 94: VIDEO - Live from the CHOGOKIN 50th Anniversary Expo!
Patrick Macias and Matt Alt bring you pop culture from Japan!
Oh! Have we got a video? YES WE'VE GOT A VIDEO! In the 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) visit the CHOGOKIN 50th Anniversary exhibition in Akihabara, Tokyo!
SHOW NOTES!
Official website for the CHOGOKIN 50th Anniversary exhibition
Photo Dump!
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So a random question. I heard that the new Mazinger Z JM is slightly smaller than the original. I seem to recall a similar comment long LONG ago about the UniFive Mazinger Z. I think then the complaint was mostly due to not being able to use vintage JM attachments.
The obvious point of curiosity being, is this ‘new’ Mazinger just a repop of the UniFive JM?
Bandai is king of that Char quote: “one does not wish to be reminded of the mistakes of one’s past”
(Anime village, UniFive, Honnamise…)