Pure TokyoScope
Pure TokyoScope is a weekly podcast hosted by writers Matt Alt and Patrick Macias, covering news, views, and pop culture from Japan. The show offers insights into Japanese trends, entertainment, and society. Listeners can find bonus episodes and content on Patreon.
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177: Chiikawa Movie Review! RIP Peter Cullen! The Great Nakano Broadway Robbery!
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176: Yokai Attack at Nakano Broadway!
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175: Farewell to Japanese Toy Legend Katsushi Murakami!
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174: Sixty Years of Ultraman! The Mysterians in 4K!
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173: The Human Vapor! New Ghost in the Shell Anime! Totally Insane Toy Collections!
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172: Goodbye Akihiro Miwa, a Japanese Showbiz Legend!
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171: My Posse's On (Nakano) Broadway
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170: The End of Cool Japan Fund?
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169: Hostess Club Confessions! The Last Dinosaur!
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168: Japan’s Entertainment Boom Hits the Stock Market! Bandai’s Ultimate Macross Toy!
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167: Japan's New Video Game Boom!
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166: Emmanuel Lewis vs. Capsule Robo G!
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165: Japan's Dragon Ball Economy, the Death of a Shibuya Department Store, Gojira-ya Surprise
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164: Japan's New Energy Crisis? Goodbye to Galaxy Express Anime Superstars!
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163: New Evangelion Anime! Record-Breaking Toy Auction! McDonald's Japan Raises Prices!
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162: The AI in Japan Episode!
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161: (Video) Live From the MEGA BULLMARK TOY EXHIBITION!
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160: Pure TokyoScope Podcast 160: Netflix x MAPPA x Anime! Akihabara Renovations! Sony to Spin off TV Business!
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159: Eight Million Ways to Happiness with Hiroko Yoda!
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158: W. David Marx on Popeye's Hello, Tokyo! English Edition!
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157: The Yoshikazu Yasuhiko Anime Art Gallery Experience!
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156: China Declares War on Japanese Pop Culture! Angel’s Egg 4K Anime Review!
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155: Godzilla Fest and Tamashii Nations 2025 Reports!
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154: UFO Robo Grendizer! Bear Attacks in Japan! RIP Tomonobu Itagaki!
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153: Give My Regards to Nakano Broadway!
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152: The Manga Legend Tracing Scandal!
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151: Live From SUPER FESTIVAL 92! Vintage Toy Insanity!
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150: Live from Jimbocho, The Coolest Neighborhood in the World!?
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149: Is the US Ready for Japanese 7-Elevens?
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148: The Rise of Toy "Kidults" in Japan! Cheap Trick Returns to Budokan!
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147: Deep Inside Shōnen Jump Magazine! Anime NYC Report! US-Japan Mail Chaos!
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146: Demon Slayer Destroys Japanese Cinemas!
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145: A Brief History of Conspiracy Theories in Japan!
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144: The Far Right in Japan Comes for Anime!
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143: Digging into the Streaming Anime Data!
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142: New Study Reveals Global Anime Boom! The Manga Disaster That Didn’t Happen! Fist of the North Star!
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141: The Overtourism in Japan Episode!
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140: Evangelion Star Attacks Rude Foreigners! Japan's Rice Shortage! Gobots!
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139: Surviving the Vintage Anime T-Shirt Craze! Hello Kitty Overtakes Toyota!
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138: The Japanese Food That Made Us!
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137: RIP Japan Video! The Micronauts Are Back! Manga Predicts Major Disaster!
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136: The Japanese Fiction That Made Us!
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135: The Masamune Shirow Expo! Fear & Loathing in Golden Week!
In this preview 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 Japa
134: Osaka Expo 2025! New Ghost in the Shell! How to Hard Off!
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133: The Ghibli Filter Effect! Anime Tariffs! The Rat in the Miso Soup!
In this preview 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
132: LIVE from the Space Battleship Yamato Anime Art Expo!
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131: Anno's Yamato Anime Exhibition! Japan's Vinyl Record Resurgence!
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130: Has Akihabara Lost Its Edge?
In this preview 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
129: The Anime Business with Justin Sevakis!
FULL EPISODE! This time on the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, author Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) talks to home video producer Justin Sevakis of MediaOCD about his work with labels such as Discotek Media, AnimEigo, and his new interview series on YouTube, The Anime Business.Join the PURE TO
128: Ambassador Godzilla! Shogun vs Shogun! RIP Mr. Kaiyodo!
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127: Fifty Years of Super Sentai! (Preview)
In this preview 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
126: Spoiler Free Gundam GQuuuuuuX Anime Review! Winter Wonderfest and the Dealer Dash!
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125 (Preview): The Fuji TV Scandal! Sayonara Shakey's! Otaku Power in Ikebukuro!
In this preview 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
124: The Macross DYRL 5K Review! Sony Kills Blu-ray and Mini-Discs! Chogokin Returns!
FULL 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
Preview of Episode 123: Popeye in Japan! Nintendo Switch 2! Gundam on the Moon!
In this preview 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
122: The Shogun's Three-Body Problem with Crane Games!
In this 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
121: Anime Tourism! Evangelion x McDonald's! Shakey's Strikes Back!
In this 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
120: VIDEO - Do the Akihabara!
In this 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
119: Nakano Broadway, the Hard Way! An Otaku Coffee Break!
In this 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
118: Manga Banned in the USA! New Gundam Anime! Pizza!
In this 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)
117: Will Sony Buy Kadokawa? The Future of Anime Is at Stake!
In this episode of the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, author Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) try t
116: Manga 1982 - The Audio Commentary!
In this episode of the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, author Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) provide a
115: Parents Against Anime and Manga! One Night in Shin Okubo!
In this episode of the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, author Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) recall a rece
114: RIP Manga Legend Kazuo Umezu + Godzilla Day 2024!
In this episode of the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, author Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) say goodbye to ho
113: A New Cool Japan Proposal!
In this episode of the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, author Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) get a peek at the
112: Anime Industry - Boom or Bust? RIP Godzilla Suit Maker!
In this episode of the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, author Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) consider the future o
111: Voltron vs Henry Cavill! RIP Doraemon! Tokyo Mario Kart Madness!
In this episode of the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, author Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) consider Henry Cavill's r
110: 50 Years of Yamato! The Dragon Quest 3 Controversy!
In this episode of the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, author Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) take a look back at 50 years
109: Japan's New Otaku Prime Minister?
In this episode of the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, author Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) review the otaku credential of Ja
108: Shogun Sweeps the Emmys, New Patlabor Anime, So Long Shinjuku MyLord
In this episode of the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, author Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) contemplate SHOGUN's 18 Emmy wins
107: A Toy-tastic Trip to Taiwan!
In this episode of the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, author Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) regales Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) with tails of his fantastic toy-tasti
106: 7-11 Japan & the Conbini Wars! Shibuya Street Drinking Ban!
In this episode of the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, author Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) tells Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) take a look at the recent 7-11 Japan takeov
105: The ANIME NYC Report! Yokai! Manga! And More!
In this episode of the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, author Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) tells Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) all about his recent trip to the Big Apple for
104: Worried About Japan's Megaquake, B-Girl Ami Breakdancing Gold
In this 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) worry about the possibility of a Mega Thrust Quake r
103: How We Write!
In this 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) peel back the curtain on how they approach writing their man
102: Tokyo Summer Heat, the Best of WonderFest, Beat Takeshi's Face
In this 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) discuss beating the summer heat in Japan, some highlights of the
101: The Macross Movie 40th Anniversary Party with Renato Rivera!
In this 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) welcome guest Rentao Rivera to the show to celebrate the 40th annive
100: Live from Shakey's! The History of Pizza in Japan!
For the landmark 100th 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) throw a buckwild pizza party at a Shakey's in Kichijoji,
99: The Japanese Toys That Made Me! MATT ALT Edition
In this 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) begin a two part series on The Japanese Toys That Made Them starting with Matt&#
98: Tokyo's Insane Election, 50 Years of 7-11, No More Street Drinking in Shibuya!
In this 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) eat deep dish pizza and try to wrap their heads around Tokyo's insane election,
