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Book author, magazine editor, art director. Ex-Netflix & Crunchyroll. Repped by Hill Nadell Literary Agency. Lives in Tokyo. 作家・編集者・アートディレクター。東京に住んでいます。

Patrick Macias

When will things get back to normal?

An experiential exhibition touching on the art of Japanese horror films is being held in Osaka, featuring an unsettling worldview from the Showa era. www.shochiku.co.jp/pj/obakeyaho...

Imagining the conversation here going:“I couldn’t get any traction for any new projects until I sold out to AI…” “That’s funny, I thought I was the only one!” "So did I!" While De Niro just sort of nods and twitches like he do in Jackie Brown

Is this a scene from Backrooms?

Is this what the kids mean when they call a song a banger

Episode 168 of the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast is live! This time, Matt Alt and I dive into Japan’s plan for entertainment stocks, say bye to the founder of 7-Eleven #Japan and the director of Tokyo Gore Police, and lose our minds over a new #Macross toy! Listen now: www.tokyoscope.blog/p/pure-tokyo...

It’s been 18 years since the Akihabara massacre in #Tokyo on June 8, 2008. People continue to leave flowers at the site to memorialize the victims, although the photographer of these pics notes that the number has decreased over the years.

Join @patrickmacias.bsky.social and I for a new episode of the Pure Tokyoscope Podcast, broadcast live from Macross City: www.tokyoscope.blog/p/pure-tokyo...

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Culture warriors are bloviating about the supposedly “woke” translation of Homer’s “Odyssey” used by Christopher Nolan for his film. Anime and manga translators are all too familiar with this kind of thing, as I wrote about last year: blog.pureinventionbook.com/p/the-first-...