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...
The fist kickstreamers went the hardest
Is this what the kids mean when they call a song a banger
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Why didn't you tell me
Is this a scene from Backrooms?
When will things get back to normal?
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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.
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-...
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Politics, AI and the "last-mile problem" of getting Japanese content to audiences abroad
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...
Patrick Macias and Matt Alt bring you pop culture direct from Japan!