Episode 87 of the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast is live! This time, Matt Alt and myself talk about the new Yamato x Hideaki Anno #anime project, big trouble in the world of #YuGiOh games, and the closing of a major #Tokyo landmark! Listen now at tokyoscope.blog/p/pure-tokyosc…

Episode 87 of the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast is live! This time, Matt Alt and myself talk about the new Yamato x Hideaki Anno #anime project, big trouble in the world of #YuGiOh games, and the closing of a major #Tokyo landmark! Listen now at tokyoscope.blog/p/pure-tokyosc…

I am always saying this.

Hey kids, comics

That's great that #Japan Prime Minister Kishida gave a Joe Biden a gift pack of Nintendo and Mario goods. It must be so difficult to get those in the USA!

Hot new looks for spring

#GodzillaVsKong にも出る？と話題なので、メカゴジラの貴重映像ご紹介
第1回アマチュア連合特撮大会(1981)クイズビデオより

メカ逆で使用された初代改造スーツ
中は破李拳竜氏。あれから40年！
これを今も特撮のDNA等で見ることが出来るのは凄い！修復･保管に尽力された方々のおかげなのです。

The explosive action-thriller starring George Lazenby, Angela Mao, Jimmy Wang Yu, Bolo Yeung and Peter Chan Lung!

A QUEEN’S RANSOM will be released for the first time ever on Blu-ray from 27 May in the 🇬🇧 buff.ly/3Vj9r0X, and from 28 May in 🇺🇸🇨🇦 buff.ly/3vcPjTk

Can Disney do for Macross what it did for Ghibli? ...whatever that was? Tune in to the Pure Tokyoscope podcast to find out! tokyoscope.blog/p/pure-tokyosc…

Episode 86 of the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast is live! This time, Matt Alt and myself talk about #anime on Disney+, the opening of #Oppenheimer in #Japan , #Godzilla directors in Hollywood, and look back the anti-video game crusade of the 1990s! Listen now at tokyoscope.blog/p/pure-tokyosc…

DAIEI VIDEO DISC

When people talk about #anime on #DisneyPlus , the room starts spinning, I hear the music from Psycho, and I wake up in a smashed hotel room wearing this shirt.

If you are looking to buy vintage-looking #anime T-shirts from the 1990s, and feel like spending 12100 JPY (US$80) a pop on Evangelion, Perfect Blue, and Lain designs, there's going to be a GEEKS RULE popup at Shibuya PARCO in #Tokyo from 4/19 to 4/22 art.parco.jp/museumtokyo/de…

Started reading Patrick Macias’ Mondo Tokyo book, and it sure is making me miss living in Tokyo.

Also making me feel happily nostalgic for the cool Tokyo blog scene we had going in the 2000s, alongside W. David Marx.

Fun fact: The co-feature for the release of Rambo: First Blood Part II in #Japan in 1985 was the #anime film Lupin III: The Legend of the Gold of Babylon.