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131: Anno's Yamato Anime Exhibition! Japan's Vinyl Record Resurgence!
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129: The Anime Business with Justin Sevakis!
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128: Ambassador Godzilla! Shogun vs Shogun! RIP Mr. Kaiyodo!
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127: Fifty Years of Super Sentai! (Preview)
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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!
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124: The Macross DYRL 5K Review! Sony Kills Blu-ray and Mini-Discs! Chogokin Returns!
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Preview of Episode 123: Popeye in Japan! Nintendo Switch 2! Gundam on the Moon!
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122: The Shogun's Three-Body Problem with Crane Games!
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121: Anime Tourism! Evangelion x McDonald's! Shakey's Strikes Back!
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119: Nakano Broadway, the Hard Way! An Otaku Coffee Break!
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118: Manga Banned in the USA! New Gundam Anime! Pizza!
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117: Will Sony Buy Kadokawa? The Future of Anime Is at Stake!
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116: Manga 1982 - The Audio Commentary!
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115: Parents Against Anime and Manga! One Night in Shin Okubo!
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114: RIP Manga Legend Kazuo Umezu + Godzilla Day 2024!
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112: Anime Industry - Boom or Bust? RIP Godzilla Suit Maker!
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111: Voltron vs Henry Cavill! RIP Doraemon! Tokyo Mario Kart Madness!
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110: 50 Years of Yamato! The Dragon Quest 3 Controversy!
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109: Japan's New Otaku Prime Minister?
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108: Shogun Sweeps the Emmys, New Patlabor Anime, So Long Shinjuku MyLord
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106: 7-11 Japan & the Conbini Wars! Shibuya Street Drinking Ban!
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105: The ANIME NYC Report! Yokai! Manga! And More!
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104: Worried About Japan's Megaquake, B-Girl Ami Breakdancing Gold
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102: Tokyo Summer Heat, the Best of WonderFest, Beat Takeshi's Face
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101: The Macross Movie 40th Anniversary Party with Renato Rivera!
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100: Live from Shakey's! The History of Pizza in Japan!
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99: The Japanese Toys That Made Me! MATT ALT Edition
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98: Tokyo's Insane Election, 50 Years of 7-11, No More Street Drinking in Shibuya!
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97: VIDEO Godzilla Projection Mapping and Tokyo Night Walk!
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Pure TokyoScope Podcast 96: NEWS - Japan's Hyper-Aged Society! Gainax Goes Bankrupt! Monster Customers at the Conbini!
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95: VIDEO - Cuckoo for Toy Hunting at Mandarake CoCoo!
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94: VIDEO - Live from the CHOGOKIN 50th Anniversary Expo!
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93: The Trouble with AI Manga Translation!
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92: RIP Roger Corman! Sayonara Shakey's! Pokémon Yakuza!
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90: Shogun, ALF, and Okinawa at Ootoya
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89: 3 Million Tourists Can't Be Wrong, Snakes on a Train, Shibuya Shootings and Earthquakes!
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88: Akihabara Hangover, Biden x Kishida, The Swinging Sounds of Hiroyuki Sanada
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87: Hideaki Anno x Yamato, Trouble for Yu-Gi-Oh!, Sayonara Studio Alta
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86: Anime on Disney+, Godzilla Director Goes Hollywood, the 1990s War on Video Games!
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85: Translating Akira Toriyama! The Alexander O. Smith Interview!
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84: Fear & Pinball in the HUB British Pub!
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#83: MONDO TOKYO and RIP Akira Toriyama!
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BONUS Episode! Godzilla and Miyazaki Win Big at the Oscars!
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NEWSFLASH! Godzilla Minus One and The Boy and the Heron both took home the gold at today's Academy Awards! On this Very Special Episode of the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, authors Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (…
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