It's that most wonderful time of the week: when a new episode of PURE TOKYOSCOPE drops! The closing of an iconic Shibuya movie theater sends our protagonists down memory lane, and into the loving embrace of the Eiga Dorobo. anchor.fm/PureTokyoScope

'Halloween Hijinks: Hollywood Horror in Japanese Comics' is an amazing article featuring little known #manga adaptations of Western horror and cult classics including The Exorcist, The Omen, Elm Street, shojo Re-Animator, lots more: tinyurl.com/42bafduy

Late season surprise: the ルリタテハ, a “blue admiral.”

Ahead of #Halloween , Matt Alt and Hiroko Yoda talk things that go bump in a Japanese night on October 26: bit.ly/3MSV3q0
#TACTalk #yokai #yokai attack #japanesefolklore #japaneselegends #tokyohalloween #ghostsandghouls #japaneseculture #ideaexchange

The first episode of our new podcast is out! Gaming Gaiden is a podcast in which we mainly interview video game translators. Our first episode in an interview of Matt Alt , author of Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World. youtu.be/JELAmca2TBI

Netflix's anime struggles make me realize: anime succeeds by first appealing to core fans, who don't care about convenience, then building on that to spark a mass sensation -- but that isn't easy to do when it's just on tap, and there's no sense of urgency or fear of missing out.

Come one, come all:

Behold! The main character puppets from X-Bomber (Star Fleet) as restored by Fuyuki Sanada for the 2022 X-Bomber Expo! (more pics to come)

Our second field trip, this time into the wilds of Akihabara, where Patrick Macias and I beg passerby “Someone contact Earth control / only Star Fleet can save our soul”

In the spring of 1983, a group of grieving Macross fans held a funeral ceremony at a peace memorial monument in Hiratsuka’s Hachimanyama Park to mourn the death of character Roy Focker.