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181: The Great Godzilla Auction! Raiders of the Japanese Beer Cartel!

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180: Anarchy in the UK! Toys “R” Us in Japan! Halloween Havoc in Shibuya!

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179: Godzilla's New Monster Election! Listener Q&A! Sizzlean!

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178: The Totally Insane Ultraman Auction! Mandarake Website Hack! Goodbye, Unicorn Gundam!

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177: Chiikawa Movie Review! RIP Peter Cullen! The Great Nakano Broadway Robbery!

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176: Yokai Attack at Nakano Broadway!

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175: Farewell to Japanese Toy Legend Katsushi Murakami!

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174: Sixty Years of Ultraman! The Mysterians in 4K!

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173: The Human Vapor! New Ghost in the Shell Anime! Totally Insane Toy Collections!

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172: Goodbye Akihiro Miwa, a Japanese Showbiz Legend!

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171: My Posse's On (Nakano) Broadway

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170: The End of Cool Japan Fund?

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169: Hostess Club Confessions! The Last Dinosaur!

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168: Japan’s Entertainment Boom Hits the Stock Market! Bandai’s Ultimate Macross Toy!

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167: Japan's New Video Game Boom!

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166: Emmanuel Lewis vs. Capsule Robo G!

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165: Japan's Dragon Ball Economy, the Death of a Shibuya Department Store, Gojira-ya Surprise

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164: Japan's New Energy Crisis? Goodbye to Galaxy Express Anime Superstars!

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163: New Evangelion Anime! Record-Breaking Toy Auction! McDonald's Japan Raises Prices!

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162: The AI in Japan Episode!

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161: (Video) Live From the MEGA BULLMARK TOY EXHIBITION!

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160: Pure TokyoScope Podcast 160: Netflix x MAPPA x Anime! Akihabara Renovations! Sony to Spin off TV Business!

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159: Eight Million Ways to Happiness with Hiroko Yoda!

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158: W. David Marx on Popeye's Hello, Tokyo! English Edition!

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157: The Yoshikazu Yasuhiko Anime Art Gallery Experience!

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156: China Declares War on Japanese Pop Culture! Angel’s Egg 4K Anime Review!

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155: Godzilla Fest and Tamashii Nations 2025 Reports!

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154: UFO Robo Grendizer! Bear Attacks in Japan! RIP Tomonobu Itagaki!

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153: Give My Regards to Nakano Broadway!

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152: The Manga Legend Tracing Scandal!

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151: Live From SUPER FESTIVAL 92! Vintage Toy Insanity!

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150: Live from Jimbocho, The Coolest Neighborhood in the World!?

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149: Is the US Ready for Japanese 7-Elevens?

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148: The Rise of Toy "Kidults" in Japan! Cheap Trick Returns to Budokan!

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147: Deep Inside Shōnen Jump Magazine! Anime NYC Report! US-Japan Mail Chaos!

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146: Demon Slayer Destroys Japanese Cinemas!

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145: A Brief History of Conspiracy Theories in Japan!

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144: The Far Right in Japan Comes for Anime!

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143: Digging into the Streaming Anime Data!

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142: New Study Reveals Global Anime Boom! The Manga Disaster That Didn’t Happen! Fist of the North Star!

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141: The Overtourism in Japan Episode!

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140: Evangelion Star Attacks Rude Foreigners! Japan's Rice Shortage! Gobots!

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139: Surviving the Vintage Anime T-Shirt Craze! Hello Kitty Overtakes Toyota!

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138: The Japanese Food That Made Us!

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137: RIP Japan Video! The Micronauts Are Back! Manga Predicts Major Disaster!

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136: The Japanese Fiction That Made Us!

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135: The Masamune Shirow Expo! Fear & Loathing in Golden Week!

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134: Osaka Expo 2025! New Ghost in the Shell! How to Hard Off!

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133: The Ghibli Filter Effect! Anime Tariffs! The Rat in the Miso Soup!

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132: LIVE from the Space Battleship Yamato Anime Art Expo!

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131: Anno's Yamato Anime Exhibition! Japan's Vinyl Record Resurgence!

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130: Has Akihabara Lost Its Edge?

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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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120: VIDEO - Do the Akihabara!

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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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113: A New Cool Japan Proposal!

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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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107: A Toy-tastic Trip to Taiwan!

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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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103: How We Write!

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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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91: Live from Super Festival 88!

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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!