Loved #Shogun 2024, but feels like they really dropped the ball with the love affair between Blackthorne and Mariko. I was hoping we'd get a flashback in the finale with more motivation and true feelings post-hookup, but no dice, and consequently, no passion.

Bad news for fans of Showa era architecture in #Japan : The demolition of the World Kaikan building behind Nakano Broadway in #Tokyo has finally begun.

#独身ＳａＹｏＮａＲａ ！ #バチェラー・パーティ

Hideaki Anno made a surprise visit to his own exhibition in Aichi #Japan .

Episode 88 of the Pure TokyoScope Podcast is live! This time, Matt Alt and myself recover from an Akihabara hangover, gab about the Joe Biden x Kishida x #YOASOBI mashup, and dive into the 1980's singing career of #Shogun ’s Hiroyuki Sanada! Listen now at tokyoscope.blog/p/pure-tokyosc…

MRI scan of your brain?

The famed statue of faithful dog Hachiko was first unveiled 90 years ago today in #Shibuya #Tokyo on 4/21, 1934! (Hachiko was still alive at that time, but passed away in 1935).

Long before he was the star of 'Shogun,' Hiroyuki Sanada was an idol singer! Patrick Macias and I take a look-back and listen at Sanada's singing career on the latest Pure Tokyoscope (@tokyo_scope) podcast! tokyoscope.blog/p/pure-tokyosc…

It's Record Store Day in #Japan today (420 bro) and the unsinkable #Ano is the campaign girl.

Episode 88 of the Pure TokyoScope Podcast is live! This time, Matt Alt and myself recover from an Akihabara hangover, gab about the Joe Biden x Kishida x #YOASOBI mashup, and dive into the 1980's singing career of #Shogun ’s Hiroyuki Sanada! Listen now at tokyoscope.blog/p/pure-tokyosc…

A recent article about Shibuya... 'Shibuya is no longer a 'young people's town'...A convincing reason why it is no longer 'fun'.

The article goes on to say, 'Shibuya's oppressive atmosphere is stressful, I'm fed up with being urged to consume just by being in the city.'

The super-sized #Godzilla projection mapping show at the #Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building in Shinjuku will be getting an upgrade with the addition of the classic anti-kaiju weapon Super X2 starting on April 27!

Weekend

Squad Goals

When people ask me what the #Showa era was like

Been waiting for Film Twitter to declare Keroyon's Adventure to be 'The Legendary Lost Media Japanese Classic You've Never Heard Of!' Been waiting for a while.

Japanese children's book illustrator Seiji Fujishiro is a happy 100 years old today. He also created the much-loved frog character Keroyon who created a merch boom from the 1960s-1970s.