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Make Believe Bonus: 10 Things To Watch From Japanese Pop Culture In 2025 (NewsPicks)
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Make Believe Bonus: 2015 Live Report Jamboree
Pulling Some Dispatches From A Decade Ago Out Of The Digital Ether


Make Believe Bonus: "Valentine's Radio"
A Few Variations On A Valentine's Favorite


Make Believe Bonus: Tokyo Swindlers
The Show And The Soundtrack


Make Believe Bonus: The Church
I Broke A Glass Here Accidentally So I'll Probably Never Go Back...But You Should!


Make Believe Bonus: Five Extra Japanese Releases Of 2024
Not Quite Ready To Let Go Of Last Year
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Make Believe Bonus: [Alexandros] From Fuji Rock Festival 2015
I...Don't Do Many Interviews At The Event Anymore
Reinventing A Medium: What American Pop Culture Can Learn From Manga
Joshua Pantalleresco examines the world of manga, and how the western pop culture industries could learn from its perennial successes.


Make Believe Bonus: Camp Foster Festival
CeeLo Green...Is The War Machine


Make Believe Bonus: Love And Berry
Perfect Young Ladies


Make Believe Bonus: K-Arena Yokohama
A New Landmark For Live Music


Make Believe Bonus: NHK Broadcast Center
Watching The Kohaku Announcement Spectacle In Person


Make Believe Bonus: Tower Records Shinjuku
From Experiences To Tourism


Make Believe Bonus: Tokyo Garden Theater
Come For Malls, Stay For Emotionally Raw Encores


Make Believe Bonus: Ramen Jazzy Beats
Reckoning With Nakameguro


Make Believe Bonus: Shibuya's Last Saturday
Chaos In Front Of The Family Mart


Make Believe Bonus: Osaka Record Store Guide
A Stroll Down My Old Life (And Many Places You Should Visit Now)


Make Believe Bonus: "Ghibli Style" AI (Newspicks)
You Wanted Less Control, Right?


Make Believe Bonus: Hololive Super Expo 2025
Screaming Screaming Screaming


“Pop” Culture
This is one seriously deranged offering. This is a very binary show: either you like it a lot or you hate it a lot. You also need to…


Make Believe Bonus: Technique At Fourth Floor II
Underground Nostalgia


Make Believe Bonus: Oshi No Ko Season 2
The Joy Of Creation


Make Believe Bonus: SCANDAL Interview (MTV Iggy 2015)
Journalism Can Be A Challenge!


Make Believe Bonus: Hiromi Go At Belluna Dome
Somehow, my second time seeing Hiromi Go perform after a baseball game


Make Believe Bonus: TWICE Treats At Family Mart
SELL THE SOCKS IN BIGGER SIZES!


Make Believe Bonus: Shibuya / Shinjuku Halloween Weekend 2024
Kabukicho Is Always Kind Of A Zombie Wasteland


Make Believe Bonus: Retroriron At EX Theater Roppongi
"Hot Dog Classic"


Documentaries on Japanese Pop Culture: “Tokyo Idols”
Publisher: KimStim (USA) Format: Region 1 DVD, NTSC, Japanese Dialogue with English Subtitles Length: 92 minutes Production Date: 2...


Make Believe Bonus: PAS TASTA At Spotify O-EAST
A Thrill To End The Year


Make Believe Bonus: Utada Hikaru At Yoyogi National Gymnasium
What Makes Utada Utada


Make Believe Bonus: Racing Into The Bite Part 2
Eating The YOASOBI Curry I Found At A Bookstore


Make Believe Bonus "Kimi No Iro" ("The Colors Within")
Or, How I Was Coaxed To Finally Check Out "K-On!"


Make Believe Bonus: A Night Out, In One Hour
Extended Flo Rida Remix...Please, I Have A Family


Make Believe Mailer #133: Make Believe Melodies' 100 Favorite Japanese Albums Of 2024
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When pop culture meets culture war
Dragon Quest III HD-2D and the pitfalls of producing content in a polarized world


From Nintendo to Hello Kitty, Chatting About Japanese Pop Culture w. Matt Alt
Matt Alt is a localizer of Japanese games and manga. Together with Hiroko Yoda he founded the localization company AltJapan and has authored multiple books on
Five Years On; Anime Feminist Vs Japanese Pop Culture
Well, as you can see, not a great deal of writing is getting done for this blog. To be honest, I have put the blog on hold for…
The Melancholic Middle Aged Anime Fan
Case Closed, After the Rain, Horimiya, Kill la Kill, Ristorante Paradiso


How American Culture Influenced Anime?
There is a good reason why anime has become quite popular today as there are a lot of different high-quality animated shows produced by Japan. In that regard,…


Make Believe Bonus: Songs That Should Have Been On Music Magazine's Best 100 J-pop Songs Of The 2010s
Why won't anyone think about Radio Fish!?!?


Make Believe Bonus: Colorful Stage! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing
Featuring A Review Of The Hatsune Miku Churro


An “American” Holiday
Hello everyone. I decided to celebrate fourth of July by speaking my mind about why I absolutely do not feel like celebrating fourth of July, and it’s in…


Pure TokyoScope PODCAST #73: Japanese Pop Culture Strikes Back! Earthquakes! Airplane!
Patrick Macias and Matt Alt bring you pop culture from Japan


Make Believe Bonus: Sauna Sounds Volume 2: Matsumoto-yu, Rooftop, Asagaya Onsen Tentokusen
The Perfect Season To Start Zoning Out In


Make Believe Bonus: AprilBlue, UTERO, Lipstick And Blurred City Lights At Koenji High
Shoegazin' In The New Year


Make Believe Bonus: A Ranking Of All Zepp Venues In The Tokyo Area
You Aren't Getting Out Of This One Unscathed, Zepp Haneda


Loli Pop Culture: The great divide
Twice now I've been called on my labeling of anime characters as lolis, when I thought I was near-certain that they were. And aside from l...
What is eternity doing tonight? - an anime blog
Kodomo no Jikan, OZ, Shakugan no Shana, Shuffle!, Cardcaptor Sakura


Fan Content and Pop Culture References
The Impact of Akira on pop culture is still noticeable today in many different forms. One of the most notable has to be Kanye West’s official music video,…