FULL EPISODE! This time on the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, authors Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) celebrate the 50th anniversary of UFO Robo Grendizer, the 1975 anime series that became a global sensation! Also, RIP to Ninja Gaiden creator Tomonobu Itagaki, and a brief history of fatal bear attacks in Japan!
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