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Hot Tears of Shame TV - Tokyo Robot Restaurant

 

Matt Alt and Patrick Macias discover a magical world of enchantment at the world famous Robot Restaurant in Tokyo's Kabukicho district!

PODCAST: HOT TEARS OF SHAME x Episode 40

The year is 2X0X…A Counter ESPY teleportation experiment goes haywire and rockets Patrick Macias into an alternate universe where he resides in a Tokyo2 luxury apartment known only as “Chogokin Heights”. The resulting reality vacuum also pulls in man-beast Matt Alt who – together with Patrick – vows justice on the streets of Roppongi leading to explosive warfare, horrendous violence, uncontrollable lust and supernatural forces beyond comprehension.

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Tokyo Terminal Diary 1

HOT TEARS OF SHAME TV - You Be Ilenena

Hot Tears of Shame TV - Inside Mandarake anime cel store

Hot Tears of Shame TV - Inside ALL MAN manga!

PODCAST: HOT TEARS OF SHAME x Episode 39

Supposed Former Otackers Pat and Matt search in vain for the toy show at the Kichijoji Anime Wonderland, witness a spectacular musical performance, make a hard pitch for their new web, TV, and book projects, break into a house, and tell heart-warming tales of life and hearty food at Abashiri Prison.

$49.95, LD-CLV, Sub, HiFi Mono 

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Hot Tears of Shame #39

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 THE TOYS!

 THE BAND!

 THE CREEPY BALLOON CLOWNS!

Podcast: Hot Tears of Shame x Episode Thirty Eight

Show notes and shitz tomorrow morning. I'm tired and hafta fold laundry... 

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Vcinema Podcast #005 - Yakuzathon #1

Hey, there's an interview with me in the new episode of the Vcinema podcast talking about yakuza movies, tattooed hit men, TokyoScope 2 (!???!?), the New People lecture series and hot stuff like that. Link here. 

Podcast: Hot Tears of Shame x Episode Thirty-Seven

Episode 37: "i here the Nakano Broadway center period."

Madness and mayhem ensue as officers Matt Alt, W. David Marx, and Patrick Macias climb into a heavily armored Go! Go! Patocar and make for Nakano, Asakusa, and points in-between.  Blood curdling screams are heard as the trio fill out illegible surveys, search high and low to find the legendary Lost Apartments of Nakano Broadway, and barely avoid being killed by a Shambling Mound.

$39.95, LD-CLV/CAV, Sub, HiFi Mono 

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Néojaponisme Podcast: Harajuku Requiem

Sometime in November, Marxy of Néojaponisme and Patrick Macias — author of such books as Cruising the Anime City: An Otaku Guide to Neo Tokyo and Japanese Schoolgirl Inferno: Tokyo Teen Fashion Subculture Handbook — met in Inokashira Park and recorded a very long podcast about Harajuku and the past, present, and future of Japanese fashion. The result spans over an hour and twenty minutes, and yes, we edited out a lot of the boring parts. Hear Marxy talk about the minutiae of his first visits to A Bathing Ape in 1998. Hear P. Macias talk about the high-pressure sales staff at Shibuya 109-2. Good news: it ends on an optimistic note.

Intro song: “1996″ by Cornelius
Ending song: “Volunteer Ape Man (Disco)” by Cornelius

Download: Harajuku Requiem: Marxy x Patrick Macias on Tokyo Fashion Past and Present

Podcast: Hot Tears of Shame x Episode Thirty-Six

Episode 36: TREMENDOUS KNIGHTS!

This is the story of young astronaut soldiers (Patrick Macias & Matt Alt, actually) struggling for love…peace…and to trade in their worldly goods for chump change at Nakano Broadway.

They lived together, laughed together, and drank Old Crow together.

The heroic figure of the 1/350 scale SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO model kit will live in the hearts of people forever. Unless some gaijin assholes try to sell it first... 

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Podcast: Hot Tears of Shame x Episode Thirty-Five

PARTICIPANTS
Patrick Macias - editor in chief, OTAKU USA magazine
Patrick W. Galbraith - author, The Otaku Encyclopedia
Renato Rivera - PhD. Student at Kyoto University
Adrian Lozano - co-founder, Otaku2.com

DISCUSSION TOPICS
Can otaku content spread to the mainstream?
Otaku subculture vs. mainstream anime and manga
Divisions within the otaku community
Moe and new models of creativity
Otaku power, sexuality, and identification
Ukiyo-e: 2010 is 1910
Japan as “the Other”
Pachinko!
Anime as nationalist propaganda machine
Galgames and the end of the Japanese game industry

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Podcast: Hot Tears of Shame x Episode Thirty-Four

From the official Nakano Broadway website...

NAKANO　BROADWAY　WELCOMES　FOREIGN　VISITORS

Nakano Broadway strives to always be lively and foreigner friendly. NAKANO　SHOP　ONWERS　ARE　ALWAYS　POSITIVE.　This Multilingual　Information　website shows　their　gratitude to foreign shoppers. ‘Yokoso　Nakano’　You are always welcome!!

That is...until a shop owner goes insane and accuses Matt Alt and "Patty Mac" of a crime they did not commit!!!

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You guys, try to move the bar

Hey I was on the Anime 3000 podcast talking about all things TOKUSATSU (Godzilla, Ultraman, Kamen Rider, Sentai, etc). Here is the link to the show.

Now pardon moi, but I'm going to go and watch the Denziman movie (above) now.

Podcast: Hot Tears of Shame x Episode Thirty-Three

Attention all Laser Disc and Old Magazine Otaku! Here is the complete audio of my lecture last week as delivered at California State University at Monterey Bay. While some of this territory was covered before in my speech earlier this year at Temple University Japan Campus, there’s a lot of new stuff here (including sections on American fandom and Hating the Otaku Wave) in this one hour-long recording.

Disclaimer: this lecture is not really about The Drifting Classroom manga...

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Solar Crisis

Yeah, so I was a guest on the Anime300o podcast last week, talking about something that is incredibly vital to man's continued survival on this planet: THE STATE OF THE ANIME INDUSTRY. Anyway, here's the pitch and the link...

Anime 3000 Panel - S02E01 - State of the Anime Industry

In the past six months, we’ve seen various anime companies fold under the weight of an economic recession as well as a decrease in demand from anime and manga consumers. This week we will discuss what role digital distribution has played in the success and failure of anime sales and print media. Will we witness a mainstreaming of anime in America, or will we see a decrease in hardcore anime fandom? Additionally, well forecast the future of the anime industry. Our panel this week includes Patrick Macias, Justin Sevakis and Michael Pinto. 

Néojaponisme podcast: THE TONKATSU TAPES

Via neojaponisme.com

According to Japanamerica author Roland Kelts, Patrick Macias is “an American otaku and blogger extraordinaire.” More accurately, he is the author of multiple books in both English and Japanese and currently the Editor-in-Chief of Otaku USA. Mr. Macias was in Tokyo a few weeks back, and we met over a discount tonkatsu lunch to talk about the state of Japanese recession and the current yankii cultural takeover. Luckily, a recording device captured our dialogue (and my total inability to enunciate words or complete sentences).

So please enjoy the hour-long mp3!

Download: The Tonkatsu Tapes: Marxy vs. Patrick Macias on Japanese Recessionary Culture

Podcast: Hot Tears of Shame -€“ Episode Thirty Two

Lost in a haze of bad Xanax and good jetlag, Pat and Matt break into Bandai HQ by way of a rickshaw in Asakusa. The B-club has airlifted a priceless toy robot over from the states to spice up a corporate event in Akihabara and the Otackers want a piece of the action! But a mysterious ticket stub hidden away in an old toy box quickly leads them astray on a newer and deadlier mission in darkest Kuramae.

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Podcast: Hot Tears of Shame -€“ Episode Thirty One

Post-humans, put on yer thinking caps! Here’s the complete audio of my “Otaku Power – Trivia, Desire, and Transformation” lecture as delivered at Temple University Japan Campus on March 13, 2009. Thanks to the Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies and the TUJC anime club for inviting me over, making it happen, and for the hot slices afterwards.

Sorry you can’t see the pictures that make up the visual portion of the presentation, but above is the Keeper: a key image from Kaichiro Morikawa’s book “Learning from Akihabara – The Birth of a Personapolis” (Gentosha, 2003).

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