Patrick Macias
Book author, magazine editor, art director. Ex-Netflix & Crunchyroll. Repped by Hill Nadell Literary Agency. Lives in Tokyo. 作家・編集者・アートディレクター。 東京に住んでいます。
- Let's make Klingon Academy real!
- Space Battleship Yamato / Star Blazers underwear will get you the respect you deserve
- I got to the movies in #Tokyo a lot and Send Help was the first one in ages that the audience audibly laughed and gasped at.
- Tuesday
- TokyoScope News: New figures released Jan. 28 show how #anime overtook Hollywood at #Japan’s box office in 2025. Younger audiences, strong word of mouth, and event-style hits like Chainsaw Man and Demon Slayer changed moviegoing habits. Full story: www.tokyoscope.blog/p/how-anime-...
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- Reposted by Patrick MaciasJoin @patrickmacias.bsky.social and I in our first-ever commentary track together, for the classic 1972 Wandering Ginza Butterfly film series! Pre-order here: www.arrowvideo.com/p/blu-ray/wa...
- Now it can be sold! mattalt.bsky.social and I have made the leap from our Pure TokyoScope Podcast into providing a feature-length audio commentary + video extras for Arrow Video’s Wandering Ginza Butterfly Collection, starring Meiko Kaji + Sonny Chiba! Order here: www.arrowvideo.com/p/blu-ray/wa...
- Kawaii
- Ugh, those ugly robo mall cops are now patrolling Shibuya PARCO in #Tokyo. Gotta keep the Nintendo and Pokémon stores safe from super criminals, I guess... prtimes.jp/main/html/rd...
- TokyoScope News: Figures released Jan. 28 show #Japan’s 2025 box office hit an all-time high at ¥274B (≈$1.9B), led by Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle. #Anime dominated the top ten, with live-action hit Kokuho also ranking near the top. Full story: www.tokyoscope.blog/p/japans-box...
- Da real Pepsi Challenge
- Whups, I missed the Junji Ito Pop Up Store at Nakano Broadway by one day...
- The 1985 #anime film Odin: Photon Sailer Starlight is getting a new HD Blu-ray / DVD set that comes out in a few days. So everyone can update their "worst anime ever" con panels...
- Is this City Pop
- Choose your fighter
- Happy Birthday to my number one manga-ka in heaven, #LeijiMatsumoto (1938-2023)
- Dear Santa: gimme the new GHOST IN THE SHELL G-SHOCK. (¥15,400 / $98.00) theghostintheshell.jp/products/gho...
- I am always thinking about that picture of #TimBurton at the Robot Restaurant in #Tokyo
- The Akihabara UDX complex in #Tokyo, which symbolized the area’s shift from otaku culture to IT power (now tourism), is turning 20 years (!) old. Many businesses there, cafes and restaurants, are closing today for renovation. If you remember what AKB was like pre-UDX, congrads. You are an "oldtaku".
- Hot new looks for winter: New Devilman shirts from Gallery of Hakaba of #Japan animeanime.jp/article/2026...
- Now it can be sold! I wrote and recorded full-length audio commentaries for MESSAGE FROM SPACE (1978) and X-CROSS (2007), included in the new Out There by Toei Box Set from Umbrella Entertainment! shop.umbrellaent.com.au/products/out...
- Has anyone made a replica "Sushi Bar with Johnny Otaku" T-shirt as seen in the hit film Otaku Unite or have an original for sale (asking for a friend)?
- We lost Joe Shishido 6 years ago this week...
- Cursed item in my inventory
- Hot new looks for winter
- Yankii style is creeping back into the spotlight in #Japan. Following Netflix's Badly in Love, the new TV drama Yandoku! centers on a former female teen delinquent who turns her life around and becomes a neurosurgeon. Here's a pic of the cast. The series begins airing January 12.
- ITEM! I was interviewed and quoted in a recent piece on the state of the #anime industry by The Guardian www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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- Happy birthday to Japanese actress Kumi Mizuno (she's 89 years old today), best known globally for her apperances in the #Godzilla series and special effects films including Matango and Frankenstein vs Baragon..
- First time I've seen an AI generated "closed for New Years" poster in #Japan. Won't be the last, sadly...
- Happy #Godzilla Kakizome (New Year's calligraphy)
