Season 9, Episode 14: Legendary Tale of the Epic Saga (Part 1) (Patreon)

On MSB this week, SD Gundam Matsuri takes us back to the medieval world of Suda Doaka for a new saga of good versus evil, Thom finds it impossible to be objective about medieval mecha, and Nina profiles composer Okada Tohru!

Show Notes

Egyptomania in Japan?

• Japanese Wikipedia page for 王家の谷 (おうけのたに/Ouke no Tani), The Valley of the Kings in Egypt, and English Wikipedia page detailing the various international exhibitions of artifacts from the tomb of Tutankhamun (including the very well attended on in Japan in 1965 and '66).
• Tokupedia (tokusatsu fandom) page for the 1991 live-action Toei show, 不思議少女ナイルなトトメス (Fushigi Shōjo Nairu na Totomesu / Mysterious Nile Girl Thutmose).
• Website of The Ancient Egyptian Museum Shibuya Tokyo (古代エジプト美術館).
• Bassir, Hussein. "Egyptomania in Japan!" 19 Jan 2019. Discusses a little bit of the history of Egyptology in Japan, as well as more recent scholarship and excavations. Accessed 18 Dec 2023.

岡田徹 / Okada Tohru

• Wikipedia (Japanese), IMDB, and Anime News Network Encyclopedia pages for Okada Tohru (岡田徹). 
• Okada's Twitter and Instagram accounts.
• Profile of Okada Tohru's father, Okada Minoru (岡田実), the sports announcer.
• Japanese Wikipedia page for the band ムーンライダーズ (moonriders). 
• Page about the term 打ち込み (uchikomi) as used in music production, which credits Okada with coining the term. 
• A couple of Okada's anime credits - 電影少女 VIDEO GIRL AI (Video Girl Ai) and 機動戦士SDガンダム (SD Gundam). 
• Obituaries for Okada from TV Asahi (Japanese), Oricon (Japanese), Kotaku, and Anime News Network.
• JASRAC (Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers) search page.
• Articles about Okada/moonriders by music critic 宗像明将 (Munekata Akimasa):
  -- moonrider's new work and live performances (「新曲披露、そして新作へ――平均年齢69歳、日本現存最古のロックバンド・ムーンライダーズ ライヴレポ」、Dec 28, 2021) Yahoo! Japan News
  -- continuing evolution as a band coming out of their long hiatus (「2022年のmoonridersは“今”を生きていた　月夜の日比谷野音で目撃した明確な進化」、Mar 25, 2022) Real Sound
  -- and an obituary for Okada (「追悼・岡田徹――最後までムーンライダーズのステージでキーボードを弾き続けた彼のポップスの魔術に捧げる」、Feb 23, 2023) Yahoo! Japan News
• Spotify Artist pages for Okada:
  -- this one seems to be just his anime tracks, under the name Tohru Okada
  -- this one has 2 of his 5 solo albums, and 1 single, under the name Toru Okada
  -- and here, a third solo album is listed under the name 岡田 徹
  -- See his Wikipedia page for a complete discography - the man was in too many bands for me to link them all here!

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