Look Out, There’s A Monster Coming – and it may be a fake!

Veteran kaiju collector Nabe Yakan sits in front of shelves lined with some of his treasures - colourful and now highly valuable plastic toys depicting kaiju and tokusatsu characters. Nabe wears black trousers, grey slippers and a black and white T-Shirt with the logo GODZILLA in bright red behind an image of the King of the Monsters, and holds a toy in each hand.

Vintage kaiju toys are achieving astonishing prices at auction – but that’s an incentive for sharks to gather. How can you know when you’re buying the real thing? And providing you think it’s beautiful, cute or otherwise life-enhancing and the price isn’t a rip-off, do you care? #PatrickMacias shares FRIDAY magazine’s report on #Tokyoscope https://www.tokyoscope.blog/p/vintage-kaiju-toys-in-japan-reach […]

The Only Way Is Ethics! The Manga Bible on the Superhero Ethics podcast

Superhero Ethics episode banner: a classical bluegrey heroic statue forms the background for the podcast logo and episode title.

I’m with Matthew Fox on the Superhero Ethics podcast. We talked manga and #TheMangaBible and I had a great time. Full disclosure: since you can’t talk ethics (or manga, or superheroes) without also talking politics, especially when talking in 2026 to a host who lives in Minnesota, a little political comment is involved, The show […]