Takoyaki Party Takoyaki Party

On this episode, we talk about the 29th single’s album art, early handshake event sales, 5chan idol fan drama, Pikarun and Yunanan’s graduations, photobook drama, and more!
If you have a question or comment for the podcast, you can leave it in the comments section on Youtube, or email us at nmbtakoyaki.party@gmail.com
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Time Stamps


0:00 - Intro, Hay Fever, getting disappointed by oshis, getting flamed on 5chan
8:48 - 29th Single gets a title, album art, and more
22:00 - Yamamoto Hikaru announces graduation
26:42 - Hayakawa Yuna announces graduation
37:36 - NMB officially selected as official supporters for the Osaka Expo
39:11 - NMB will perform at Shikoku Hosou Festival
42:20 - NMB members will be competing in the 48 Group Singing Contest
45:08 - New Joshin commercial
48:56 - Sumino Wakana is releasing a photobook
53:10 - 29th Single first two rounds of sales results
1:03:12 - 10th generation audition showroom bullsh*t
1:10:28 - Idol Shikkaku special podcast planning, outro

We finally have details on NMB’s 29th single and spend a long time picking apart the senbatsu choices. We also spend some time talking about all the random jobs NMB members have coming up, Final Fantasy VII, 101 Dalmatians, and more!
 
If you have a question or comment for the podcast, you can leave it in the comments section on Youtube, or email us at nmbtakoyaki.party@gmail.com
 
Hang out with all the other international NMB fans on Discord!
http://discord.gg/nmbfans
 
Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts at.
 
You can find English subs for Idol Shikkaku on the Teppen Subs blog as well as other subbed NMB content.
 
https://teppensubteam.tumblr.com/
 
 
0:00: Intro, 101 Damatians, FF7 talk

4:51 - 29th single details finally announced
 
1:03:55 - BREAK
 
1:04:00 - Furukawa Yukino goes on hiatus
 
1:06:22 - TEPPEN Radio now on podcast feeds and Spotify
 
1:11:20 - Jungle Radio host shuffle
 
1:15:12 - Nagisa Graduation Concert Blu-Ray Set Release Event
 
1:19:05 - NMB members at Red Cross blood drive event
 
1:22:47 - Karen and Mako at Osaka Cerezo soccer team pre-game event, Kojirin on Ganba soccer team show
 
1:25:47 - Kojirin will have a 3rd solo concert
 
1:27:36 - NMB will be at Osaka Comic Con 2024
 
1:37:34 - NMB on a TV Quiz Show special
 
1:40:53 - andMikana Vol. 2
 
1:42:40 - Boomer News at Kansai Collection and more
 
1:47:23 - BREAKING NEWS! The other Tetra song music video is up! 
 
1:47:47 - Outro, what’s going on in Namba?

It’s the 100th episode of Takoyaki Party! And we celebrate by… having barely anything to talk about. We make up for the news drought by going into a deep discussion of the first half of the Idol Shikkaku TV drama, predict the upcoming single senbatsu lineup, and as a special treat for this episode milestone we rank NMB’s current singles and album releases.
 
If you have a question or comment for the podcast, you can leave it in the comments section on Youtube, or email us at nmbtakoyaki.party@gmail.com
 
If you want to join the REAL NMB48 International Fan Club here is the discord link.
http://discord.gg/nmbfans
 

 
You can find English subs for Idol Shikkaku on the Teppen Subs blog as well as other subbed NMB content.
 
https://teppensubteam.tumblr.com/
 
 
 
0:00 - Intro
5:11 - NMB48 Midnight Radio
 
7:22 - Nagisa Graduation Concert Blu-Ray Release Announcement
 
12:00 - Sakata Misaki takes Nagisa’s guest spot on the Dodame TV show
 
13:30 - Team N will appear on BS Yoshimoto’s show “Raibara,” also current Team N sucks
 
16:15 - Team B2 will perform at the Maneki Neko Japan Idol Fes on 3/13
 
18:40 - NMB will perform at NIG fes on 3/29
 
19:17 - NMB started selling extra theater show tickets through Ticket Pia
 
23:10 - Koitako smartphone game is shutting down
 
24:58 - Anju and Mako ran in the Osaka Marathon
 
26:41 - Idol Shikkaku recap, we get kinda spoilery around 29:00
 
42:20 - Talking about the original songs in Idol Shikkaku
 
46:36 - More Idol Shikkaku spoiler talk
 
53:22 - Next single senbatsu predictions
 
1:04:17 - BREAK
 
1:04:25 - 100th episode special ranking of all NMB singles and albums
 
1:45:25 - Outro, call for action, comments, questions, feedback

It’s the first Takoyaki Party of 2024 and we spend almost half of it catching up on 2023! We go over the voting results from the Golden Takoyaki Awards, talk about NMB’s drama for normies Idol Shikkaku, share our highlights from YNN’s 24hr stream, talk about NMB’s New Year to go WORLDWIDE, tour NMB's Costume Exhibition, and we evaluate 9th gen’s first year with the group. Beware! You have entered the Hot Takes Zone!
 
If you have a question or comment for the podcast, you can leave it in the comments section on Youtube, or email us at nmbtakoyaki.party@gmail.com
 
If you want to join the REAL NMB48 International Fan Club here is the discord link.
 
http://discord.gg/nmbfans
 
 
0:00 - Intro
3:55 - Golden Takoyaki Awards results
26:00 - Maeda Reiko graduation announcement
35:01 - Idol Shikkaku gets a drama adaptation
58:48 - YNN 24hr Stream Highlights
1:06:55 - New Year’s Show and Theater Megami Ranking
1:08:45 - New Group Visual Image Senbatsu Members
1:20:54 - Special Theater Ticket Sales for Inbound Overseas Tourists
1:26:03 - International Fan Club Site for International NMB Fans Announced
1:27:55 - 10th Generation Auditions Announced
1:29:05 - New Original NMB Theater Stage Announced
1:31:44 - 29th Single Announced for Spring… no further details
1:32:23 - Mocchan finally graduated!
1:33:37 - Misaki is going to study abroad in England!
1:41:17 - NMB at Japan Idol Fes
1:42:54 - Kojirin had her solo concert
1:45:37 - Yayoi is in a play, Geoff will tell us all about it
1:49:40 - 9th Gen 1st Anniversary Show and 1st year in review

It’s time for our annual end of the year awards show. This time Matt, Aruda, and Geoff are joined by members of the community Arkasas and Logic to talk about everything good, bad, and ugly in the world of NMB48 this year. This year, each of us chose a winner which would be placed in the nominee pool for the fan community to vote on. You can participate in the vote by filling out this Google Form.
 
Golden Takoyaki Awards 2023 Voting Form
 
https://forms.gle/Jyin6dDWKjazGhZR6
 
0:00 - Intro
 
3:27 - The Least Bad Birthday Shirt Award
 
13:30 - The Lifetime Ban from Tokyo Girls Collection Award
 
23:30 - The Sayaka Sonic Memorial Award
 
38:02 - The Shibuya Nagisa Memorial Award
 
45:12 - The Ryan Memorial Award
 
53:04 - Teppen Subs Presents The Best Show Award That May or May Not Have Been Subbed By Teppen Subs
 
1:03:50 - The Seishun no Laptime Memorial Award (It’s Actually Dead This Year)
 
1:12:53 - Worst Song of 2023
 
1:27:10 - Best Song of 2023
 
1:45:38 - Best New Member
 
2:10:48 - Most Improved Member
 
2:33:06 - The Sadharu Memorial Award (But She’s Still in the Group)
 
3:06:20 - The Yamamoto Sayaka Memorial Award
 
 

Due to scheduling issues we did a guerrilla style approach to covering Nagisa's graduation concert by talking about it over dinner. Apologies for the background noise and the less than stellar quality. Let us know in the comments what your favorite moments from the concerts were!

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