Takoyaki Party

On this episode, we talk about Yuzu's graduation announcement and her gravure legacy. We also talk about some photobooks, and we make our predictions for the upcoming NMB concerts.

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0:00 - Intro

1:40 - Hongo Yuzuha Announced Graduation

28:54 - Kato Yuuka Photobook Announced

42:41 - Wakapon Photobook Recap

1:03:18 - New Joshin Commercial

1:09:40 - NMB Koshien Gourmet Ambassadors

1:12:13 - NMB on CDTV

1:15:07 - Lifestyle with DOGS event

1:17:31 - NMB13 Pac-Man Game

1:21:37 - NMB Good Spoon Cafe is Back

1:29:59 - Jungle Radio Updates

1:33:04 - Kobe Collection Showroom Bullsh*t

1:37:04 - NMB's New Variety Shows: Bachi Bachi NMB48 and Mera Mera NMB48

1:44:43 - NMB Spring Concert and Request Hour Predictions

On this edition of Takoyaki Party we wrap up our coverage of NMB48's new album and we go in-depth on some events we attended, the metaverse, baseball, T-shirts, and how to smuggle out used handshake gloves.

If you have a question or comment for the show you post it in the comments section on Youtube or email us at [email protected]

You can also hang out with the International NMB48 Fan Community on Discord

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0:00 - Intro

2:35 - NMB13 Album 1st week sales numbers

10:46 - Album B-side tracks discussion

44:27 - Cheering at theater shows is back!

47:28 - NMB Theater Show in the METAVERSE

51:19 - NMB Request Hour Info

1:01:47 - Various NMB promotions on TV, radio, restaurants

1:07:25 - Hirugata NMB and Yuugata NMB ending

1:16:20 - Sakatan TV spot

1:17:24 - Hara Karen will throw the opening pitch for Orix Buffaloes first game

1:25:05 - NMB members will be ambassadors for Osaka Comic Con 2023

1:33:38 - NMB UP-T T-shirt Contest

1:46:48 - BREAK

1:47:21 - Event Reports: Hello Music Festival

1:56:39 - NIG Fes

1:58:05 - Event Reports: Theater Shows

2:21:00 - Event Reports: Store Manager Tour In Osaka and Tokyo

2:41:00 - Event Reports: Handshake Event in Yokohama

3:15:00 - Outro

On this episode, we give our hot takes on the title track for NMB's upcoming album Done as well as talk about the music video and the information about the other new songs in the album. We also talk about the news about handshake events returning, cheers hopefully returning, and the upcoming spring concerts. And in the back half we talk about all the wonderful things that 9th gen has been doing this past month including their brand new theater show that was produced by Yuumin.

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Online & Offline Handshake Sign Up Guide

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How to Get Tickets for NMB Theater

https://youtu.be/GpdlAcb-lDs

0:00 - Intro

2:19 - NMB13 Album Done Impressions

27:45 - Coupling track announcement discussion

37:56 - Handshake events are coming back!

57:36 - NMB Spring Concert and Request Hour announced

1:02:21 - Cheering at concerts coming back… soon?

1:10:36 - Wakapon is getting a photobook

1:14:54 - NMB "Virtual" Theater Show for Osaka Expo

1:16:43 - NMB performing at some art and music and dog show in April

1:17:47 - 9th Gen Live Stream Mini-Camp

1:30:27 - Ishida Yuumi Produced 9th Gen Stage Impressions

1:54:30 - Outro, Plugs

Happy New Year everyone! We're back for the 2023 and we have a whole lot of stuff to catch up on including NMB's 4th album, 9th generation debuting, NMB's annual new year show, a new theater stage as well as a discussion on the state of theater shows and the lack of attendance. We also pick out our highlights from the YNN 24hr TV special and much more!

If you have a question or comment for the show, you can post it in the comments section or email us at [email protected]

If you want to get involved with International NMB48 community there is a discord server https://discord.gg/nmbfans

0:00 - Intro

12:20 - NMB Rooms Individual Fan Clubs

23:05 - Okamoto Rena Announces Graduation

39:06 - Nakano Mirai Announces Graduation

43:04 - Team BII will perform at Hello Festival in March

46:08 - The Showroom Bulls**t Saga Conclusion

50:10 - New Year's Day Special Show

54:47 - NMB's 4th Album Announced

1:45:41 - 9th Generation is Here!

2:16:42 - Nambvariety Stage

2:44:30 YNN 24hr TV

Welcome to the Golden Takoyaki Awards 2022. This is our annual end of the year award show where we look back on the year and discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly. We have various categories and we spend an extremely long time talking about our winners along with comments submitted from the International NMB Fan community. Let us know what you think of our picks and the format of the categories in the comments. You can also email us at [email protected] You can also chat with all the international NMB fans in Discord discord.gg/nmbfans 0:00 - Intro

2:13 - Best Member Member Birthday Shirt

19:33 - Worst Member Birthday Shirt 30:17 - Best Show/Stream 47:10 - Best YouTube Channel 1:01:01 - Best TikTok Account 1:24:05 - Best Concert/Live Event of 2022 1:36:07 - Warukii of the Year 1:42:08 - Best Trend of 2022 2:08:16 - Worst Trend of 2022 2:38:35 - BREAK 2:39:05 - Best Old Song of 2022 2:57:00 - Best Song of 2022 3:16:04 - Worst Song of 2022 3:24:53 - Spotlight Stealer of 2022 3:44:55 - Rookie of the Year 2022 4:08:22 - Most Disappointing Member of 2022 4:34:55 - Most Improved Member of 2022 4:56:19 - MVP of 2022

In this shortish episode of the podcast, we catch up on some end of the year headlines as we reach the end of 2022 and get ready for the annual awards special, The Golden Takoyaki Awards. We also have a few event reports to cover and we close out the year with our predictions for the next single senbatsu. If you would like to submit your winners in the community portion of the awards, you can do so by filling out this Google Form. https://forms.gle/rx4kTbZaRHNHRBjH9 If you have a question or comment for the show, you share it in the comments section or email us at [email protected] Discord discord.gg/nmbfans 0:00 - Intro

4:05 - Podcast housekeeping, Golden Takoyaki Awards promotion

5:24 - YNN 24hr Stream Announced 10:20 - Showroom Bullsh*t: Tokyo Girls Collection Wakayama Contest and the Bis Final Contest 16:05 - Hayakawa Yuna Starts A YouTube Channel 18:56 - Izumi Ayano Starts A TikTok 20:21 - Shinshin and Mikana will be in Kansai Collection 24:02 - NMB Theater Will Be Opening Up the First Row of Seats 27:32 - NMB Members Will Be Joining AKB48's Singing Contest 30:16 - Event Report: Matt & Geoff Go to An Osaka Rugby Match with NMB Members 39:01 - Event Report: Matt Goes to Team N and BII theater shows 43:29 - Ayapyon Did A Splatoon 3 Livestream 44:47 - Event Report: Geoff Went to Chihhi's Kanmuri Solo Theater Show 52:40 - Anju and Aipi Kanmuri Theater Show 53:54 - Online Call Reports 57:55 - 28th Single Senbatsu Predictions

Slow month this time as there's not a whole lot major announcements here. We make up for it with a slew of event reports including the in-person and online hanashikai events. We also catch up on some music shows and livestreams that NMB was on this past month, We take a deep dive in the growing conspiracy involving the stealth marketing campaign for Wakapon's novel and how it correlates with the big Okada Nana scandal. And we tease our plans for the upcoming Golden Takoyaki Awards and more! If you would like to email the show you can do so by sending it to [email protected] You can also find us at the NMB Fans discord server at https://discord.gg/nmbfans If you like the show and want to support it, give us a review on Apple Podcasts and tell a friend. 0:00 - Intro

3:21 - NMB48 is Changing record labels to Universal Music

10:04 - NMB Japan Post New Year's Card Promotion 12:11 - Namba Comedy Theater Show Postponed 13:25 - Showroom Bullsh*t Bis Contest 15:47 - Chihhi New Corner Brought to You By Geoff 17:28 - Some Basketball Event with Mako and Rei 19:40 - NMB Members Shilling Stuff on Aeon Home Shopping Network Streams 22:29 - Miochi is in a play with former NMB members 24:42 - Special NMB Cover of Ray's Idol Beauty Book, NMB EMO Girl magazine 27:20 - NMB on Best Hits Kayosai 35:44 - NMB on MUSIC KAMMER 40:17 - Mini NAMBATTLE 7th gen vs. 8th gen 44:27 - Aipi, Anju Special Theater Show and Chihhi Special Theater Show 46:48 - 8th Gen Werewolf Stream 48:13 - NMB Splatoon 3 Stream 50:00 - Regular NMB Game Stream Series With Fingger Hosted By Wakapon and Guests 52:02 - Sports Kingdom Members Play Flag Football for BS Yoshimoto Channel 53:38 - BREAK 53:45 - In-Person REAL Hanashikai Event Report 1:22:41 - Online Hanashikai Event Report 1:29:17 - PSA Last Round of Hanashikai Sales Is Happening! 1:31:00 - Analyzing Hanashikai Sales Data 1:38:53 - Wakapon's Novel Release Event Report and the Insane Marketing Campaign 1:47:21 - Geoff Went to Some Chihhi Events 2:01:27 - End of the Year Schedule for the Podcast

12th anniversary is behind us and we spend about 3 hours talking about all 6ish concerts in great detail, as well as event reports, recent news, and more!

0:00 - Intro

24:30 - 12th Anniversary Concert Hop, Step, Jump Mushi 1:36:01 - Under Live 1:59:23 - THIS IS NMB48 Concert in Tokyo 2:49:35 - Sign Kai Report in Shibuya 2:55:42 - New Costumes! 3:01:29 - Fuuwa Transferred to Team N, Mocchan Transferred to Team M 3:12:28 - Showroom Bullsh*t Ayapyon for Bis 3:15:30 - Tower Records Namba Closing and Being Relocated 3:18:49 - Hori Shion Will Stop Performing Due to Health Issues 3:20:08 - Hongo Yuzuha is back from her "hiatus" 3:21:08 - Wakapon Book Promotion Event 3:23:58 - End of the Year Predictions

We're back with another shortish check-in on the latest happenings with NMB48. Sukida Mushi is finally out so we give our thoughts on all the songs and music videos from that single and discuss the sales numbers for the real and online talk events. There's also some more info coming out in the lead up to 12th anniversary including some Tokyo events as well as some things that we can expect from the concerts. There's some 9th generation news, some events that NMB members participated in, and more! If you have a question or comment you'd like to have read on the show you can send it to us by emailing [email protected] or post in the comment section of the YouTube version. NMB48 International Discord https://discord.gg/FGfdynt​ TEPPEN Subs https://teppensubteam.tumblr.com​ https://twitter.com/TeppenSubTeam?s=20 Twitter: Aruda: https://twitter.com/darklordaziz Geoff: https://twitter.com/GeoFreak17​ Matt: https://twitter.com/supermattoworld​

0:00 Intro

3:07 Sukida Mushi @ Uta Con 5:38 Sukida Mushi Music Video Impressions 15:25 Sukida Mushi First Day Sales and Hanashikai Results 31:30 Sukida Mushi Coupling Song Discussion 51:10 More 12th Anniversary Concert News 1:12:30 Tokyo Events Announced 1:18:07 Old Theater Show Viewings at the Theater Report 1:21:22 9th Gen Showroom Auditions 1:25:30 Recent YNN Show Promos 1:27:18 NMB @ Tokyo Game Show 1:31:25 12th Anniversary Predictions 1:39:49 NMB Song 20 Questions 1:48:57 Outro

In this shorter than usual episode of Takoyaki Party we finally discuss the long-awaited 27th single and give our first impressions of the new song. And because we're never satisfied we spend some time nitpicking the details of the package, the meet & greet events, and other bonehead management decisions. We also talk about the details of the upcoming 12th Anniversary concerts, and talk about the highlights of this year's YNN Summer Camp livestream. If you have a question or comment you'd like to have read on the show you can send it to us by emailing [email protected] or post in the comment section of the YouTube version. NMB48 International Discord https://discord.gg/FGfdynt​ TEPPEN Subs https://teppensubteam.tumblr.com​ https://twitter.com/TeppenSubTeam?s=20 Twitter: Aruda: https://twitter.com/darklordaziz Geoff: https://twitter.com/GeoFreak17​ Matt: https://twitter.com/supermattoworld​ Ryan: https://twitter.com/frowndog06​

0:00 - Intro

3:25 - 27th Single "Sukida Mushi" Finally Revealed 45:30 - 12th Anniversary Concert Details 55:20 - SHOWROOM Bullsh*t: Bis Model Contest 1:00:01 - YNN Camp Livestream Highlights 1:22:12 - Tokyo Idol Festival and Summer Station Event Reports 1:30:07 - NMB Lineup for @ JAM 1:33:02 - Outro, Production Schedule Talk