Episódios

  • We have a bombastic episode of NMB Takoyaki Party this month! We talk about NMB’s brand new original stage Tenshi no Utopia, we talk about the 29th single “Kore ga Ai na no ka?” and its coupling songs and how its sales are doing. Yuumin announces grad, Hollywood star sightings in Namba, YNN’s new lineup of Youtube content, 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 [email protected]

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    0:00 - Intro

    2:58 - NMB’s new original theater show has happened! 1:05:22 - BREAK 1:05:32 - Talking about the 29th single “Kore ga Ai na no ka” 1:36:36 - Abeno Q Mall release event mini-live report 1:45:05 - Kore ga Ai no ka handshake sales check-in 1:59:51 - Ishida Yuumi announces graduation 2:08:36 - Itagaki Koyori starts doing gravure 2:15:37 - YNN Youtube is now Ura Namba Chan channel 2:27:15 - Emosuto 2:28:32 - Osaka Comic Con highlights 2:38:50 - Mako has a sports radio show for kids in Hokkaido 2:40:22 - Yoshimoto Sports Fest is happening 2:42:49 - Members doing more random Osaka Expo promotional work 2:46:18 - Geoff talks about Yayoi’s play with the Nogizaka46 girl 2:51:51 - Outro, talking about getting ready for the handshake events
  • 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 [email protected]

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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

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  • 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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] 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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  • On this edition of NMB Takoyaki Party we talk about getting our backs slapped by idols, the end of Sadharu, NMB theater being torn down, the Fuuwapocalypse, some upcoming release announcements, and we go super in-depth with the new teams’ first performances.

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

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    0:00 - Intro

    2:45 - Theater Show Reports

    12:30 - Handshake Event Reports

    32:35 - Sadharu graduation announcement

    47:52 - Fuuwa’s sudden departure CW: Explicit Content 50:18 - 1:00:00

    1:00:00 - Chihhi in a Final Fantasy Brave Exvius play

    1:04:45 - Mako gets the mini regular model job

    1:06:01 - Yoshimin does Showroom Bullsh*t also her street piano gimmick

    1:08:39 - Osaka city plans to renovate the YES Namba building

    1:16:00 - Karen gets a Dazzlin collab job

    1:16:43 - Mikana in Kansai Collection in March 2024

    1:17:07 - Mikana’s stylebook release date and handover events announced

    1:19:16 - NMB Costume Encyclopedia Book announced and handover events announced

    1:24:22 - Kojirin solo concerts announced

    1:26:18 - NMB on Osaka Melody and Best Hits Kayosai

    1:32:00 - BREAK

    1:32:06 - New Teams’ Setlist Impressions

    2:44:17 - Nagisa Grad Concert and Christmas Concert Predictions

  • Everyone Oshihens!

    Apologies in advance: There was some weird buzzing coming out of Matt’s mic for the first hour or so of this episode, it seems to go away after the break.

    Matt sees chika idols! Geoff ditches Chihhi! Aruda hates Nagisa Saiko! And Ryan phones it in! We kick things off by discussing the 13th anniversary concerts we watched last month, talk about Nagisa Saiko’s 1st week sales and the coupling tracks. We also spend a lot of time talking about some heavy graduation announcements.

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    0:00 - Intro

    1:23 - NMB Tour 2023 Report

    19:10 - NMB 13th Anniversary Report

    54:32 - BREAK

    55:32 - Store Manager Release Event Report

    58:02 - NMB is doing a release event at Abeno Q Mall

    1:02:39 - NMB at FUURYU FES 5.0 report

    1:07:57 - Nagisa Saiko First Week Sales and Handshake Sales Analysis

    1:19:42 - Jinsei Ga Nagainda Impressions

    1:25:37 - Nagisa Saiko Music Video Impressions

    1:32:02 - Nagisa Saiko on CDTV

    1:33:32 - Hori Shion Announces Graduation

    1:37:34 - Asao Momoka and Kuroda Fuuwa Announce Graduation

    2:09:57 - Showroom Bullsh*t Bis Contest 1:15:25

    2:13:22 - Deguchi Yuina and Matsuno Mio start Youtube channels

    2:15:51 - 8th Gen and 9th Gen added to NMB’s mobile game Casual Party

    2:16:33 - Twinkle will perform at LOOP QUEST idol festival

    2:17:46 - Last Shows of the Current Teams Dates and First Show of the New Teams Announced

    2:21:03 - Hori Shion special Kanmuri theater show

    2:22:07 - Shibuya Nagisa Graduation Concert and Christmas Concert Announced

    2:29:00 - Outro

  • On this shortish episode of Takoyaki Party, we talk about NMB's 28th title track "Nagisa Saiko" and give our hot takes on the song. We also take a look at the first few rounds of handshake sales and see who is selling out and who should be selling better. We also talk about the Nagoya concert that none of us went to as well as some theater shows and events we went to recently.

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    Timestamps

    0:00 - Intro

    3:00 - More members get TikToks and secondary TikToks

    4:19 - Nagisa Saiko hot takes

    23:45 - Handshake Event and Online Event sales update

    37:31 - Nagisa will be on a Netflix show use SURFSHARK VPN to watch it from outside Japan

    39:50 - Showroom Bullsh*t

    46:35 - New Dance Unit Twinkle 1st Live Announced

    48:21 - Shion’s super late birthday show at the theater

    50:11 - Concert Tour New Info

    57:39 - Nagoya Concert Overview

    1:06:29 - Theater Show Roundup

    1:12:00 - COLORZ Shein Concert

    1:22:00 - Listener Comment: Peak Sayaka vs Peak Nagisa

    1:26:56 - Guess the NMB Song Game

  • On this shocking episode, we go through the stages of grief as we cope with Shibuya Nagisa's graduation announcement and how it affects NMB's standing in the public sphere. We also talk about the senbatsu and handshake event details for the 28th single as well as a bunch of other news from the past month. We also talk about the various festivals and other live events that NMB had including them COMING TO INDONESIA! And we close out the show with our thoughts on this year's summer stream.

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    0:00 - Intro

    2:04 - Shibuya Nagisa Announces Graduationasd

    43:51 - 28th Single Senbatsu Discussion

    1:15:12 - 28th Single Events

    1:39:57 - NMB 13th Anniversary Tour Ticket Situation

    1:51:13 - Nagisa AND Girl model job

    1:53:11 - Kojirin Clothing Line

    1:54:02 - Pikarun is back kinda

    1:54:36 - 9th Gen Gets Individual Twitter Accounts and Showroom Bullsh*t Results

    2:04:04 - Yoshimoto Dance Class for Kids

    2:10:00 - NMB members at special Osaka Expo fashion show

    2:12:22 - Danceable 2: The Streets

    2:14:27 - Rei becomes ambassador for Osaka Basketball team

    2:19:37 - The Final Danceable Concert Report

    2:23:00 - NMB’s Impactnation Trip in INDONESIA Report

    2:43:15 - SUMMER STATION Report

    2:44:30 - YNN Summer Camp Stream Discussion

    2:58:57 - Comment Corner

    2:59:53 - Outro

  • We’re back to talk about Siyeon’s graduation announcement and discuss what may have led to her decision, we talk about all the announcements that happened NMB’s summer concerts including the team shuffle, the upcoming tour, and upcoming single. And we also share what we thought about the aforementioned concerts.

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    0:00 - Intro

    4:43 - Lee Siyeon announced graduation

    21:56 - Random Yoshimoto/Showtitle management changes

    24:34 - 9th Gen News: TikTok, Performing at Mini Chika Festival, Showroom Bullsh*t Fashion Show Contest, Getting ROOMS

    35:03 - NMB48 Official on Threads

    37:04 - Concert Announcements: & Mikana Magazine

    40:05 - Concert Announcements: Team Shuffle and 8th Gen Promotions

    1:09:00 - Concert Announcements: Tour and 13th Anniversary

    1:18:29 - 28th Single Announced

    1:26:42 - Summer Concert Report

    1:38:25 - 789 Next Generation Concert Report

    1:50:24 - Kato Yuuka Graduation Concert Report

    2:15:56 - Outro

  • It’s a slow month this time around as we eagerly await the upcoming summer concerts in July, and so we take some time talking about more upcoming events, predictions for the concerts, and talk about the various news that came up in the past month.

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    0:00 - Intro

    3:55 - 8th Gen Member Promotions

    11:37 - Ayapyon is assistant MC for Splatoon 3 Koshien Tournament and gets Okayama Radio Show job

    15:54 - UP-T T-Shirt Contest Results

    21:11 - Hara Karen at Yoshimoto Sports Fes

    23:27 - Chihhi at Hanshin Tigers Store Manager Event

    28:43 - Yuina open up a bakery… blog

    32:22 - Mikana Jill Stuart collaboration and Kansai Collection

    36:10 - Shinzawa Nao graduation announcement… from Ray magazine

    38:26 - Danceable Concert Announced

    41:17 - NMB is Coming to Indonesia

    46:13 - New DVD & Blu-Ray Box Set Going On Sale

    48:24 - 9th Gen and Cameron LINE Stamps on Sale

    50:27 - NMB will be at Summer Station 2023

    55:20 - Yuzu’s 2nd Photobook Sales Numbers

    57:25 - Uuka’s Photobook Sales Numbers and Upcoming Plays

    1:10:45 - Mirai graduation show delayed, Yuzu’s graduation show happened

    1:12:39 - Kyun Mart Revival Special Show and Yume wa Nigenai Revival Special Show

    1:22:08 - NMB on the Kami Oto Music Show

    1:30:13 - Zepp Summer Concert Predictions

  • We have a bunch of things to talk about this month including the spring concert and request hour, new gravure careers, Uuka graduating… this time for real, event logistics and more.

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    0:00 - Intro

    4:45 - Fuuwa, Yayoi, and Siyeon get gravure debuts

    26:06 - Jonishi Rei gravure style book

    28:14 - New NMB LINE stamps

    30:19 - Nagisa renews contracts with Washoku no Sato and Dell, gets a bra commercial!

    36:07 - Mikana EATME collaboration

    41:15 - NMB theater rules updated

    44:22 - Chihhi and Keito start YouTube channels

    49:00 - Yuzu and Mirai’s final shows announced

    49:53 - NMB has its 3000th theater show

    55:42 - BREAK

    55:52 - Aruda’s first time in Japan ever, NMB theater show

    1:08:11 - Handshake Event and 2shot Photo Event at Intex Osaka

    1:32:12 - Good Spoon Report

    1:36:04 - Osaka Comic Con Report

    1:43:22 - NMB Spring Live Todoroke Mix Report

    1:58:35 - Kato Yuuka graduation announcement

    2:04:54 - Request Hour Report

    2:49:00 - Summer Concerts Announced

    3:02:26 - Outro

  • 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.

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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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    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!

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    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