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We provide news about the Japanese idol group NMB48 and discuss how to get more involved in the fan community.

We're back with hot takes on NMB's 33rd single senbatsu announcement, the search for the next gravy perv, Matt's dwindling oshi list, and mo...

We're back to talk about Wakapon and Risachaaaaaaan's graduation announcements, the not yet announced but definitely existing 33rd single an...

We're back with a short episode to catch up on NMB's New Year Show, Tanaka Yukino's Graduation, the new 10th and 11th gen stage, make plans...

Welcome to the Golden Takoyaki Awards 2025, our annual awards show where we pick our highlights from last year. This time, Jens joins us to...

On our final episode of 2025, we talk about the mini drama series on FANY D, YNN's 24hr stream highlights, Chihhi's graduation, and the Chri...

On this long episode of NMB Takoyaki Party, we talk about the release of NMB48's 32nd single "Seishun no Deadline," catch up on NMB's 15th a...

In this edition of NMB Takoyaki Party we take our first step into the new age of NMB history. We talk about Keito's new captaincy, the two n...

Matt keeps battered with his favorite members graduating, and spends some time talking the departure of NMB's English speaker, Misaki Yoshin...

On this episode of NMB Takoyaki Party, we talk about Wada Miyu's graduation announcement and her impact on the group. We also catch up on a...

On this episode we gather together in person to report on NMB's summer concerts at Zepp! We discuss the big news to come from the concerts r...

Tim Tam Hortons On this bittersweet episode of Takoyaki Party we cut our celebration of Chihhi's graduation announcement short as we suddenl...

On this shortish episode of Takoyaki Party we talk about the new batch of member designed UP-T shirts, Anju's graduation announcement, a new...

On this episode of Takoyaki Party, Matt and Geoff go see NMB at the World Expo, we also share our thoughts on the final release of Chuu Stri...

On this very short but very special episode of NMB Takoyaki Party, we gather in person to discuss NMB's 31st single "Chu Strike" as well tal...

On this podcast we catch up on the last round of in-person handshake events, the festivities of Namba Sai, the 31st senbatsu announcement, a...

Keep Namba Great Happy New Year, for shoot this time! We go over the community voting results for the Golden Takoyaki Awards 2024 and then w...

It's our annual awards podcast the Golden Takoyaki Awards where we look back on everything good, bad, and ugly from the year 2024. Matt, Geo...

On this short and early edition of NMB Takoyaki Party, we discuss NMB's new stage for 8th, 9th, and 10th gen members "Saraba Junjo." We also...

It's a quick and early episode this month! We talk about Zion's grad announcement and dig into the real reason why she's leaving, we also ta...

On this episode of the NMB48 podcast, we go over NMB's 14th anniversary concerts at Orix Theater and talk about all the big announcements th...

In this episode, we give our initial thoughts on NMB's 30th single title track "Ganbaranuwai," discuss highlights from the Tokyo concert, ma...

Did everyone have fun in the sun at NMB's summer concerts or were they a hot mess? We go in-depth with the concerts' "unique" setlists and t...

NMB48's 10th generation has arrived! We talk about their first show and give our initial impressions of the new members that got our attenti...

On this episode, we talk about the theater shows and meet and greet events that we did this month, we also talk about THE END OF 9TH GEN, NM...

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 t...

On this episode, we talk about the 29th single's album art, early handshake event sales, 5chan idol fan drama, Pikarun and Yunanan's graduat...

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...

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 goin...

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 Tako...

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 Lo...

Due to scheduling issues we did a guerrilla style approach to covering Nagisa's graduation concert by talking about it over dinner. Apologie...

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...

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...

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...

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'...

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...

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 upc...

We have a bunch of things to talk about this month including the spring concert and request hour, new gravure careers, Uuka graduating… this...

On this episode, we talk about Yuzu's graduation announcement and her gravure legacy. We also talk about some photobooks, and we make our pr...

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,...

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 inform...

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 d...

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 goo...

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 ann...

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-pe...

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 n...

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 th...

In this shorter than usual episode of Takoyaki Party we finally discuss the long-awaited 27th single and give our first impressions of the n...

We're back and we go into full detail with our report of the NAMBAZAAR concerts including all the big announcements that came from it. We ce...

We're back with the greatest show, man (and woman). More details on NMB's summer concerts at Zepp Bayside Osaka trickle in and we make some...