Takoyaki Party

Episode 102: The Trail of Oshis

Apr 22, 2024

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!

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Episode 101: The Senbatsu Pop Quiz

Mar 24, 2024

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!

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Episode 100: Mama Shikkaku

Feb 26, 2024

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...

Episode 99: Milquetoast Idol Disqualification

Jan 29, 2024

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...

Golden Takoyaki Awards 2023

Dec 28, 2023

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...