It was previously reported that girl group AKB48 will have a new sister unit named NMB48 - girls based from Namba, Osaka. The audition process was completed on September 20th and the names of the lucky girls that passed the audition are now posted on the NMB48 official website.

It's a shame though that NYC's Nakayama Yuma's sister (Nakayama Nana) didn't make it.

The name of the 39 girls that passed the audition are as follows:

Riona Ota
Mayu Ogasawara
Ayaka Okita
Kanako Kadowaki
Rena Kawakami
Rika Kishino
Haruna Kinoshita
Momoka Kinoshita
Mayu Kusaka
Riho Kotani
Arisa Koyanagi
Sara Kondo
Rina Kondo
Mari Saito
Kanna Shinohara
Kei Jonishi
Miru Shiroma
Ayaka Suzuki
Rina Tanaka
Mami Tsukiyama
Sari Nishikawa
Mizuki Hara
Ayame Hikawa
Rina Hyoda
Aina Fukumoto
Miyuki Furukawa
Shiori Matsuda
Erika Maruyama
Ayaka Murakami
Ayaka Mori
Rei Mori
Minami Yasaka
Ayaka Yamauchi
Natsumi Yamagishi
Yuuki Yamaguchi
Nana Yamada
Sayaka Yamamoto
Akari Yoshida
Miyuki Watanabe

Interestingly, there's only 39 members. Not 48.

Source: NMB48 official website