A thread on 5ch’s Hello! Project board asked, “What was the first idol radio show you ever listened to?” and users flooded in with program titles mostly from the 1980s that aired on Nippon Broadcasting and Bunka Hoso — Minamino Yoko’s “Nanno Koreshikitt!,” Matsuda Seiko’s “If We Could Meet in a Dream,” Nakamori Akina’s “The First Goodbye,” and more. One poster even pointed out that Matsuda Seiko’s show and Nakamori Akina’s show started just four seconds apart, a sign of just how many idol programs were airing side by side at the time. Since nearly every show mentioned dated back to the 80s, the thread also spun off into age-related banter like “Time’s really stopped in the 80s, huh” and “You guys are way too old.”
What people said
1AnonymousNov 15, 2026 19:43
SONY Night Square: Ribbon on My Heart (Nippon Broadcasting)
2AnonymousNov 15, 2026 19:45
Minamino Yoko's "Nanno Koreshikitt!" (a pun on her nickname "Nanno" and "this much is nothing")
3AnonymousNov 15, 2026 19:45
Kikuchi Momoko's "Youth Triangle"
4AnonymousNov 15, 2026 19:46
Takahashi Yumiko's "Chatty Angel"
5AnonymousNov 15, 2026 19:47
CoCo's "Love Is a Big Fuss"
6AnonymousNov 15, 2026 19:47
Asaka Yui's "A Slightly Grown-Up Silhouette"
7AnonymousNov 15, 2026 19:48
Matsuda Seiko's "If We Could Meet in a Dream"
8AnonymousNov 15, 2026 19:48
Uchida Yuki's "A Kiss for You in the Night Sky" (the title puns on her name, Yuki, and "a kiss for you")
9AnonymousNov 15, 2026 19:48
Re: #1
Which one started first — that or "If We Could Meet in a Dream"?
10AnonymousNov 15, 2026 19:49
Nakamori Akina's "The First Goodbye"
12AnonymousNov 15, 2026 19:50
If you're from the "Wolf generation" (fans who grew up on Minamino's "Sukeban Deka II," where her character was nicknamed "the Wolf"), it's "Nanno Koreshikitt," right?
I'd bet that's the most common answer
13AnonymousNov 15, 2026 19:50
What does it even mean for two shows to overlap by four seconds lol
14AnonymousNov 15, 2026 19:51
Uchiyama Rina's "Open Your Eyes"
15AnonymousNov 15, 2026 19:51
Kunio Sayuri's "Run, Melon!" (a pun on Dazai's classic story "Run, Melos!")
18AnonymousNov 15, 2026 19:51
Well obviously if someone brings up Matsuda Seiko's "If We Could Meet in a Dream," someone else is gonna fire back with Nakamori Akina's "The First Goodbye"
22AnonymousNov 15, 2026 19:53
Hashimoto Nanami's "School of Rock"
25AnonymousNov 15, 2026 19:53
Yocchan's "Smack in the Middle of Youth"
31AnonymousNov 15, 2026 19:56
Re: #25
Whoa, I used to listen to that one, so nostalgic
32AnonymousNov 15, 2026 19:57
Nakazawa Yuko's "All Night Nippon SUPER!"
37AnonymousNov 15, 2026 19:59
Nakajima Michiyo's "Happiness Filling My Heart"
38AnonymousNov 15, 2026 19:59
Nakamori Akina's "Don't Get Tired of Me, Night!" (wordplay riffing on her own name, Akina)
40AnonymousNov 15, 2026 20:00
Wakui Emi's "Another Toy Box"
43AnonymousNov 15, 2026 20:01
Time's really stopped in the 80s, huh
Same here though
45AnonymousNov 15, 2026 20:02
I used to listen to Yaguchi's All Night Nippon, and the ending theme by someone called Yoriko got stuck in my head something fierce
47AnonymousNov 15, 2026 20:03
You guys are way too old lol
There's clearly people in here older than me
51AnonymousNov 15, 2026 20:03
Because I've been listening to late-night radio since elementary school
52AnonymousNov 15, 2026 20:03
Matsumoto Iyo's "Iyo Iyo, This Is the Real Thing!" (playing on her own name, Iyo)
53AnonymousNov 15, 2026 20:04
Yamase Mami's "Mami-Mi-Mu-Me Monkey!" (wordplay on her name using the a-i-u-e-o vowel chant)
55AnonymousNov 15, 2026 20:05
Yamase Mami's "Mami-Mu-Me Monkey!"
58AnonymousNov 15, 2026 20:07
Sakamoto Kyu's "Kyu-chan's Look Up and Talk" (a riff on his hit song "Look Up When You Walk," aka "Sukiyaki")
59AnonymousNov 15, 2026 20:09
Wulfer, are you seriously that hardcore an idol otaku?
I figured you just happened to catch ASAYAN or something…
61AnonymousNov 15, 2026 20:11
Re: #59
I've been an idol otaku since Asaoka Megumi's days
60AnonymousNov 15, 2026 20:10
Tange Sakura's "RADIO A La Mode"
62AnonymousNov 15, 2026 20:12
My very first time at an actual idol event was one of Ito Tsukasa's release events
64AnonymousNov 15, 2026 20:13
If we're sticking to Hello! Project only, it's Tanpopo's "Henshuubu Osoro" (roughly, "Editorial Dept. Matching Outfits")
67AnonymousNov 15, 2026 20:15
Mine was that Yuki Nae show on Bunka Hoso lol
68AnonymousNov 15, 2026 20:16
For me it goes back to when I was studying for university entrance exams, so around '85
I listened to a bunch of the shows mentioned in this thread
Since I was out in the countryside, I had to dodge North Korean and Soviet broadcast interference while tuning in lol
69AnonymousNov 15, 2026 20:19
For me, the semi-amateur DJs on Bunka Hoso's "Miss DJ Request Parade" were my idols
Though real idols like Iyo-chan did the show too
70AnonymousNov 15, 2026 20:23
I used to bike an hour just to get to high school
72AnonymousNov 15, 2026 20:24
That Uchiyama Rina show that used to air before Super Morning Rider
73AnonymousNov 15, 2026 20:27
Sanma and Biwarin's Young Town
Background and context
Most of the shows mentioned here date back to the 1980s, an era when Nippon Broadcasting and Bunka Hoso regularly put idols themselves in the host’s chair for late-night programs. Shows like Matsuda Seiko’s “If We Could Meet in a Dream” and Nakamori Akina’s “The First Goodbye” often ran as rival programs in the same time slot, which is the backdrop for the back-and-forth in posts #1 and #9 over “which one came first.” Back then, the culture of idols showing fans their unscripted, off-stage personalities on late-night radio was much stronger than it is today, and radio was a point of contact for fans on par with handshake events and magazines. The thread never really split into opposing camps, but the exchange of “Time’s really stopped in the 80s, huh” and “You guys are way too old” is worth noting — it shows how the vintage of the shows people name doubles as a readout of the posters’ own ages, something a simple list of titles wouldn’t convey on its own.
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