Love Live! Series All Night Nippon GOLD

All Night Nippon GOLD (ラブライブ!シリーズのオールナイトニッポンGOLD) is a weekly broadcast from the late-night radio program All Night Nippon (abbreviated ANN), often featuring Love Live! personalities as hosts. The final Love Live! episode aired in March 2025.

ANN Gold logo

First run's main visual

Overview

From July 2019 to March 2020, and again from July 2020 to March 2025, a monthly radio program focusing mainly on the Love Live! series was broadcast on Fridays (usually the last Friday of each month) from 22:00 to 24:00. The program aired on Nippon Broadcasting System, STV Radio, Tokai Radio, Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting, Aomori Broadcasting, Yamagata Broadcasting, Yamanashi Broadcasting, Fukui Broadcasting, Yamaguchi Broadcasting, Wakayama Broadcasting, as well as Shinetsu Broadcasting, Sanyo Broadcasting, Oita Broadcasting, and Miyazaki Broadcasting.

Additionally, IBC Iwate Broadcasting aired a one-hour version with the latter half cut, Tohoku Broadcasting omitted the final 10 minutes, and Hokuriku Broadcasting began airing the full two-hour version from April 2022. This was the first regularly scheduled radio program for the Love Live! series since Bunka Hoso’s “NozoEri RadioGarden”.

Ibaraki Broadcasting also carried the program from its start but ceased broadcasting after the September 2020 episode, which was also the final broadcast of “All Night Nippon GOLD” itself for the station.

The program was originally pre-recorded. If Nippon Broadcasting’s “Show Up Nighter” baseball coverage ran past 22:00, the show would start early on regional network stations, with Nippon Broadcasting joining in after the baseball broadcast ended, usually at a commercial break. Similarly, if local stations like STV Radio, Tokai Radio, Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting, or Tohoku Broadcasting had local baseball games, they would join the program in progress as needed.

From April 2023, the show switched to live broadcasts, though there had occasionally been live episodes before that.

The final episode aired on March 28, 2025.

History

ANN Gold First Broadcast Emi Nitta, Mimori Suzuko with guests Nanaka Suwa, Ai Furuhata, Kaori Maeda,and Maria Sashide

The role of Love Live! ANN personality was initially held by Emi Nitta (Love Live! – Honoka Kosaka) and Sora Tokui (Love Live! – Nico Yazawa) during its limited-time broadcasts.

Later, Ai Furihata (Love Live! Sunshine!! – Ruby Kurosawa) took over as the sole main personality from 2020. Starting in the 2023 season, Aguri Onishi (Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club – Ayumu Uehara) and Wakana Okuma (Love Live! Superstar!! – Shiki Wakana) joined as regular personalities. The trio later debuted as the unit AiScReam.

Before becoming regular personalities, Onishi and Okuma participated in the Love Live! ANN exclusive event "Love Live! Series All Night Nippon GOLD: New Year's Thank You Culture Festival".

The program initially aired as a limited series, with the ninth episode of the first run broadcast on March 20, 2020. After a brief hiatus, the show returned for a new run, with the first episode of the restart airing on July 24, 2020.

When the program resumed in July 2020, the official episode numbering was reset, starting again from episode 1 with the March 28, 2025 broadcast being listed as episode 57 of the second run. The initial 2019–2020 run is considered a separate phase, consisting of nine episodes.

Hosts

• Emi Nitta (as Honoka Kosaka): July 2019 – September 2019
• Sora Tokui (as Nico Yazawa): October 2019 – March 2020
• Ai Furihata (as Ruby Kurosawa): July 2020 – March 2025
• Aguri Onishi (as Ayumu Uehara): April 2023 – March 2025
• Wakana Okuma (as Shiki Wakana): April 2023 – March 2025
  • The three hosts, Ai Furihata, Aguri Onishi, and Wakana Okuma, formed a unit named "AiScReam" for the program.

Main visual after reboot

Commercials

Because this program was sponsored by Seven & i Holdings, the following commercials featuring members of Aqours were aired during 7-Eleven store promotions:

• A commercial where Riko Sakurauchi (voiced by Rikako Aida) uses hypnosis and says, “You’ll want to eat an egg sandwich~♪.” 「たまごサンドが食べたくな～る♪」
  • There is also an alternate version featuring Yoshiko Tsushima (voiced by Aika Kobayashi) and Hanamaru Kunikida (voiced by Kanako Takatsuki).
• A “Hamburg Hunter” commercial by You Watanabe (voiced by Shuka Saito).
• A commercial featuring Mari Ohara (voiced by Aina Suzuki) drinking coffee aboard a spaceship.

  

The first commercial, in particular, was so popular that egg sandwiches disappeared from 7-Eleven stores, and the second commercial caused “Hamburg Hunter” 「ハンバーグハンター」 to trend on Twitter.