Subsequently, comedian Tsurutarō Kataoka, idol Iyo Matsumoto, and actress Yumi Asō became hosts.
[9] On the other hand, the program also had an obscene aspect, with female college students introducing pornographic videos and reporting massage parlor, No-pan kissa, Sex shop, and the like.
[1][13] In fact, not a few people made fun of All Night Fuji owing to the inauthenticity and obscenity of the female college students.
[16] In response, they fought back by publishing a book titled We're not Idiots, This is All Night Fuji (私たちはバカじゃない―オールナイトフジで～す, Watashitachi wa bakajanai―Ōrunaitofujidēsu).
ミッドナイト) on TBS TV, hosted by singer-songwriter Chiharu Matsuyama, turned its back on this line and was a strait-laced program talking about politics and economics instead of showing naked women.
[19][20] Thus, starting in April 1985, All Night Fuji was forced to change direction to a variety program that did not include a lot of overt sexually explicit material.
[21] An idol group called All Nighters was formed by a large number of female college students who appeared on All Night Fuji.
[3][6] Its first subgroup, Okawari Sisters (おかわりシスターズ) (Miki Yamazaki (山崎美貴, Yamazaki Miki), Hasumi Matsuo (松尾羽純, Matsuo Hasumi), and Tomoko Fukaya (深谷智子, Fukaya Tomoko)), made their record debut in February 1984 with the song Love Encore (恋をアンコール, Koi wo ankōru).
[3][6][22] On August 8, 1984, at their concert held at Yomiuriland East, Hasumi Matsuo of Okawari Sisters shouted, I love you all!
[3][6] On March 30, 1985, almost all the early members of All Nighters graduated from the program, and along with them, the most popular subgroup, Okawari Sisters, also disbanded.
[2][23] On February 23 and March 16, 1985, All Night Fuji High School Girl Special We, too, ain't idiots was aired in the evening on two separate occasions.
[24][25][26] They also repeatedly committed shameless acts, such as taking off the underwear of male passersby and stamping a seal on their buttocks, and forcibly kissing them.
[25][26] Yuki Saitō claimed that the high school girls who appeared on the program were a completely different race from her, that they and she were like oil and water, and that she could not understand their excessive fuss at all.
[34] Still, Hiromi Nagasaku, one of the high school girls who appeared on the program, subsequently became a member of the popular idol group Ribbon.
The TV camera was an expensive one, costing 15 million yen (approximately US$300,000 at the time), but was covered by the insurance company.
[38][39] A woman by the name of Meg the Numb Blowfish (しびれフグのメグ, Shibirefugu No Megu), who works at a massage parlor in Kabukichō, Tokyo, applied for the program under the false name of Chie Shinozaki (篠崎千絵, Shinozaki Chie), pretending to be a female student at Aoyama Gakuin University.