Momochi interview (Hello! Project Station #224)

Tsugunaga Momoko will be graduating from Country Girls as well as Hello! Project on the 30th of June.

We held an interview with her to look back on her 15 years of life as an idol.

Tsugunaga Momoko x ZYX

[On 'ZYX', her first unit after joining the Hello! Project Kids]

The members of ZYX were picked out from the older members of the Hello! Project Kids.
Well, while I was older, I was completely inexperienced in both dancing and singing.
I was completely left behind.
I worked hard at the practices, but I couldn't get to the required level.
So that spurred me on to work even harder.
More than anything, I got to work with Yaguchi Mari-san.
That was when I knew how great our senpai were.
Time has run its course, and several years have passed since then.
Now the roles are reversed - In Country Girls, I'm now in the position that Yaguchi Mari-san was in back then.
With the passage of time, I realise that she must have had a lot of deep thoughts about it.
I'm truly grateful to Yaguchi Mari-san, the senpai who taught me so much things back then.

Tsugunaga Momoko x Buono!

[Being picked as a member of Buono!]

I got called to the lesson studio and was told that Suzuki Airi-chan and Natsuyaki Miyabi-chan and I would be put in a group...
Well, both Airi and Miya are well known for their singing.
So I was like, 'Why me?'
But since we were told at the same time that it would be an anime tie-up, given my naturally high-pitched voice, I thought that I had been picked for my anime voice.
But when things unfolded, we were singing nothing but these hard rock songs...
I really... was concerned if I could sing them well.
But that made me like singing even more.
And a lot of Buono! songs made people like my singing as well.
So it's really... hmm, hmm... Huge to me.

Juice=Juice dialogue - Suzuki Airi x Kanazawa Tomoko - Summary

Since my English subbed version was taken down, I'm putting up this summary instead.

Starts at 36:35~

Juice=Juice dialogue - Suzuki Airi x Kanazawa Tomoko

One segment previously held on Hello! Station was the Juice=Juice discussion corner, where the members of Juice=Juice nominated a Hello! Project member they'd like to have a discussion with.
This ran its course from the end of last year to early this year.

 In Hello! Station #48, Kanazawa Tomoko had a one-on-one discussion with ℃-ute's Suzuki Airi.
For those not familiar with the connection, KanaTomo holds Airi in extremely high regard.

 I've extracted that segment and translated it.
As always, please turn on the closed captions to see the subtitles.
Enjoy~

{EDIT: Got taken down by copyright claim m(_ _)m
To make it up for you, here's a summary of the interview.}

 

I love how KanaTomo starts out more or less starstruck, but slowly gets pulled into Airi's pace, with Airi being her usual, spazzy self throughout.