Maruwakari Summer 2016: Kishimoto Yumeno

Has Kishimoto Yumeno inherited too much of Berryz Kobo's spirit?
But that's Kishimon for you!

Q1. Who is your favourite H!P member (including OGs)?

Shimizu Saki-san ♥ Since she's really nice, yet there are parts of her that are intense, in a professional way.

Q2. What H!P song would you like to sing solo?
'Mushoku Toumei na Mama de' (Morning Musume。)
The lyrics are really complicated, but it's a song that I'd like to challenge myself to.

Q3. Among the (current) H!P members, who would you like to go to the sea with, and what would you do?

I'd like to get one of those large swim rings which can carry two people, and go floating on the ocean with ℃-ute's Nakajima Saki-san! 

Q4. Who is the 'summer girl' amongst the (current) H!P members?
Kobushi Factory's Taguchi Natsumi-san! Since her name has 'natsu' (summer) in it, and she looked super cute when I saw her in a yukata before. 

Q5. If you were to come out with a photobook, please tell us where you'd like to go and what you'd like to do.
I'd like to go to a desert! And then, intently eat some yakitori...!? 

Q6. What is your treasure?

A T-shirt signed by my favourite Berryz Kobo ♥ Since it's the only one of its kind in this world! 

Q7. Is there anything that you'd like to make a start on?
Scuba diving. I'd like to explore the sea and see all sorts of fish from up close! 

Q8. Please make a new unit by picking a person from each group.

℃-ute's Hagiwara Mai-san 
Morning Musume。´16's Ishida Ayumi-san 
ANGERME's Katsuta Rina-san 
Juice=Juice's Takagi Sayuki-san 
Country Girls' Tsugunaga Momoko-san 
Kobushi Factory's Inoue Rei-chan.
I'd like to learn feminine ways of dancing from Hagiwara-san, cool styles of dancing from Ishida-san, fashion from Katsuta-san, music from Takagi-san, talking and etiquette from Tsugunaga-san, and cuteness from Rei-chan. 

Q9. Please tell us what's the best thing about your own group.
The paleness of our colours. Since there's the potential for us to gradually deepen them from now on. 

Finally, please give a message to all the fans

Thank you very much
for everything 
I'd like to become 
"A beloved group" and 
"A beloved person" 
Kishimoto Yumeno

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Juice=Juice and Tsubaki Factory's thoughts on ℃-ute's breakup (Top Yell November 2016)

Though interviewed separately, Juice=Juice and Tsubaki Factory were asked about their thoughts on the impending graduation of H!P senpais ℃-ute. Here's what they said in the November 2016 issue of Top Yell magazine.

℃-ute announced the surprising news that they would be disbanding in June next year.

Miyamoto: Just as it was with Berryz Kobo-san, it's sad. It feels like an important piece of Hello! Project will go missing. It'll be up to us, the kouhai, to fill that up and go even beyond them, so we've got to absorb all sorts of things from them. Once ℃-ute-san are no longer around, we'll become the group with the highest average age. So honestly, we're feeling the pressure.

Kanazawa: We're both 5-people units, and the fans have often told us 'Set your sights on ℃-ute and do your best'. I really bear a sense of admiration towards them. In the first place, I entered this world becaused I looked up to Suzuki Airi-san, so you could say that I'm here thanks to ℃-ute-san. Even now, I still can't believe that they won't be in Hello! Project. Their presence was familiar, seemingly absolute.

What they love so much that they could faint! - Manakan, Chiitan, Yamakki, Kishimon, Ozeko

{LoGirL is doing features on the stage-play Engeki Joshibu 'Kizetsu suru hodo Aishiteru!', including some interviews with the cast members. Here are some parts that tickled my fancy, from two of those interviews.

I realise that Countryside Translations has already translated the whole Inaba x Morito interview, so that's a more complete read. But since I'd already done these excerpts, and I hate to discard something that's already been fully completed, I thought I'd just put up what I'd done.}

Interview with Inaba Manaka and Morito Chisaki

──In connection to the title [of the play, 'Kizetsu suru hodo Aishiteru!' - 'I love you so much that I could faint!'], Inaba-san, is there anything that you love so much that you could faint?

Inaba　Dancing. I've been dancing from when I was small, but my love for it grows more and more every day. Recently, there have been times when I can't sleep because I can't help but want to dance.

Morito　That's amazing! You like it that much?

Inaba　I end up getting out of bed and doing some light dancing. Once I feel like it, I go back to sleep. There's not a day that goes by without me dancing. There are times when I'm dancing before I know it, and when that happens, I think that it means I probably haven't danced enough on that day. I can't live without dancing.