- So from Haruna-san's perspective, what image do you think Saki-san is in charge of within GANG PARADE?

 

Haruna: GANG PARADE, the appearance is of a lot of yankees, right? Saki-san is the boss. In GANG PARADE everyone shows their yankee side and fight but, everyone gets beaten up. Then someone calls for help and lastly Saki-san appears, and defeats all the enemies, something like that. Being overwhelmed, like “so what?”. Like the last boss.

Kamiya: I see. Well, I'm happy (laughs). It's a unique way to exemplify it but, she spoke so smoothly, is this how it looks like. From a spider I became a human (laughs). I'm happy.

 

- First she looked scary but, Saki-san has the leader image and is gently, now you have the image of her loving a dog, is that it?

 

Haruna: That's it. She seems nice with animals. Really, the image of going to a walk fuzzily and calmly.

 

- Saki-san when first met Haruna-san, what image did you have?

 

Kamiya: Because I saw the live broadcast of the audition, this impression was strong. At the training camp I thought she stablished herself with a strong characters but, after joining, maybe she was nervous during the first practice, she seemed a more normal girl than I thought. Now it's not like that though (laughs). At first, I thought perhaps she had more common knowledge than expected.

 

Haruna: I was really nervous. The day I first met all the members, me and Tsukino (new member Tsukino Usagi who joined in April with Haruna) did recordings, so we got late to the rehearsal place. Until we got to the rehearsal, we would talk while walking “what do we do, what do we do”, we went to the practice thinking a lot of things. We were both overly nervous.

 

- It has been half a year since Haruna-san joined, was there a change to this impression?

 

Kamiya: While having common knowledge, Haruna has something different from other people, I think it became easier for her to show that. There was a time she said something that startled me, we went to eat together and I asked her for her opinions about the group. Then, Haruna held the same feelings of one of the members and said “But, if Haruna was OO-san I think it would certainly be painful”. There are a lot of times I'm startled by these genuine words of Haruna. Haruna has a foundation of being left unnoticed by other people so she's the one who can recognize the simplest feelings the most, I understood that.

 

- Haruna-san said Saki-san is gently but, this haven't changed even now?

 

Haruna: But, there're times she's scary. How should I put it, there are times it feels like she has 3 different personalities.

 

Kamiya: Ee, that's amazing.

 

Haruna: I really love observing people, I watch while imagining things. Saki-san, before the live, during the live, during practice, when she's walking, there are about 4 personalities.

 

Kamiya: How are they different?

 

Haruna: Today she's in a bad mood or, something good happened or, maybe it's a day she doesn't want to meet people, Saki-san is really easy to understand. I comprehend it a lot.

 

- This, do you also understand it with other members?

 

Haruna: Yes. But Saki-san might be the easiest to understand. Like today is this kind of feeling, etc. She's someone easy to understand in that aspect.

 

- Next I would like to hear about REBUILD TOUR (the 9 venues national tour GANG PARADE went on from July to September 2018, their biggest one man tour so far). The period between the debut live until the tour final on September, I believe the 2 new member grew a lot but, what does Saki-san think looking at Haruna's improvement?

 

Kamiya: Technical dance and such, of course it really feels like she became able to do it but, more than that she became able to give her best performance during her singing parts. Also she has abnormal big dance moves. This is incredibly funny. For example, there's a part in [BREAKING THE ROAD] refrain we dance in a more rock-ish way but, Haruna dances like her neck is about to snap, this connects to something good. I think this tour built this type of quality in Haruna.

 

- What does Haruna-san herself think? You said your debut live deserved 64 points.

 

Haruna: That's right. Quite a failing score.

 

- How many points was the tour final?

 

Haruna: That time I didn't have my own evaluation so there was no score. But dancing big, I'm not consciously thinking about it, I realized it by seeing live footage and being told by others. Even in practice, I know there's something different from everyone else but, I'm stretching my arms and legs like everyone else, I'm supposed to be properly doing the movements but, I really feel there's something different.

 

Kamiya: That is a good thing though (laughs).

 

- Haruna-san's fresh performance during lives really drew attention. Can we say as GANG PARADE it's ok to show individuality during performances?

 

Kamiya: It is. If it was the GANG PARADE before I went in a trade to BiS, I think I would really want to fix that. During the trade I realized other qualities other than being uniform, reversely GANG PARADE members too, with new members, I think understood there's not just one way to show GANG PARADE. That' why not killing Haruna's individuality, I believe we turned it into a weapon for GANG PARADE. The good things Haruna has come out involuntarily and that's interesting. There are a lot of times I'm dancing behind Haruna but, there are times I'm like “Do you put your hand dow this much!?” (laughs).

 

Haruna: Recently, when I was moving my hand and feet moved at the same time, I was surprised myself (laughs).

 

Kamiya: We also have fun ourselves. During lives, if I see Haruna in the corner of my eye, it's like “What is this movement!” (laughs). But, me and other members have fun, probably the audience has fun too. At GANG PARADE performances I think Haruna is in charge of the amusing factor, so it's a new essence.

 

Haruna: I wasn't really conscious about it but, I'm happy it seems to be like that.

 

Kamiya: But one time, when I said this to her she was ashamed and fixed it.

 

Haruna: Because I was told “It was quite something”, I thought it was bad and tried to moderate it, so I was told “No, do it!”.

 

Kamiya: It was like “Why didn't you do it today? It's a waste, even though you can do it!”. Since then she's been fully doing it.

 

- Thank you. I'm looking forward to your increasing activities.

 

Kamiya . Haruna: Thank you.