Juice=Juice's Blogspot: [Translate] Tanaka Karen's Interview

        She wants to be cool. She’s not all cutesy or perky, but, as she says, “a realistic 15 years old.”
        Singing is tough for her. Getting the rhythm, hitting the notes, there are a lot of things she can’t do. Even when she practices at home, there are still parts she messes up on. She tries to get the rhythm better by listening to music on the train and patting out the beat.
        Her body is stiff. Her mother’s is, too, and so that makes her particularly bad at dancing. She’s bad at it, but that’s a dream she wants to make come true, and it’s still fun working so hard with her generation-mates.
        For things like Nama Tamago and other live performances, the thing she looks forward to the most is seeing the faces of the fans that are having so much fun watching her perform.
        Her rivals are her generation-mates. They joined at the same time, so it was immediately apparent who she didn’t want to lose to. It’s made her heart stronger in wanting to keep up with all of them.

Tsunku’s comments: I think that if you can establish a character, you can achieve a singular position even in Hello!Project. It’d be good if you had a nickname that both the fans and the other members could really get into. Let’s try thinking of one.
She says that she might not be a KSS a year from now, so it would be the best if she could debut, but even if she doesn’t, she’d still like to be able to increase her abilities and strength many times over while she’s here. Her dream and her goal is to someday go to Kouhaku.