Juice=Juice's Blogspot: [Translate] Inoue Hikaru's Interview

         Tsunku’s lyrics resonated with her and so she wanted to become a part of the H!P world.
         The rhythm is most difficult for her. She can’t get the hang of it and perform the details well, so that’s where she has to work hardest to improve. Even when she gets the song down and thinks she’s memorized it, once she starts dancing, she forgets it. During the rehearsal, she stopped singing halfway through.
         H!P is very strict. The teachers get angry a lot and she has a difficult time preparing for everything, but it’s so much fun and makes her happy to perform at Nama Tamago and see people supporting her, so she wants to continue her activities in the program.
         She really admires Tsugunaga Momoko. Earlier at a play, she saw her singing and she looked so cool that Hikarun started crying. Her admiration for her and desire to be like her makes her want to put forth more effort into singing and dancing and hopefully debut someday.
         Her rival is Inaba Manaka. Of course because they’re generation-mates, but also because Manakan’s singing and dancing both stand out among all the KSS. She has a lot of cuteness and is idol-ish, which Hikarun doesn’t think she has much of.

Tsunku’s comments: I want to teach you more strength in dancing. I definitely want you to work on smaller muscle movements to get the rhythm down. Singing is on the next floor up. Start with the rhythm first.
She doesn’t know if she can debut soon, but in the future she’d like to debut in any way possible, be it in a new unit or MM or anything else.