Hello! Stage - Part 1

I had the info I needed for this entry a couple days ago, I just never got around to doing it until now. Sorry Chiyo! I just got back from watching the OTP's production of the musical Rent, and it was awesome! On an Aya-ramble sidenote; my feet are so cold! ;w; But yuh, moving on!

This group has only been active roughly 3 weeks, and they have already released four dubs; one from each of their three offical groups, and one from a H!S shuffle group. I was pretty wowed to see so much happening within such a small amount of time. A lot of projects release their first dub, and then it seems to be a long time before they release another one.

H!S currently has 16 members, and one graduated member. Three or four names jump out at me, and many of them I am unfamiliar with; which means discovering more awesome dubbers! Anyways, I checked out this fresh and new dubbing project at the request of Chiyo. I went ahead and did a little questioning, since this group is so very new and I know squat about it, lol.

& homg, I came up with some new questions!

MINI INTERVIEW TIME~

AYA: *When did your project first start?* & *Where did the idea for the project come from?*

CHIYO: "Well, as you can see on our Youtube Account, it says "January 06, 2010". But I created this account before the ACTUAL auditions started.
So I held auditions on January 06, but they didn't work out xD;;. So I stopped the project.

In the meanwhile I had a project called Aozora!Project, but in the end, I had to close it because I was in too many projects myself. After that i felt some kind of emptyness, and I KNEW it was because I closed A!P so I decided to hold auditions somewhere in the beginning of February, on February the 18th, the casting was closed."

AYA: *Who are/is the leader(s) and/or sub-leader of the project?*

CHIYO: "I am the only leader. But I am planning on choosing someone soon to be sub-leader, not telling any names xD "

AYA: *Can you tell me why you picked the groups names that you did?* What do they mean?

CHIYO:
Gekkou ~ Moonlight
Kuusai ~ Horizon
Nagareboshi ~ Falling Star
Nichibotsu ~ Sunset

"Well at first, I wanted to make something like CosmosProject, with names fitting the project, as you can see the 4 above are also about stars and nature things. But in the end I dropped the idea and just began with Hello!Stage~"

AYA: *For the groups, are there set members who dub certain girls?*

CHIYO: "None of our groups are assigned to H!P groups, but it may happen (as it is now). Nagareboshi just released "Suki-Chan" and our next single will be "Otona ni Narutte Muzukashii!", and this will happen with the same members assigned to the same girls. But then again, it won't always happen like this~"

AYA: *Do you plan on having generations?*

CHIYO: "Well I hope on having generations, but I also want to keep as many girls from GEN.1 with me (as I can) :3 But if we have a new generation, I'm planning it on being like 4-5 girls so every group can have a new member."

AYA: *What would you say is the goal of your project;* Are you set on making progress as a group, or is your main goal to just have fun? Somewhere inbetween?

CHIYO: "As you said, of course the main thing is : HAVE FUN. But I also want everybody to improve aswell, especially Gekkou, our trainee group."

AYA: *Any questions for me?*

CHIYO: "Not really. But keep on doing what you're doing because I like reading your blog ! ;3 (AND LISTENING TO DUBBERSRADIO)"

Thanks to Chiyo for taking the time to answer my questions!!