hololive IDOL PROJECT presents:
hololive IDOL Road Radio:
Tune in to our songs!
A-quality day to everyone!
I'm Minato Aqua,
and...
'Sup!
I'm Oozora Subaru from hololive 2nd Generation!
And...
The Orange Ranger of hololive 5th Generation,
Momosuzu Nene!
Yay!
Yay!
Yay-yay!
It habbened!
It sure did!
This show is brought to you
by "hololive IDOL PROJECT."
Its members will take turns hosting it each month
and learn skills that every idol needs to have!
Yay-yay-yay!
Yay-yay!
Your hosts for this week will be Minato Aqua,
Oozora Subaru, and Momosuzu Nene!
Yay! Thanks for having me!
Thanks for having me!
And would you believe it?
This is already the 15th episode
of hololive IDOL Road Radio:
Tune in to our songs!
That's a lot!
Ooh!
Yeah!
For this week,
since it's us three...
...Since it's us three?!
Since?
Since?
You know...
Aqua?
Huh? What?
Nenechi?
Don't come at me!
Huh?
I'm talking about NEGI☆U!
Yay!
What?
How are we on such different wavelengths?
No, like—
No way.
That's because, you know,
you said you'd guide us along today.
Right. She has more experience in radio.
She can lead us.
I've got your backs.
Is it the first time for you two?
It's my first time!
I've gone on a different show as a guest once.
I see, I see.
I didn't know that.
What about you?
Me? I've come on as a guest
and as a host too.
Are you okay? You look a little pale.
You all right, Aqua? You look unwell.
Oh, really?
Huh... Yeah.
We'll be counting on you today!
You got it!
Okay.
So, uh,
since the two of you are appearing on
hololive IDOL Road Radio for the first time,
let's do some introductions!
Oh!
Sounds good.
Just briefly.
Okay!
I'll start!
'Sup! I'm Oozora Subaru
from hololive 2nd Generation!
I'm NEGI☆U's Blue Ranger!
My glowstick color is yellow!
That's so confusing!
Pleased to be here!
It's confusing.
Yay!
Yay-yay!
Was that good?
Yeah. I think.
From an experienced host perspective too?
Yeah.
It wasn't bad.
Good enough?
That was worth, like, 80ish points.
What's with her? Nenechi, blow her socks off!
Okay.
I'll do an introduction worth 100 points.
Oh?
Ahem.
I'm the Orange Ranger of hololive 5th Generation,
Momosuzu Nene!
Thanks for having me here today!
You're smiling like an idiot.
I'm glad you're having fun. Yay!
Yay!
Yay!
Not bad. Not bad.
How was it, from your point of view?
Let's see, it was, like...
You wouldn't expect it, based on her streams.
Nenechi, say, "I don't wanna hear that from you!"
"I don't wanna hear that from you!"
Well, with that out of the way,
let's get started with the first segment!
hololive IDOL Road Radio:
All together now...
Ready?
Tune in to our songs!
Tune in to our songs!
We're so out of sync!
hololive IDOL PROJECT presents....
hololive IDOL Road Radio:
Tune in to our songs!
Again, we're your hosts, Minato Aqua,
Oozora Subaru,
and Momosuzu Nene!
To start off, I'd like to talk about our unit:
NEGI☆U.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
NEGI☆U is a new unit
from the hololive IDOL PROJECT.
It's a unit composed of the three of us.
Yay!
Yay!
You two were just as surprised
when they suddenly announced it, right?
It wasn't as mild as that.
I was blown out of my shoes, too.
Yeah.
Right? Tweet out of nowhere.
How did you guys react?
When they suddenly told you,
"You're now part of NEGI☆U."
"What?
With these two?
NEGI☆U?"
Why do you sound put off?
It was disorienting!
It's rare to see us three together.
Nene's not even, like...
I was like, "Who, me?"
It's two 2nd Gens plus Nenechi, so...
How did you react when they told you?
Like, "Wait, do you have the wrong person?"
I had to confirm.
Yeah. I thought they were pranking us at first.
For real.
Right.
As for why we were formed...
Our first single that's going on sale in September,
"Tsumari wa Itsumo Kujikenai,"
is the first ending song of
The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated!,
an anime adaptation of
Konbu Wakame's manga, airing July 31.
Yay! Yay!
Our group's called NEGI☆U
based on that.
NEGI☆U, yeah.
NEGI☆U, right.
And that means...?
...That means...
...Our...
...Our...
...song...
...is an anime theme song.
Ooh!
That's great!
That's amazing!
It's unbelievable, right?
An anime song!
It's a dream.
It's crazy.
Aqua, you've really liked anime songs since forever ago,
so you're excited, right?
I think I'm dreaming.
A dream.
I think I'm still dreaming.
This is reality.
I wouldn't be able to see it.
I'll probably just think,
"Oh, someone's singing" while watching.
Ah, right. That could happen.
I get that.
It doesn't really feel real since it's so amazing.
Yeah.
It won't feel real until it actually airs.
Yeah.
It'll hit you once you see it on TV.
I gotta like, "Bam!"
Yeah, you gotta smack yourself a little,
to make sure you're awake.
I see.
Mm-hmm!
As for our unit name,
it's related to the "Not Be Defeated"
in the title of Jahy-sama.
The "Never Give Up" idea was shortened
to NEGI☆U.
Oh?
Can we, like,
talk about the insane story
of when we chose the name?
It was quite something.
The three of us got together
when they announced it.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
To come up with a name.
Yeah, we got together on Discord late at night.
It took a while to decide on one, right?
Yeah.
Since it's a name we'll be using for a while,
we had to choose carefully.
Yeah.
Like, "We can't choose a joke name."
Tell them, Nenechi, the first name you suggested.
What did I say again?
Let me remember...
I still remember.
What was it?
"Never Givers."
That one was good!
It's like a little rhyme.
Yeah, it was like...
A "Never-never" kind of name.
Nenechi suggested "Never Givers."
I remember that.
Yeah.
In the end, I feel like
that was one of the better options.
Right. Yeah.
We spent a ton of time and made a long list,
but in the end, something along the lines of
"Never Givers" sounded right.
Right. Yeah.
I remember that.
From there, we got to "Never Give Up,"
then to "NEGI☆U."
Yeah.
Yeah.
As for how we got to NEGI☆U,
Aqua was like,
"It's gotta be NEGI☆U."
We had a few options,
so I went,
"Mm... Maybe NEGI☆U is good."
Yeah.
And so Aqua's word was final.
No one agreed to any of the other ones.
Ah, right.
We were really...
Our reactions were pretty meh
towards the other options.
Yeah.
What other suggestions were there?
You suggested some too.
What were they?
The fact that we don't remember
means they weren't that good.
It was like, "Star Angel" or something.
I remember that!
There was something like that.
Like,
"Rainbow..."
"Rainbow..."
"Gradation"?
"Gradation"! Yeah, something like that.
Geez.
You reacted like that at the time too.
She told me it was lame af.
We all wrote our suggestions in one place.
Yeah, yeah.
Is that it?
I thought she would keep going.
Sorry!
When she wrote it down,
we reacted like, "Wow that's lame."
Yeah.
"We can't possibly use this."
Since we're NEGI☆U now,
is there anything you two want to do—
Well, we're already having
dance lessons together and all that.
Anything else you want to do?
Things I want to do together...
I have one—
What is it?
I want Neneti to pick out an outfit for me.
Wait, I—
You two are, like...
Compared to the other members, you two are
extro—
You're on the "e" side.
We're really not.
You're both extroverts!
We're not extroverts! Right, Nenechi?
You're extroverts.
You are.
Let's get lit.
Leader?
Is that how we seem
from the leader's point of view?
Yeah.
So I'm getting sandwiched right now.
I'm inside a extro-intro-extro sandwich.
But if this was Reversi, you'd become extro too.
That's...
For that reason,
um...
I'm thinking about a project to make me an extrovert.
That sounds great!
A Reversi project.
An Aqua extrovert project.
"Aqua extrovert project" sounds good!
Y-Yeah...
I've been thinking about it.
Nenechi's been talking about it too. What was it?
Like, "Her first-person pronoun, 'atishi' is..."
The popular girls in high school are using
"asshi" as their first-person pronoun lately.
Mm-hmm.
Considering that, "atishi"
is a level above "asshi."
True. It's a level above the trendy girls.
The times are catching up to me, finally.
You know,
she's been saying that ever since her debut.
It's almost time. Just a little more.
It's at "asshi" already, right?
Just one step away.
I see.
It's almost there.
All the high school girls are
gonna be using "atishi" by next year.
They'll say like,
"I'm this and this, you know. That's crazy."
It'd be great if that happens.
That'd be amazing. I want to see that.
Right?
Right?
Stuff like that...
Yeah.
What? What's wrong?
It'd be great if that happened.
Anyway, there's tons of things
I want to do with you two.
Cool!
Now then,
we've received a bunch of letters from fans.
Time to read 'em!
Yay!
Please go ahead.
Oh? They've already handed me a letter.
I'm nervous. It's my first time.
Read it aloud!
Let's see...
This one's from, uh... AE-san.
Thank you.
Thank you.
"Aqua-chan! Subaru-chan! Nene-chan!"
Yes?
"Hello-holo!"
Hello-holo!
Hello-holo.
"Hello-holo"?
There's actually a reason for this.
Well, let's just skip it for now.
Ah, I see.
"Congrats on your unit creation.
I'm excited to see how
the personality-rich three of you interact!"
Mm.
Mm!
"By the way, while it hasn't been long
since you formed your unit,
has there ever been a time when you've thought,
'Oh, so she has this side of her' or,
'She's exactly how I imagined her to be'?"
Is what it says.
I see.
Have either of you thought that?
Well, uh...
I've known Subaru for a while,
since we're genmates and all.
That's what I thought.
But Nene-chan, on the other hand...
Um,
I see her as like a... fashion leader?
A fashion leader?
Those are some high expectations.
She's like a really...
outgoing lady.
An outgoing lady, huh.
I just realized something.
Aqua looks me in the eyes,
but she doesn't for Nenechi.
She keeps averting her eyes!
It's a huge ordeal, okay?!
You can just look at her normally!
No, like, it's hard...
It's not that hard!
When I—
When I'm reading the script,
I make sure to glance at her side.
I see.
Yeah. So it's fine.
So you look at her, like, "You got this!"
And when she turns to me, I look at the script.
What a pain...
Even when our eyes meet, it's only for a moment!
I see.
She keeps glaring at me, you know.
It might be different if Nene-chan sat by you.
Then let's do that next—
Let's not do that.
Why would you do that?!
Why?!
I don't know!
No no no no no no.
It's not that big a deal!
Right?
Nenechi, this is your first time
talking this much with Aqua.
What did you think? As expected?
Ah... Do you remember how we had
a break during the dance lessons?
I have a lot of stamina, so I felt all right.
I didn't feel that tired,
but Aqua-senpai was sitting on the floor
and fanning herself with a towel.
"Our lady here must be exhausted," I thought.
I see.
That lesson was so tiring...
And did you think she had stamina or no?
I thought she didn't.
Of course.
So she was how you imagined her.
Yeah, just like my impression.
I see.
What about Subaru?
What was your impression of her?
That...
From my perspective,
Mm-hmm.
she's like an outgoing lady.
What's with that?!
I see.
She's really in your face.
Ah... Yeah.
I could feel her passion.
Her aura.
It's not like that!
She's an overbearing character.
I'm not. So, what, we're all older ladies?
Everyone's someone's older lady.
It's a triangle.
An older lady triangle.
So, as you've heard, we at NEGI☆U will be continuing
our activities henceforth as "Older Lady Triangle."
That makes zero sense.
For real.
All right. Moving on, Nenechi—
Ah, it seems we have one more letter.
Oh?
Okay.
Let's do this.
All right. I'll start reading.
Here I go. Letter time.
Yes.
Yes.
"Aq-tan, Subaru-chan, Nenechi,
hello-holo!"
Hello-holo!
Hello-holo!
"The jacket for your 2nd single,
'Tsumari wa Itsumo Kujikenai,' was released last week.
Nenechi tweeted that all three of you
decided on the design together,
and I think it turned out very lovely."
Mm!
"I do have one question, though."
Yes?
What is it?
"In the jacket, Nene's hands
spell out NEGI☆U's N..."
Yeah.
"...and Aq-tan's hands spell out NEGI☆U's G,
that much I can tell,
but Subaru-chan's hands
only seem like a W to me."
True.
Yeah, it does.
"If there's some deep reason
behind this, I'd like to know."
Uh.
About that...
Um...
I thought the same thing.
I thought, "Wait, isn't this a W?"
Right.
But, you know,
a lot of work goes into these things.
When they asked me, "Is this pose fine?"
I was just like, "Yeah, that's okay."
It was like that when we decided on the logo, too.
Uh-huh.
I left it up to the other two
since I didn't really understand it.
So, I was so indifferent about jacket designs
that Aqua had to step in
and say stuff like, "Subaru's face is a little big.
Can you move her back?"
I was so bad that she had to back me up.
But, well, as for the W,
that's a W.
We're just NEGI☆W now.
NEGI☆W.
Yeah.
This makes us NEGI☆W.
It didn't really bother me
until someone pointed it out.
Yeah, it didn't.
Yeah.
Well, just tell yourself it's a U.
That's all.
Yeah.
Do you guys have anything you like about—
Well, we also chose
the colors for the logo together.
Was there anything you focused on
and were glad you did?
Well, there's the... What do you call it?
There was a subtle cuteness
coming off of the whole thing.
Mm-hmm.
And, like,
I think it made it seem really idol-like.
Right. It had this rainbow gradation, too.
Right.
It's Aqua's favorite!
There it is, the gradation.
The trends have finally caught up to me.
Huh? Did I say something strange?
The staff did a belly laugh just now.
Like, "Haha."
Yeah, it's like, finally Aqua's time to shine.
Yeah. The gradation was my main thing.
Did you have anything
you were particular about?
Let's see, I really, like,
wanted it to be girly, since it's an idol group.
But I didn't want it to come off as too pure and frail
since we're all pretty energetic.
Yeah.
We're all energetic,
so I didn't want it to come off as too pure and girly.
And I think it turned out well.
So you liked it?
Yeah, it was perfect.
Then, she was satisfied.
Yeah.
Yes.
Yes.
So, thank you for all the letters!
Thank you!
Please continue to send in your messages
about your thoughts on our songs,
remarks to the show, etc. to us
at hololive IDOL PROJECT!
We'll be waiting!
Hololive IDOL PROJECT presents...
hololive IDOL Road Radio:
Tune in to our songs!
Now, we'd like to showcase one of our songs,
and given that,
we're bringing in this person
to talk about the song a little!
So,
please introduce yourself!
Good afternoon!
I'm Friend A, a part of hololive staff.
Thanks for having me.
Thanks for coming in! A-chan!
A-chan!
It's A-chan.
It seems the three at NEGI☆U still find it
difficult to look each other in the eye...
Mm.
and I'd like for them to get closer from here.
Yes.
Today's song will be, of course,
NEGI☆U's "Tsumari wa Itsumo Kujikenai"!
There it is!
It's here!
The lyrics were written by Nagatsuka Kento-san.
He's the same person
who wrote the lyrics for "Yumemiru Sora He."
The composition and arrangement
were done by Matsuzaka Koji.
Thank you.
Thank you!
I'll give a short overview of the schedule.
It's the ending theme of
The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated!
which airs on August 1st at 2 AM on ABC TV,
a subsidiary of TV Asahi,
in their ANiMAZiNG!!! time slot.
They were just talking about
how they thought it was an elaborate prank,
but we've been thinking about doing
some exciting unit projects.
Oh?
Since you three are all great dancers
and great singers, you all were perfect for that.
Are we being praised?
I'm praising you!
Are you?
She might be.
Praise me more!
Yeah.
We wanted you three to form a unit,
as the actual idols of hololive.
Don't say that like the others aren't actual idols.
Everyone's a legit idol!
They are all legit.
We had the three of you decide on
the unit name as your first activity.
Actually, the anime's teaser movie
was uploaded recently.
Have you all seen it?
I have!
It was amazing!
Well,
what were your first impressions?
I'm sure you're all excited for it.
It was moving.
It was moving!
Of course it would!
It was like the manga was moving.
Yeah.
Also, the eyes were really bright and sparkly.
Like,
it made me smile.
The expressions were so lively and cute.
They're cute, aren't they?
Yeah, they are.
Yeah.
It's a PV that gets you excited for the anime,
so give it a watch!
Please check it out.
Please check it out.
And you briefly mentioned this earlier,
but I'd like to ask about the future of NEGI☆U.
So, like, units tend to have a goal, right?
Like, "I want to perform here!"
Or, assuming we're holding concerts,
if you have preferences for the types
of outfits you want made.
Saitama Super Arena.
Ah, the Saitama Super Arena.
Yeah. The Saitama Super Arena.
With NEGI☆U.
Crap, I don't remember which one that was.
It's the promised land for idols.
I see.
The Saitama Super Arena.
Mm.
So are you fine with us setting that as your goal?
Uh... are we really deciding off of this?
Aqua's word will be final again.
Nenechi, speak while you still can!
Mm... Then...
Music Station?
Ah... I see.
Whoa! I wanna be on it!
A TV appearance!
There it is.
There it is.
I wanna be there!
I wanna walk down those stairs.
I do!
Right?
We'll walk tall!
What pose do you wanna do?
I'll do the NEGI☆U's W.
From earlier.
Reenacting the jacket on stage, huh?
Sounds good!
I want to ask you guys
about the recording process, too.
Oh?
I'm sure you've all talked about it on your streams,
but I'd like to take this opportunity to ask again.
How was the recording?
My recording sessions were crazy.
In what way?
You know, like,
I start singing, right?
Mm-hmm.
When recording "Tsumari wa Itsumo Kujikenai"...
Like...
It was really normal, or like...
It was a really chill vibe,
so it wasn't nerve-racking even if I made mistakes.
"Chill vibe."
But for the other song,
when I sang well, they'd go
"Yeah."
Like that.
And when I sang poorly, they'd go
"No yeah."
They'd say that.
It was a weird experience.
I see. I see.
Let's see...
I was the first to record.
Mm-hmm.
So, like,
uh...
to set...
What do you call it?
We did several takes
in order to create the overall vibe for the song.
I heard the others will be basing their parts
off of the vibe that I create,
so, since I sang without knowing
how the others sounded,
I was really excited for the finished product.
Oh, really?
You were curious which take
they would choose, huh?
Yeah! Exactly.
I see.
Did they give you the "Yeah. No yeah"?
They didn't!
They didn't?!
They were going "Hmm..." the whole time.
What about you, Aqua?
As for me...
There's a part at the end
of "Tsumari wa Itsumo Kujikenai"
where we go
"Nai! Naaai!"
And I just couldn't get the tempo there down.
Like, when the "Nai!" part came, I was late,
so it sounded like "Na-Nai!"
We did a lot of takes,
but, in the end, the one they decided on
was the delayed take.
The one that was delayed in a natural way, yeah.
The naturally delayed one.
I recorded last,
and Aqua was so naturally delayed.
I was wondering, "Is this right?"
Yeah. You have to do a double-take.
Like, "Is this right?"
I sent them a message
after I listened to the finished version.
Like, "Is this on purpose?"
Yeah.
They probably replied that it was.
Like, "It was funny, so."
Yeah. When we finally got the "Nai!" in tempo,
they went, "Mm... The delayed one was better."
I thought, "What? Huh?"
What was that thing...
You know how that's reflected in the dance, too?
In the steps.
Ah, yeah. During the "Nai!" part.
The "ding-dong" part?
Yeah, the "ding-dong" dance.
The "ding-dong" dance, yeah?
Yeah.
Like, Aqua has a step that's one beat off
from the others at that part.
There are quite a few things that get decided
on a whim by the staff behind the scenes.
Right. They were pretty in-the-moment.
They were a sight to behold.
I'm sure it was a valuable experience.
There's an official NEGI☆U Twitter account as well,
so please follow that!
Please!
Okay!
Now then, let's give it a listen!
NEGI☆U, please cue the song!
Ready, guys?
Okay!
Ready?
Yes!
Yes.
Then, please give it a listen!
Da-ba-da.
Then, ple—
What?
Huh?
No, no, no.
That was weird.
The 2nd Gens are built different.
One more time.
I was so confused.
Ready?
One more time?
Is everyone ready?
Yeah.
Okay. Ready?
Just read it already!
Don't laugh! Don't laugh!
Wait!
Are you okay?
Don't laugh!
Hold up! haha
Don't laugh! Don't laugh!
Sorry. Sorry.
Ready?
Then, please give it a listen.
This is NEGI☆U...
...with "Tsumari wa Itsumo Kujikenai"!
hololive IDOL PROJECT presents...
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Tune in to our songs!
This has been
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It's time for our closing segment.
That went by so fast...
It did!
We're always waiting for your letters for us
and for each segment of this radio show!
Our email address is, in all lowercase,
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She became fluent!
I went all out there.
That had some chad energy.
Send them in!
Mm!
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Please!
So,
how was this episode for all of you?
I had a blast!
Yeah!
Yay!
Is that it? Anything else?
I want us to be able
to look each other in the eye next time.
Right.
Did it happen at least once today?
It...
How about now?
It happened now?
From me?
From me?
She was hiding behind her hat.
Oh, her hat.
During the recording,
she wouldn't even take off her mask or hat.
Well, I hope we'll be able to lock eyes next time!
Mm-hmm.
Moving on...
Are you okay?
She's so done with that topic.
Right? She was totally just playing along.
Let's promote the single too.
It's available on preorder now.
Okay!
Please preorder those.
They're available for preorder.
Please check those out!
Please preorder them if you like!
This marks the end of today's show.
This has been hololive IDOL PROJECT talents,
Minato Aqua, and...
...Oozora Subaru, and...
...Momosuzu Nene,
and!
Your friendly production assistant, Friend A!
We hope you'll be back to...
Tune in to our songs!
Tune in to our songs!
Tune in to our songs!
We're all out of sync!
Bye-bye.