Shoko Nakagawa The Japanese Idol Girl
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Personality of Shoko Nakagawa
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As she is active in a variety of areas, including acting, manga, singing and blogging, she is known as a multi-talented entertainer or "multi-tarento", as opposed to simply an "idol" or "tarento".
She is highly knowledgeable about otaku culture, a rare trait for an idol. She says that this is because of the influence of her father, Katsuhiko Nakagawa. He did things like giving her full sets of comics such as Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro or Akanbo Shojo, saying "You can't become an adult unless you read these." Perhaps because of this education, she knows more about relatively older anime, 80's idol songs and retrogaming than is common for people of her age. She also loves Dragon Ball. She even sang a remix to the original ending theme, Romantic Ageru Yo.
She likes the tokusatsu Super Sentai series, and in particular looks up to Yûri, "Time Pink" of the Mirai Sentai Timeranger team as a "god". At the time she stood in line all night to watch the live Timeranger show at Korakuen Fairground (now Tokyo Dome City Attractions) in the front row. In 2004, she achieved a longstanding ambition by putting in a guest appearance in the 38th episode of Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger. (She also appeared as a child in Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman.) She has always wanted to become the next Pink Ranger, and has gone out for auditions four times, but failed each time because "she doesn't have good athletic ability." She has said that she was drawn to the entertainment world out of admiration not for her father but for Mika Katsumura, who played the role of Yûri, and that during gravure work she uses Katsumura's photobooks and DVDs as a guide. She later appeared together with Katsumura on Men B, and the two are now as friendly as if they were sisters. She is also a fan of the Metal Heroes and Heisei Kamen Rider Series and sees Shigeki Hosokawa who played the titular character of Kamen Rider Hibiki as the ideal man.
She is also a fan of Bruce Lee, and has a wide knowledge of kung fu films. She has studied Cantonese, and visited Hong Kong many times with her mother (However, she confessed on TV that in fact she soon gave up Cantonese, and hardly speaks it at all, although she keeps it on her profile.) She got to know Jackie Chan when she met him by chance at a restaurant he runs. Jackie Chan now keeps a picture she drew on display at his offices in Hong Kong. She has her own tracksuit and nunchaku she made herself, which are decorated with pink fur. She is also a great fan of Seiko Matsuda, and is known to be a fan of Soul'd Out, Morning Musume and Country Musume; she has gone to their concerts.
She is skilled as a manga cartoonist and illustrator. She worships Kazuo Umezu, and wants to become a mangaka. On the Fuji TV show Kangaeru Hitokoma, on which she is a semi-regular guest, she showed this side of herself by drawing in the style of Kazuo Umezu. Some of her work was shown on the May 11, 2006 edition of Downtown Deluxe on the Nippon TV network, and was much praised. As of 2006, her manga "SHOCOTAN * QUEST" is being serialised on her official website. The fact that even after becoming a celebrity she has not given up on drawing led to her being selected as a member of the judging panel in the "Jump Damashii" section of the Shûeisha publication Weekly Shonen Jump, starting from Jump number 13 of 2006.
She does not like cooking, and in a special version of Koi no Apron (TV Asahi) in August 2005, she disappointed the judges with her rolled cabbage, which marked the first time that she had used a kitchen for 10 years. She appeared on Koi no Apron again in November, this time making cream puffs and coffee jelly, but gave another poor showing, with the lowest ranking of any of the Apron Girls for that day.
In July 2006, she confessed to having a weak digestion, but managed to keep the situation light-hearted with jokes, while wearing a serious expression on her face.
Shoko is also enthusiastic about the Wikipedia Project. In a blog entry dated November 25, 2006 she praised the free online encyclopaedia for its articles, especially those related to the otaku culture (presumably from the Japanese version of Wikipedia). She is especially fond of the collaborative writing aspect the project incorporates and has even jokingly said she wanted to jumble her own article.
She is highly knowledgeable about otaku culture, a rare trait for an idol. She says that this is because of the influence of her father, Katsuhiko Nakagawa. He did things like giving her full sets of comics such as Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro or Akanbo Shojo, saying "You can't become an adult unless you read these." Perhaps because of this education, she knows more about relatively older anime, 80's idol songs and retrogaming than is common for people of her age. She also loves Dragon Ball. She even sang a remix to the original ending theme, Romantic Ageru Yo.
She likes the tokusatsu Super Sentai series, and in particular looks up to Yûri, "Time Pink" of the Mirai Sentai Timeranger team as a "god". At the time she stood in line all night to watch the live Timeranger show at Korakuen Fairground (now Tokyo Dome City Attractions) in the front row. In 2004, she achieved a longstanding ambition by putting in a guest appearance in the 38th episode of Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger. (She also appeared as a child in Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman.) She has always wanted to become the next Pink Ranger, and has gone out for auditions four times, but failed each time because "she doesn't have good athletic ability." She has said that she was drawn to the entertainment world out of admiration not for her father but for Mika Katsumura, who played the role of Yûri, and that during gravure work she uses Katsumura's photobooks and DVDs as a guide. She later appeared together with Katsumura on Men B, and the two are now as friendly as if they were sisters. She is also a fan of the Metal Heroes and Heisei Kamen Rider Series and sees Shigeki Hosokawa who played the titular character of Kamen Rider Hibiki as the ideal man.
She is also a fan of Bruce Lee, and has a wide knowledge of kung fu films. She has studied Cantonese, and visited Hong Kong many times with her mother (However, she confessed on TV that in fact she soon gave up Cantonese, and hardly speaks it at all, although she keeps it on her profile.) She got to know Jackie Chan when she met him by chance at a restaurant he runs. Jackie Chan now keeps a picture she drew on display at his offices in Hong Kong. She has her own tracksuit and nunchaku she made herself, which are decorated with pink fur. She is also a great fan of Seiko Matsuda, and is known to be a fan of Soul'd Out, Morning Musume and Country Musume; she has gone to their concerts.
She is skilled as a manga cartoonist and illustrator. She worships Kazuo Umezu, and wants to become a mangaka. On the Fuji TV show Kangaeru Hitokoma, on which she is a semi-regular guest, she showed this side of herself by drawing in the style of Kazuo Umezu. Some of her work was shown on the May 11, 2006 edition of Downtown Deluxe on the Nippon TV network, and was much praised. As of 2006, her manga "SHOCOTAN * QUEST" is being serialised on her official website. The fact that even after becoming a celebrity she has not given up on drawing led to her being selected as a member of the judging panel in the "Jump Damashii" section of the Shûeisha publication Weekly Shonen Jump, starting from Jump number 13 of 2006.
She does not like cooking, and in a special version of Koi no Apron (TV Asahi) in August 2005, she disappointed the judges with her rolled cabbage, which marked the first time that she had used a kitchen for 10 years. She appeared on Koi no Apron again in November, this time making cream puffs and coffee jelly, but gave another poor showing, with the lowest ranking of any of the Apron Girls for that day.
In July 2006, she confessed to having a weak digestion, but managed to keep the situation light-hearted with jokes, while wearing a serious expression on her face.
Shoko is also enthusiastic about the Wikipedia Project. In a blog entry dated November 25, 2006 she praised the free online encyclopaedia for its articles, especially those related to the otaku culture (presumably from the Japanese version of Wikipedia). She is especially fond of the collaborative writing aspect the project incorporates and has even jokingly said she wanted to jumble her own article.
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