Line #1 Creator/ShokoNakagawa


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3	Shoko Nakagawa [[note]] her birth name is "Shiyoko" but she legally changed it to "Shoko" in 2023 [[/note]], is a tarento, actress, voice actress, illustrator, singer, and massive {{otaku}}, born in Tokyo on May 5, 1985. While she was originally known in Japan as the daughter of the late actor and pop singer Katsuhiko Nakagawa, Shokotan, as she's known to fans, has made a name for herself with her quirkiness and her absolute love of manga, anime, {{toku}}, video games, and big blockbuster movies.
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5	Nakagawa first began her career in 2001, but her initial fame began with her hosting of ''Series/PokemonSunday'' (which she still remains on) and hit her big break in music after she was chosen to sing the opening theme of ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' "Sorairo Days" in 2007, which was her first single to reach the top of the charts. She is an avid blogger, and for a time had the most popular blog on the Ameblo blogging service, with over 100 million hits in April 2006 and well over 1 billion hits 2 years later.
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7	Her {{otaku}} status has no bounds, with particular reverence to Creator/BruceLee, ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', and ''Franchise/SuperSentai'', among many others. While she was originally represented by Creator/JackieChan's talent agency in Japan, she thought he wasn't a nice man because he was sometimes the villain in Bruce Lee movies. Aside from getting to interview Creator/HirohikoAraki and get him to draw what he perceived to be a possible child between herself and Jotaro Kujo, she once did a [=JoJo=] pose on stage during one of her concerts and managed to break her tailbone. She had reportedly auditioned to be the Pink Ranger in multiple Super Sentai series due to her love of Yuri / Time Pink in ''Series/MiraiSentaiTimeranger'', and it was her admiration of Yuri's actress Mika Katsumura which actually inspired her to start acting rather than her late father. She even thinks Shigeki Hosokawa of ''Series/KamenRiderHibiki'' (among other shows) fame is the ideal man.
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9	On top of her acting, she is a talented illustrator with [[https://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=591717 her own Pixiv profile]], which sometimes delves into the [[{{Gorn}} grotesque]]. And she has her own [=YouTube=] channel mainly for gaming [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGlWnxRgmii2-InQLp8HmiA right here.]]
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11	She announced she had gotten married on April 28, 2023. Her husband is not affiliated with the entertainment industry.
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13	In November of that same year, Nakagawa [[https://twitter.com/shoko55mmts/status/1727317058592141600 legally changed her name]] to be the same as her stage name.
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16	!!Notable Roles
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18	* Host of ''Series/PokemonSunday''
19	* [[VideoGame/DragonQuestIV Alena]] in the ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' series starting with ''VideoGame/DragonQuestHeroesTheWorldTreesWoeAndTheBlightBelow'' as well as the [[https://dragon-quest.org/images/2/2d/AlenaDQLST.jpg 30th anniversary stage show]], ''Dragon Quest Live Spectacle Tour''
20	* Anne Weying (Creator/MichelleWilliams) in the Japanese dub of ''Film/Venom2018''
21	* Various roles in ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries movies]]
22	** Allegra in ''Anime/PokemonTheRiseOfDarkrai''
23	** Infi in ''Anime/PokemonGiratinaAndTheSkyWarrior''
24	** Spiky-Eared Pichu in ''Anime/PokemonArceusAndTheJewelOfLife''
25	** Peg in ''Anime/PokemonZoroarkMasterOfIllusions''
26	** Luisa & Luis in ''Anime/PokemonTheMovieBlackAndWhite''
27	** Keldeo in ''Anime/PokemonKyuremVSTheSwordOfJustice''
28	** Sylveon in ''Recap/PokemonPK25EeveeAndFriends''
29	** Millis Steel in ''Anime/PokemonDiancieAndTheCocoonOfDestruction''
30	** Meray in ''Anime/PokemonHoopaAndTheClashOfAges''
31	** Raleigh in ''Anime/PokemonVolcanionAndTheMechanicalMarvel''
32	** Nurse Joy in ''Anime/PokemonIChooseYou''
33	** Riku in ''Anime/PokemonThePowerOfUs''
34	* [[Characters/DragonBallUniverse7 Oracle Fish]] in ''Anime/DragonBallZBattleOfGods'', ''Anime/DragonBallZResurrectionF'', and ''Anime/DragonBallSuper''
35	* Rapunzel in ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries'', ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'' and ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet'' (dubbing over Music/MandyMoore)
36	* Saori Kido, the Goddess Athena in ''Anime/SaintSeiyaOmega'' (also did a duet version of the franchise's iconic opening "Pegasus Fantasy" with the song's original singer, Nobuo Yamada, as the first opening)
37	* Diana in ''Anime/SailorMoonCrystal'' (replacing Creator/KumikoNishihara)
38	* Suzuna Taki in ''Manga/Eyeshield21''

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