She is represented by the Watanabe Entertainment talent agency. Her nickname is Shokotan. (In the blog by Mika Kaneda, who appeared with her on "Ōsama no Brunch", she is called Shokotasu). She is left-handed.
She has listed Bruce Lee, the idol Seiko Matsuda, the anime characters Vegeta and Trunks of Dragon Ball Z/GT, and Sephiroth of Final Fantasy VII as people she respects.
She is famous for liking manga and anime, and also enjoys watching professional boxing.
Blog
Her official blog, Shokotan * Blog, opened in 2004, and by April 2006 it had received a total of 100 million hits.(From Japanese Wikipedia:アクセス数は日に200万[1]（2006年10月16日当時）、2007年2月14日には累計で5億を突破 Translation: The highest number of access per day, recorded on 16th October 2006 was 2 million and on the 14th February 2007, total of number of access reached 500 million hits)
As one might expect from her personality, there are very many otaku-style entries, and she updates it extremely regularly, perhaps because of a compulsive streak in her personality, or perhaps, as she admitted in an interview, because she uses it as a kind of notepad. In the month of April 2005, there were 600 updates, and on January 28, 2006, there were 70 updates, a record number for a single day. It is likely that she holds the record for the greatest number of blog updates by an idol. She has become known as the "New Queen of the Blog", after the original "Queen of the Blog", Kaori Manabe. Due to her blog's popularity, in September 2005, Koma Books released a compilation of her blog entries, also entitled Shokotan * Blog.
From September 2004, posters on the News Sokuhō (VIP) Ita bulletin board on 2 Channel, which had just been set up, took note of her otaku-style interests and her drawings, which were very different from what one might expect from an idol, and she came to be treated as the idol of that board, and fêted like a goddess. Because of this, she started to use the slang dialect of the board in her blog, and write ASCII art imitating Raizon Naitō, (for example, ⊂二二二（ ＾ω＾）二⊃) in her photographs.
From September 2006 onwards, there were many media reports about her blog and writing style, but some gave the impression that she had invented VIP slang herself, angering some citizens of 2 Channel. However, since many people do not know what a blog is, editors may have decided to leave out details, and she is not necessarily to blame for this misattribution. In fact, when she appeared on the talk show Odoru Sanma Gyoden (踊るさんま御殿, Odoru Sanma Gyoden?), "Dancing Sanma Palace", and had to explain what a blog was together with the other guests, the editing became noticeably unnatural. From this, and from the long recording time for that show, it can be concluded that it took a fair amount of effort to get the host, Sanma Akashiya, to understand what a blog was.
After her appearance on a telethon, the number of accesses to her blog increased, leading to continual trackback spamming by pornography sites, businesses and showbusiness news sites, making it difficult for her even to update the blog. Sometimes "non title" was displayed instead of the title, or entries she posted were not displayed. As a result, the trackback function was suspended, and the page became a published diary, rather than a blog. At present, fans can only send her messages in real time via her mobile phone guestbook, for which there is a fee.
Source: Wikipedia
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