[10.0] "Nakajima understands wrestling on such a different level than most of the wrestlers and that's why her matches are always rated so high - she makes every fight as believable as possible, everything has a point, nothing feels unnecessary, she has answers to any move that is thrown at her. Shoko's wrestling skills are just INCREDIBLE, when i'm watching her matches i feel like i'm floating - she moves fast and in the smoothest way possible - even tho she's small her offense always looks impactful and the moves she's using fits her perfectly. The character work and the connection with the crowd are another strong points of Big Kaiju. As you can clearly tell she's a total full package, a perfect wrestler that TJPW should be proud of producing."
[9.0] "Have loved watching Shoko Nakajima in both TJPW and MLW. Very energetic, unique and big moveset, and many of her matches are different. Never a dull match when Shoko is involved."
[10.0] "Shoko Nakajima is one of the most creative and technically brilliant wrestlers in the world, let alone just in TJPW, and I'm tired of pretending she's not."
[9.0] "works well as a singles competitor, works well as a tag team competitor, works well anywhere. 4'10 and still leaps and bounds above most of the roster."
[9.0] "Shoko has evolved in the past couple of years, going from her Big Kaiju persona focusing on lucha style. To being a versatile player in TJPW. Having really fun and comedic matches with everyone. Her series of matches with Hyper Misao is an annual staple of TJPW now, and she makes everything work. She may not be a main eventer anymore, but she's an absolute key part of the promotions continued success. Her recent match as Shoko Nakajama, after drinking snake poison was amazing and shows her range as a performer. She can work any match anywhere on the card and that's something people just don't appreciate."
[10.0] "Shoko always puts on a fun match and has had some of the best matches in TJPW. She has a great gimmick too! What's not to love about the Big Kaiju?"
[10.0] "The Big Kaiju is so smooth, her moves are so clean, and full of personality and happy energy! Every time I watch a match from her, my day gets better. She can do big-time, tense main event matches just as well as she can do light-hearted comedy matches, she's truly versatile in a way others struggle to be. Even when she's just outside the ring for a tag match, she's so 100% commited to the character she plays, she can truly steal the show with just her expressive and fun mannerisms! Also, the little "Eeya" noise she makes on her dives and 619s gives me so much life. She is one of the best wrestlers in the world!"
[10.0] "I have never seen Shoko Nakajima miss a move, she always pulls the most clean wrestling in any joshi. Her moveset is insane, she has a lot of personality, she trully is the best joshi of this generation"
[9.0] "Most might highlight how fast she is which is very, but I also want to point out of crazy good her mat/chain wrestling skills are even though she doesn't look like she is the type to pull that off : she does that in a pretty effortless way. Obviously her move set is awesome and cool to watch, ranging from Northern Lights suplexes to suicide dives."
[7.0] "Fun move set, interesting gimmick. I think Shoko Nakajima is good but I feel like these ratings are exaggerating how good she really is. She brings the best out of everyone, she's able to pull off a nice wide range of moves. Solid all around performer"
[10.0] "shoko is probably my favorite high speed-type wrestler. shes very high energy and fun to watch no matter what role shes in. she could be having a very intense technical match with rika tatsumi or she could be causing the most absurd chaos ever with hyper misao and thrives at both. shes been on top in tjpw and has more than proven that she deserves the position on top. shoko is definitely one to seek out if you havent yet."
[6.0] "She's fine. By far the weakest of TJPW's pillars but if given the right opponent she can still put on a good match. When not, she's annoyingly inconsistent. There's very little to truly nipick her one, but she just isn't a good as Yuka, Miyu or Mizuki. Hell, Itoh, Miu and several others are more consistent than she is."
[5.0] "While she's able to have good matches from time to time with some of the best in TJPW, more often than not Shoko Nakajima is inconsistent on most days. Her last Princess of Princess Championship reign was mostly a miss outside of the pillar matches, showcasing in many ways that she is the worst of the four. She's a fine wrestler but is on a level that isn't of the best ever -- as her overall rating would illustrate."
[10.0] "Shoko Nakajima is just one of the best and most important wrestler TJPW ever had the fortune to have in their roster. She was there from the beginng, contributing to the development of the company with growing as a wrestler. Her in-ring work is simply excellent, top mat-wrestling skills, and great athleticism that mesh so well her lucha inspired wrestling elements and more traditional japanese style wrestling. She is such a likeable underdog that can put the fight to anyone in spite of her small size. She is also very giving to rookiees, always willing to bump and sell for them."
[10.0] "As a fellow fan of Tokusatsu, Shoko was an early favorite for me getting into TJPW. I couldn't not love someone calling themselves the Big Kaiju and landing Rider Kicks off the top rope and her gear and entrance music are fantastic. As I've gotten more familiar with the promotion and grown to appreciate everyone there in one way or another, Shoko is still right there at the top for me. She does it all. Her character work is top notch. She embodies her kaiju character at all times. Whether its with her animalistic in ring movement and growls or how she reacts to comedy spots and promos. She's even entertaining just cheering her tag partners on from the apron. Her speedy lucha style is so fun to watch and I love how she leverages her low center of gravity and muscular physique to power out of holds and bring her opponent to the mat. Everything she does looks so believable and smooth and it really feels like only the 1.47m Big Kaiju could do the things she does. Shoko is also an excellent in ring storyteller. She sells so well that despite being one of the best pure wrestlers in TJPW and a legitimate threat to anyone on that roster, you can't help but root for her after she's taken some damage and it starts showing. No matter where she is on the card or who her opponent is, you're getting a good match out of Shoko Nakajima. I recommend checking out the Summer Sun Princess 2022 main event vs Rika Tatsumi, her 2022 Princess Cup match vs Miu Watanbe and any of her yearly 1.4 matches vs Hyper Misao to get a feel for her work. Can't say enough good things about The Big Kaiju. Shoko rules."
[9.0] "I really like Nakajima. One of the strongest in-ring competitors at Tjpw. Tons of fire. Lives her gimmick. By that I mean is a thousand feet tall and weighs many mega tons."
[8.0] "Shoko is everything you'd want in a joshi. She's talented in the ring, has a fun character, and the right amount of charisma. TJPW has been good to her, and her match with Miyu Yamashita was extremely fun to watch."
"Far and away the best wrestler in TJPW. She does everything flawlessly and effortlessly. She brings the best out of everyone and everyone on the roster has their best matches vs her."
[7.0] "I really liked Nakajima in tag matches, but I feel like her title matches this time have been really inconsistent. What I like in a champion is someone who gives everyone their best match, which I don't think Nakajima does. It's weird, when she's a tag wrestler she uses more moves that make sense for her, she does way more technical wrestling, and finishes with her spectacular northern lights suplex. As the champion she finishes her matches with.... a top rope senton? She's such a good wrestler but the end of every match feels confusing. I loved her singles match with Mei Suruga in ChocoPro though, I thought that was spectacular, and really showed what Nakajima is great at."
[6.0] "I watched quite a lot of her matches, but couldn't give any rating. Now I'm starting to watch TJPW on a regular basis, and it seems to me that I don't understand it at all. I don't understand how she behaves in matches, I don't understand what kind of storytelling she adheres to, and why she is one of the top faces of this company, a two-time main champion. At first glance, Shoko is difficult to distinguish from the conditional Neko, Misao and Harajuku, she looks like a secondary character entertaining in her category, and only then you encounter reality, where she competes on equal terms with Yamashita and Sakazaki, is positioned higher than Mizuki and Maki Ito, and all you feel is misunderstanding. I thought that I would have to unravel her phenomenon, but so far I am infinitely far from it. Nakajima is certainly a good wrestler who especially entertains in some tag team matches, and now she is clearly better than in 2019, when she won the championship for the first time and looked clumsy. But I still can't perceive it the way the status requires. Not because she hasn't won any awards and nominations, as the commentator stated below, but because I don't see her having such an aura, and many matches just pass me by. Nevertheless, I hope that this will change someday, and I will consider Shoko's candidacy a good choice."
[9.0] "I love the Big Kaiju. My favorite TJPW wrestler apart from Miyu. She's funny, great in the ring and always shows great fire in all her matches."
[10.0] "Shoko Nakajima should be in more conversations for best joshi going today. She's scary good and can have a great match with anyone. With TJPW's popularity seeing an upswing, I think more people will see her as a standout."
[9.0] "The Big Kaiju is seriously underrated in the conversation for the best female wrestler in the world. She's not, of course, but she is certainly in the top 10 for me. I love her speed, her workrate is impressive and I've yet to see her put on a bad match."
[10.0] "Shoko has one of the most unforgettable appearance in all of prosfessional wrestling. Her gimmick is the funniest thing I've ever seen in ToJo (except for Misao, maybe), which is perfectly suits her really small size. And her ring work is perfect every time, of course."
[10.0] "She may be my favourite TJPW wrestler. She is a very good wrestler and her gimmick is awesome. Shoko Nakajima is ridiculously fast in the ring which really fits her style and ironic 'Big Kaiju' (monster) gimmick extremely well. She really gets all in to her gimmick as well which I really like. She has a great move-set, is very athletic and is really fun to watch. She is also surprisingly muscular and her costume is amazing. She is pretty funny and really cute; I love everything about her to be honest. Her current Shin Ultra Shoko gimmick is also pretty entertaining."
[8.0] "My favorite wrestler in TJPW, her gimnick "147cm Big Kaiju" is so funny, I love her attire and her suicide dive is one of the best, she really can fly. She has a good moveset, but maybe the finisher (Northern Light Suplex) is not so good as a finisher and I like the move and the way she does it and even she used a double version to beat Miyu Yamashita for the Princess of Princess Championship, but for her size maybe is not the best move. I feel a bit sad with her match in AEW, cause it really looks like they put her and Riho as the weakest in the match just because they were smaller, and didn't let them show how hard they can hit. Anyway Shoko is fun to watch and I really enjoy every time I have the opportunity to watch a match of the "Big Kaiju"."
[9.0] "Shoko Nakajima currently finds herself in the grizzled vet role, working the undercards against a seemingly endless supply of TJPW's rookies, and it makes sense that she does that, because I truly think shes incapable of having a bad match. She's smooth on the mat, shes lightning quick on her feet and always manages to get the best out of her opponents, oh and she has the best entrance music, without equal."
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