Marika Matsumoto
Marika Matsumoto (松本 まりか, Matsumoto Marika, born September 12, 1984) is a Japanese actress. From 2001 and 2003, she was known as "Mini Stop-chan", acting as the mascot for the Ministop convenience store chain commercials in Japan. She is the owner of a unique voice and has held a recital with upcoming star Satoshi Tsumabuki. Since November 2005, she has been on the A&G Radio Show: Anisupa! segment Anisupa Kōnin Akujo Queen. Her major roles in anime include Maya Tōmi in Fafner in the Azure, Chocolat Meilleure in Sugar Sugar Rune, Miwako Sakurada in Paradise Kiss, Kazamori Sasa in Un-Go and Diancie in Pokémon the Movie: Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction. In video games, she provides the voice of Rikku in Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy X-2, and Kingdom Hearts II. In live-action films, she portrayed herself in the Kōji Shiraishi-directed horror film The Curse, and Yuka Morita in the Takashi Shimizu film Reincarnation.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · Until I Destroyed My Husband's Other Family as Kisaragi Minori
- 2024 · The Women in the Lakes as
- 2023 · Kyrie as Ikko's Ex-boyfriend's Girlfriend
- 2023 · Ice Cream Fever as Yu Takashima
- 2023 · I SCREAM FEVER as Yu Takashima
- 2023 · What Will You Do, Ieyasu? as Onna Oonezumi
- 2022 · Night, Birds Scream as Yuko
- 2022 · Whisper of the Heart as [Shizuku's Senior]
- 2021 · Shrieking in the Rain as Hanako
- 2021 · Tropical-Rouge! Precure: The Snow Princess and the Miraculous Ring! as Sharon (voice)
- 2020 · Youkai Sharehouse as Iwa Yotsuya
- 2020 · Throw It Away, Adachi as Yōko
- 2020 · Kyojo as Aiko Tazawa(田澤 愛子)
- 2019 · Death Office as Nishikawa
- 2019 · Farewell Song as TV Reporter
- 2019 · Life Finds A Way as Doctor
- 2019 · Fafner in the Azure: Dead Aggressor - The Beyond as Maya Tomi(voice)
- 2018 · Nisekoi: False Love as Kyoko Nichihara
- 2018 · The Sacrament as Matsumoto
- 2017 · Animation x Paralympic: Who Is Your Hero? as Momo Minamikawa (voice)
- 2017 · Nikenme Dou Suru? ~Tsumami no Hanashi~ as
- 2017 · Opening Night as Marika Hara
- 2017 · Traces of Sin as Reiko Yamamoto
- 2017 · Quartet as
- 2016 · Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories as Midori
- 2016 · A Girl & Three Sweethearts as Bride
- 2016 · Blue as
- 2015 · Fafner Exodus as Maya Tōmi (voice)
- 2014 · Oh, Love Hotel as
- 2012 · Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon as
- 2012 · Cold Bloom as Shoko
- 2011 · Un-Go as Kazamori Sasa (voice)
- 2011 · CSI: Crime Scene Talks as
- 2010 · Space Battleship Yamato as M. Nishina
- 2010 · My Husband is a Cartoonist as
- 2006 · Junjo Kirari as
- 2005 · Reincarnation as Yuka Morita
- 2005 · Junji Inagawa's Shivering Horror as
- 2005 · Paradise Kiss as Miwako Sakurada (voice)
- 2005 · Noroi: The Curse as Self
- 2005 · Sugar Sugar Rune as Chocolat Meilleure
- Future · Final Fantasy X: Eternal Calm as Rikku
- 2025 · Midsummer, Grasping Love as Manatsu Umino
- 2025 · HR Hero as Hori Manami
- 2024 · Luca on the Road as [Ikko's ex-lover's girlfriend]
- 2024 · Black Jack as Patient with Lion's Face Disease
- 2024 · Miss Target as Asakura Sumire
- 2024 · Travel Your Life! as
- 2023 · Tokumei! as Todo Sayuri
- 2023 · Alone Together as
- 2023 · Fafner: Behind the Line as
- 2022 · All Because of Me as
- 2022 · Youkai Sharehouse: The False Prince on a White Horse as Iwa Yotsuya
- 2022 · Teen Regime as Yamaguchi Saki
- 2022 · CONNECTED: The Homebound Detective as Saika Sakamoto
- 2022 · The Little Star as
- 2021 · Stolen Love, High School Teacher as Hanako Tanaka
- 2021 · Will You Still Pledge Me Your Faithful Love? as Sumisu Jun
- 2021 · Tokyo, aidano, koidano as
- 2021 · Mukou no Hate as Ikematsu Ritsuko
- 2021 · The Great Haruko as Kikuchi Izumi
- 2021 · Meikyō Shisui: Bu no KAMIWAZA as
- 2020 · A Day-Off of Ryoma Takeuchi as Marika Matsumoto
- 2020 · Path of the Dragons as Mayumi Kirishima
- 2020 · Pareto's Miscalculation: Caseworker Murder Case as
- 2019 · Sherlock: Untold Stories as Teiko Akabane(赤羽 汀子)
- 2019 · Take Away Love, Summer as Sorano Anzu
- 2019 · Rikon na Futari as
- 2019 · Dying Eye as Narumi Murakami
- 2019 · The Good Wife as Yuna Ogawa
- 2019 · Cheers to Miki Clinic as Yuzuki Yukari
- 2018 · Holiday Love as Rina Izutsu
- 2018 · Fun House as
- 2017 · My High School Business as Yuriko Kosaka
- 2017 · Memoirs of a Murderer as Minako Kawakita
- 2016 · Same Old, Same Old as Aoba Harada
- 2016 · What Happens Before War? as Narration
- 2014 · Pokémon the Movie: Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction as Diancie (voice)
- 2013 · Penance as Kaori
- 2012 · Penance as Kaori
- 2010 · Fafner: Heaven and Earth as Maya Tomi (voice)
- 2009 · Bocho Mania 09 as
- 2008 · Amuri in Star Ocean as Purmo Allen
- 2004 · Fafner in the Azure: Dead Aggressor as Maya Tomi
- 2004 · Fafner in the Azure: Dead Aggressor as Toomi Maya (voice)
- 2002 · Season of the Sun as
- 2000 · Sayoko is Back as Masako Hanamiya
- Future · The Nonfiction as Narrator (voice)