Marika Matsumoto
Acting
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.
Born: September 12, 1984 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Filmography (38)
Until I Destroyed My Husband's Other Family
2024
The Women in the Lakes
2024
Kyrie
2023
What Will You Do, Ieyasu?
2023
Nighttime Warbles
2022
Whisper of the Heart
2022
Shrieking in the Rain
2021
Tropical-Rouge! Precure: The Snow Princess and the Miraculous Ring!
2021
Youkai Sharehouse
2020
Kyojo
2020
Sherlock: Untold Stories
2019
Farewell Song
2019
Fafner: The Beyond
2019
Nisekoi: False Love
2018
Animation x Paralympic: Who Is Your Hero?
2017
Memoirs of a Murderer
2017
Nikenme Dou Suru? ~Tsumami no Hanashi~
2017
Traces of Sin
2017
Quartet
2017
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
2016
A Girl & Three Sweethearts
2016
Fafner Exodus
2015
Pokémon the Movie: Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction
2014
Penance
2013
Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon
2012
Cold Bloom
2012
Penance
2012
Un-Go
2011
CSI: Crime Scene Talks
2011
Fafner: Heaven and Earth
2010
Space Battleship Yamato
2010
My Husband is a Cartoonist
2010
Junjo Kirari
2006
Reincarnation
2005
Paradise Kiss
2005
Noroi: The Curse
2005
Sugar Sugar Rune
2005
Fafner
2004