Marika Matsumoto
Acting • Born 1984-09-12
Biography
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.
Filmography
91 credits
Shrieking in the Rain
Movie • 2021
Hanako
Reincarnation
Movie • 2005
Yuka Morita
Alone Together
Movie • 2023
I SCREAM FEVER
Movie • 2023
Yu Takashima
Junji Inagawa's Shivering Horror
Movie • 2005
Kyrie
Movie • 2023
Ikko's Ex-boyfriend's Girlfriend
Youkai Sharehouse: The False Prince on a White Horse
Movie • 2022
Iwa Yotsuya
All Because of Me
Movie • 2022
Final Fantasy X: Eternal Calm
Movie
Rikku
Whisper of the Heart
Movie • 2022
[Shizuku's Senior]
Nighttime Warbles
Movie • 2022
Yuko
The Women in the Lakes
Movie • 2024
Penance
Movie • 2013
Kaori
Ice Cream Fever
Movie • 2023
Yu Takashima
Black Jack
Movie • 2024
Patient with Lion's Face Disease
Same Old, Same Old
Movie • 2016
Aoba Harada
Fafner: Behind the Line
Movie • 2023
The Little Star
Movie • 2022
Opening Night
Movie • 2017
Marika Hara
Traces of Sin
Movie • 2017
Reiko Yamamoto
Cold Bloom
Movie • 2012
Shoko
Memoirs of a Murderer
Movie • 2017
Minako Kawakita
Nisekoi: False Love
Movie • 2018
Kyoko Nichihara
What Happens Before War?
Movie • 2016
Narration
Noroi: The Curse
Movie • 2005
Self
Space Battleship Yamato
Movie • 2010
M. Nishina
Farewell Song
Movie • 2019
TV Reporter
Pokémon the Movie: Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction
Movie • 2014
Diancie (voice)
The Sacrament
Movie • 2018
Matsumoto
Life Finds A Way
Movie • 2019
Doctor
Blue
Movie • 2016
Tropical-Rouge! Precure: The Snow Princess and the Miraculous Ring!
Movie • 2021
Sharon (voice)
Fafner: Heaven and Earth
Movie • 2010
Maya Tomi (voice)
Fun House
Movie • 2018
城山羊の会「勝手に唾が出てくる甘さ」
Movie • 2025
Death Office
TV • 2019
Nishikawa
Pareto's Miscalculation: Caseworker Murder Case
TV • 2020
The Great Haruko
TV • 2021
Kikuchi Izumi
Mukou no Hate
TV • 2021
Ikematsu Ritsuko
Amuri in Star Ocean
TV • 2008
Purmo Allen
Season of the Sun
TV • 2002
A Day-Off of Ryoma Takeuchi
TV • 2020
Marika Matsumoto
Fafner
TV • 2004
Maya Tomi
Sugar Sugar Rune
TV • 2005
Chocolat Meilleure
Paradise Kiss
TV • 2005
Miwako Sakurada (voice)
Kyojo
TV • 2020
Aiko Tazawa（田澤 愛子）
Meikyō Shisui: Bu no KAMIWAZA
TV • 2021
Sayoko is Back
TV • 2000
Masako Hanamiya
Tokyo, aidano, koidano
TV • 2021
Will You Still Pledge Me Your Faithful Love?
TV • 2021
Jun Sumisu
Fafner Exodus
TV • 2015
Maya Tōmi (voice)
Take Away Love, Summer
TV • 2019
Sorano Anzu
Oh, Love Hotel
TV • 2014
Bocho Mania 09
TV • 2009
Tokumei!
TV • 2023
Todo Sayuri
CONNECTED: The Homebound Detective
TV • 2022
Saika Sakamoto
Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon
TV • 2012
My High School Business
TV • 2017
Yuriko Kosaka
Sherlock: Untold Stories
TV • 2019
Teiko Akabane
Teen Regime
TV • 2022
Yamaguchi Saki
Stolen Love, High School Teacher
TV • 2021
Hanako Tanaka
Travel Your Life!
TV • 2024
The Good Wife
TV • 2019
Yuna Ogawa
CSI: Crime Scene Talks
TV • 2011
Junjo Kirari
TV • 2006
Path of the Dragons
TV • 2020
Mayumi Kirishima
Holiday Love
TV • 2018
Rina Izutsu
Nikenme Dou Suru? ~Tsumami no Hanashi~
TV • 2017
Un-Go
TV • 2011
Kazamori Sasa (voice)
Quartet
TV • 2017
Penance
TV • 2012
Kaori
Rikon na Futari
TV • 2019
Miss Target
TV • 2024
Asakura Sumire
Dying Eye
TV • 2019
Narumi Murakami
What Will You Do, Ieyasu?
TV • 2023
Onna Oonezumi
My Husband is a Cartoonist
TV • 2010
Cheers to Miki Clinic
TV • 2019
Yuzuki Yukari
Fafner
TV • 2004
Toomi Maya (voice)
Animation x Paralympic: Who Is Your Hero?
TV • 2017
Momo Minamikawa (voice)
Fafner: The Beyond
TV • 2019
Maya Tomi(voice)
Until I Destroyed My Husband's Other Family
TV • 2024
Kisaragi Minori
Throw It Away, Adachi
TV • 2020
Yōko
A Girl & Three Sweethearts
TV • 2016
Bride
Luca on the Road
TV • 2024
[Ikko's ex-lover's girlfriend]
Youkai Sharehouse
TV • 2020
Iwa Yotsuya
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
TV • 2016
Midori
The Nonfiction
TV
Narrator (voice)
HR Hero
TV • 2025
Hori Manami
Midsummer, Grasping Love
TV • 2025
Manatsu Umino
Moto Kasouken no Onna
TV • 2026
Shiori Yoshioka
Gekidan Engimono
TV • 2004