Marika Matsumoto

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.

Known For

Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon

CSI: Crime Scene Talks

Nikenme Dou Suru? ~Tsumami no Hanashi~

Un-Go

What Will You Do, Ieyasu?

Sugar Sugar Rune

My Husband is a Cartoonist

Junjo Kirari

All Movies (38)

• 城山羊の会「勝手に唾が出てくる甘さ」2025
• Black Jack2024 · as Patient with Lion's Face Disease
• The Women in the Lakes2024
• Kyrie2023 · as Ikko's Ex-boyfriend's Girlfriend
• Ice Cream Fever2023 · as Yu Takashima
• Alone Together2023
• I SCREAM FEVER2023 · as Yu Takashima
• Fafner: Behind the Line2023
• The Grandfather’s Clock2022
• Nighttime Warbles2022 · as Yuko
• Whisper of the Heart2022 · as [Shizuku's Senior]
• All Because of Me2022
• Youkai Sharehouse: The False Prince on a White Horse2022 · as Iwa Yotsuya
• The Little Star2022
• Shrieking in the Rain2021 · as Hanako
• Tropical-Rouge! Precure: The Snow Princess and the Miraculous Ring!2021 · as Sharon (voice)
• Farewell Song2019 · as TV Reporter
• Life Finds A Way2019 · as Doctor
• Nisekoi: False Love2018 · as Kyoko Nichihara
• The Sacrament2018 · as Matsumoto
• Fun House2018
• Memoirs of a Murderer2017 · as Minako Kawakita
• Opening Night2017 · as Marika Hara
• Gukoroku - Traces of Sin2017 · as Reiko Yamamoto
• Same Old, Same Old2016 · as Aoba Harada
• Blue2016
• What Happens Before War?2016 · as Narration
• Pokémon the Movie: Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction2014 · as Diancie (voice)
• Pokémon: Diancie — Princess of the Diamond Domain2014
• Penance2013 · as Kaori
• Cold Bloom2012 · as Shoko
• Fafner: Heaven and Earth2010 · as Maya Tomi (voice)
• Space Battleship Yamato2010 · as M. Nishina
• Reincarnation2005 · as Yuka Morita
• Junji Inagawa's Shivering Horror2005
• Noroi: The Curse2005 · as Self
• 松本まりか : えくぼ日記2002
• Final Fantasy X: Eternal Calm— · as Rikku

All TV Shows (58)

• Emily to Maria2026 · as Emily
• Lunacy2026 · as Narrator (voice)
• Moto Kasouken no Onna2026 · as Shiori Yoshioka
• Midsummer, Grasping Love2025 · as Manatsu Umino
• HR Hero2025 · as Hori Manami
• Luca on the Road2024 · as [Ikko's ex-lover's girlfriend]
• Until I Destroyed My Husband's Other Family2024 · as Kisaragi Minori
• Miss Target2024 · as Asakura Sumire
• Travel Your Life!2024
• Tokumei!2023 · as Todo Sayuri
• What Will You Do, Ieyasu?2023 · as Onna Oonezumi
• Teen Regime2022 · as Yamaguchi Saki
• CONNECTED: The Homebound Detective2022 · as Saika Sakamoto
• Stolen Love, High School Teacher2021 · as Hanako Tanaka
• Will You Still Pledge Me Your Faithful Love?2021 · as Jun Sumisu
• Tokyo, aidano, koidano2021
• Mukou no Hate2021 · as Ikematsu Ritsuko
• The Great Haruko2021 · as Kikuchi Izumi
• Meikyō Shisui: Bu no KAMIWAZA2021
• A Day-Off of Ryoma Takeuchi2020 · as Marika Matsumoto
• Youkai Sharehouse2020 · as Iwa Yotsuya
• Path of the Dragons2020 · as Mayumi Kirishima
• Throw It Away, Adachi2020 · as Yōko
• Pareto's Miscalculation: Caseworker Murder Case2020
• Kyojo2020 · as Aiko Tazawa（田澤 愛子）
• Death Office2019 · as Nishikawa
• Sherlock: Untold Stories2019 · as Teiko Akabane
• Take Away Love, Summer2019 · as Sorano Anzu
• Fafner: The Beyond2019 · as Maya Tomi(voice)
• Rikon na Futari2019
• Dying Eye2019 · as Narumi Murakami
• The Good Wife2019 · as Yuna Ogawa
• Cheers to Miki Clinic2019 · as Yuzuki Yukari
• Holiday Love2018 · as Rina Izutsu
• Animation x Paralympic: Who Is Your Hero?2017 · as Momo Minamikawa (voice)
• My High School Business2017 · as Yuriko Kosaka
• Nikenme Dou Suru? ~Tsumami no Hanashi~2017
• Quartet2017
• Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories2016 · as Midori
• A Girl & Three Sweethearts2016 · as Bride
• Fafner Exodus2015 · as Maya Tōmi (voice)
• Oh, Love Hotel2014
• Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon2012
• Penance2012 · as Kaori
• Un-Go2011 · as Kazamori Sasa (voice)
• CSI: Crime Scene Talks2011
• My Husband is a Cartoonist2010
• Bocho Mania 092009
• Amuri in Star Ocean2008 · as Purmo Allen
• Junjo Kirari2006
• Paradise Kiss2005 · as Miwako Sakurada (voice)
• Sugar Sugar Rune2005 · as Chocolat Meilleure
• Fafner2004 · as Maya Tomi
• Fafner2004 · as Toomi Maya (voice)
• Gekidan Engimono2004
• Season of the Sun2002
• Sayoko is Back2000 · as Masako Hanamiya
• The Nonfiction— · as Narrator (voice)