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.
Reincarnation
Noroi: The Curse
Space Battleship Yamato
Junji Inagawa's Shivering Horror
Penance
Fafner: Heaven and Earth
Cold Bloom
Pokémon the Movie: Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction
Traces of Sin
Same Old, Same Old
Memoirs of a Murderer
Opening Night
What Happens Before War?
Nisekoi: False Love
The Sacrament
Farewell Song
Life Finds A Way
Whisper of the Heart
Blue
Tropical-Rouge! Precure: The Snow Princess and the Miraculous Ring!
Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon
Quartet
Sugar Sugar Rune
CONNECTED: The Homebound Detective
Un-Go
Taiyō no kisetsu
Sayoko is Back
Fafner Exodus
Paradise Kiss
Fafner in the Azure: Dead Aggressor
Penance
CSI: Crime Scene Talks
My Husband is a Cartoonist
A Girl & Three Sweethearts
My High School Business
Rikon na Futari
Dying Eye
Junjo Kirari
Holiday Love
The Good Wife
