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

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

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2005Noroi: The Curse — Self