2014Nominee
Best Performance
Pokémon the Movie: Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction
Marika Matsumoto
Actor
Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
September 12, 1984
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.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2005Nominee
Best Performance
Noroi: The Curse
2010Nominee
Best Performance
Space Battleship Yamato
Career Highlights
2005Highlight
Best Performance
Reincarnation
2017Highlight
Best Performance
Memoirs of a Murderer
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Pokémon the Movie: Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction
Noroi: The Curse
Space Battleship Yamato