Rica Matsumoto
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Rica Matsumoto (松本 梨香 Matsumoto Rika?) (born November 30, 1968) is a seiyū and J-pop singer who was born in Yokohama. Her name is also sometimes romanized as Rika Matsumoto. She is one of the original members of the popular vocal group JAM Project.
Rica Matsumoto was born in Yokohama. After the way of the Stage, she embarked on Dubbing and Singing career. Rica is a very skillful and excellent good artist: her voice is powerful, widely, very deep and charming too. The most popular role dubbed by Rica is "Ash Ketchum" (Satoshi), the main character of the Japanese animation series Pokémon (Pocket Monsters). She especially likes to dub roles of young boys.
Matsumoto is another widely-heard voice artist, both in her music recordings and her dubbing work in anime, where she has had lead or supporting roles in dozens of series. She has also had a radio show in Japan and does some dubbing work for translations of American films and TV series into Japanese. While she is still active in voice acting, her major performance work now is with the group JAM Project, which performs songs for and from anime; one of their famous performances was a 24-hour marathon during which members of the group sang excerpts from one thousand anime songs.
Matsumoto's CD "Mezase Pokémon Master" (Pokémon Japanese Theme Song) have sold over 1.85 million copies in Japan.
[edit] Notable songs
- "Alive A Life" (Opening for Kamen Rider Ryuki)
- "Mezase Pokémon Master" (Opening for Pokémon)
[edit] Notable voice roles
- Satoshi (known as Ash Ketchum in the English version) in Pocket Monsters (Pokémon)
- Jim Hawking in Outlaw Star
- Chihiro Kawai in Pretty Sammy
- Aoi in You're Under Arrest
- Kei in Dirty Pair Flash
- Ryo Bakura and Dark Bakura in Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (known as Yu-Gi-Oh! outside of Japan)
- Fusuke in Ninku
- Suzumebachi in Naruto
- Sis in Now and Then, Here and There
- Nozomu Ozora in Moldiver
- Shizuka Fujiyama in Gokusen
- Hyuuga Jin in Zettai Muteki Raijin-Oh
