The forces of evil were looking for trouble; they found Cutey! In a futuristic world were evil comes in all shapes and sizes, she is the ultimate weapon. She's Cutey Honey, a one woman S.W.A.T. team whose android chassis is capable of changing at will into a dazzling array of hard-hitting, curvaceous bodies, each with its own set of special skills, weapons and other impressive physical attributes. Go Nagai's legendary android super-hero is back and hitting the bad guys where it hurts most.<br>
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(Source: Discotek)

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Rika Matsumoto is a Japanese actress, voice actress and singer, as well as one of the founders of [JAM Project](https://anilist.co/staff/102041/).

After early stage work, she began both voice acting and singing careers. The most popular role by Rika is [Satoshi](https://anilist.co/character/2473/) (Ash Ketchum in English translations), the main character of the anime series [Pokémon](https://anilist.co/anime/527/). She also had a role in the [Yu-Gi-Oh](https://anilist.co/anime/550/) series as [Ryou Bakura](https://anilist.co/character/1488/) and [Yami Bakura](https://anilist.co/character/1489/). As such, Matsumoto has taken on roles for young boys. Matsumoto also performs the songs for many of the openings for the Japanese Pokémon anime.

Matsumoto 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. She announced in April 2008 she was taking time off from the group and her solo work.

Her name is also sometimes romanized as Rica Matsumoto.

He dubbed [Inuyasha](https://anilist.co/anime/249) for the first 26 episodes, then contractual questions forced dubbing staff of Dynamic Italia to change casting roles and give his one to [Francesco Pezzulli](https://anilist.co/staff/165553). He dubbed Kurz Weber in the first two seasons of Full Metal Panic!, but then again his role was left to [Francesco Pezzulli](https://anilist.co/staff/165553) because of contractual issues (that meanwhile denied him to dub Kaworu Nagisa in Evangelion: Death & Rebirth and The End of Evangelion, altough he dubbed him in Neon Genesis Evangelion).

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