Riko Fukumoto

Riko Fukumoto was born on November 25, 2000 in Osaka Prefecture. She has been attending university since April 2019.^[1]

She began her career in 2016 by winning the Grand Prix at the 8th Toho Cinderella Audition, as well as being awarded a modeling contract by the women's fashion magazine Seventeen sponsored by Shueisha.^[2]

In January 2017, Fukumoto made her first television appearance as a guest in the information variety show Nijiiro Jean [ja].^[3] Later in November, she published her first photobook intitled First Lover.^[4]

Fukumoto made her debut as a singer with the song "The Girl Who Crosses That Sky", the theme song for the TV anime series Dragon Pilot: Hisone and Masotan where she also voiced the character Natsume Misumi, the show began airing on April 12, 2018.^[5][6] She made her on-screen debut in the historical comedy film Flea-Picking Samurai, released on May 18 of the same year.^[7] In June, she played her first lead role as Kiki in the musical stage play Kiki's Delivery Service.^[8][9] In May of the same year, she made her television debut in the drama, The Confidence Man JP [ja].^[10]

On August 14, 2020, Fukumoto starred alongside Takumi Kitamura in the coming of age film Love Me, Love Me Not,^[11] she also had a voice cameo as Ayuko in the anime adaptation of the manga of the same name.^[12] In October of the same year, Fukumoto starred in her first terrestrial television drama series, Escape from the Historical Labyrinth: Real Escape Game x TV Tokyo [ja].^[13]

Fukumoto landed her first lead role in a film in the movie Muscat of Happiness, which was released in May 2021.^[14]

Film

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Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2018	Flea-picking Samurai	Omitsu		[7]
	My Teacher, My Love	Natsuho		[15]
2019	Murder at Shijinso	Reika Hoshikawa		[16]
2020	Love Me, Love Me Not	Yuna Ichihara	Lead role	[17]
	Love Me, Love Me Not: The Animation	Ayuko (voice)	Cameo	[12]
	Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!	Kyu Ajima		[18]
2021	Muscat of Happiness	Haruna Souma	Lead role	[19][14]
2022	The Blue Skies at Your Feet	Miyu Mizuno	Lead role	[20]
	Soul at Twenty	Natsuki Miyata		[21][22]
	Even If This Love Disappears From the World Tonight	Hino Maori	Lead role	[23]
	That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: The Movie – Scarlet Bond	Towa (voice)		[24]
2024	Dear Family	Yoshimi Tsuboi		[25]
	Shinji Muroi: Not Defeated	An Hinata		[26]
	Shinji Muroi: Stay Alive	An Hinata		[26]
2025	Trillion Game	Rinrin Takahashi		[27]
	A Girl & Her Guard Dog	Isaku Senagaki	Lead role	[28]
	#Iwilltellyouthetruth	University student		[29]
	Stella Next to Me	Chiaki Amano	Lead role	[30]
2026	Part-time Death Angel	Yukino Hanamori	Lead role	[31][32]

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Television

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Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2017	&Bishoujo Next Girl Meets Tokyo	Kana Kuriyama	Lead role; episode 9	[1]
2018	The Confidence Man JP			[10]
	Dragon Pilot: Hisone and Masotan	Natsume Misumi (voice)	TV anime	[6]
2019	Secret Unrequited Love	Satomi Nomura		[33]
	Cheat: Beware of Scammers	Kanon Ezawa/ Mirai	Episodes 7 and 8	[34]
	Black Lizard	Sanae Iwase/ Yoko		[35]
2020	Papa Fell in Love Again	Tomo Yamashita		[36]
	Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!	Kyu Ajima		[37]
	Great Edo Journey: The Ise Pilgrimage	Suzu		[38]
	Three Single Mothers: A Wonderful Life Reversal Story	Seiko Maehara		[39]
	Escape from the Historical Labyrinth: Real Escape Game x TV Tokyo	Jun Tanida	Lead role	[13]
2021	Kakegurui Twin	Aiura Kokoro	Web series	[40][41][42]
	Captivated by You	Megumi Matsuya		[43]
	The Grand Family	Mitsuko Manpyo		[44]
	Kokichi's Wife 2	Omine	Episode 5
	My Love Mix-Up!	Mio Hashimoto		[45]
	Meguru	Yuriko Baba		[46]
2021–22	I Became an Idol's Housekeeper	Haruno Komachi (voice)	Lead role	[47]
2022	Showa Kayo Musical: Until We Meet Again	Sae Isono	Lead role	[48]
	Red Nurse Call	Arisa Mimori		[49]
	Fishbowl Wives	Ran Kazama		[50]
2023	Trillion Game	Rinrin Takahashi	Episode 2	[51]
	One Day: Much Ado About Christmas	Asako Tachiki		[52]
2024	AARO: All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office	Hika Toyotama		[53]
2025	Dragonite and The Postman	Hana (voice)	TV anime	[54]
2025–26	Strobe Edge	Ninako Kinoshita	Lead role; 2 seasons	[55]
2026	Soda Master	Habuka Nishino		[56]

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Magazine

• Seventeen (January 2017 issue, Shueisha)- Exclusive model^[2]

Photobook

• First Lover (November 25, 2017, Gambit) ISBN 978-4-907462-32-1^[4]
• Grace (November 25, 2021, Kodansha) ISBN 978-4-06-525792-0^[60]