Name:泉梨華

Name (romaji): Izumi Rika

Alias: Hama Chisaki (浜千咲), Rika (梨華), Izumi Rika
(泉里香), and Izumi Rika (泉里果)

Birthdate: October 11, 1988

Birthplace: Kyoto, Japan

Hometown: Kanagawa, Japan

Current Location: Tokyo, Japan

Profession: Model, Actress and Singer

Sign: Libra

Height: 165 cm

Weight: 43kg

Blood Type: A

Family: Parents, older brother and older sister

Hobbies: cooking, Making sweets, watching Formula 1
racing, watching movies and Nail art

Special Talents: Plays Saxophone and Euphonium

Official Blog: Hapipurika

Current Agency: Sun Music Group

Former Agency: Snow Rabbits

Nickname: Hamachi

Favorite Colors: pink and red

Favorite Food: chocolates and pasta

Least Favorite food: Sushi

Favorite Places to visit: Shibuya and Yurakucho

Favorite Actresses: Audrey Hepburn and Angelina Jolie

She expresses herself as: Simple and innocent

Her Favorite thing to do lately: Making an aroma candle

Favorite Brand Shops: Jill Stuart and Double Standard Clothing

Best Friends: Komatsu Ayaka, Kitagawa Keiko, Sawai Miyuu , Azama Mew

At the age of 14 she began her filming career, making her the youngest Senshi actress besides Rina Koike, and among the youngest of the regular cast. She signed with snow rabbits agency on August 12, 2002. Before her work in PGSM, Rika’s only television work was on an Idol special on Sky PerfecTV Japan called “Being Junior, Go!”,and a debut single released by her own agency shortly before PGSM. However, she was the major exclusive model of the now-nonexistent preteen fashion magazine melon. After her retirement from modelling, the magazine publisher had tried using a substitute model who was styled exactly like her, but the magazine was closed not long after.

Her sudden retirement was a big mystery among her fans for some time. The official reasons given by her agency were about health and school, with no indication that it would be permanent. However, after the release of Act Zero in early 2005, she did not appear in the public eye again for several years, with two minor exceptions: there was a one-page article featuring an old photo of her published in the idol magazine g-girl in 2005, and she played a minor role in the Chinese film The Go Master in 2006.

She has apparently left the entertainment industry, and her agency progressively shrank her official homepage until it disappeared altogether, although they continued to sell her goods at the same web address until February 2007. However, she still occasionally meets with the other four Senshi actresses, all of whom are still working in the industry. As such meetings are blogged by the other four, they become the only way her fans can get to know about her recent activities, although the other actresses take care to not mention her name outright nor post her photos. This practice lasted until her comeback in 2008, when she was first mentioned by her current full stage name on Keiko Kitagawa‘s blog, and first appeared in a blog photo again on Ayaka Komatsu‘s blog.

In June 2008, at the age of 19, she first reappeared after her long hiatus as one of the twelve finalists in the “Princess Pinky Audition” held by the prestigious fashion magazine PINKY, although she did not win its Grand Prix. She also appeared in the August and October 2008 issues of the young women’s fashion magazine Ray, and later became an exclusive model for that magazine.

In an internet press interview in early 2009, she revealed that her entertainment activities went to a hiatus when she entered high school because she wished to place a priority on her schoolwork, and after she was admitted into the Department of Literature of Meiji University (the same institution Keiko Kitagawa attended) in 2007, she “re-debuted” in the summer of 2008.

She has been a long-time Dragon Ball fan, and owns a complete collection of the manga.

Among the other four Inner Senshi actresses, she is closest to Mew Azama, who also blogged about her most during her years of hiatus and has said that Rika is like her younger sister.

Though numerous websites had stated for years that her birthdate was November 10, 1988, when she joined her current agency in June 2008, the agency’s website showed that her birthdate was October 11, 1988. The confusion was finally cleared up when Mew Azama mentioned on her blog in November 2008 that Rika’s birthday had been in October.

Credits: Wiki Moon By: RC

Television

[????] Being Junior, Go!
[2003-2005] Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon -(TBS television) Role of the Sailor Mercury/ Mizuno Ami
[January 2010] “Easy Sports” – (TV Asahi) Yoga Instructor

Movies

[2005] The Go Master
[2008] Clearness

Magazine

[2003] Melon (under exclusive contract)
[2008- Present] Ray

CD Singles

Mi Amor (“My Love”)Yakusoku (“Promise”)

Commercials

[2003-2005] The BANDAI beauty series
[2008] Nissin Food Products.

Live

[2004] Kirari Super Live

DVD

[2003] Mysterious

Informercial

KissxRay KORABO

Runway Work

[April 29,2009] Sapporo Collection Fashion Show