Urabe Rika (浦部 リカ), also known as Rica (リカ, Rika), is a supporting character in the Inazuma Eleven series. She is a forward and the captain for Osaka Gals CCC, and, later, a forward for Raimon.
JP:Naniwa's girl striker! The strength of her pushiness is the best thing on earth. EN:An Osaka girl striker whose ability is second to none.
Inazuma Eleven 3
GO
Chrono Stone
Galaxy
The striker who leads Osaka Gals CCC. She has a very pushy and forceful personality.
Victory Road
JP:The prideful gyaru striker of Naniwa. The strength of her pushiness is the best thing on earth. EN:A glitzy gal striker and the pride of Naniwa. Assertive beyond compare.
Spin-offs
Strikers
JP:Naniwa's girl striker! The strength of her pushiness is the best thing on earth. EN:An Osaka girl striker whose ability is second to none.
Strikers 2012 Xtreme
GO Strikers 2013
SD
Naniwa's girl striker. The strength of her pushiness is the best thing on earth.
All profiles are transcribed and translated accurately to the source material.
Appearance[]
Rica has blue hair, dark skin and grey violet eyes. When wearing a soccer jersey, she ties a knot at the edge of the shirt and lifts it up. When wearing the jogging suit, she ties the jacket around her waist, leaving behind a white shirt to show. Her casual clothes consist of a light pink long hoodie, with an orange t-shirt underneath, blue leggings and puple white sneakers. In her first appearance, she was seen wearing this with white earphones.
Personality[]
She is often a cheerful girl, who has a big crush on Ichinose Kazuya, whom she always calls "darling". She's also interested in the others' potential love lives. For instance, she's interested in Touko and Tsunami's interactions, believing there might be something between them, and when she notices that Fuyuka is concerned to help Endou learn a new hissatsu technique, she tricks her into going on a date with him, under the pretext that she's helping Endou. She's shown to be good at cooking, as seen when Ichinose liked her okonomiyaki dish.
She first appeared in episode 40 while Raimon was looking for an underground base in the amusement park that Rika's Mother worked in for selling their okonomiyaki.
Along the way, Ichinose got lost and Rica offered him to show him the way. Instead, she took Ichinose to her okonomiyaki (a type of Japanese food) shop and fed him her so-called "Lovey-Dovey Dish" which turned out to be a simple okonomiyaki dish prepared by her. Ever since then, she claimed that Ichinose was her husband and that she was planning to open up her own okonomiyaki shop and start a cute family with him. Though, he often disagrees with this. She's obviously very much in love with Ichinose, calling him "darling" most of the time.
In episode 41 she also showed Raimon the aliens' previous base, which they had taken over. They used to train for their battle with Epsilon, although at first they had no idea it belonged to Aliea Gakuen. She reappeared in the next episode to help Raimon win the match and afterwards she joined the Inazuma Caravan to be with Ichinose and help battle Aliea Gakuen.
She made friends with Touko and created Butterfly Dream, although she was planning to do this with Ichinose at the beginning. Then, she played as a substitute for Fubuki while he couldn't play for the team until the last battle with The Genesis. During this match, she tried to score a goal with Tsuutenkaku Shoot, but Nero easily defended it even without a hissatsu. After this arc, she went back her hometown like the others.
Season 3[]
During the FFI arc, Rica decided to stay at Touko's place since Inazuma Town is far away from her hometown, Osaka. The reason was that it will be troublesome for her to go back and forth between matches. During her stay, Touko hadn't been getting enough sleep because Rica always kept throwing her jokes at her and wouldn't let her sleep until she laughed at them.
She and Touko usually watched Inazuma Japan during training and cheered for them through the preliminary matches. After witnessing Fuyuka's concern for Endou thinking about a new hissatsu technique, Rica formulated a secret plan. She told Fuyuka how to "help", telling her to take Endou to the shopping district, go on a thrilling roller coaster with him, and eat ice cream with him, all under the pretense of helping Endou.
Rica and Touko made an appearance in episode 107, where they tried to surprise the team of their arrival with both of them wearing Inazuma Japan jerseys. While she was shopping, they met two hooded-men who gave them mysterious bracelets. It was also revealed that Ichinose already told her about his condition. After putting the white bracelet on, she was unable to remove it.
In episode 108, she watched the team in a practice match with Orpheus's Fidio, Unicorn's Mark and Dylan, The Empire's Teles, and Knights of Queen's Edgar. When Fuyuka asked why she didn't want to play, she said, "Who wants to play when there is an army of hotties to see." She was later kidnapped by Sein for wearing the bracelet but was then saved by Endou and the rest of the Aka Gumi. After that, she was seen with Touko staying with the team in the lodge. She also cheered on the team at their match against The Kingdom. She was seen after the graduation ceremony with Touko, Ichinose and the other new Raimon members.
Game appearance[]
Character sprite and avatar[]
Overworld
Avatar
Osaka Gals CCC's uniform
Second Raimon's jacket
Second Raimon's uniform
Joshi Senbatsu Team's uniform
Aka Gumi's uniform
Victory Road avatar[]
Avatar
Second Raimon's uniform
B Team's uniform
Japan Dreams' uniform
Strikers avatar[]
Avatar
Sprite
Second Raimon
SD avatar[]
Avatar
Sticker
Valentine
Shuurenjou
SD puppet[]
Puppet
Valentine
Character view[]
Front overview
Back overview
Front close view
Back close view
Osaka Gals CCC's uniform
Raimon's uniform (GO)
B Team's uniform (GO)
Raimon's uniform (Victory Road)
Japan Dream's uniform
SD character view[]
Front overview
Valentine
Shuurenjou
Recruitment[]
Inazuma Eleven GO
In order to recruit Rica, Dragonlink has to be defeated first in the story mode. Also, the following requirements are needed:
Her name, Urabe Rika, is derived from アメリカ (read as "Amerika"), which, in turn, is the Japanese pronunciation of America, a reference to her endearment towards everything American.