It seems to be an increasing trend for Japanese celebrities to get involved with video games.

If you haven't heard of Mari Yaguchi before, here's a quick run-down: She is a former Morning Musume pop singer, she believes she looks like Final Fantasy XIII's Vanille, she was recently hired by Nintendo to promote World of Goo, and she is Yakuza 4's "massage babe".

But it looks like that's not enough to tide Mari over. In her Famitsu column, she admitted that wants to be involved with more video games.
She might just out-do GACKT's ridiculously long list of game involvements.

Yaguchi now writes how she'd like to do more voice acting — such as for the popular Professor Layton puzzle games, which already feature Japanese celebrities. She is already slated to appear in upcoming PS3 exclusive Yakuza 4 (Ryu Ga Gotoku 4), lending both her likeness and voice to the game. The singer, who has been compared to pigtailed Final Fantasy XIII character Oerba Dia Vanille, also says she would have liked to voiced the FF character. According to Yaguchi, "I wanted to try my hand at Vanille!"

"This year, I'd like to try to do even more game work," Yaguchi states in her column. So Mari Yaguchi writing in Japan's most famous game magazine has advertised herself as being interested in doing more video game voice gigs. Bet she gets them, too.

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