Television
- Mariko appears in the Wolverine and the X-Men episode "Code of Conduct" voiced by Gwendoline Yeo. She's depicted as Logan's former, lost sweetheart, girlfriend,lover, and the wife of the Silver Samurai. A memory flashback showed how she strongly fell romantically in love with Wolverine, but the Yakuza clan had him duel the Silver Samurai for her. When Silver Samurai had abducted the X-Men years later, Mariko arrived at the Japanese Embassy looking for her husband. She was present at the recent duel with Silver Samurai and Wolverine. After Silver Samurai acted dishonorably by using his mutant abilities when it wasn't allowed, the Yakuza Leader annulled the duel and had his men take Silver Samurai away as he had disgraced and dishonored the Yakuza clan. When the Yakuza leader agreed to release the captive X-Men, she told Wolverine that Silver Samurai will be driven from the Yakuza in shame and that they will not admit him again. When Wolverine asks her why she had chosen the Silver Samurai over him, she said that the Yakuza would've killed both of them had she not chosen the Silver Samurai. Mariko and Wolverine then went their separate ways.
- Mariko appears in twelve-episode Marvel Anime: Wolverine voiced by Fumiko Orikasa in the Japanese dub and Gwendoline Yeo once again for the English dub. In this series, which is not continuous with the Marvel franchises, Mariko is arranged to be married to the current leader of Madipoor. Logan spends the entire series on a quest to free her from this engagement so they can be together again. In the twelfth and last episode, Mariko is accidentally shot in the chest and dies peacefully in the saddened Logan's arms, but not before confessing her strong, deep and true feelings of true romantic love she has for Logan and assures him that she will always be him.
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