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Masayo Kurata is a voice actress born on May 21, 1969 who first gained fame thanks to the hit series ''Manga/LoveHina'' as Shinobu Maehara. As such, Masayo was at first pigeonholed as those sweet voiced girls, made more apparent if the character is a TokenMiniMoe. As time passed, however, while she doesn't appear much, it shows that she recently has tried a different type of roles which is... alluringly seductive mature women.

Often cast with Creator/SoichiroHoshi.

She married fellow voice actor Creator/TakeharuOnishi in 2021.
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!!Roles done by Masayo Kurata:
* [[{{Tsundere}} Chizuru]] [[ClassRepresentative Sakaki]] in the ''VisualNovel/MuvLuv'' franchise (PlayingAgainstType)
* Clara Hananokoji in ''VideoGame/PowerInstinct'' (She [[TheOtherDarrin took over]] the role from Creator/KotonoMitsuishi in ''Purikura Daisakusen'' and later voiced Clara in her guest appearance in ''Heaven's Gate'' as well as last two games in the main series)
* Eleanor in ''[[VideoGame/StarOceanTheSecondStory Star Ocean EX]]''
* Fasalina in ''Anime/GunXSword'' (probably the start of her jump to the other pigeon hole). And returns for ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsT''
* Mayura Labatt in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED''
* Patricia [=McGrath=] in ''[[VisualNovel/TokimekiMemorial Tokimeki Memorial POCKET : Sports Hen ~Koutei no Photograph~]]''
* Rakshata Chawla in ''Anime/CodeGeass''
* Rin Yamabuki in ''Anime/ActiveRaid''
* Shinobu Maehara in ''Manga/LoveHina''
* Souffle/Peppita Rosetti in ''VideoGame/StarOceanTillTheEndOfTime''
* Tomoe Kashiwagi (Hinaichigo's medium) in ''Manga/RozenMaiden''
* Yuka Ayase in the Japanese version of ''VideoGame/{{Persona|1}}''
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