Born February 23, 1981 in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Mai Nakahara is a Japanese voice actress known for her sweet and highly adaptable voice. She tends to play characters who are either cheery near-Action Girls or Moe characters. Subversions do exist though.
She's had quite the relationship with Ai Shimizu, even singing many anime songs together.
Some of her notable roles:
- 9A-91 in Girls' Frontline
- Adora/She-Ra in the Japanese dub of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
- Akiko Ogasawara in Taishō Baseball Girls
- Anna Aoi in Godannar
- Asami Hoshino in Myself ; Yourself
- Akagi in Azur Lane
- Aunete/Cure Oasis in Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure'
- Ayano Tateyama in Mekaku City Actors
- Beniyuri in Psychedelica Of The Black Butterfly
- Blaze in Arknights
- Chihaya Yamase in Maburaho
- Chisa Yukizome in Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School
- Eina in Gravion
- Eremiya in Fire Emblem Heroes
- Estellise "Estelle" Sidos Heurassein in Tales of Vesperia and Project × Zone and Project X Zone 2
- Estelle (Haley Bennett) in the Japanese dub of Hardcore Henry (Both a Casting Gag from the above role and also Playing Against Type as she is part of the Big Bad Duumvirate of the film)
- Europa, Euryale and Gayne in Granblue Fantasy
- Fatima Eaglefeather in Sdorica
- Also plays Hestia in the same game
- Felli Loss in Chrome Shelled Regios
- Fuga in Senran Kagura
- Hakuyo in Hakumei & Mikochi
- Haruka Amagiri in The Asterisk War
- Haruna Niekawa in Durarara!!
- Haruno Yukinoshita in My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, as I Expected
- Hatsune Otonashi in Angel Beats!
- Higurashi: When They Cry-chan, a blatant Rena expy, in Neptunia: Sisters vs Sisters
- Hiyori Tsuchinaga in Blue Archive
- Ingel in Grimms Notes
- Isha in No Longer Allowed in Another World
- Jamie Austin in Cop Craft
- Juvia Lockser from Fairy Tail
- Kaede Minami/Katie Minami in Mirumo de Pon!
- Karen Kimishima in the Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches OVA's
- Kira in Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
- Konohana Sakuya in Dragalia Lost
- Kuri Sugimoto in Sweet Blue Flowers
- Lady Kagenou in The Eminence in Shadow
- Lolory in the Japanese version of Shining Nikki
- Lulune in 'Tis Time for "Torture," Princess
- Mai Tokiha in My-HiME and My-Otome
- Maika Yoshikawa in Magikano
- Mana in Another Eden
- Marie Anto in Persona 5 Tactica
- Maryrose and Rosemary in Shadows House
- Mashimo Munetani in High School Fleet
- May Wong in Kaleido Star
- Medhimama in Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks?
- The Mediator/Heroine in Humanity Has Declined
- MEFE in Black★Rock Shooter
- Megumi Fujita in Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto
- Michiru Inukai in Talentless Nana
- Midori Kasugano in Midori Days
- Mifuyu Azusa in Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story, as well as its anime counterpart.
- Miina Miyafuji in Please Twins!
- Mighty Yukiko in the Wrestle Angels Survivor series
- Mireille in the Trails Series
- Miss Tori in Gundam Build Divers
- Miu in DearS
- Morgan in Tears to Tiara and Aqua Pazza
- Musashi in Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere
- Nagisa Aoi from Strawberry Panic!
- Nagisa Furukawa in CLANNAD
- Naie "Noi" Kasahara in The Wallflower
- Nakoruru in The King of Fighters XIV, SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy, Samurai Shodown (2019), and The King of Fighters XV
- Nanami Yasuri in Katanagatari
- Nami in the Japanese dub of League of Legends
- Nina Adelard in Strike the Blood
- Nora in Spice and Wolf
- Pai in World's End Club
- Parfait in World Flipper
- Peppo in Gankutsuou
- Prier in La Pucelle and Disgaea
- Raigree Balheart in Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle
- Reika Nishimura in Sailor Moon Crystal
- Reika Rikudou in Fate/Apocrypha
- Reimu Hakurei in Musou Kakyou: A Summer Day's Dream
- Rena in .hack//Legend of the Twilight Bracelet
- Rena Ryūgū in Higurashi: When They Cry
- Rin Kanzaki in I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in the Real World, Too
- Ritsuko Akizuki in Idolmaster: Xenoglossia
- Saya Miyoshi in Servant × Service
- Seele Vollerei in Honkai Impact 3rd
- Seele in Honkai: Star Rail
- Sekhmet in Re:Zero
- Sernia Iori Flameheart in Ladies versus Butlers!
- Shiho Fujimiya in One Week Friends
- Shino Ookouchi in Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens
- Staphylococcus Aureus in Cells at Work!
- Suzune Ichihara in The Irregular at Magic High School
- Tan Hi in Thunderbolt Fantasy
- Teana Lanster, Laguna Granscenic and Megane Alpine in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS
- Teru Miyanaga in Saki
- Towako Mita in Kiss and White Lily for My Dearest Girl (Drama CD)
- Valerie from Luminous Arc 3, Playing Against Type. Op!
- Virgina in Soul Tide
- Winona in High School Prodigies Have It Easy Even in Another World
- Witzy in Suzy's Zoo: Daisuki! Witzy
- Yamato in Arpeggio of Blue Steel
- Yggdra in Yggdra Union, Blaze Union, and Gloria Union
- And her older sisters Luciana and Aegina in the prequel Blaze Union
- Yui Takamura in Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse
- Yuki Hiiragi in Super Robot Wars BX
- Yumi Shirayanagi in Charlotte
- Yuu Kashima in Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun
- Yuzu Komiya in Cat God (Drama CD)
- Yuzuha in Utawarerumono
Tropes associated with Mai Nakahara:
- The Other Darrin: For Harumi Ikoma as the actual voice of SNK's Nakoruru in recent games (since The King of Fighters XIV to the new Samurai Shodown game in 2019).
- Playing Against Type: Her roles as Fatima Eaglefeather of the Panthers in Sdorica and as the Bifauxnen prince-like Yuu Kashima in Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun.
