Masayo Kurata is a voice actress born on May 21, 1969 who first gained fame thanks to the hit series Love Hina as Shinobu Maehara. As such, Masayo was at first pigeonholed as those sweet voiced girls, made more apparent if the character is a Token Mini-Moe. 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 Soichiro Hoshi.
She married fellow voice actor Takeharu Onishi in 2021.
Roles done by Masayo Kurata:
- Chizuru Sakaki in the Muv-Luv franchise (Playing Against Type)
- Clara Hananokoji in Power Instinct (She took over the role from Kotono Mitsuishi 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 Star Ocean EX
- Fasalina in GUN×SWORD (probably the start of her jump to the other pigeon hole). And returns for Super Robot Wars T
- Mayura Labatt in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
- Patricia McGrath in Tokimeki Memorial POCKET : Sports Hen ~Koutei no Photograph~
- Rakshata Chawla in Code Geass
- Rin Yamabuki in Active Raid
- Shinobu Maehara in Love Hina
- Souffle/Peppita Rosetti in Star Ocean: Till the End of Time
- Tomoe Kashiwagi (Hinaichigo's medium) in Rozen Maiden
- Yuka Ayase in the Japanese version of Persona
