Kurea Masuda
Description
Kurea Masuda is a Japanese voice actress, singer, and dancer affiliated with the talent agency LDH. She was born on August 19, 2003, in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan. Her career in the entertainment industry began with dance training at EXPG Miyazaki, and she performed as a backup dancer for various LDH artists from 2014 before being selected for the training unit KIZZY in 2017.
Masuda's acting career commenced with her first major role as Yuria Nijiiro in the 2018 television series Magical x Heroine MagimajoPures!, part of the Girls x Heroine series. This role also made her a member of the series' associated idol unit, Magical2. In 2019, she became a founding member of the 12-member girl group Girls², formed from members of units within the Girls x Heroine series, and made her major debut with the group in June of that year. Her work as an Oha Girl on the children's television program Ohasuta, beginning in 2019, further expanded her presence in children's entertainment.
Her most prominent role in anime is voicing the character Kurea in the 2020 television series Girl School. ~St. Girls Square Academy~. The series, an anime collaboration with her group Girls², is set in a training academy for aspiring stars, with the members of Girls², including Masuda, voicing characters based on themselves. Her character, also named Kurea, is depicted as a gentle but absent-minded student who serves as the school's vice president and is a member of the unit South2. Masuda was also part of the unit South2, a group formed within the anime's narrative.
In addition to this lead role, Masuda has taken on other voice acting work. In 2020, she voiced an astronaut in a guest appearance for an episode of the anime Go! GO! Atom. More recently, in 2024, she served as a guest voice actress for the horror anime Nanashi Kaidan, voicing a character named Nanashi-chan in the story Imashi Onna.
Her work is characterized by close and recurring collaborations with other members of Girls². She frequently appears alongside her groupmates in various television, music, and voice acting projects. A notable recurring collaboration is with fellow Girls² member Misaki Tsuruya, with whom she has worked on music as a duo and jointly on voice acting roles, such as in Nanashi Kaidan.
A significant achievement in her acting career includes her second main role within the Girls x Heroine series, playing the dual role of Princess and her fairy form Himenyan in Bittomo x Heroine Kirameki Powers in 2021, marking her as the only member to play a second main character in the franchise. Her body of work, both in live-action and voice acting, is closely tied to her career as a performer with Girls² and her involvement in the long-running Girls x Heroine television franchise.
Masuda's acting career commenced with her first major role as Yuria Nijiiro in the 2018 television series Magical x Heroine MagimajoPures!, part of the Girls x Heroine series. This role also made her a member of the series' associated idol unit, Magical2. In 2019, she became a founding member of the 12-member girl group Girls², formed from members of units within the Girls x Heroine series, and made her major debut with the group in June of that year. Her work as an Oha Girl on the children's television program Ohasuta, beginning in 2019, further expanded her presence in children's entertainment.
Her most prominent role in anime is voicing the character Kurea in the 2020 television series Girl School. ~St. Girls Square Academy~. The series, an anime collaboration with her group Girls², is set in a training academy for aspiring stars, with the members of Girls², including Masuda, voicing characters based on themselves. Her character, also named Kurea, is depicted as a gentle but absent-minded student who serves as the school's vice president and is a member of the unit South2. Masuda was also part of the unit South2, a group formed within the anime's narrative.
In addition to this lead role, Masuda has taken on other voice acting work. In 2020, she voiced an astronaut in a guest appearance for an episode of the anime Go! GO! Atom. More recently, in 2024, she served as a guest voice actress for the horror anime Nanashi Kaidan, voicing a character named Nanashi-chan in the story Imashi Onna.
Her work is characterized by close and recurring collaborations with other members of Girls². She frequently appears alongside her groupmates in various television, music, and voice acting projects. A notable recurring collaboration is with fellow Girls² member Misaki Tsuruya, with whom she has worked on music as a duo and jointly on voice acting roles, such as in Nanashi Kaidan.
A significant achievement in her acting career includes her second main role within the Girls x Heroine series, playing the dual role of Princess and her fairy form Himenyan in Bittomo x Heroine Kirameki Powers in 2021, marking her as the only member to play a second main character in the franchise. Her body of work, both in live-action and voice acting, is closely tied to her career as a performer with Girls² and her involvement in the long-running Girls x Heroine television franchise.
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- JapaneseAnime overview: Gal-gaku. Sei Girls Square Gakuin