Masayo Hosono (細野雅世, Hosono Masayo) is a voice actress who provided the voice of AYAME Blackburn in killer7, which, curiously, was the first of several roles she took of a character named Ayame. Hosono was born on January 1 in Toyama, Japan, and speaks Toyama-ben as a result. She has done voice work for a number of anime, including Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, .hack//Roots, and Naruto Shippuden, as well as for several video games, such as Houkago no Love Beat and Kingdom Hearts II.