Masaki Kurosaki

was the mother of Ichigo Kurosaki who was killed trying to protect her son from Grand Fisher, who used the forms of people who he had devoured, mostly women, to attract other humans. Ichigo, who at the time did not know the difference between seeing ghosts and humans, saw Grand Fisher's lure and ran after it. Ichigo's family visits her grave every year (they play games on her grave), and Isshin has a large poster of her in his home, displaying the phrase "Mazaki forever".

She returns in the The Kasumiōji Crisis when Ichigo Kurosaki faces off Hanza Nukui. Hanza Nukui uses his Bakkōtō Saiga to look into Ichigo's memories, and then tortures him with the memories of his death mother. She try's to choke Ichigo, while he despaired try's to resist his mother he can't harm. Then before Ichigo chokes, his pleasant memories with his mother come up from deep within him. A twister of Reiatsu surrounds them. Ichigo then tells his mother how much everybody misses her, and how he manages even without her. Before she vanishes, she smiles as telling Ichigo that everthing is alright.