Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#734
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Asami Seto works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Asami Seto appears in 21 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Asami. Ultraman Regulos: First Mission is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, emotional range. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for romance, mystery, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Soichi Masui, Shota Goshozono, Tomomi Kamiya and others, Asami Seto helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Ultraman Regulos: First Mission (2022) as Ultrawoman Beth (voice) · Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad (2021) as Ultrawoman Beth · Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon (2025) as Mina Ashiro (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #734 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
21
2013–2026
Career length
13 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Ultraman Regulos: First Mission
Average Nutevio score
7.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Ultraman Regulos: First Mission
Most frequent director
Soichi Masui
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Soichi Masui
Most common genre
Animation
20 titles
Average runtime
1h 30m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.1
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.8
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2010s
7.1 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl, Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2, anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day - The Movie — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.1
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.3
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl, Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2, anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day - The Movie.
Most productive era
2020s
18 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.62 films | 6.68 films |
| Action | 6.21 film | 7.19 films |
| Comedy | 6.21 film | 6.94 films |
| Romance | 7.71 film | 4.43 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2013anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day - The Movie
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Young Yukiatsu (voice).
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance
2021Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 10.0 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2022Ultraman Regulos: First Mission
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dear Friend
The current state of the argument, as Mai Sakurajima (voice).
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
21 of 21 films
as Ultrawoman Beth (voice)
Directed by Koichi Sakamoto
as Ultrawoman Beth
Directed by Koichi Sakamoto
as Mai Sakurajima (voice)
Directed by Soichi Masui
as Mai Sakurajima (voice)
Directed by Soichi Masui
as Mai Sakurajima (voice)
Directed by Soichi Masui
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Ultrawoman Beth (voice)
Ultraman Regulos: First Mission (2022)
Performance score9.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Ultrawoman Beth (voice) gives Asami Seto a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Ultrawoman Beth
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad (2021)
Performance score9.5
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ultrawoman Beth is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mai Sakurajima (voice)
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid (2023)
Performance score8.0
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mai Sakurajima (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mai Sakurajima (voice)
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Sister Venturing Out (2023)
Performance score8.0
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Sister Venturing Out asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mai Sakurajima (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Ultrawoman Beth (voice)
Start here. Ultraman Regulos: First Mission is the clearest statement of what Asami Seto does — accessible, 25 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Asami at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl (2019)
Keeps the drama register of Ultraman Regulos: First Mission but asks for a colder reading of it.
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad (2021)
Keeps the animation register of Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl but asks for a colder reading of it.
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid (2023)
Keeps the animation register of Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad but asks for a colder reading of it.
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Sister Venturing Out (2023)
Same director as Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Soichi Masui
Director
4 films together
Notably Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid
Tsutomu Mizushima
Director
2 films together
Notably The Magnificent KOTOBUKI: The Movie
Koichi Sakamoto
Director
2 films together
Notably Ultraman Regulos: First Mission
Tatsuyuki Nagai
Director
2 films together
Notably anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day - The Movie
Jun Nakagawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Date A Bullet: Dead or Bullet
Junji Shimizu
Director
1 film together
Notably Tropical-Rouge! Precure: The Snow Princess and the Miraculous Ring!
Shoji Kawamori
Director
1 film together
Notably Macross Delta: Zettai Live!!!!!!
Hisatoshi Shimizu
Director
1 film together
Notably Eureka: Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution
Minoru Ashina
Director
1 film together
Notably Isekai Quartet the Movie: Another World
Naoyuki Ito
Director
1 film together
Notably OVERLORD: The Sacred Kingdom
Masakazu Hashimoto
Director
1 film together
Notably Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Super Hot! The Spicy Kasukabe Dancers
Tomomi Kamiya
Director
1 film together
Notably Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon
Shota Goshozono
Director
1 film together
Notably JUJUTSU KAISEN: Execution
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Soichi Masui
Director
4 films together · 5.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack KidKoichi Sakamoto
Director
2 films together · 10.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Ultraman Regulos: First MissionTatsuyuki Nagai
Director
2 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day - The MovieTsutomu Mizushima
Director
2 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Magnificent KOTOBUKI: The MovieTomomi Kamiya
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kaiju No. 8: Mission ReconNaoyuki Ito
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
OVERLORD: The Sacred KingdomMinoru Ashina
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Isekai Quartet the Movie: Another WorldJun Nakagawa
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Date A Bullet: Dead or BulletMasakazu Hashimoto
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Super Hot! The Spicy Kasukabe DancersShoji Kawamori
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Macross Delta: Zettai Live!!!!!!Hisatoshi Shimizu
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Eureka: Eureka Seven Hi-EvolutionShota Goshozono
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
JUJUTSU KAISEN: ExecutionJunji Shimizu
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tropical-Rouge! Precure: The Snow Princess and the Miraculous Ring!Six degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad
as Ultrawoman Beth
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid
as Mai Sakurajima (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad
as Ultrawoman Beth
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2
as (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Ultraman Regulos: First Mission
as Ultrawoman Beth (voice)
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Asami Seto has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Animation Legend
Awarded
20 catalogue titles in animation, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad
as Ultrawoman Beth
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Ultraman Regulos: First Mission
as Ultrawoman Beth (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dear Friend
as Mai Sakurajima (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid
as Mai Sakurajima (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Ultraman Regulos: First Mission
as Ultrawoman Beth (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
OVERLORD: The Sacred Kingdom
as CZ2128 Delta (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The First Slam Dunk
as Ayako (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Drifting Home
as Natsume Tonai (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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