Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#11682
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Aya Uchida 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.
Aya Uchida appears in 7 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Aya. Identity V STAGE Episode 6 [The Abyss of Art] 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, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, fantasy, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Ayataka Tanemura, Yukihiro Miyamoto, Hiroshi Nishikiori, Aya Uchida 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.
Identity V STAGE Episode 6 [The Abyss of Art] (2026) as Emma Woods · Bloom Into You (2019) as Ensemble · Trinity Seven: Heaven's Library & Crimson Lord (2019) as Kanazuki Arin (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #11682 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
7
2019–2027
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Identity V STAGE Episode 6 [The Abyss of Art]
Average Nutevio score
5.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Identity V STAGE Episode 6 [The Abyss of Art]
Most frequent director
Ayataka Tanemura
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Ayataka Tanemura
Most common genre
Animation
3 titles
Average runtime
0h 52m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
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
6.2
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
7.8 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Bloom Into You, Trinity Seven: Heaven's Library & Crimson Lord — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.8
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.8
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. Bloom Into You, Trinity Seven: Heaven's Library & Crimson Lord.
Most productive era
2020s
5 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 | 8.01 film | — |
| Action | 7.61 film | 7.51 film |
| Comedy | 7.61 film | 6.41 film |
| Romance | 8.01 film | 6.41 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2019Bloom Into You
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Ensemble.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2026Identity V STAGE Episode 6 [The Abyss of Art]
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. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2027Identity V STAGE Episode 7 [Come to the Rescue]
The current state of the argument, as Emma Woods.
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.
7 of 7 films
![Official poster for Identity V STAGE Episode 6 [The Abyss of Art] (2026)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/akK6BDPHTKEiu0IKU7vlGwkFmiP.jpg)
as Kanazuki Arin (voice)
Directed by Hiroshi Nishikiori
as Ensemble
Directed by Unknown
as Bell (voice)
Directed by Ayataka Tanemura
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The defining work
#1
Emma Woods
Identity V STAGE Episode 6 [The Abyss of Art] (2026)
Performance score9.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Emma Woods gives Aya Uchida a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Kanazuki Arin (voice)
Trinity Seven: Heaven's Library & Crimson Lord (2019)
Performance score8.1
Trinity Seven: Heaven's Library & Crimson Lord asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kanazuki Arin (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ensemble
Bloom Into You (2019)
Performance score7.8
Bloom Into You asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ensemble is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Bell (voice)
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King (2023)
Performance score7.3
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Bell (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 Emma Woods
Start here. Identity V STAGE Episode 6 [The Abyss of Art] is the clearest statement of what Aya Uchida does — accessible, 0 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Aya 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.
Trinity Seven: Heaven's Library & Crimson Lord (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Identity V STAGE Episode 6 [The Abyss of Art] — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Bloom Into You (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Trinity Seven: Heaven's Library & Crimson Lord — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King (2023)
A deliberate change of key after Bloom Into You — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Identity V STAGE Episode 7 [Come to the Rescue] (2027)
A deliberate change of key after Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Hiroshi Nishikiori
Director
1 film together
Notably Trinity Seven: Heaven's Library & Crimson Lord
Yukihiro Miyamoto
Director
1 film together
Notably The Quintessential Quintuplets∽
Ayataka Tanemura
Director
1 film together
Notably Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Hiroshi Nishikiori
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Trinity Seven: Heaven's Library & Crimson LordAyataka Tanemura
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard KingYukihiro Miyamoto
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Quintessential Quintuplets∽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
Identity V STAGE Episode 6 [The Abyss of Art]
as Emma Woods
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Bloom Into You
as Ensemble
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Identity V STAGE Episode 6 [The Abyss of Art]
as Emma Woods
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King
as Bell (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Identity V STAGE Episode 6 [The Abyss of Art]
as Emma Woods
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. Aya Uchida 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
3 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
Identity V STAGE Episode 6 [The Abyss of Art]
as Emma Woods
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Identity V STAGE Episode 6 [The Abyss of Art]
as Emma Woods
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Bloom Into You
as Ensemble
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King
as Bell (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Identity V STAGE Episode 6 [The Abyss of Art]
as Emma Woods
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King
as Bell (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Quintessential Quintuplets∽
as Matsui (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Trinity Seven: Heaven's Library & Crimson Lord
as Kanazuki Arin (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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