Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#467
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Hiro Shimono 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.
Hiro Shimono appears in 17 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Hiro. Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK is the clearest case: a film rated 8.7 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 action, science fiction, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Kazuya Kamihoriuchi, Haruo Sotozaki, Yuichiro Hayashi and others, Hiro Shimono 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.
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK (2024) as Connie Springer (voice) · Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc (2023) as Zenitsu Agatsuma (voice) · Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020) as Zenitsu Agatsuma (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #467 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
17
2019–2026
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.7
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.7
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK
Most frequent director
Haruo Sotozaki
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Haruo Sotozaki
Most common genre
Animation
14 titles
Average runtime
1h 31m
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
6.4
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
6.9 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising, Twilight, Cencoroll Connect — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.9
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.0
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. My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising, Twilight, Cencoroll Connect.
Most productive era
2020s
13 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 | 6.81 film | 7.35 films |
| Action | 7.81 film | 6.19 films |
| Comedy | — | 7.01 film |
| Romance | 6.21 film | 6.61 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2019My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Dabi (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2023Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc
8.7 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
2026Kamen Rider NOX: Transformation Classroom
The current state of the argument, as NOX Driver (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.
17 of 17 films
as Zenitsu Agatsuma (voice)
Directed by Haruo Sotozaki
as Connie Springer (voice)
Directed by Yuichiro Hayashi
as Zenitsu Agatsuma (voice)
Directed by Haruo Sotozaki
as Zenitsu Agatsuma (voice)
Directed by Haruo Sotozaki
as Jean Otus (voice)
Directed by Shingo Natsume
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
Zenitsu Agatsuma (voice)
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc (2023)
Performance score8.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Zenitsu Agatsuma (voice) gives Hiro Shimono a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Connie Springer (voice)
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK (2024)
Performance score8.4
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Connie Springer (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Zenitsu Agatsuma (voice)
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020)
Performance score8.4
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Zenitsu Agatsuma (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Zenitsu Agatsuma (voice)
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle (2025)
Performance score8.0
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Zenitsu Agatsuma (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 Zenitsu Agatsuma (voice)
Start here. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc is the clearest statement of what Hiro Shimono does — accessible, 126 minutes, and rated 8.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Hiro 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.
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020)
Same director as Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. - Regards (2020)
Keeps the fantasy register of Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train but asks for a colder reading of it.
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK (2024)
Keeps the drama register of ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. - Regards but asks for a colder reading of it.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle (2025)
Keeps the action register of Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Haruo Sotozaki
Director
3 films together
Notably Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc
Jouji Furuta
Director
1 film together
Notably Utano Princesama Maji LOVE Kingdom
Yutaka Yamamoto
Director
1 film together
Notably Twilight
Kenji Nagasaki
Director
1 film together
Notably My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
Shingo Natsume
Director
1 film together
Notably ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. - Regards
Hisatoshi Shimizu
Director
1 film together
Notably Eureka: Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution
Chika Nagaoka
Director
1 film together
Notably Uta no Prince-sama Maji LOVE Starish Tours
Ayataka Tanemura
Director
1 film together
Notably Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King
Mitsuo Fukuda
Director
1 film together
Notably Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM
Yuichiro Hayashi
Director
1 film together
Notably Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK
Kazuya Kamihoriuchi
Director
1 film together
Notably Eiga Kamen Raidā Zettsu Sayonara no Misshon
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Haruo Sotozaki
Director
3 films together · 8.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Yuichiro Hayashi
Director
1 film together · 8.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACKKenji Nagasaki
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Hero Academia: Heroes RisingAyataka 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 KingShingo Natsume
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. - RegardsMitsuo Fukuda
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOMYutaka Yamamoto
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TwilightHisatoshi 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-EvolutionJouji Furuta
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Utano Princesama Maji LOVE KingdomChika Nagaoka
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Uta no Prince-sama Maji LOVE Starish ToursKazuya Kamihoriuchi
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Eiga Kamen Raidā Zettsu Sayonara no MisshonSix 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
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc
as Zenitsu Agatsuma (voice)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Twilight
as Noboru Koyama (Sachi's Father) (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
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc
as Zenitsu Agatsuma (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
as Dabi (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc
as Zenitsu Agatsuma (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. Hiro Shimono 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
14 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
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc
as Zenitsu Agatsuma (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK
as Connie Springer (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Uta no Prince-sama Maji LOVE Starish Tours
as Syo Kurusu (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. - Regards
as Jean Otus (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK
as Connie Springer (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK
as Connie Springer (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Twilight
as Noboru Koyama (Sachi's Father) (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc
as Zenitsu Agatsuma (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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