Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4608
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Kiyono Yasuno 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.
Kiyono Yasuno appears in 8 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Kiyono. My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission is the clearest case: a film rated 7.6 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 science fiction, animation, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Shoji Kawamori, Ayataka Tanemura, Kenji Nagasaki and others, Kiyono Yasuno 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.
My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission (2021) as Nejire Hado (voice) · Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King (2023) as Charmy Papittson (voice) · Kakushigoto Theatrical Edition (2021) as Rasuna Sumita (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #4608 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
8
2019–2026
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King
Most frequent director
Shoji Kawamori
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Shoji Kawamori
Most common genre
Animation
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 38m
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
6.3
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
2020s
7.1 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Labyrinth, Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King, My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.1
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.2
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. Star☆Twinkle PreCure the Movie: Wish Upon a Song of Stars, Saekano the Movie: Finale, Pretty Cure Miracle Universe.
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 | 6.91 film | 6.71 film |
| Action | 5.82 films | 7.33 films |
| Comedy | 6.13 films | 7.11 film |
| Romance | 6.91 film | 6.71 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2019Star☆Twinkle PreCure the Movie: Wish Upon a Song of Stars
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Elena Amamiya / Cure Soleil (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2021My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission
7.6 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
2026Labyrinth
The current state of the argument, as (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.
8 of 8 films
as Nejire Hado (voice)
Directed by Kenji Nagasaki
as Charmy Papittson (voice)
Directed by Ayataka Tanemura
as Megumi Kato (voice)
Directed by Kanta Kamei
as Rasuna Sumita (voice)
Directed by Yuta Murano
as Kaname Buccaneer (voice)
Directed by Shoji Kawamori
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
Nejire Hado (voice)
My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission (2021)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Nejire Hado (voice) gives Kiyono Yasuno a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Charmy Papittson (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. Charmy Papittson (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Megumi Kato (voice)
Saekano the Movie: Finale (2019)
Performance score7.3
Saekano the Movie: Finale asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Megumi Kato (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Rasuna Sumita (voice)
Kakushigoto Theatrical Edition (2021)
Performance score7.2
Kakushigoto Theatrical Edition asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Rasuna Sumita (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 Nejire Hado (voice)
Start here. My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission is the clearest statement of what Kiyono Yasuno does — accessible, 105 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Kiyono 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.
Saekano the Movie: Finale (2019)
Keeps the animation register of My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission but asks for a colder reading of it.
Kakushigoto Theatrical Edition (2021)
Keeps the comedy register of Saekano the Movie: Finale but asks for a colder reading of it.
Macross Delta: Zettai Live!!!!!! (2021)
Keeps the animation register of Kakushigoto Theatrical Edition but asks for a colder reading of it.
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King (2023)
Keeps the action register of Macross Delta: Zettai Live!!!!!! but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Shoji Kawamori
Director
2 films together
Notably Macross Delta: Zettai Live!!!!!!
Yukio Kaizawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Pretty Cure Miracle Universe
Kanta Kamei
Director
1 film together
Notably Saekano the Movie: Finale
Yuta Tanaka
Director
1 film together
Notably Star☆Twinkle PreCure the Movie: Wish Upon a Song of Stars
Yuta Murano
Director
1 film together
Notably Kakushigoto Theatrical Edition
Kenji Nagasaki
Director
1 film together
Notably My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission
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.
Shoji Kawamori
Director
2 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Macross Delta: Zettai Live!!!!!!Kenji Nagasaki
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Hero Academia: World Heroes' MissionAyataka 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 KingYuta Murano
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kakushigoto Theatrical EditionKanta Kamei
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Saekano the Movie: FinaleYukio Kaizawa
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pretty Cure Miracle UniverseYuta Tanaka
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Star☆Twinkle PreCure the Movie: Wish Upon a Song of StarsSix 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
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King
as Charmy Papittson (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
Saekano the Movie: Finale
as Megumi Kato (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
My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission
as Nejire Hado (voice)
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 Charmy Papittson (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission
as Nejire Hado (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. Kiyono Yasuno 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
8 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
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King
as Charmy Papittson (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission
as Nejire Hado (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Macross Delta: Zettai Live!!!!!!
as Kaname Buccaneer (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King
as Charmy Papittson (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission
as Nejire Hado (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King
as Charmy Papittson (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Star☆Twinkle PreCure the Movie: Wish Upon a Song of Stars
as Elena Amamiya / Cure Soleil (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Saekano the Movie: Finale
as Megumi Kato (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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