Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#744
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Konomi Kohara 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.
Konomi Kohara appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Konomi. Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie is the clearest case: a film rated 8.4 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 music, animation, science fiction. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Soichi Masui, Haruo Sotozaki, Tomoki Kobayashi and others, Konomi Kohara 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.
Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie (2022) as Mina Hibino (voice) · Cosmic Princess Kaguya! (2026) as Mami Isayama (voice) · Pretty Cure All Stars F (2023) as Lala Hagoromo / Cure Milky (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #744 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
2019–2026
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.4
Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie
Average Nutevio score
5.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.4
Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie
Most frequent director
Haruo Sotozaki
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Haruo Sotozaki
Most common genre
Animation
14 titles
Average runtime
1h 27m
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
6.1
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
5.8 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Star☆Twinkle PreCure the Movie: Wish Upon a Song of Stars, Pretty Cure Miracle Universe — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
5.8
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
5.8
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. Star☆Twinkle PreCure the Movie: Wish Upon a Song of Stars, Pretty Cure Miracle Universe.
Most productive era
2020s
12 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 | — | 2.43 films |
| Action | 5.82 films | 8.23 films |
| Comedy | 5.82 films | 7.85 films |
| Romance | — | 4.14 films |
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 Lala Hagoromo / Cure Milky (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2022Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie
8.4 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
2026Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dear Friend
The current state of the argument, as Sara Himeji (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.
14 of 14 films
as Mina Hibino (voice)
Directed by Hiroaki Akagi
as Chika Fujiwara (voice)
Directed by Mamoru Hatakeyama
as Mami Isayama (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Lala Hagoromo / Cure Milky (voice)
Directed by Yuta Tanaka
as Hanako Kamado (voice)
Directed by Haruo Sotozaki
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
Mina Hibino (voice)
Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie (2022)
Performance score8.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Mina Hibino (voice) gives Konomi Kohara a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Chika Fujiwara (voice)
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends- (2022)
Performance score8.2
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends- asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Chika Fujiwara (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mami Isayama (voice)
Cosmic Princess Kaguya! (2026)
Performance score8.0
Cosmic Princess Kaguya! asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mami Isayama (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Lala Hagoromo / Cure Milky (voice)
Pretty Cure All Stars F (2023)
Performance score8.0
Pretty Cure All Stars F asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lala Hagoromo / Cure Milky (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 Mina Hibino (voice)
Start here. Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie is the clearest statement of what Konomi Kohara does — accessible, 73 minutes, and rated 8.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Konomi 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)
Keeps the animation register of Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends- (2022)
Keeps the animation register of Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train but asks for a colder reading of it.
Pretty Cure All Stars F (2023)
Keeps the comedy register of Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends- but asks for a colder reading of it.
Cosmic Princess Kaguya! (2026)
Keeps the fantasy register of Pretty Cure All Stars F but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Yuta Tanaka
Director
2 films together
Notably Pretty Cure All Stars F
Tomoki Kobayashi
Director
2 films together
Notably Summer Pockets Season 1: Omnibus - A Lifetime's Worth of Summer Breaks
Haruo Sotozaki
Director
2 films together
Notably Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
Yukio Kaizawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Pretty Cure Miracle Universe
Takayuki Hirao
Director
1 film together
Notably Pompo the Cinephile
Hiroaki Akagi
Director
1 film together
Notably Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie
Mamoru Hatakeyama
Director
1 film together
Notably Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends-
Keiichiro Saito
Director
1 film together
Notably BOCCHI THE ROCK! Recap Part 2
Soichi Masui
Director
1 film together
Notably Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dear Friend
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Haruo Sotozaki
Director
2 films together · 8.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen TrainYuta Tanaka
Director
2 films together · 6.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Pretty Cure All Stars FTomoki Kobayashi
Director
2 films together · 0.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Summer Pockets Season 1: Omnibus - A Lifetime's Worth of Summer BreaksHiroaki Akagi
Director
1 film together · 8.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Teasing Master Takagi-san: The MovieMamoru Hatakeyama
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends-Takayuki Hirao
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pompo the CinephileKeiichiro Saito
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BOCCHI THE ROCK! Recap Part 2Yukio 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 UniverseSoichi Masui
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dear FriendSix 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
Cosmic Princess Kaguya!
as Mami Isayama (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
Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie
as Mina Hibino (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
Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie
as Mina Hibino (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle
as (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie
as Mina Hibino (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. Konomi Kohara 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
Cosmic Princess Kaguya!
as Mami Isayama (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Pretty Cure All Stars F
as Lala Hagoromo / Cure Milky (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 Sara Himeji (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Cosmic Princess Kaguya!
as Mami Isayama (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Pretty Cure All Stars F
as Lala Hagoromo / Cure Milky (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Pretty Cure All Stars F
as Lala Hagoromo / Cure Milky (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 Lala Hagoromo / Cure Milky (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
BOCCHI THE ROCK! Recap Part 2
as Culture Festival Committee Member / Music Shop Manager / Student (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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