Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1261
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Maaya 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.
Maaya Uchida appears in 23 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Maaya. You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert! 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, Atsushi Nishigori, Tatsuya Yoshihara and others, Maaya 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.
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert! (2025) as Tera (voice) · Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc (2025) as Angel Devil (voice) · Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Take On Me (2018) as Rikka Takanashi (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1261 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
23
2018–2026
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
Most frequent director
Soichi Masui
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Soichi Masui
Most common genre
Animation
22 titles
Average runtime
1h 15m
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
2010s
7.0 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl, Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion, The Relative Worlds — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.0
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.1
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, Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion, The Relative Worlds.
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 | 6.82 films | 5.06 films |
| Action | 6.53 films | 6.28 films |
| Comedy | 7.82 films | 7.17 films |
| Romance | 7.13 films | 5.24 films |
| Horror | — | 6.72 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2018Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Take On Me
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Rikka Takanashi (voice).
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2025You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
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
2026GROTESQQQUE
The current state of the argument, as Gorgeous☆MIKA (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.
23 of 23 films
as Tera (voice)
Directed by Kouji Ogawa
as Rikka Takanashi (voice)
Directed by Tatsuya Ishihara
as Angel Devil (voice)
Directed by Tatsuya Yoshihara
as Nodoka Toyohama (voice)
Directed by Soichi Masui
as Nodoka Toyohama (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
Tera (voice)
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert! (2025)
Performance score9.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Tera (voice) gives Maaya Uchida a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Rikka Takanashi (voice)
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Take On Me (2018)
Performance score8.1
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Take On Me asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Rikka Takanashi (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Angel Devil (voice)
Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc (2025)
Performance score7.8
Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Angel Devil (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Nodoka Toyohama (voice)
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid (2023)
Performance score7.7
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Nodoka Toyohama (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 Tera (voice)
Start here. You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert! is the clearest statement of what Maaya Uchida does — accessible, 71 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Maaya 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.
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Take On Me (2018)
Keeps the comedy register of You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert! but asks for a colder reading of it.
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid (2023)
Keeps the fantasy register of Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Take On Me 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.
Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc (2025)
Keeps the fantasy register of Rascal Does Not Dream of a Sister Venturing Out but asks for a colder reading of it.
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
Keiichiro Saito
Director
2 films together
Notably BOCCHI THE ROCK! Recap Part 2
Tatsuya Ishihara
Director
1 film together
Notably Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Take On Me
Katsushi Sakurabi
Director
1 film together
Notably Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion
Kobun Shizuno
Director
1 film together
Notably Monster Strike the Movie: Lucifer Dawn of Despair
Hiroshi Ikehata
Director
1 film together
Notably BEM: BECOME HUMAN
Kosuke Murayama
Director
1 film together
Notably Grisaia: Phantom Trigger the Animation - Stargazer
Takaharu Ozaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Goblin Slayer: Goblin's Crown
Yuta Murano
Director
1 film together
Notably Kakushigoto Theatrical Edition
Keisuke Inoue
Director
1 film together
Notably My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! The Movie
Shun Enokido
Director
1 film together
Notably Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn-
Shinobu Sasaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Our Dinosaur Diary
Kouji Ogawa
Director
1 film together
Notably You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
Tatsuya Yoshihara
Director
1 film together
Notably Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc
Atsushi Nishigori
Director
1 film together
Notably GROTESQQQUE
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 KidKeiichiro Saito
Director
2 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
BOCCHI THE ROCK! Recap Part 2Kouji Ogawa
Director
1 film together · 10.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!Tatsuya Yoshihara
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze ArcTatsuya Ishihara
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Take On MeKatsushi Sakurabi
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the OrionShun Enokido
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn-Takaharu Ozaki
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Goblin Slayer: Goblin's CrownYuta 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 EditionHiroshi Ikehata
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BEM: BECOME HUMANKosuke Murayama
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Grisaia: Phantom Trigger the Animation - StargazerKeisuke Inoue
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! The MovieShinobu Sasaki
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Our Dinosaur DiaryKobun Shizuno
Director
1 film together · 3.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Monster Strike the Movie: Lucifer Dawn of DespairAtsushi Nishigori
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GROTESQQQUESix 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
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Tera (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
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Tera (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
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Tera (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Tera (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Tera (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. Maaya 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
22 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
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Tera (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Tera (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 Nodoka Toyohama (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Feast of Amrita
as Tamahi (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Tera (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Tera (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Tera (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
BOCCHI THE ROCK! Recap Part 1
as Seika Ijichi (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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