Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4422
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Manami Numakura 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.
Manami Numakura appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Manami. 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, screen presence. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, science fiction, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Masaki Kitamura, Yasuhito Kikuchi, Yuichiro Hayashi and others, Manami Numakura 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 Pieck Finger (voice) · Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight (2019) as Shiggy (voice) · Made in Abyss: Journey's Dawn (2019) as Shiggy (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #4422 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
2017–2026
Career length
9 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
7.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.7
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK
Most frequent director
Masayuki Kojima
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Masayuki Kojima
Most common genre
Animation
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 41m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.1
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
6.7
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
7.3 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our Time, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea, Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.3
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.3
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. Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion The Movie: The Marvelous Fast ALFA-X That Comes From the Future, Made in Abyss: Journey's Dawn, Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight.
Most productive era
2020s
6 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 | — | 7.63 films |
| Action | 6.72 films | 7.92 films |
| Comedy | 6.61 film | 6.94 films |
| Romance | — | 7.31 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Brandish (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2024Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK
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
2026That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea
The current state of the argument, as Hinata Sakaguchi (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.
10 of 10 films
as Pieck Finger (voice)
Directed by Yuichiro Hayashi
as Shiggy (voice)
Directed by Masayuki Kojima
as Shiggy (voice)
Directed by Masayuki Kojima
as Miyuki (voice)
Directed by Kyohei Ishiguro
as Rio Nakamura (voice)
Directed by Masaki Kitamura
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
Pieck Finger (voice)
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK (2024)
Performance score8.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Pieck Finger (voice) gives Manami Numakura a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Shiggy (voice)
Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight (2019)
Performance score7.9
Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Shiggy (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Shiggy (voice)
Made in Abyss: Journey's Dawn (2019)
Performance score7.7
Made in Abyss: Journey's Dawn asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Shiggy (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Miyuki (voice)
Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop (2021)
Performance score7.2
Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Miyuki (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 Pieck Finger (voice)
Start here. Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK is the clearest statement of what Manami Numakura does — accessible, 145 minutes, and rated 8.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Manami 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.
Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight (2019)
Keeps the adventure register of Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK but asks for a colder reading of it.
Made in Abyss: Journey's Dawn (2019)
Same director as Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop (2021)
Keeps the animation register of Made in Abyss: Journey's Dawn but asks for a colder reading of it.
Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our Time (2026)
Keeps the animation register of Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Masayuki Kojima
Director
2 films together
Notably Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight
Tatsuma Minamikawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry
Takahiro Ikezoe
Director
1 film together
Notably Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion The Movie: The Marvelous Fast ALFA-X That Comes From the Future
Tsutomu Mizushima
Director
1 film together
Notably SHIROBAKO the Movie
Yuta Murano
Director
1 film together
Notably Kakushigoto Theatrical Edition
Kyohei Ishiguro
Director
1 film together
Notably Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop
Yuichiro Hayashi
Director
1 film together
Notably Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK
Yasuhito Kikuchi
Director
1 film together
Notably That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea
Masaki Kitamura
Director
1 film together
Notably Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our Time
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Masayuki Kojima
Director
2 films together · 7.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Made in Abyss: Wandering TwilightYuichiro 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 ATTACKKyohei Ishiguro
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Words Bubble Up Like Soda PopMasaki Kitamura
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our TimeYuta 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 EditionTsutomu Mizushima
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SHIROBAKO the MovieTakahiro Ikezoe
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Yasuhito Kikuchi
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Tatsuma Minamikawa
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fairy Tail: Dragon CrySix 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
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK
as Pieck Finger (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
Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop
as Miyuki (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
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK
as Pieck Finger (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry
as Brandish (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK
as Pieck Finger (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. Manami Numakura 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
10 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
Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight
as Shiggy (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 Pieck Finger (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop
as Miyuki (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Made in Abyss: Journey's Dawn
as Shiggy (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 Pieck Finger (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK
as Pieck Finger (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
SHIROBAKO the Movie
as Yumi Iguchi (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our Time
as Rio Nakamura (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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