Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1136
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Mariya Ise 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.
Mariya Ise appears in 17 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Mariya. Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train is the clearest case: a film rated 8.2 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, drama. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for mystery, drama, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Norihiro Naganuma, Masayuki Kojima, Kazuya Tsurumaki and others, Mariya Ise 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.
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020) as Young Kyojuro Renguko (voice) · Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight (2019) as Reg (voice) · Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- (2025) as Annqi (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1136 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
17
2017–2026
Career length
9 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.2
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight
Most frequent director
Masayuki Kojima
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Masayuki Kojima
Most common genre
Animation
17 titles
Average runtime
1h 23m
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
6.2
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
7.3 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Made in Abyss: Journey's Dawn, Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight, Flavors of Youth — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.3
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.3
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. Made in Abyss: Journey's Dawn, Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight, Flavors of Youth.
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 | 6.91 film | 5.74 films |
| Action | 6.61 film | 7.210 films |
| Comedy | 6.61 film | 4.81 film |
| Crime | — | 6.61 film |
| Romance | 6.91 film | 7.41 film |
| Horror | — | 7.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Levy McGarden (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight
8.2 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
2026Made in Abyss: Mezameru Shinpi
The current state of the argument, as Reg (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 Reg (voice)
Directed by Masayuki Kojima
as Annqi (voice)
Directed by Kazuya Tsurumaki
as Young Kyojuro Renguko (voice)
Directed by Haruo Sotozaki
as Reg (voice)
Directed by Masayuki Kojima
as Midori Kitakami (voice)
Directed by Kazuya Tsurumaki
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
Reg (voice)
Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight (2019)
Performance score8.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Reg (voice) gives Mariya Ise a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Annqi (voice)
Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- (2025)
Performance score8.0
Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Annqi (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Young Kyojuro Renguko (voice)
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020)
Performance score7.9
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Young Kyojuro Renguko (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Reg (voice)
Made in Abyss: Journey's Dawn (2019)
Performance score7.9
Made in Abyss: Journey's Dawn asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Reg (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 Reg (voice)
Start here. Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight is the clearest statement of what Mariya Ise does — accessible, 105 minutes, and rated 8.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Mariya 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: 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.
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020)
Keeps the fantasy register of Made in Abyss: Journey's Dawn but asks for a colder reading of it.
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (2021)
Keeps the action register of Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- (2025)
Same director as Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Masayuki Kojima
Director
4 films together
Notably Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight
Kazuya Tsurumaki
Director
2 films together
Notably Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning-
Tatsuma Minamikawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry
Li Haoling
Director
1 film together
Notably Flavors of Youth
Hiroshi Ikehata
Director
1 film together
Notably BEM: BECOME HUMAN
Jun Nakagawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Date A Bullet: Dead or Bullet
Haruo Sotozaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
Kenji Nagasaki
Director
1 film together
Notably My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission
Ryota Nakamura
Director
1 film together
Notably Healin' Good♥Precure: GoGo! Big Transformation! The Town of Dreams
Tomoya Takahashi
Director
1 film together
Notably Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 1
Ayataka Tanemura
Director
1 film together
Notably Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King
Hiro Kaburagi
Director
1 film together
Notably GREAT PRETENDER razbliuto
Norihiro Naganuma
Director
1 film together
Notably The Apothecary Diaries: The Deceased Empress' Treasure
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Masayuki Kojima
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
Made in Abyss: Wandering TwilightKazuya Tsurumaki
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
Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning-Haruo Sotozaki
Director
1 film together · 8.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen TrainKenji 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 KingTomoya Takahashi
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 1Jun Nakagawa
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Date A Bullet: Dead or BulletHiroshi 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 HUMANLi Haoling
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Flavors of YouthHiro Kaburagi
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GREAT PRETENDER razbliutoTatsuma 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 CryRyota Nakamura
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Healin' Good♥Precure: GoGo! Big Transformation! The Town of DreamsNorihiro Naganuma
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Apothecary Diaries: The Deceased Empress' TreasureSix 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- The Movie: Mugen Train
as Young Kyojuro Renguko (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
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 1
as Sailor Tin Nyanko (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
Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight
as Reg (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: World Heroes' Mission
as Beros (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight
as Reg (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. Mariya Ise 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
17 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 Reg (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight
as Reg (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 1
as Sailor Tin Nyanko (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul
as Reg (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
as Young Kyojuro Renguko (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King
as Dorothy Unsworth (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Healin' Good♥Precure: GoGo! Big Transformation! The Town of Dreams
as Urara Kasugano / Cure Lemonade (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Date A Bullet: Dead or Bullet
as Tsuan (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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