Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4239
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Minami Tsuda 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.
Minami Tsuda appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Minami. Me & Roboco: The Movie 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, emotional range. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, animation, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Akitaro Daichi, Ken Yamamoto, Ayataka Tanemura and others, Minami Tsuda 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.
Me & Roboco: The Movie (2025) as Bondo Taira (voice) · Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era (2024) as Air Shakur (voice) · Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King (2023) as Sally (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #4239 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
2011–2025
Career length
14 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
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Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.7
Me & Roboco: The Movie
Average Nutevio score
7.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.7
Me & Roboco: The Movie
Most frequent director
Kunihiko Yuyama
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Kunihiko Yuyama
Most common genre
Animation
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 11m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
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Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
6.8
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
7.6 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Me & Roboco: The Movie, Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era, Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.6
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.7
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. Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2, Pokémon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened, Pokémon the Movie: Kyurem vs. the Sword of Justice.
Most productive era
2010s
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 | 6.62 films | 8.61 film |
| Action | 6.33 films | 7.51 film |
| Comedy | 6.21 film | 7.63 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2011Pokémon the Movie: White - Victini and Zekrom
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Kibago (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
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. The current state of the argument, as Bondo Taira (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.
9 of 9 films
as Bondo Taira (voice)
Directed by Akitaro Daichi
as Air Shakur (voice)
Directed by Ken Yamamoto
as Sally (voice)
Directed by Ayataka Tanemura
as Kibago (voice)
Directed by Kunihiko Yuyama
as Kibago (voice)
Directed by Kunihiko Yuyama
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
Bondo Taira (voice)
Me & Roboco: The Movie (2025)
Performance score8.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Bondo Taira (voice) gives Minami Tsuda a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Air Shakur (voice)
Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era (2024)
Performance score8.3
Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Air Shakur (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Sally (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. Sally (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kibago (voice)
Pokémon the Movie: White - Victini and Zekrom (2011)
Performance score6.8
Pokémon the Movie: White - Victini and Zekrom asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kibago (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 Bondo Taira (voice)
Start here. Me & Roboco: The Movie is the clearest statement of what Minami Tsuda does — accessible, 0 minutes, and rated 8.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Minami 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.
Pokémon the Movie: White - Victini and Zekrom (2011)
Keeps the animation register of Me & Roboco: The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Pokémon the Movie: Black - Victini and Reshiram (2011)
Same director as Pokémon the Movie: White - Victini and Zekrom, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King (2023)
Keeps the fantasy register of Pokémon the Movie: Black - Victini and Reshiram but asks for a colder reading of it.
Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era (2024)
Keeps the fantasy register of Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Kunihiko Yuyama
Director
4 films together
Notably Pokémon the Movie: White - Victini and Zekrom
Tsutomu Mizushima
Director
2 films together
Notably Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2
Ayataka Tanemura
Director
1 film together
Notably Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King
Ken Yamamoto
Director
1 film together
Notably Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era
Akitaro Daichi
Director
1 film together
Notably Me & Roboco: The Movie
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Kunihiko Yuyama
Director
4 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Pokémon the Movie: White - Victini and ZekromTsutomu Mizushima
Director
2 films together · 5.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2Akitaro Daichi
Director
1 film together · 8.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Me & Roboco: The MovieKen Yamamoto
Director
1 film together · 8.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New EraAyataka 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 KingSix 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
Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era
as Air Shakur (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
Pokémon the Movie: White - Victini and Zekrom
as Kibago (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
Me & Roboco: The Movie
as Bondo Taira (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 Sally (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Me & Roboco: The Movie
as Bondo Taira (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. Minami Tsuda 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
9 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
Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era
as Air Shakur (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Me & Roboco: The Movie
as Bondo Taira (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Pokémon the Movie: White - Victini and Zekrom
as Kibago (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Pokémon the Movie: White - Victini and Zekrom
as Kibago (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King
as Sally (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King
as Sally (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era
as Air Shakur (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Pokémon the Movie: White - Victini and Zekrom
as Kibago (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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