Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#12174
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Rui Tanabe works on transformation 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.
Rui Tanabe appears in 5 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Rui. Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link - is the clearest case: a film rated 9.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are transformation, quiet performance, versatility. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, science fiction, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Hiroyuki Hata, Jun Nakagawa, Kanta Kamei, Rui Tanabe 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.
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link - (2022) as Asahina Mafuyu (voice) · COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing (2025) as Mafuyu Asahina (voice) · VIRGIN PUNK Clockwork Girl (2025) as Maggie (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #12174 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
5
2019–2025
Career length
6 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.0
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link -
Average Nutevio score
7.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
9.0
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link -
Most frequent director
Hiroyuki Hata
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Hiroyuki Hata
Most common genre
Animation
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 37m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
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. VIRGIN PUNK Clockwork Girl, COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing, Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link - — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
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
2020s
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. Saekano the Movie: Finale.
Most productive era
2020s
4 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 | 6.12 films |
| Action | — | 6.02 films |
| Comedy | 6.91 film | — |
| Romance | 6.91 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Echika Mizuhara (voice).
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2022Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link -
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.0 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
2025COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing
The current state of the argument, as Mafuyu Asahina (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.
5 of 5 films
as Asahina Mafuyu (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Maggie (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Mafuyu Asahina (voice)
Directed by Hiroyuki Hata
as Echika Mizuhara (voice)
Directed by Kanta Kamei
as Kayoko Himeji (voice)
Directed by Jun Nakagawa
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
Asahina Mafuyu (voice)
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link - (2022)
Performance score8.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Asahina Mafuyu (voice) gives Rui Tanabe a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Maggie (voice)
VIRGIN PUNK Clockwork Girl (2025)
Performance score7.9
VIRGIN PUNK Clockwork Girl asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Maggie (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mafuyu Asahina (voice)
COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing (2025)
Performance score7.9
COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mafuyu Asahina (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Echika Mizuhara (voice)
Saekano the Movie: Finale (2019)
Performance score6.8
Saekano the Movie: Finale asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Echika Mizuhara (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 Asahina Mafuyu (voice)
Start here. Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link - is the clearest statement of what Rui Tanabe does — accessible, 125 minutes, and rated 9.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Rui 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.
Saekano the Movie: Finale (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link - — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
High School Fleet Movie (2020)
Keeps the drama register of Saekano the Movie: Finale but asks for a colder reading of it.
VIRGIN PUNK Clockwork Girl (2025)
Keeps the action register of High School Fleet Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing (2025)
Keeps the science fiction register of VIRGIN PUNK Clockwork Girl but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Hiroyuki Hata
Director
1 film together · 8.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't SingKanta Kamei
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Saekano the Movie: FinaleJun Nakagawa
Director
1 film together · 4.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
High School Fleet MovieSix 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
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link -
as Asahina Mafuyu (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
Saekano the Movie: Finale
as Echika Mizuhara (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
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link -
as Asahina Mafuyu (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link -
as Asahina Mafuyu (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link -
as Asahina Mafuyu (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. Rui Tanabe 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
4 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
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link -
as Asahina Mafuyu (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link -
as Asahina Mafuyu (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Saekano the Movie: Finale
as Echika Mizuhara (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
VIRGIN PUNK Clockwork Girl
as Maggie (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link -
as Asahina Mafuyu (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
VIRGIN PUNK Clockwork Girl
as Maggie (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Saekano the Movie: Finale
as Echika Mizuhara (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Saekano the Movie: Finale
as Echika Mizuhara (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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