Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#7360
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Ryo Hirohashi 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.
Ryo Hirohashi appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Ryo. Gintama: The Very Final 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, screen presence. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for fantasy, adventure, family. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tetsuo Yajima, Tensai Okamura, Tomoya Takahashi and others, Ryo Hirohashi 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.
Gintama: The Very Final (2021) as Princess Soyo (voice) · Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2 (2021) as Luna (voice) · Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 1 (2021) as Luna (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #7360 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
13
2018–2026
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.2
Gintama: The Very Final
Average Nutevio score
7.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Gintama: The Very Final
Most frequent director
Kenji Nagasaki
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Kenji Nagasaki
Most common genre
Animation
13 titles
Average runtime
1h 34m
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
2010s
7.7 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising, My Hero Academia: Two Heroes — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.7
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
8.0
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. My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising, My Hero Academia: Two Heroes.
Most productive era
2020s
11 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 | — | 7.03 films |
| Action | 7.72 films | 7.86 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.63 films |
| Romance | — | 7.41 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2018My Hero Academia: Two Heroes
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Minoru Mineta (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
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
2026Doraemon the Movie: New Nobita and the Castle of the Undersea Devil
The current state of the argument, as Underwater Buggy (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.
13 of 13 films
as Princess Soyo (voice)
Directed by Chizuru Miyawaki
as Luna (voice)
Directed by Chiaki Kon
as Luna (voice)
Directed by Chiaki Kon
as Minoru Mineta (voice)
Directed by Kenji Nagasaki
as Minoru Mineta (voice)
Directed by Kenji Nagasaki
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
Princess Soyo (voice)
Gintama: The Very Final (2021)
Performance score7.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Princess Soyo (voice) gives Ryo Hirohashi a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Luna (voice)
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2 (2021)
Performance score7.9
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Luna (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Luna (voice)
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 1 (2021)
Performance score7.7
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 1 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Luna (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Minoru Mineta (voice)
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising (2019)
Performance score7.6
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Minoru Mineta (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 Princess Soyo (voice)
Start here. Gintama: The Very Final is the clearest statement of what Ryo Hirohashi does — accessible, 104 minutes, and rated 8.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Ryo 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.
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising (2019)
Keeps the action register of Gintama: The Very Final but asks for a colder reading of it.
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2 (2021)
Keeps the action register of My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising but asks for a colder reading of it.
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 1 (2021)
Same director as Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission (2021)
Keeps the action register of Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 1 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Kenji Nagasaki
Director
3 films together
Notably My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
Chiaki Kon
Director
2 films together
Notably Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2
Eisaku Kawanami
Director
2 films together
Notably Free! the Final Stroke the First Volume
Takahiro Natori
Director
1 film together
Notably Aria the Benedizione
Daiji Suzuki
Director
1 film together
Notably Crayon Shin-chan: Shrouded in Mystery! The Flowers of Tenkazu Academy
Chizuru Miyawaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Gintama: The Very Final
Tomoya Takahashi
Director
1 film together
Notably Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 1
Tensai Okamura
Director
1 film together
Notably My Hero Academia: You're Next
Tetsuo Yajima
Director
1 film together
Notably Doraemon the Movie: New Nobita and the Castle of the Undersea Devil
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Kenji Nagasaki
Director
3 films together · 7.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
My Hero Academia: Heroes RisingChiaki Kon
Director
2 films together · 8.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2Eisaku Kawanami
Director
2 films together · 6.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Free! the Final Stroke the First VolumeChizuru Miyawaki
Director
1 film together · 8.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gintama: The Very FinalDaiji Suzuki
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Crayon Shin-chan: Shrouded in Mystery! The Flowers of Tenkazu AcademyTomoya 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 1Tetsuo Yajima
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Doraemon the Movie: New Nobita and the Castle of the Undersea DevilTensai Okamura
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Hero Academia: You're NextTakahiro Natori
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Aria the BenedizioneSix 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
Gintama: The Very Final
as Princess Soyo (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 Luna (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
Gintama: The Very Final
as Princess Soyo (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Gintama: The Very Final
as Princess Soyo (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Gintama: The Very Final
as Princess Soyo (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. Ryo Hirohashi 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
13 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
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2
as Luna (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Gintama: The Very Final
as Princess Soyo (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Doraemon the Movie: New Nobita and the Castle of the Undersea Devil
as Underwater Buggy (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Doraemon the Movie: New Nobita and the Castle of the Undersea Devil
as Underwater Buggy (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Gintama: The Very Final
as Princess Soyo (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
My Hero Academia: You're Next
as Minoru Mineta (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Free! the Final Stroke the First Volume
as Ayumu Kunikida (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 1
as Luna (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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