Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#820
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Ryotaro Okiayu 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.
Ryotaro Okiayu appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Ryotaro. 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, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, fantasy, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Haruo Sotozaki, Akitaro Daichi, Yuzuru Tachikawa and others, Ryotaro Okiayu 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 Gorilla Gachi (voice) · Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle (2025) as Kokushibo (voice) · Bloody Escape: Bats Out of Hell (2024) as Zesh (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #820 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
2019–2025
Career length
6 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.7
Me & Roboco: The Movie
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.7
Me & Roboco: The Movie
Most frequent director
Eisaku Kawanami
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Eisaku Kawanami
Most common genre
Animation
14 titles
Average runtime
1h 35m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
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
6.5
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
6.8 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle, Me & Roboco: The Movie, Bloody Escape: Bats Out of Hell — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.8
Across 13 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.9
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. Detective Conan: The Scarlet School Trip.
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 | — | 6.33 films |
| Action | 6.41 film | 7.07 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.51 film |
| Comedy | — | 6.64 films |
| Crime | 6.41 film | 6.73 films |
| Romance | — | 6.51 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2019Detective Conan: The Scarlet School Trip
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Fumimaro Ayanokoji (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 Gorilla Gachi (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.
14 of 14 films
as Gorilla Gachi (voice)
Directed by Akitaro Daichi
as Kokushibo (voice)
Directed by Haruo Sotozaki
as Zesh (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Borsalino (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Subaru Okiya (voice)
Directed by Yuzuru Tachikawa
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
Gorilla Gachi (voice)
Me & Roboco: The Movie (2025)
Performance score8.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Gorilla Gachi (voice) gives Ryotaro Okiayu a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Kokushibo (voice)
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle (2025)
Performance score7.8
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kokushibo (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Zesh (voice)
Bloody Escape: Bats Out of Hell (2024)
Performance score7.1
Bloody Escape: Bats Out of Hell asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Zesh (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Borsalino (voice)
One Piece Film Red (2022)
Performance score7.1
One Piece Film Red asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Borsalino (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 Gorilla Gachi (voice)
Start here. Me & Roboco: The Movie is the clearest statement of what Ryotaro Okiayu 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 Ryotaro 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.
One Piece Film Red (2022)
Keeps the animation register of Me & Roboco: The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine (2023)
Keeps the action register of One Piece Film Red but asks for a colder reading of it.
Bloody Escape: Bats Out of Hell (2024)
Keeps the action register of Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine but asks for a colder reading of it.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle (2025)
Keeps the action register of Bloody Escape: Bats Out of Hell but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Director
2 films together
Notably Detective Conan: Kaiju Gomera vs. Kamen Yaiba
Eisaku Kawanami
Director
2 films together
Notably Free! the Final Stroke the First Volume
Hiroshi Koujina
Director
1 film together
Notably Ryoma! The Prince of Tennis
Kazuto Arai
Director
1 film together
Notably Fate/Grand Order the Movie: Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot 2 Paladin; Agateram
Toshifumi Akai
Director
1 film together
Notably Fate/Grand Order Final Singularity – Grand Temple of Time: Solomon
Chika Nagaoka
Director
1 film together
Notably Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet
Yuzuru Tachikawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine
Akitaro Daichi
Director
1 film together
Notably Me & Roboco: The Movie
Haruo Sotozaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Director
2 films together · 6.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Detective Conan: Kaiju Gomera vs. Kamen YaibaEisaku 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 VolumeAkitaro 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 MovieHaruo Sotozaki
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity CastleYuzuru Tachikawa
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Detective Conan: Black Iron SubmarineToshifumi Akai
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fate/Grand Order Final Singularity – Grand Temple of Time: SolomonChika Nagaoka
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Detective Conan: The Scarlet BulletKazuto Arai
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Hiroshi Koujina
Director
1 film together · 5.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ryoma! The Prince of TennisSix 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 Infinity Castle
as Kokushibo (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
One Piece Film Red
as Borsalino (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 Gorilla Gachi (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
One Piece Film Red
as Borsalino (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 Gorilla Gachi (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. Ryotaro Okiayu 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
14 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
Me & Roboco: The Movie
as Gorilla Gachi (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle
as Kokushibo (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Fate/Grand Order the Movie: Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot 2 Paladin; Agateram
as Lancelot (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Detective Conan: Kaiju Gomera vs. Kamen Yaiba
as Fumimaro Ayanokoji (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle
as Kokushibo (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
One Piece Film Red
as Borsalino (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Free! the Final Stroke the First Volume
as Kiyohumi Haishima (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet
as Subaru Okiya (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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