Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1807
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Sayaka Senbongi 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.
Sayaka Senbongi appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Sayaka. 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, emotional range. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, fantasy, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Yasuhito Kikuchi, Tomomi Kamiya, Keiichiro Saito and others, Sayaka Senbongi 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 (voice) · Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon (2025) as Konomi Okonogi (voice) · That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond (2022) as Shuna (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1807 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2019–2026
Career length
7 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
6.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
Most frequent director
Yasuhito Kikuchi
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Yasuhito Kikuchi
Most common genre
Animation
11 titles
Average runtime
1h 43m
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
6.4
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
7.0 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea, Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon, BOCCHI THE ROCK! Recap Part 1 — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.0
Across 10 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.0
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. The Relative Worlds.
Most productive era
2020s
10 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 | 5.91 film | 6.42 films |
| Action | 5.91 film | 7.24 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.93 films |
| Romance | 5.91 film | 6.32 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Kotoko Izumi (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2020Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
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
2026That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea
The current state of the argument, as Shuna (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.
11 of 11 films
as (voice)
Directed by Haruo Sotozaki
as Konomi Okonogi (voice)
Directed by Tomomi Kamiya
as Shuna (voice)
Directed by Yasuhito Kikuchi
as Kikuri Hiroi (voice)
Directed by Keiichiro Saito
as Usagi (voice)
Directed by Tetsuro Araki
From the library
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The defining work
#1
(voice)
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020)
Performance score7.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. (voice) gives Sayaka Senbongi a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Konomi Okonogi (voice)
Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon (2025)
Performance score7.8
Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Konomi Okonogi (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Shuna (voice)
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond (2022)
Performance score7.5
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Shuna (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kikuri Hiroi (voice)
BOCCHI THE ROCK! Recap Part 2 (2024)
Performance score7.2
BOCCHI THE ROCK! Recap Part 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kikuri Hiroi (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 (voice)
Start here. Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train is the clearest statement of what Sayaka Senbongi does — accessible, 117 minutes, and rated 8.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Sayaka 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.
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond (2022)
Keeps the fantasy register of Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train but asks for a colder reading of it.
Bubble (2022)
Keeps the fantasy register of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond but asks for a colder reading of it.
BOCCHI THE ROCK! Recap Part 2 (2024)
Keeps the animation register of Bubble but asks for a colder reading of it.
Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon (2025)
Keeps the animation register of BOCCHI THE ROCK! Recap Part 2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Keiichiro Saito
Director
2 films together
Notably BOCCHI THE ROCK! Recap Part 2
Yasuhito Kikuchi
Director
2 films together
Notably That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond
Haruo Sotozaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
Hiroyuki Seshita
Director
1 film together
Notably Knights of Sidonia: Love Woven in the Stars
Hisatoshi Shimizu
Director
1 film together
Notably Eureka: Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution
Kazuto Arai
Director
1 film together
Notably Fate/Grand Order the Movie: Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot 2 Paladin; Agateram
Tetsuro Araki
Director
1 film together
Notably Bubble
Tomomi Kamiya
Director
1 film together
Notably Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Yasuhito Kikuchi
Director
2 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet BondKeiichiro Saito
Director
2 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
BOCCHI THE ROCK! Recap Part 2Haruo 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 TrainTomomi Kamiya
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kaiju No. 8: Mission ReconTetsuro Araki
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BubbleHisatoshi Shimizu
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Eureka: Eureka Seven Hi-EvolutionKazuto Arai
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Hiroyuki Seshita
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Knights of Sidonia: Love Woven in the StarsSix 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 (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
Eureka: Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution
as Red Two (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
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
as (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Knights of Sidonia: Love Woven in the Stars
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
as (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. Sayaka Senbongi 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
11 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
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
as (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- The Movie: Mugen Train
as (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 Hassan of the Serenity (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond
as Shuna (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 (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Fate/Grand Order the Movie: Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot 2 Paladin; Agateram
as Hassan of the Serenity (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea
as Shuna (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
BOCCHI THE ROCK! Recap Part 1
as Kikuri Hiroi (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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