Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#263
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Takehito Koyasu represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 29 years in, and Takehito is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Takehito Koyasu appears in 21 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Takehito. Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK 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, drama. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for mystery, fantasy, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tomohiko Ito, Fumitoshi Oizaki, Hirofumi Fukuzawa and others, Takehito Koyasu 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.
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK (2024) as Zeke Yeager (voice) · JUJUTSU KAISEN: Hidden Inventory / Premature Death - The Movie (2025) as Toji Fushiguro (voice) · Gintama: The Very Final (2021) as Shinsuke Takasugi (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #263 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
21
1997–2026
Career length
29 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
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Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.7
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.7
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK
Most frequent director
Tomohiko Ito
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Tomohiko Ito
Most common genre
Animation
19 titles
Average runtime
1h 33m
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
6.8
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
1990s
8.0 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
8.0
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
8.3
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion.
Most productive era
2020s
14 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 | 1990s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 8.01 film | 7.43 films | 7.66 films |
| Action | 8.01 film | 6.92 films | 5.99 films |
| Comedy | — | — | 7.42 films |
| Romance | — | 7.31 film | 7.33 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1997Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Shigeru Aoba (voice).
Highest rated performance
2024Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK
8.7 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2025JUJUTSU KAISEN: Hidden Inventory / Premature Death - The Movie
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
The current state of the argument, as Lebno (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.
21 of 21 films
as Toji Fushiguro (voice)
Directed by Shota Goshozono
as Zeke Yeager (voice)
Directed by Yuichiro Hayashi
as Masakazu Yanagisawa (voice)
Directed by Tomohiko Ito
as Claudia Hodgins (voice)
Directed by Taichi Ishidate
as Shinsuke Takasugi (voice)
Directed by Chizuru Miyawaki
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
Toji Fushiguro (voice)
JUJUTSU KAISEN: Hidden Inventory / Premature Death - The Movie (2025)
Performance score8.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Toji Fushiguro (voice) gives Takehito Koyasu a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Zeke Yeager (voice)
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK (2024)
Performance score8.4
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Zeke Yeager (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Masakazu Yanagisawa (voice)
The Keeper of the Camphor Tree (2026)
Performance score8.0
The Keeper of the Camphor Tree asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Masakazu Yanagisawa (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Claudia Hodgins (voice)
Violet Evergarden: The Movie (2020)
Performance score8.0
Violet Evergarden: The Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Claudia Hodgins (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 Toji Fushiguro (voice)
Start here. JUJUTSU KAISEN: Hidden Inventory / Premature Death - The Movie is the clearest statement of what Takehito Koyasu does — accessible, 110 minutes, and rated 8.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Takehito 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.
Violet Evergarden: The Movie (2020)
Keeps the fantasy register of JUJUTSU KAISEN: Hidden Inventory / Premature Death - The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Gintama: The Very Final (2021)
Keeps the animation register of Violet Evergarden: The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK (2024)
Keeps the action register of Gintama: The Very Final but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Keeper of the Camphor Tree (2026)
Keeps the drama register of Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Kazuya Tsurumaki
Director
2 films together
Notably Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
Tomohiko Ito
Director
2 films together
Notably The Keeper of the Camphor Tree
Jumpei Mizusaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Batman Ninja
Masaharu Watanabe
Director
1 film together
Notably Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Memory Snow
Kenichi Kawamura
Director
1 film together
Notably Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- The Frozen Bond
Haruo Sotozaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Sibling's Bond
Haruka Fujita
Director
1 film together
Notably Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll
Taichi Ishidate
Director
1 film together
Notably Violet Evergarden: The Movie
Hiroyuki Seshita
Director
1 film together
Notably Knights of Sidonia: Love Woven in the Stars
Kazuto Arai
Director
1 film together
Notably Fate/Grand Order the Movie: Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot 2 Paladin; Agateram
Chizuru Miyawaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Gintama: The Very Final
Mamoru Hatakeyama
Director
1 film together
Notably Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends-
Mitsuo Fukuda
Director
1 film together
Notably Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM
Yuichiro Hayashi
Director
1 film together
Notably Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK
Shota Goshozono
Director
1 film together
Notably JUJUTSU KAISEN: Hidden Inventory / Premature Death - The Movie
Hirofumi Fukuzawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Chō Uchū Keiji Gyaban Infiniti Taiyō ga Naita Hi
Fumitoshi Oizaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Sgt. Frog
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Kazuya Tsurumaki
Director
2 films together · 7.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of EvangelionTomohiko Ito
Director
2 films together · 7.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Keeper of the Camphor TreeYuichiro Hayashi
Director
1 film together · 8.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACKShota Goshozono
Director
1 film together · 8.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
JUJUTSU KAISEN: Hidden Inventory / Premature Death - The MovieChizuru 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 FinalMamoru Hatakeyama
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends-Haruo Sotozaki
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Sibling's BondTaichi Ishidate
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Violet Evergarden: The MovieHaruka Fujita
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory DollKenichi Kawamura
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- The Frozen BondMasaharu Watanabe
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Memory SnowMitsuo Fukuda
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOMKazuto 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 StarsJumpei Mizusaki
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Batman NinjaFumitoshi Oizaki
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sgt. FrogHirofumi Fukuzawa
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Chō Uchū Keiji Gyaban Infiniti Taiyō ga Naita HiSix 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
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK
as Zeke Yeager (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
Violet Evergarden: The Movie
as Claudia Hodgins (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
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK
as Zeke Yeager (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
as Shigeru Aoba (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
JUJUTSU KAISEN: Hidden Inventory / Premature Death - The Movie
as Toji Fushiguro (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. Takehito Koyasu 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.
Career Achievement
Awarded
29 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
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
19 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
The Keeper of the Camphor Tree
as Masakazu Yanagisawa (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK
as Zeke Yeager (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 Ozymandias (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Keeper of the Camphor Tree
as Masakazu Yanagisawa (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK
as Zeke Yeager (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK
as Zeke Yeager (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends-
as Shirogane's Father (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Batman Ninja
as Gorilla Grodd (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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