Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#5537
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Tetsuya Kakihara 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.
Tetsuya Kakihara appears in 6 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Tetsuya. How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 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, science fiction, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tensai Okamura, Keisuke Inoue, Fumie Muroi and others, Tetsuya Kakihara 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.
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film (2020) as Megu (voice) · My Hero Academia: You're Next (2024) as The Sixth, En (voice) · Saekano the Movie: Finale (2019) as Iori Hashima (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #5537 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
6
2017–2024
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
Average Nutevio score
7.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
Most frequent director
Tensai Okamura
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Tensai Okamura
Most common genre
Animation
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 17m
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
7.4 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. My Hero Academia: You're Next, My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! The Movie, King of Prism All Stars: Prism Show Best Ten — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.4
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.4
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, Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry.
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 | — |
| Action | 6.61 film | 7.21 film |
| Comedy | 6.82 films | 6.31 film |
| Romance | 6.91 film | 6.31 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Natsu Dragneel (voice).
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2020How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 10.0 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
2024My Hero Academia: You're Next
The current state of the argument, as The Sixth, En (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.
6 of 6 films
as Megu (voice)
Directed by Fumie Muroi
as Natsu Dragneel (voice)
Directed by Tatsuma Minamikawa
as The Sixth, En (voice)
Directed by Tensai Okamura
as Iori Hashima (voice)
Directed by Kanta Kamei
as Keith Claes (voice)
Directed by Keisuke Inoue
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
Megu (voice)
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film (2020)
Performance score9.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Megu (voice) gives Tetsuya Kakihara a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Natsu Dragneel (voice)
Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry (2017)
Performance score7.3
Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Natsu Dragneel (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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The Sixth, En (voice)
My Hero Academia: You're Next (2024)
Performance score7.1
My Hero Academia: You're Next asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. The Sixth, En (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Iori Hashima (voice)
Saekano the Movie: Finale (2019)
Performance score6.8
Saekano the Movie: Finale asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Iori Hashima (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 Megu (voice)
Start here. How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film is the clearest statement of what Tetsuya Kakihara does — accessible, 0 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Tetsuya 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.
Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry (2017)
Keeps the animation register of How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film but asks for a colder reading of it.
Saekano the Movie: Finale (2019)
Keeps the comedy register of Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry but asks for a colder reading of it.
My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! The Movie (2023)
Keeps the romance register of Saekano the Movie: Finale but asks for a colder reading of it.
My Hero Academia: You're Next (2024)
Keeps the animation register of My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Tatsuma Minamikawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry
Kanta Kamei
Director
1 film together
Notably Saekano the Movie: Finale
Fumie Muroi
Director
1 film together
Notably How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
Keisuke Inoue
Director
1 film together
Notably My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! The Movie
Tensai Okamura
Director
1 film together
Notably My Hero Academia: You're Next
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Fumie Muroi
Director
1 film together · 10.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story FilmTensai 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 NextKanta 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: FinaleTatsuma Minamikawa
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fairy Tail: Dragon CryKeisuke Inoue
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! The 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
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
as Megu (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
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
as Megu (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
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
as Megu (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
My Hero Academia: You're Next
as The Sixth, En (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
as Megu (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. Tetsuya Kakihara 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
5 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
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
as Megu (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
as Megu (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! The Movie
as Keith Claes (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
as Megu (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
as Megu (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
My Hero Academia: You're Next
as The Sixth, En (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Saekano the Movie: Finale
as Iori Hashima (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Saekano the Movie: Finale
as Iori Hashima (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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