Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1074
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Wataru Hatano 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.
Wataru Hatano appears in 7 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Wataru. Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn- is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 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 action, mystery, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Katsuya Shigehara, Shun Enokido, Tetsuro Araki and others, Wataru Hatano 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.
Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn- (2023) as Orlando Reeve (voice) · Bubble (2022) as Osawa (voice) · Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback (2025) as Atsunobu Hayashi (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1074 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
7
2017–2025
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn-
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn-
Most frequent director
Katsuya Shigehara
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Katsuya Shigehara
Most common genre
Animation
7 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
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
6.2
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
6.6 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.6
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.6
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. Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry.
Most productive era
2020s
6 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 | — | 6.73 films |
| Action | 6.61 film | 7.32 films |
| Comedy | 6.61 film | 3.61 film |
| Crime | — | 7.21 film |
| Romance | — | 3.61 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Gajeel Redfox (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2023Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn-
7.5 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
2025Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback
The current state of the argument, as Atsunobu Hayashi (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.
7 of 7 films
as Orlando Reeve (voice)
Directed by Shun Enokido
as Osawa (voice)
Directed by Tetsuro Araki
as Atsunobu Hayashi (voice)
Directed by Katsuya Shigehara
as Chikara Doumeki (voice)
Directed by Kaori Makita
as Gajeel Redfox (voice)
Directed by Tatsuma Minamikawa
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
Orlando Reeve (voice)
Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn- (2023)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Orlando Reeve (voice) gives Wataru Hatano a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Osawa (voice)
Bubble (2022)
Performance score7.2
Bubble asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Osawa (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Atsunobu Hayashi (voice)
Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback (2025)
Performance score7.1
Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Atsunobu Hayashi (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Chikara Doumeki (voice)
Twittering Birds Never Fly: The Clouds Gather (2020)
Performance score7.0
Twittering Birds Never Fly: The Clouds Gather asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Chikara Doumeki (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 Orlando Reeve (voice)
Start here. Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn- is the clearest statement of what Wataru Hatano does — accessible, 56 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Wataru 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 action register of Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn- but asks for a colder reading of it.
Twittering Birds Never Fly: The Clouds Gather (2020)
Keeps the animation register of Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry but asks for a colder reading of it.
Bubble (2022)
Keeps the animation register of Twittering Birds Never Fly: The Clouds Gather but asks for a colder reading of it.
Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback (2025)
Keeps the animation register of Bubble 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
Kaori Makita
Director
1 film together
Notably Twittering Birds Never Fly: The Clouds Gather
Shunsuke Tada
Director
1 film together
Notably Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Intrigue 1
Tetsuro Araki
Director
1 film together
Notably Bubble
Shun Enokido
Director
1 film together
Notably Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn-
Katsuya Shigehara
Director
1 film together
Notably Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Shun Enokido
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn-Tetsuro 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
BubbleKatsuya Shigehara
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Detective Conan: One-Eyed FlashbackKaori Makita
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Twittering Birds Never Fly: The Clouds GatherTatsuma 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 CryShunsuke Tada
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Intrigue 1Six 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
Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback
as Atsunobu Hayashi (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
Twittering Birds Never Fly: The Clouds Gather
as Chikara Doumeki (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
Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn-
as Orlando Reeve (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Intrigue 1
as Ulrich Kessler
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn-
as Orlando Reeve (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. Wataru Hatano 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
7 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
Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn-
as Orlando Reeve (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback
as Atsunobu Hayashi (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Twittering Birds Never Fly: The Clouds Gather
as Chikara Doumeki (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback
as Atsunobu Hayashi (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn-
as Orlando Reeve (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry
as Gajeel Redfox (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry
as Gajeel Redfox (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Intrigue 1
as Ulrich Kessler
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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