Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1104
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Wataru Takagi represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 28 years in, and Wataru is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Wataru Takagi appears in 24 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Wataru. Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger Special Chapter: Memory of Soulmates 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, mystery, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Takahiro Hasui, Katsuya Shigehara, Ai Yoshimura and others, Wataru Takagi 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.
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger Special Chapter: Memory of Soulmates (2021) as DimeVolcano (voice) · Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway (2026) as Genta Kojima (voice) · Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback (2025) as Wataru Takagi / Genta Kojima (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1104 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
24
1998–2026
Career length
28 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger Special Chapter: Memory of Soulmates
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger Special Chapter: Memory of Soulmates
Most frequent director
Chika Nagaoka
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Chika Nagaoka
Most common genre
Animation
23 titles
Average runtime
1h 31m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.1
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
2020s
6.9 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway, Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback, The Rose of Versailles — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.9
Across 15 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
7.0
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. Pokémon: The First Movie.
Most productive era
2020s
15 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 | — | — | 6.85 films |
| Action | 6.91 film | 6.44 films | 7.09 films |
| Thriller | — | — | 6.51 film |
| Comedy | — | 6.61 film | 5.82 films |
| Crime | — | 6.85 films | 6.97 films |
| Romance | — | — | 6.82 films |
| Horror | — | — | 7.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Umio (voice).
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2021Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger Special Chapter: Memory of Soulmates
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
2026Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway
The current state of the argument, as Genta Kojima (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.
24 of 24 films
as DimeVolcano (voice)
Directed by Koichi Sakamoto
as Genta Kojima (voice)
Directed by Takahiro Hasui
as Belq Batoum Bitool (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Tshering Gurung
Directed by Naoyoshi Shiotani
as Wataru Takagi / Genta Kojima (voice)
Directed by Katsuya Shigehara
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
DimeVolcano (voice)
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger Special Chapter: Memory of Soulmates (2021)
Performance score9.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. DimeVolcano (voice) gives Wataru Takagi a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Genta Kojima (voice)
Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway (2026)
Performance score7.6
Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Genta Kojima (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Belq Batoum Bitool (voice)
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Re;surrection (2019)
Performance score7.3
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Re;surrection asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Belq Batoum Bitool (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Tshering Gurung
Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.3 On the Other Side of Love and Hate (2019)
Performance score7.2
Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.3 On the Other Side of Love and Hate asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tshering Gurung 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 DimeVolcano (voice)
Start here. Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger Special Chapter: Memory of Soulmates is the clearest statement of what Wataru Takagi does — accessible, 15 minutes, and rated 10.0 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.
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Re;surrection (2019)
Keeps the science fiction register of Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger Special Chapter: Memory of Soulmates but asks for a colder reading of it.
Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.3 On the Other Side of Love and Hate (2019)
Keeps the science fiction register of Code Geass: Lelouch of the Re;surrection but asks for a colder reading of it.
Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback (2025)
Keeps the crime register of Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.3 On the Other Side of Love and Hate but asks for a colder reading of it.
Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway (2026)
Keeps the action register of Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Naoyoshi Shiotani
Director
3 films together
Notably Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.3 On the Other Side of Love and Hate
Chika Nagaoka
Director
3 films together
Notably Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram
Kunihiko Yuyama
Director
1 film together
Notably Pokémon: The First Movie
Junji Shimizu
Director
1 film together
Notably Mazinger Z: Infinity
Tatsuma Minamikawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry
Jumpei Mizusaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Batman Ninja
Hiroshi Ikehata
Director
1 film together
Notably BEM: BECOME HUMAN
Tsutomu Mizushima
Director
1 film together
Notably SHIROBAKO the Movie
Koichi Sakamoto
Director
1 film together
Notably Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger Special Chapter: Memory of Soulmates
Ryota Nakamura
Director
1 film together
Notably Healin' Good♥Precure: GoGo! Big Transformation! The Town of Dreams
Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Director
1 film together
Notably Detective Conan: Kaiju Gomera vs. Kamen Yaiba
Susumu Mitsunaka
Director
1 film together
Notably Detective Conan: The Bride of Halloween
Shinji Takagi
Director
1 film together
Notably Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League
Ai Yoshimura
Director
1 film together
Notably The Rose of Versailles
Katsuya Shigehara
Director
1 film together
Notably Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback
Takahiro Hasui
Director
1 film together
Notably Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Naoyoshi Shiotani
Director
3 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Chika Nagaoka
Director
3 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar PentagramKoichi Sakamoto
Director
1 film together · 10.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger Special Chapter: Memory of SoulmatesTakahiro Hasui
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the HighwayKatsuya 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 FlashbackAi Yoshimura
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Rose of VersaillesHiroshi Ikehata
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BEM: BECOME HUMANJunji Shimizu
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mazinger Z: InfinityTsutomu Mizushima
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SHIROBAKO the MovieKunihiko Yuyama
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pokémon: The First MovieShinji Takagi
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza LeagueYasuichiro Yamamoto
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Detective Conan: Kaiju Gomera vs. Kamen YaibaTatsuma 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 CrySusumu Mitsunaka
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Detective Conan: The Bride of HalloweenJumpei 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 NinjaRyota Nakamura
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Healin' Good♥Precure: GoGo! Big Transformation! The Town of DreamsSix 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
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger Special Chapter: Memory of Soulmates
as DimeVolcano (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
The Rose of Versailles
as de Guéméné (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
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger Special Chapter: Memory of Soulmates
as DimeVolcano (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
SHIROBAKO the Movie
as Masato Marukawa (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger Special Chapter: Memory of Soulmates
as DimeVolcano (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 Takagi 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
28 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
23 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
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger Special Chapter: Memory of Soulmates
as DimeVolcano (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger Special Chapter: Memory of Soulmates
as DimeVolcano (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Rose of Versailles
as de Guéméné (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Detective Conan: Kaiju Gomera vs. Kamen Yaiba
as Genta Kojima (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger Special Chapter: Memory of Soulmates
as DimeVolcano (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger Special Chapter: Memory of Soulmates
as DimeVolcano (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
SHIROBAKO the Movie
as Masato Marukawa (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Detective Conan: Love Story at Police Headquarters ~Wedding Eve~
as Wataru Takagi / Genta Kojima (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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