Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#660
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
You Taichi 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.
You Taichi appears in 18 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without You. Princess Principal Crown Handler: Chapter 4 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 animation, action, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Haruo Sotozaki, Masaki Tachibana, Shinya Watada and others, You Taichi 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.
Princess Principal Crown Handler: Chapter 4 (2025) · Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020) as Takeo Kamado (voice) · Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle (2025) as (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #660 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
18
2019–2026
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Princess Principal Crown Handler: Chapter 4
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Princess Principal Crown Handler: Chapter 4
Most frequent director
Masaki Tachibana
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Masaki Tachibana
Most common genre
Animation
18 titles
Average runtime
1h 23m
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
2010s
6.9 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Laidbackers, ZENONZARD THE ANIMATION Episode 0, Ride Your Wave — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.9
Across 7 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.9
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. Laidbackers, ZENONZARD THE ANIMATION Episode 0, Ride Your Wave.
Most productive era
2020s
11 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 | 7.03 films | 6.98 films |
| Action | 6.93 films | 7.36 films |
| Comedy | 6.54 films | 6.52 films |
| Romance | 7.33 films | 6.92 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2019Laidbackers
Where our catalogue meets this career, as K (voice).
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2025Princess Principal Crown Handler: Chapter 4
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
2026プリンセス・プリンシパル Crown Handler 第4章「Fabulous Platypus」
The current state of the argument.
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.
18 of 18 films
Directed by Masaki Tachibana
as Takeo Kamado (voice)
Directed by Haruo Sotozaki
as (voice)
Directed by Haruo Sotozaki
as Blue-White Witch (voice)
Directed by Kei Oikawa
as Junko (voice)
Directed by Unknown
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
Princess Principal Crown Handler: Chapter 4
Princess Principal Crown Handler: Chapter 4 (2025)
Performance score9.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. The role gives You Taichi a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Takeo Kamado (voice)
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020)
Performance score7.9
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Takeo Kamado (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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(voice)
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle (2025)
Performance score7.8
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Blue-White Witch (voice)
ZENONZARD THE ANIMATION Episode 0 (2019)
Performance score7.8
ZENONZARD THE ANIMATION Episode 0 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Blue-White Witch (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
Start here. Princess Principal Crown Handler: Chapter 4 is the clearest statement of what You Taichi does — accessible, 60 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet You 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.
ZENONZARD THE ANIMATION Episode 0 (2019)
Keeps the action register of Princess Principal Crown Handler: Chapter 4 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Ride Your Wave (2019)
Keeps the animation register of ZENONZARD THE ANIMATION Episode 0 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020)
Keeps the fantasy register of Ride Your Wave but asks for a colder reading of it.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle (2025)
Same director as Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Masaki Tachibana
Director
4 films together
Notably Princess Principal Crown Handler: Chapter 4
Haruo Sotozaki
Director
2 films together
Notably Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
Tsutomu Mizushima
Director
1 film together
Notably Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2
Kazuya Nomura
Director
1 film together
Notably BlackFox
Kanta Kamei
Director
1 film together
Notably Saekano the Movie: Finale
Tatsuyuki Nagai
Director
1 film together
Notably Her Blue Sky
Kei Oikawa
Director
1 film together
Notably ZENONZARD THE ANIMATION Episode 0
Hiroyuki Hashimoto
Director
1 film together
Notably Laidbackers
Jun Nakagawa
Director
1 film together
Notably High School Fleet Movie
Kyohei Ishiguro
Director
1 film together
Notably Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop
Shinya Watada
Director
1 film together
Notably Hula Fulla Dance
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Masaki Tachibana
Director
4 films together · 7.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Princess Principal Crown Handler: Chapter 4Haruo Sotozaki
Director
2 films together · 8.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen TrainKei Oikawa
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ZENONZARD THE ANIMATION Episode 0Tatsuyuki Nagai
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Her Blue SkyKyohei Ishiguro
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Words Bubble Up Like Soda PopKanta 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: FinaleKazuya Nomura
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BlackFoxShinya Watada
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hula Fulla DanceTsutomu Mizushima
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2Hiroyuki Hashimoto
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LaidbackersJun Nakagawa
Director
1 film together · 4.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
High School Fleet 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
Princess Principal Crown Handler: Chapter 4
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
100 METERS
as Murata (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
Princess Principal Crown Handler: Chapter 4
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle
as (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Princess Principal Crown Handler: Chapter 4
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. You Taichi 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
18 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
Princess Principal Crown Handler: Chapter 4
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Princess Principal Crown Handler: Chapter 4
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
100 METERS
as Murata (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Princess Principal Crown Handler: Chapter 4
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Princess Principal Crown Handler: Chapter 4
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Princess Principal Crown Handler: Chapter 4
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Ride Your Wave
as Junko (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Ride Your Wave
as Junko (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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