Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#17682
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Yumi Hara works on transformation 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.
Yumi Hara appears in 7 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Yumi. OVERLORD: The Sacred Kingdom is the clearest case: a film rated 7.8 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are transformation, versatility, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, fantasy, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Naoyuki Ito, Minoru Ashina, Yuta Murano and others, Yumi Hara 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.
OVERLORD: The Sacred Kingdom (2024) as Albedo (voice) · Isekai Quartet the Movie: Another World (2022) as Albedo (voice) · Trinity Seven: Heaven's Library & Crimson Lord (2019) as Asami Lilith (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #17682 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
7
2019–2024
Career length
5 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.8
OVERLORD: The Sacred Kingdom
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.8
OVERLORD: The Sacred Kingdom
Most frequent director
Tsutomu Mizushima
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Tsutomu Mizushima
Most common genre
Animation
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 6m
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
6.3
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. Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2, Trinity Seven: Heaven's Library & Crimson Lord — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.9
Across 2 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. Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2, Trinity Seven: Heaven's Library & Crimson Lord.
Most productive era
2020s
5 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Action | 6.92 films | 7.81 film |
| Comedy | 6.92 films | 6.83 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2019Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2
Where our catalogue meets this career, as (voice).
Career peak
2019Trinity Seven: Heaven's Library & Crimson Lord
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance · Most recent film
2024OVERLORD: The Sacred Kingdom
7.8 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. The current state of the argument, as Albedo (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 Albedo (voice)
Directed by Minoru Ashina
as Asami Lilith (voice)
Directed by Hiroshi Nishikiori
as Albedo (voice)
Directed by Naoyuki Ito
as Kumi Jouro (voice)
Directed by Yuta Murano
as Takane Shijou (voice)
Directed by Atsushi Nishigori
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
Albedo (voice)
Isekai Quartet the Movie: Another World (2022)
Performance score7.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Albedo (voice) gives Yumi Hara a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Asami Lilith (voice)
Trinity Seven: Heaven's Library & Crimson Lord (2019)
Performance score7.9
Trinity Seven: Heaven's Library & Crimson Lord asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Asami Lilith (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Albedo (voice)
OVERLORD: The Sacred Kingdom (2024)
Performance score7.6
OVERLORD: The Sacred Kingdom asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Albedo (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kumi Jouro (voice)
Kakushigoto Theatrical Edition (2021)
Performance score7.0
Kakushigoto Theatrical Edition asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kumi Jouro (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 Albedo (voice)
Start here. Isekai Quartet the Movie: Another World is the clearest statement of what Yumi Hara does — accessible, 112 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Yumi 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.
Trinity Seven: Heaven's Library & Crimson Lord (2019)
Keeps the comedy register of Isekai Quartet the Movie: Another World but asks for a colder reading of it.
Kakushigoto Theatrical Edition (2021)
Keeps the comedy register of Trinity Seven: Heaven's Library & Crimson Lord but asks for a colder reading of it.
VOY@GER (2021)
Keeps the animation register of Kakushigoto Theatrical Edition but asks for a colder reading of it.
OVERLORD: The Sacred Kingdom (2024)
Keeps the animation register of VOY@GER but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Tsutomu Mizushima
Director
2 films together
Notably Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2
Hiroshi Nishikiori
Director
1 film together
Notably Trinity Seven: Heaven's Library & Crimson Lord
Atsushi Nishigori
Director
1 film together
Notably VOY@GER
Yuta Murano
Director
1 film together
Notably Kakushigoto Theatrical Edition
Minoru Ashina
Director
1 film together
Notably Isekai Quartet the Movie: Another World
Naoyuki Ito
Director
1 film together
Notably OVERLORD: The Sacred Kingdom
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Tsutomu Mizushima
Director
2 films together · 5.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2Naoyuki Ito
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
OVERLORD: The Sacred KingdomMinoru Ashina
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Isekai Quartet the Movie: Another WorldHiroshi Nishikiori
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Trinity Seven: Heaven's Library & Crimson LordYuta Murano
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kakushigoto Theatrical EditionAtsushi Nishigori
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
VOY@GERSix 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
OVERLORD: The Sacred Kingdom
as Albedo (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
OVERLORD: The Sacred Kingdom
as Albedo (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
OVERLORD: The Sacred Kingdom
as Albedo (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2
as (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Isekai Quartet the Movie: Another World
as Albedo (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. Yumi Hara 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
OVERLORD: The Sacred Kingdom
as Albedo (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
OVERLORD: The Sacred Kingdom
as Albedo (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
OVERLORD: The Sacred Kingdom
as Albedo (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
OVERLORD: The Sacred Kingdom
as Albedo (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
OVERLORD: The Sacred Kingdom
as Albedo (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
OVERLORD: The Sacred Kingdom
as Albedo (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Isekai Quartet the Movie: Another World
as Albedo (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Trinity Seven: Heaven's Library & Crimson Lord
as Asami Lilith (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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