Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4052
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Aki Toyosaki 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.
Aki Toyosaki appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Aki. Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight is the clearest case: a film rated 8.2 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 fantasy, drama, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tatsuyuki Nagai, Kunihiko Ikuhara, Yoshiaki Kyougoku and others, Aki Toyosaki 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.
Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight (2019) as Marulk (voice) · RE:cycle of the PENGUINDRUM Part 1: Your Train Is the Survival Tactic (2022) as Momoka Oginome (voice) · Laid-Back Camp the Movie (2022) as Aoi Inuyama (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #4052 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
2013–2024
Career length
11 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.2
Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight
Average Nutevio score
7.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight
Most frequent director
Tatsuyuki Nagai
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Tatsuyuki Nagai
Most common genre
Animation
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 50m
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
6.6
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
7.4 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. KONOSUBA – God's blessing on this wonderful world! Legend of Crimson, Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight, BlackFox — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
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
2010s
7.6
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. KONOSUBA – God's blessing on this wonderful world! Legend of Crimson, Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight, BlackFox.
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 | 7.02 films | 6.83 films |
| Action | 6.61 film | — |
| Comedy | 7.51 film | 7.33 films |
| Romance | — | 6.11 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2013anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day - The Movie
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Young Poppo (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight
8.2 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
2024Fureru
The current state of the argument, as (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.
10 of 10 films
as Marulk (voice)
Directed by Masayuki Kojima
as Aoi Inuyama (voice)
Directed by Yoshiaki Kyougoku
as Yunyun (voice)
Directed by Takaomi Kanasaki
as Momoka Oginome (voice)
Directed by Kunihiko Ikuhara
as Young Poppo (voice)
Directed by Tatsuyuki Nagai
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
Marulk (voice)
Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight (2019)
Performance score8.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Marulk (voice) gives Aki Toyosaki a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Aoi Inuyama (voice)
Laid-Back Camp the Movie (2022)
Performance score7.7
Laid-Back Camp the Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Aoi Inuyama (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Yunyun (voice)
KONOSUBA – God's blessing on this wonderful world! Legend of Crimson (2019)
Performance score7.6
KONOSUBA – God's blessing on this wonderful world! Legend of Crimson asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Yunyun (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Momoka Oginome (voice)
RE:cycle of the PENGUINDRUM Part 1: Your Train Is the Survival Tactic (2022)
Performance score7.5
RE:cycle of the PENGUINDRUM Part 1: Your Train Is the Survival Tactic asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Momoka Oginome (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 Marulk (voice)
Start here. Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight is the clearest statement of what Aki Toyosaki does — accessible, 105 minutes, and rated 8.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Aki 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.
anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day - The Movie (2013)
Keeps the animation register of Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight but asks for a colder reading of it.
KONOSUBA – God's blessing on this wonderful world! Legend of Crimson (2019)
Keeps the animation register of anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day - The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Laid-Back Camp the Movie (2022)
Keeps the comedy register of KONOSUBA – God's blessing on this wonderful world! Legend of Crimson but asks for a colder reading of it.
RE:cycle of the PENGUINDRUM Part 1: Your Train Is the Survival Tactic (2022)
Keeps the comedy register of Laid-Back Camp the Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Masayuki Kojima
Director
2 films together
Notably Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight
Kunihiko Ikuhara
Director
2 films together
Notably RE:cycle of the PENGUINDRUM Part 1: Your Train Is the Survival Tactic
Tatsuyuki Nagai
Director
2 films together
Notably anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day - The Movie
Kazuya Nomura
Director
1 film together
Notably BlackFox
Takaomi Kanasaki
Director
1 film together
Notably KONOSUBA – God's blessing on this wonderful world! Legend of Crimson
Hiroyuki Seshita
Director
1 film together
Notably Knights of Sidonia: Love Woven in the Stars
Yoshiaki Kyougoku
Director
1 film together
Notably Laid-Back Camp the Movie
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Masayuki Kojima
Director
2 films together · 7.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Made in Abyss: Wandering TwilightKunihiko Ikuhara
Director
2 films together · 7.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
RE:cycle of the PENGUINDRUM Part 1: Your Train Is the Survival TacticTatsuyuki Nagai
Director
2 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day - The MovieYoshiaki Kyougoku
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Laid-Back Camp the MovieTakaomi Kanasaki
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
KONOSUBA – God's blessing on this wonderful world! Legend of CrimsonKazuya 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
BlackFoxHiroyuki Seshita
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Knights of Sidonia: Love Woven in the StarsSix 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
Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight
as Marulk (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
anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day - The Movie
as Young Poppo (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
Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight
as Marulk (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul
as Marulk (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight
as Marulk (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. Aki Toyosaki 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
10 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
Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight
as Marulk (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight
as Marulk (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Fureru
as (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul
as Marulk (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight
as Marulk (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
BlackFox
as Madara (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day - The Movie
as Young Poppo (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Knights of Sidonia: Love Woven in the Stars
as Izana Shinatose (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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