Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1634
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Aoi Koga 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.
Aoi Koga appears in 17 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Aoi. Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train 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 war, tv movie, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Takahiko Kyougoku, Masaki Tachibana, Kouji Ogawa and others, Aoi Koga 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.
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020) as Rokuta Kamado (voice) · Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie (2022) as Additional Voices (voice) · Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends- (2022) as Kaguya Shinomiya (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1634 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
17
2019–2026
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.2
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
Average Nutevio score
5.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Princess Principal Crown Handler: Chapter 4
Most frequent director
Masaki Tachibana
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Masaki Tachibana
Most common genre
Animation
16 titles
Average runtime
1h 22m
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
6.1
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
6.8 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel II. Lost Butterfly, Kaguya-sama: Love Is War — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.8
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.3
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. Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel II. Lost Butterfly, Kaguya-sama: Love Is War.
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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.81 film | 5.25 films |
| Action | 6.81 film | 6.78 films |
| Comedy | 6.81 film | 5.97 films |
| Romance | 6.82 films | 7.32 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2019Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel II. Lost Butterfly
Where our catalogue meets this career, as (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2020Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
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
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.
17 of 17 films
as Rokuta Kamado (voice)
Directed by Haruo Sotozaki
as Kaguya Shinomiya (voice)
Directed by Mamoru Hatakeyama
as Ange (voice)
Directed by Masaki Tachibana
Directed by Masaki Tachibana
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Hiroaki Akagi
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
Rokuta Kamado (voice)
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020)
Performance score7.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Rokuta Kamado (voice) gives Aoi Koga a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Kaguya Shinomiya (voice)
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends- (2022)
Performance score7.6
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends- asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kaguya Shinomiya (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ange (voice)
Princess Principal Crown Handler: Chapter 2 (2021)
Performance score7.3
Princess Principal Crown Handler: Chapter 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ange (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Princess Principal Crown Handler: Chapter 4
Princess Principal Crown Handler: Chapter 4 (2025)
Performance score7.2
Princess Principal Crown Handler: Chapter 4 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. The role 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 Rokuta Kamado (voice)
Start here. Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train is the clearest statement of what Aoi Koga does — accessible, 117 minutes, and rated 8.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Aoi 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.
Princess Principal Crown Handler: Chapter 2 (2021)
Keeps the action register of Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train but asks for a colder reading of it.
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends- (2022)
Keeps the animation register of Princess Principal Crown Handler: Chapter 2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie (2022)
Keeps the romance register of Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends- but asks for a colder reading of it.
Princess Principal Crown Handler: Chapter 4 (2025)
Keeps the animation register of Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Masaki Tachibana
Director
3 films together
Notably Princess Principal Crown Handler: Chapter 2
Hayato Kawai
Director
1 film together
Notably Kaguya-sama: Love Is War
Tomonori Sudo
Director
1 film together
Notably Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel II. Lost Butterfly
Tsutomu Mizushima
Director
1 film together
Notably The Magnificent KOTOBUKI: The Movie
Haruo Sotozaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
Yoshiaki Kyougoku
Director
1 film together
Notably Laid-Back Camp the Movie
Hiroaki Akagi
Director
1 film together
Notably Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie
Mamoru Hatakeyama
Director
1 film together
Notably Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends-
Shun Enokido
Director
1 film together
Notably Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn-
Yuta Tanaka
Director
1 film together
Notably Pretty Cure All Stars F
Naoyuki Tatsuwa
Director
1 film together
Notably Oomuro-ke: Dear Sisters
Kouji Ogawa
Director
1 film together
Notably You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
Takahiko Kyougoku
Director
1 film together
Notably The Idolm@ster Gakuen: Story of Re;IRIS
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Masaki Tachibana
Director
3 films together · 6.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Princess Principal Crown Handler: Chapter 2Haruo Sotozaki
Director
1 film together · 8.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen TrainHiroaki Akagi
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Teasing Master Takagi-san: The MovieMamoru Hatakeyama
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends-Yoshiaki Kyougoku
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Laid-Back Camp the MovieYuta Tanaka
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pretty Cure All Stars FShun Enokido
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn-Tomonori Sudo
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel II. Lost ButterflyHayato Kawai
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kaguya-sama: Love Is WarKouji Ogawa
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!Naoyuki Tatsuwa
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Oomuro-ke: Dear SistersTsutomu Mizushima
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Magnificent KOTOBUKI: The MovieTakahiko Kyougoku
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Idolm@ster Gakuen: Story of Re;IRISSix 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
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
as Rokuta Kamado (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
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel II. Lost Butterfly
as (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
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
as Rokuta Kamado (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie
as Additional Voices (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
as Rokuta Kamado (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. Aoi Koga 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
16 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
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
as Rokuta Kamado (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
as Rokuta Kamado (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Princess Ellee / Cure Majesty (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Princess Principal Crown Handler: Chapter 2
as Ange (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
as Rokuta Kamado (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Pretty Cure All Stars F
as Ellee (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Princess Ellee / Cure Majesty (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Princess Principal Crown Handler: Chapter 1
as Ange (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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