Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#11635
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Ayaka Nanase 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.
Ayaka Nanase appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Ayaka. You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert! 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, emotional range. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for music, drama, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Taichi Ogawa, Kei Oikawa, Kouji Ogawa and others, Ayaka Nanase 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.
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert! (2025) as Ageha Hijiri / Cure Butterfly (voice) · Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad (2021) as Gina Spectre · Pretty Cure All Stars F (2023) as Ageha Hijiri / Cure Butterfly (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #11635 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2019–2026
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
Most frequent director
Taichi Ogawa
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Taichi Ogawa
Most common genre
Animation
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 19m
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. Hello World, BlackFox, BLACKFOX: Age of the Ninja — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.9
Across 4 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. Hello World, BlackFox, BLACKFOX: Age of the Ninja.
Most productive era
2020s
7 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 | 6.94 films | 0.02 films |
| Action | 6.62 films | 9.22 films |
| Comedy | — | 9.22 films |
| Romance | 7.31 film | 6.11 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2019Hello World
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Schoolgirl (voice).
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2021Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad
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
2026Chiikawa the Movie: The Secret of the Mermaid Island
The current state of the argument, as Mermaid (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.
11 of 11 films
as Ageha Hijiri / Cure Butterfly (voice)
Directed by Kouji Ogawa
as Gina Spectre
Directed by Koichi Sakamoto
as Ageha Hijiri / Cure Butterfly (voice)
Directed by Yuta Tanaka
as Rikka Isurugi (voice)
Directed by Kazuya Nomura
as Mirei Suzuki (voice)
Directed by Tatsuya Ishihara
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Ageha Hijiri / Cure Butterfly (voice)
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert! (2025)
Performance score9.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Ageha Hijiri / Cure Butterfly (voice) gives Ayaka Nanase a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Gina Spectre
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad (2021)
Performance score9.5
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Gina Spectre is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ageha Hijiri / Cure Butterfly (voice)
Pretty Cure All Stars F (2023)
Performance score8.3
Pretty Cure All Stars F asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ageha Hijiri / Cure Butterfly (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Rikka Isurugi (voice)
BlackFox (2019)
Performance score7.3
BlackFox asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Rikka Isurugi (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 Ageha Hijiri / Cure Butterfly (voice)
Start here. You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert! is the clearest statement of what Ayaka Nanase does — accessible, 71 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Ayaka 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.
BlackFox (2019)
Keeps the action register of You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert! but asks for a colder reading of it.
Sound! Euphonium the Movie - Our Promise: A Brand New Day (2019)
Keeps the drama register of BlackFox but asks for a colder reading of it.
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad (2021)
Keeps the animation register of Sound! Euphonium the Movie - Our Promise: A Brand New Day but asks for a colder reading of it.
Pretty Cure All Stars F (2023)
Keeps the animation register of Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Koichi Sakamoto
Director
2 films together
Notably Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad
Taichi Ogawa
Director
2 films together
Notably Sound! Euphonium: The Final Movie, Part 1
Tatsuya Ishihara
Director
1 film together
Notably Sound! Euphonium the Movie - Our Promise: A Brand New Day
Kazuya Nomura
Director
1 film together
Notably BlackFox
Tomohiko Ito
Director
1 film together
Notably Hello World
Hiroyuki Seshita
Director
1 film together
Notably Knights of Sidonia: Love Woven in the Stars
Yuta Tanaka
Director
1 film together
Notably Pretty Cure All Stars F
Kouji Ogawa
Director
1 film together
Notably You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
Kei Oikawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Chiikawa the Movie: The Secret of the Mermaid Island
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Koichi Sakamoto
Director
2 films together · 8.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined CrossroadTaichi Ogawa
Director
2 films together · 0.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Sound! Euphonium: The Final Movie, Part 1Kouji Ogawa
Director
1 film together · 10.0 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!Yuta Tanaka
Director
1 film together · 8.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pretty Cure All Stars FKei Oikawa
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Chiikawa the Movie: The Secret of the Mermaid IslandTomohiko Ito
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hello WorldTatsuya Ishihara
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sound! Euphonium the Movie - Our Promise: A Brand New DayKazuya 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
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad
as Gina Spectre
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Ageha Hijiri / Cure Butterfly (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
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad
as Gina Spectre
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad
as Gina Spectre
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Ageha Hijiri / Cure Butterfly (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. Ayaka Nanase 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
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Ageha Hijiri / Cure Butterfly (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Ageha Hijiri / Cure Butterfly (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Sound! Euphonium: The Final Movie, Part 1
as Mirei Suzuki (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Chiikawa the Movie: The Secret of the Mermaid Island
as Mermaid (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Ageha Hijiri / Cure Butterfly (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Ageha Hijiri / Cure Butterfly (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 Ageha Hijiri / Cure Butterfly (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
BLACKFOX: Age of the Ninja
as Riri
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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