Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1331
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Ayana Taketatsu 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.
Ayana Taketatsu appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Ayana. The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 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 action, science fiction, romance. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Kazuya Kamihoriuchi, Masato Jimbo, Yukihiro Miyamoto and others, Ayana Taketatsu 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.
The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie (2022) as Nino Nakano (voice) · The Quintessential Quintuplets＊ (2024) as Nino Nakano (voice) · DEEMO Memorial Keys (2022) as Alice (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1331 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
2018–2026
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie
Average Nutevio score
5.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie
Most frequent director
Masato Jimbo
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Masato Jimbo
Most common genre
Animation
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 2m
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
2020s
5.5 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Eiga Kamen Raidā Zettsu Sayonara no Misshon, The Quintessential Quintuplets＊, The Quintessential Quintuplets∽ — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
5.5
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.0
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. Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion The Movie: The Marvelous Fast ALFA-X That Comes From the Future, Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2, Yo-kai Watch Jam: Yo-kai Academy Y - Can a Cat Be a Hero?.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 0.01 film | 6.71 film |
| Action | 6.33 films | 0.01 film |
| Comedy | 6.32 films | 6.93 films |
| Romance | 0.01 film | 6.84 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2018Yassadaru Man
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Yuna Isoya.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2022The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie
7.7 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
2026Eiga Kamen Raidā Zettsu Sayonara no Misshon
The current state of the argument, as Announcer.
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.
9 of 9 films
as Nino Nakano (voice)
Directed by Masato Jimbo
as Alice (voice)
Directed by Shuhei Matsushita
as Nino Nakano (voice)
Directed by Masato Jimbo
as Nino Nakano (voice)
Directed by Yukihiro Miyamoto
Directed by Shigeharu Takahashi
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
Nino Nakano (voice)
The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie (2022)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Nino Nakano (voice) gives Ayana Taketatsu a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Alice (voice)
DEEMO Memorial Keys (2022)
Performance score7.4
DEEMO Memorial Keys asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Alice (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Nino Nakano (voice)
The Quintessential Quintuplets＊ (2024)
Performance score7.1
The Quintessential Quintuplets＊ asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Nino Nakano (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Nino Nakano (voice)
The Quintessential Quintuplets∽ (2023)
Performance score6.8
The Quintessential Quintuplets∽ asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Nino Nakano (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 Nino Nakano (voice)
Start here. The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie is the clearest statement of what Ayana Taketatsu does — accessible, 136 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Ayana 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.
Yo-kai Watch Jam: Yo-kai Academy Y - Can a Cat Be a Hero? (2019)
Keeps the comedy register of The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
DEEMO Memorial Keys (2022)
Keeps the fantasy register of Yo-kai Watch Jam: Yo-kai Academy Y - Can a Cat Be a Hero? but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Quintessential Quintuplets∽ (2023)
Keeps the romance register of DEEMO Memorial Keys but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Quintessential Quintuplets＊ (2024)
Keeps the romance register of The Quintessential Quintuplets∽ but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Masato Jimbo
Director
2 films together
Notably The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie
Shigeharu Takahashi
Director
1 film together
Notably Yo-kai Watch Jam: Yo-kai Academy Y - Can a Cat Be a Hero?
Tsutomu Mizushima
Director
1 film together
Notably Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2
Takahiro Ikezoe
Director
1 film together
Notably Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion The Movie: The Marvelous Fast ALFA-X That Comes From the Future
Shuhei Matsushita
Director
1 film together
Notably DEEMO Memorial Keys
Yukihiro Miyamoto
Director
1 film together
Notably The Quintessential Quintuplets∽
Kazuya Kamihoriuchi
Director
1 film together
Notably Eiga Kamen Raidā Zettsu Sayonara no Misshon
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Masato Jimbo
Director
2 films together · 7.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Quintessential Quintuplets MovieShuhei Matsushita
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DEEMO Memorial KeysTakahiro Ikezoe
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Yukihiro Miyamoto
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 Quintessential Quintuplets∽Tsutomu 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
Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2Shigeharu Takahashi
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Yo-kai Watch Jam: Yo-kai Academy Y - Can a Cat Be a Hero?Kazuya Kamihoriuchi
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Eiga Kamen Raidā Zettsu Sayonara no MisshonSix 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
The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie
as Nino Nakano (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
DEEMO Memorial Keys
as Alice (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
The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie
as Nino Nakano (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
The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie
as Nino Nakano (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. Ayana Taketatsu 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
The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie
as Nino Nakano (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie
as Nino Nakano (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
DEEMO Memorial Keys
as Alice (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
DEEMO Memorial Keys
as Alice (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion The Movie: The Marvelous Fast ALFA-X That Comes From the Future
as Azusa Ueda (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion The Movie: The Marvelous Fast ALFA-X That Comes From the Future
as Azusa Ueda (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Yo-kai Watch Jam: Yo-kai Academy Y - Can a Cat Be a Hero?
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2
as (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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