Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#137
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Ayane Sakura 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.
Ayane Sakura appears in 45 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Ayane. 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, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for music, action, science fiction. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Seiji Mizushima, Shinji Takagi, Kouji Ogawa and others, Ayane Sakura 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 Amasu (voice) · Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK (2024) as Gabi Braun (voice) · The Quintessential Quintuplets＊ (2024) as Yotsuba Nakano (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #137 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
45
2011–2026
Career length
15 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
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
Most frequent director
Naoyoshi Shiotani
5 films together
Longest collaboration
5×
With Naoyoshi Shiotani
Most common genre
Animation
44 titles
Average runtime
1h 29m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
6.7
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. Weathering with You, My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising, Twilight — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.8
Across 19 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. Weathering with You, My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising, Twilight.
Most productive era
2020s
26 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 | 7.32 films | 7.45 films |
| Action | 7.011 films | 6.912 films |
| Thriller | 7.61 film | 7.01 film |
| Comedy | 6.63 films | 7.39 films |
| Crime | 6.72 films | 7.32 films |
| Romance | 7.23 films | 7.38 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Hotaru Takegawa (voice).
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2025You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
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
2026Liberated from Paradise: Resonance of the Heart
The current state of the argument, as Gabriel (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.
45 of 45 films
as Amasu (voice)
Directed by Kouji Ogawa
as Gabi Braun (voice)
Directed by Yuichiro Hayashi
as Yotsuba Nakano (voice)
Directed by Masato Jimbo
as Hotaru Takegawa (voice)
Directed by Takahiro Omori
as Kazama Levy (voice)
Directed by Hiroshi Nishikiori
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
Amasu (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. Amasu (voice) gives Ayane Sakura a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Gabi Braun (voice)
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK (2024)
Performance score8.4
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Gabi Braun (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Yotsuba Nakano (voice)
The Quintessential Quintuplets＊ (2024)
Performance score8.0
The Quintessential Quintuplets＊ asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Yotsuba 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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Hotaru Takegawa (voice)
Hotarubi no Mori e (2011)
Performance score8.0
Hotarubi no Mori e asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hotaru Takegawa (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 Amasu (voice)
Start here. You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert! is the clearest statement of what Ayane Sakura 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 Ayane 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.
Hotarubi no Mori e (2011)
Keeps the fantasy register of You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert! but asks for a colder reading of it.
Trinity Seven: Heaven's Library & Crimson Lord (2019)
Keeps the fantasy register of Hotarubi no Mori e but asks for a colder reading of it.
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK (2024)
Keeps the action register of Trinity Seven: Heaven's Library & Crimson Lord but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Quintessential Quintuplets＊ (2024)
Keeps the animation register of Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Naoyoshi Shiotani
Director
5 films together
Notably Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector
Kenji Nagasaki
Director
3 films together
Notably My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
Hiroyuki Imaishi
Director
2 films together
Notably Promare / Side: Galo
Tsutomu Mizushima
Director
2 films together
Notably SHIROBAKO the Movie
Tomomi Umetsu
Director
2 films together
Notably BanG Dream! FILM LIVE 2nd Stage
Yukihiro Miyamoto
Director
2 films together
Notably Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part I: Beginnings
Tomoya Takahashi
Director
2 films together
Notably Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 2
Masato Jimbo
Director
2 films together
Notably The Quintessential Quintuplets＊
Takahiro Omori
Director
1 film together
Notably Hotarubi no Mori e
Tatsumi Fujii
Director
1 film together
Notably Promare / Side: Lio
Hiroshi Nishikiori
Director
1 film together
Notably Trinity Seven: Heaven's Library & Crimson Lord
Takuya Sato
Director
1 film together
Notably Fragtime
Takahiro Ikezoe
Director
1 film together
Notably Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion The Movie: The Marvelous Fast ALFA-X That Comes From the Future
Motonori Sakakibara
Director
1 film together
Notably Pokémon the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back - Evolution
Yutaka Yamamoto
Director
1 film together
Notably Twilight
Makoto Shinkai
Director
1 film together
Notably Weathering with You
Kosuke Murayama
Director
1 film together
Notably Grisaia: Phantom Trigger the Animation - Stargazer
Toshimasa Kuroyanagi
Director
1 film together
Notably Love Me, Love Me Not
Yuta Murano
Director
1 film together
Notably Kakushigoto Theatrical Edition
Hiroyuki Seshita
Director
1 film together
Notably Knights of Sidonia: Love Woven in the Stars
Kohdai Kakimoto
Director
1 film together
Notably BanG Dream! Poppin'Dream!
Shuhei Matsushita
Director
1 film together
Notably DEEMO Memorial Keys
Takayuki Hamana
Director
1 film together
Notably The Klutzy Witch: Fuuka and the Dark Witch
Takashi Katagiri
Director
1 film together
Notably SPY x FAMILY CODE: White
Ayataka Tanemura
Director
1 film together
Notably Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King
Mitsuo Fukuda
Director
1 film together
Notably Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM
Yuichiro Hayashi
Director
1 film together
Notably Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK
Tensai Okamura
Director
1 film together
Notably My Hero Academia: You're Next
Kouji Ogawa
Director
1 film together
Notably You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
Shinji Takagi
Director
1 film together
Notably Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League
Seiji Mizushima
Director
1 film together
Notably Liberated from Paradise: Resonance of the Heart
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Naoyoshi Shiotani
Director
5 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 5 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Psycho-Pass 3: First InspectorKenji Nagasaki
Director
3 films together · 7.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
My Hero Academia: Heroes RisingMasato Jimbo
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
The Quintessential Quintuplets＊Tomoya Takahashi
Director
2 films together · 7.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 2Hiroyuki Imaishi
Director
2 films together · 7.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Promare / Side: GaloYukihiro Miyamoto
Director
2 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part I: BeginningsTsutomu Mizushima
Director
2 films together · 6.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
SHIROBAKO the MovieTomomi Umetsu
Director
2 films together · 4.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
BanG Dream! FILM LIVE 2nd StageKouji 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!Yuichiro Hayashi
Director
1 film together · 8.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACKMakoto Shinkai
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Weathering with YouTakahiro Omori
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hotarubi no Mori eHiroshi 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 LordAyataka Tanemura
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard KingShuhei Matsushita
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DEEMO Memorial KeysTensai Okamura
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Hero Academia: You're NextTakashi Katagiri
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SPY x FAMILY CODE: WhiteYuta 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 EditionMitsuo Fukuda
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOMToshimasa Kuroyanagi
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Love Me, Love Me NotTatsumi Fujii
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Promare / Side: LioYutaka Yamamoto
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TwilightMotonori Sakakibara
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pokémon the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back - EvolutionTakahiro Ikezoe
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Shinji Takagi
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza LeagueKosuke Murayama
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Grisaia: Phantom Trigger the Animation - StargazerKohdai Kakimoto
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BanG Dream! Poppin'Dream!Hiroyuki 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 StarsTakuya Sato
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FragtimeTakayuki Hamana
Director
1 film together · 4.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Klutzy Witch: Fuuka and the Dark WitchSeiji Mizushima
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Liberated from Paradise: Resonance of the HeartSix 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
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Amasu (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
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Amasu (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
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Amasu (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Amasu (voice)
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 Amasu (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. Ayane Sakura 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
44 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 Amasu (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 Amasu (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 Amasu (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Psycho-Pass: Providence
as Mika Shimotsuki (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 Amasu (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 Amasu (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 Amasu (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Pokémon the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back - Evolution
as Sweet (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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