Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#14021
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Chiaki Takahashi 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.
Chiaki Takahashi appears in 4 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Chiaki. Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry is the clearest case: a film rated 6.6 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for animation, mystery, horror. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Shinya Watada, Naoyuki Tatsuwa, Takeo Takahashi and others, Chiaki Takahashi 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.
Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry (2017) as Swan (voice) · The Island of Giant Insects (2020) as Misuzu Jinno (voice) · The Island of Giant Insects (2019) as Mirei Jinno (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #14021 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
4
2017–2026
Career length
9 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.6
Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry
Average Nutevio score
3.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.6
Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry
Most frequent director
Shinya Watada
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Shinya Watada
Most common genre
Animation
4 titles
Average runtime
0h 46m
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
5.4 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Island of Giant Insects, Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
5.4
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
5.4
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. The Island of Giant Insects, Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry.
Most productive era
2010s
2 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 | — | 4.41 film |
| Action | 6.61 film | — |
| Comedy | 6.61 film | — |
| Horror | 4.21 film | 4.41 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Swan (voice). 6.6 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
2026The iDOLM@STER Million Live! Itsuka, Mannaka de
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.
4 of 4 films
as Swan (voice)
Directed by Tatsuma Minamikawa
Directed by Shinya Watada
as Misuzu Jinno (voice)
Directed by Naoyuki Tatsuwa
as Mirei Jinno (voice)
Directed by Takeo 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
Swan (voice)
Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry (2017)
Performance score6.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Swan (voice) gives Chiaki Takahashi a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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The iDOLM@STER Million Live! Itsuka, Mannaka de
The iDOLM@STER Million Live! Itsuka, Mannaka de (2026)
Performance score6.5
The iDOLM@STER Million Live! Itsuka, Mannaka de 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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Misuzu Jinno (voice)
The Island of Giant Insects (2020)
Performance score6.5
The Island of Giant Insects asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Misuzu Jinno (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mirei Jinno (voice)
The Island of Giant Insects (2019)
Performance score6.5
The Island of Giant Insects asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mirei Jinno (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 Swan (voice)
Start here. Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry is the clearest statement of what Chiaki Takahashi does — accessible, 85 minutes, and rated 6.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Chiaki 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.
The Island of Giant Insects (2019)
Keeps the animation register of Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Island of Giant Insects (2020)
Keeps the horror register of The Island of Giant Insects but asks for a colder reading of it.
The iDOLM@STER Million Live! Itsuka, Mannaka de (2026)
Keeps the animation register of The Island of Giant Insects but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Tatsuma Minamikawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry
Takeo Takahashi
Director
1 film together
Notably The Island of Giant Insects
Naoyuki Tatsuwa
Director
1 film together
Notably The Island of Giant Insects
Shinya Watada
Director
1 film together
Notably The iDOLM@STER Million Live! Itsuka, Mannaka de
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Tatsuma Minamikawa
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fairy Tail: Dragon CryNaoyuki Tatsuwa
Director
1 film together · 4.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Island of Giant InsectsTakeo Takahashi
Director
1 film together · 4.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Island of Giant InsectsShinya Watada
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 Million Live! Itsuka, Mannaka deSix 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
Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry
as Swan (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
Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry
as Swan (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
Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry
as Swan (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry
as Swan (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry
as Swan (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. Chiaki Takahashi 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
4 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
Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry
as Swan (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry
as Swan (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry
as Swan (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Island of Giant Insects
as Misuzu Jinno (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry
as Swan (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry
as Swan (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry
as Swan (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Island of Giant Insects
as Mirei Jinno (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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