Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3471
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Chika Anzai 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.
Chika Anzai appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Chika. Gridman Universe is the clearest case: a film rated 7.8 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 music, drama, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Taichi Ogawa, Atsushi Nishigori, Akira Amemiya and others, Chika Anzai 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.
Gridman Universe (2023) as Chise Asukagawa (voice) · Liz and the Blue Bird (2018) as Reina Kousaka (voice) · Sound! Euphonium the Movie - Our Promise: A Brand New Day (2019) as Reina Kousaka (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #3471 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
2018–2026
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.8
Gridman Universe
Average Nutevio score
4.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.8
Gridman Universe
Most frequent director
Taichi Ogawa
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Taichi Ogawa
Most common genre
Animation
10 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
2010s
6.8 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Fragtime, Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2, Sound! Euphonium the Movie - Our Promise: A Brand New Day — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.8
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.8
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. Fragtime, Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2, Sound! Euphonium the Movie - Our Promise: A Brand New Day.
Most productive era
2020s
6 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 | 0.03 films |
| Action | 6.21 film | 3.92 films |
| Comedy | 6.22 films | 5.82 films |
| Romance | 6.11 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Career peak
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Reina Kousaka (voice). Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2023Gridman Universe
7.8 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2026GROTESQQQUE
The current state of the argument, as Sword (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.
10 of 10 films
as Chise Asukagawa (voice)
Directed by Akira Amemiya
as Reina Kousaka (voice)
Directed by Tatsuya Ishihara
as Reina Kousaka (voice)
Directed by Naoko Yamada
as Yukari Kobayashi (voice)
Directed by Takuya Sato
as Reina Kousaka (voice)
Directed by Taichi Ogawa
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
Chise Asukagawa (voice)
Gridman Universe (2023)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Chise Asukagawa (voice) gives Chika Anzai a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Reina Kousaka (voice)
Sound! Euphonium the Movie - Our Promise: A Brand New Day (2019)
Performance score7.6
Sound! Euphonium the Movie - Our Promise: A Brand New Day asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Reina Kousaka (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Reina Kousaka (voice)
Liz and the Blue Bird (2018)
Performance score7.6
Liz and the Blue Bird asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Reina Kousaka (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Yukari Kobayashi (voice)
Fragtime (2019)
Performance score6.6
Fragtime asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Yukari Kobayashi (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 Chise Asukagawa (voice)
Start here. Gridman Universe is the clearest statement of what Chika Anzai does — accessible, 118 minutes, and rated 7.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Chika 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.
Liz and the Blue Bird (2018)
Keeps the animation register of Gridman Universe but asks for a colder reading of it.
Sound! Euphonium the Movie - Our Promise: A Brand New Day (2019)
Keeps the drama register of Liz and the Blue Bird but asks for a colder reading of it.
Fragtime (2019)
Keeps the animation register of Sound! Euphonium the Movie - Our Promise: A Brand New Day but asks for a colder reading of it.
Sound! Euphonium: The Final Movie, Part 1 (2026)
Keeps the animation register of Fragtime but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Tsutomu Mizushima
Director
2 films together
Notably Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2
Taichi Ogawa
Director
2 films together
Notably Sound! Euphonium: The Final Movie, Part 1
Naoko Yamada
Director
1 film together
Notably Liz and the Blue Bird
Tatsuya Ishihara
Director
1 film together
Notably Sound! Euphonium the Movie - Our Promise: A Brand New Day
Takuya Sato
Director
1 film together
Notably Fragtime
Hiromitsu Kanazawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Seitokai Yakuindomo the Movie 2
Akira Amemiya
Director
1 film together
Notably Gridman Universe
Atsushi Nishigori
Director
1 film together
Notably GROTESQQQUE
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Tsutomu Mizushima
Director
2 films together · 5.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2Taichi 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 1Akira Amemiya
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gridman UniverseNaoko Yamada
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Liz and the Blue BirdTatsuya 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 DayHiromitsu Kanazawa
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Seitokai Yakuindomo the Movie 2Takuya 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
FragtimeAtsushi Nishigori
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GROTESQQQUESix 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
Gridman Universe
as Chise Asukagawa (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
Liz and the Blue Bird
as Reina Kousaka (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
Gridman Universe
as Chise Asukagawa (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
Gridman Universe
as Chise Asukagawa (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. Chika Anzai 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
Gridman Universe
as Chise Asukagawa (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Gridman Universe
as Chise Asukagawa (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 Reina Kousaka (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Gridman Universe
as Chise Asukagawa (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Gridman Universe
as Chise Asukagawa (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Gridman Universe
as Chise Asukagawa (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Sound! Euphonium the Movie - Our Promise: A Brand New Day
as Reina Kousaka (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Sound! Euphonium the Movie - Our Promise: A Brand New Day
as Reina Kousaka (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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