Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#410
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Daisuke Ono 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.
Daisuke Ono appears in 22 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Daisuke. Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved is the clearest case: a film rated 8.9 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 romance, science fiction, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jimmy Stone, Koichi Sakamoto, Tatsuya Ishihara and others, Daisuke Ono 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.
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved (2025) as Fafnir (voice) · Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna (2020) as Kyotaro Imura (voice) · Fuuto PI: The Portrait of Kamen Rider Skull (2024) as Yukiji Bando (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #410 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
22
2016–2026
Career length
10 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.9
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved
Average Nutevio score
5.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.9
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved
Most frequent director
Eisaku Kawanami
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Eisaku Kawanami
Most common genre
Animation
21 titles
Average runtime
1h 30m
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
6.2
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
6.4 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Mr. Osomatsu the Movie, Utano Princesama Maji LOVE Kingdom, Godzilla: The Planet Eater — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.4
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.5
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. Mr. Osomatsu the Movie, Utano Princesama Maji LOVE Kingdom, Godzilla: The Planet Eater.
Most productive era
2020s
16 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 | 7.41 film | 6.45 films |
| Action | 6.13 films | 6.59 films |
| Comedy | 6.41 film | 7.27 films |
| Crime | — | 6.91 film |
| Romance | 6.21 film | 4.43 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2016In This Corner of the World
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Tetsu Mizuhara (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2025Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved
8.9 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
2026Forticus: Streaming! Inheritors of the Favorite Hero
The current state of the argument, as Forticus (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.
22 of 22 films
as Fafnir (voice)
Directed by Tatsuya Ishihara
as Kyotaro Imura (voice)
Directed by Tomohisa Taguchi
as Yukiji Bando (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Tetsu Mizuhara (voice)
Directed by Sunao Katabuchi
as Naomasa Amabuki (voice)
Directed by Takafumi Ishida
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Fafnir (voice)
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved (2025)
Performance score8.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Fafnir (voice) gives Daisuke Ono a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Kyotaro Imura (voice)
Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna (2020)
Performance score7.8
Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kyotaro Imura (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Yukiji Bando (voice)
Fuuto PI: The Portrait of Kamen Rider Skull (2024)
Performance score7.6
Fuuto PI: The Portrait of Kamen Rider Skull asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Yukiji Bando (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Tetsu Mizuhara (voice)
In This Corner of the World (2016)
Performance score7.5
In This Corner of the World asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tetsu Mizuhara (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 Fafnir (voice)
Start here. Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved is the clearest statement of what Daisuke Ono does — accessible, 105 minutes, and rated 8.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Daisuke 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.
In This Corner of the World (2016)
Keeps the animation register of Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved but asks for a colder reading of it.
Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna (2020)
Keeps the animation register of In This Corner of the World but asks for a colder reading of it.
Fuuto PI: The Portrait of Kamen Rider Skull (2024)
Keeps the action register of Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna but asks for a colder reading of it.
Zombie Land Saga: Yumeginga Paradise (2025)
Keeps the action register of Fuuto PI: The Portrait of Kamen Rider Skull but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Shunsuke Tada
Director
2 films together
Notably Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Intrigue 1
Eisaku Kawanami
Director
2 films together
Notably Free! the Final Stroke the First Volume
Sunao Katabuchi
Director
1 film together
Notably In This Corner of the World
Jumpei Mizusaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Batman Ninja
Hiroyuki Seshita
Director
1 film together
Notably Godzilla: The Planet Eater
Jouji Furuta
Director
1 film together
Notably Utano Princesama Maji LOVE Kingdom
Youichi Fujita
Director
1 film together
Notably Mr. Osomatsu the Movie
Hirofumi Ogura
Director
1 film together
Notably Cells at Work!! The Return of the Strongest Enemy: A Huge Uproar in the Body’s Bowels!
Tomohisa Taguchi
Director
1 film together
Notably Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna
Shoji Kawamori
Director
1 film together
Notably Macross Delta: Zettai Live!!!!!!
Masaki Tachibana
Director
1 film together
Notably Blue Thermal
Ayataka Tanemura
Director
1 film together
Notably Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King
Chika Nagaoka
Director
1 film together
Notably Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram
Shinji Takagi
Director
1 film together
Notably Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League
Takafumi Ishida
Director
1 film together
Notably Zombie Land Saga: Yumeginga Paradise
Tatsuya Ishihara
Director
1 film together
Notably Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved
Koichi Sakamoto
Director
1 film together
Notably Forticus: Streaming! Inheritors of the Favorite Hero
Jimmy Stone
Director
1 film together
Notably The Irregular at Magic High School THE MOVIE - Yotsuba Succession Arc -
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Eisaku Kawanami
Director
2 films together · 6.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Free! the Final Stroke the First VolumeShunsuke Tada
Director
2 films together · 3.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Intrigue 1Tatsuya Ishihara
Director
1 film together · 8.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be lovedTomohisa Taguchi
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution KizunaTakafumi Ishida
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Zombie Land Saga: Yumeginga ParadiseAyataka 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 KingSunao Katabuchi
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
In This Corner of the WorldChika Nagaoka
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar PentagramHirofumi Ogura
Director
1 film together · 6.9 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 LeagueShoji Kawamori
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Macross Delta: Zettai Live!!!!!!Masaki Tachibana
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Blue ThermalHiroyuki Seshita
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Godzilla: The Planet EaterYouichi Fujita
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mr. Osomatsu the MovieJouji Furuta
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Utano Princesama Maji LOVE KingdomJumpei Mizusaki
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Batman NinjaJimmy Stone
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 Irregular at Magic High School THE MOVIE - Yotsuba Succession Arc -Koichi Sakamoto
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Forticus: Streaming! Inheritors of the Favorite HeroSix 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
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved
as Fafnir (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
Macross Delta: Zettai Live!!!!!!
as Johann Winly (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
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved
as Fafnir (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna
as Kyotaro Imura (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved
as Fafnir (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. Daisuke Ono 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
21 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
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved
as Fafnir (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved
as Fafnir (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Blue Thermal
as Yō Asahina (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram
as Muga Iori (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna
as Kyotaro Imura (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Fuuto PI: The Portrait of Kamen Rider Skull
as Yukiji Bando (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Blue Thermal
as Yō Asahina (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram
as Muga Iori (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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