Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2134
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Haruka Tomatsu 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.
Haruka Tomatsu appears in 22 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Haruka. Violet Evergarden: The 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 mystery, fantasy, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tomoaki Koshida, Tadahiro Yoshihira, Taichi Ogawa and others, Haruka Tomatsu 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.
Violet Evergarden: The Movie (2020) as Iris Cannary (voice) · Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll (2019) as Iris Cannary (voice) · Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie (2022) as Ohta (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #2134 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
22
2013–2026
Career length
13 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Violet Evergarden: The Movie
Average Nutevio score
6.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
Most frequent director
Koichi Sakamoto
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Koichi Sakamoto
Most common genre
Animation
20 titles
Average runtime
1h 21m
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
7.0 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll, BlackFox, Yo-kai Watch Jam: Yo-kai Academy Y - Can a Cat Be a Hero? — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.0
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.4
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. Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll, BlackFox, Yo-kai Watch Jam: Yo-kai Academy Y - Can a Cat Be a Hero?.
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 | 7.03 films | 2.63 films |
| Action | 6.84 films | 6.96 films |
| Comedy | 6.31 film | 6.82 films |
| Romance | — | 7.62 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2013anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day - The Movie
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Naruko "Anaru" Anjo (voice).
Highest rated performance
2020Violet Evergarden: The Movie
7.7 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2022Sword Art Online the Movie – Progressive – Scherzo of Deep Night
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026Sound! Euphonium: The Final Movie, Part 2
The current state of the argument, as Mayu Kuroe (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 Asuna (voice)
Directed by Ayako Kono
as Iris Cannary (voice)
Directed by Taichi Ishidate
as Asuna 'Asuna' Yuuki (voice)
Directed by Ayako Kono
as Naruko "Anaru" Anjo (voice)
Directed by Tatsuyuki Nagai
as Kelart Custodio (voice)
Directed by Naoyuki Ito
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
Asuna (voice)
Sword Art Online the Movie – Progressive – Scherzo of Deep Night (2022)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Asuna (voice) gives Haruka Tomatsu a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Iris Cannary (voice)
Violet Evergarden: The Movie (2020)
Performance score7.7
Violet Evergarden: The Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Iris Cannary (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Asuna 'Asuna' Yuuki (voice)
Sword Art Online the Movie - Progressive - Aria of a Starless Night (2021)
Performance score7.6
Sword Art Online the Movie - Progressive - Aria of a Starless Night asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Asuna 'Asuna' Yuuki (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Naruko "Anaru" Anjo (voice)
anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day - The Movie (2013)
Performance score7.4
anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day - The Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Naruko "Anaru" Anjo (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movieStart here
A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Asuna (voice)
Start here. Sword Art Online the Movie – Progressive – Scherzo of Deep Night is the clearest statement of what Haruka Tomatsu does — accessible, 100 minutes, and rated 7.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Haruka 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.
anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day - The Movie (2013)
Keeps the animation register of Sword Art Online the Movie – Progressive – Scherzo of Deep Night but asks for a colder reading of it.
Violet Evergarden: The Movie (2020)
Keeps the drama register of anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day - The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Sword Art Online the Movie - Progressive - Aria of a Starless Night (2021)
Keeps the fantasy register of Violet Evergarden: The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
OVERLORD: The Sacred Kingdom (2024)
Keeps the action register of Sword Art Online the Movie - Progressive - Aria of a Starless Night but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Koichi Sakamoto
Director
3 films together
Notably Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger vs. Kyoryuger
Ayako Kono
Director
2 films together
Notably Sword Art Online the Movie - Progressive - Aria of a Starless Night
Taichi Ogawa
Director
2 films together
Notably Sound! Euphonium: The Final Movie, Part 1
Tatsuyuki Nagai
Director
1 film together
Notably anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day - The Movie
Yasuto Nishikata
Director
1 film together
Notably The Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the Sky
Yutaka Uemura
Director
1 film together
Notably Saga of Tanya the Evil: The Movie
Shigeharu Takahashi
Director
1 film together
Notably Yo-kai Watch Jam: Yo-kai Academy Y - Can a Cat Be a Hero?
Kazuya Nomura
Director
1 film together
Notably BlackFox
Haruka Fujita
Director
1 film together
Notably Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll
Taichi Ishidate
Director
1 film together
Notably Violet Evergarden: The Movie
Hiroaki Akagi
Director
1 film together
Notably Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie
Shinobu Sasaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Our Dinosaur Diary
Naoyuki Ito
Director
1 film together
Notably OVERLORD: The Sacred Kingdom
Kiyotaka Suzuki
Director
1 film together
Notably Mononoke the Movie: Chapter II - The Ashes of Rage
Tadahiro Yoshihira
Director
1 film together
Notably Unanswered//butterfly
Tomoaki Koshida
Director
1 film together
Notably Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Koichi Sakamoto
Director
3 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger vs. KyoryugerAyako Kono
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
Sword Art Online the Movie - Progressive - Aria of a Starless NightTaichi 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 1Taichi Ishidate
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Violet Evergarden: The MovieHaruka Fujita
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory DollHiroaki Akagi
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Teasing Master Takagi-san: The MovieYutaka Uemura
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Saga of Tanya the Evil: The MovieNaoyuki Ito
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
OVERLORD: The Sacred KingdomYasuto Nishikata
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the SkyTatsuyuki Nagai
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day - The MovieTomoaki Koshida
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the SerpentKiyotaka Suzuki
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter II - The Ashes of RageTadahiro Yoshihira
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Unanswered//butterflyKazuya Nomura
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BlackFoxShigeharu 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?Shinobu Sasaki
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Our Dinosaur DiarySix 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
Violet Evergarden: The Movie
as Iris Cannary (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
Violet Evergarden: The Movie
as Iris Cannary (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
Violet Evergarden: The Movie
as Iris Cannary (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger vs. Kyoryuger
as Joyful Knight Candelilla (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Sword Art Online the Movie – Progressive – Scherzo of Deep Night
as Asuna (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. Haruka Tomatsu 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
20 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
Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll
as Iris Cannary (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Sword Art Online the Movie - Progressive - Aria of a Starless Night
as Asuna 'Asuna' Yuuki (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 Mayu Kuroe (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Mononoke the Movie: The Phantom in the Rain
as Botan Otomo (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
OVERLORD: The Sacred Kingdom
as Kelart Custodio (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
OVERLORD: The Sacred Kingdom
as Kelart Custodio (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?
as Fubuki Himekawa (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Our Dinosaur Diary
as Angela (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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