Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1247
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Lynn 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.
Lynn appears in 8 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Lynn. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle is the clearest case: a film rated 8.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, drama. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, fantasy, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Yasuhito Kikuchi, Haruo Sotozaki, Shun Enokido and others, Lynn 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.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle (2025) as Koyuki (voice) · I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (2018) as Sakura Yamauchi (voice) · Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (2020) as Kana Kishimoto (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1247 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
8
2017–2026
Career length
9 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
Josee, the Tiger and the Fish
Most frequent director
Yasuhito Kikuchi
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Yasuhito Kikuchi
Most common genre
Animation
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 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
6.4
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. For Whom the Alchemist Exists, I Want to Eat Your Pancreas, No Game No Life: Zero — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.0
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.2
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. For Whom the Alchemist Exists, I Want to Eat Your Pancreas, No Game No Life: Zero.
Most productive era
2020s
5 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 | 7.72 films | 6.43 films |
| Action | — | 6.53 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.61 film |
| Romance | 7.72 films | 7.71 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Lily (voice).
Career peak
2018I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2025Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle
8.0 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2026That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea
The current state of the argument, as Luminous Valentine (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.
8 of 8 films
as Sakura Yamauchi (voice)
Directed by Shinichiro Ushijima
as Koyuki (voice)
Directed by Haruo Sotozaki
as Kana Kishimoto (voice)
Directed by Kotaro Tamura
as Assassin (voice)
Directed by Shun Enokido
as Lily (voice)
Directed by Atsuko Ishizuka
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
Sakura Yamauchi (voice)
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (2018)
Performance score8.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Sakura Yamauchi (voice) gives Lynn a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Koyuki (voice)
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle (2025)
Performance score7.8
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Koyuki (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kana Kishimoto (voice)
Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (2020)
Performance score7.7
Josee, the Tiger and the Fish asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kana Kishimoto (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Assassin (voice)
Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn- (2023)
Performance score7.3
Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn- asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Assassin (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 Sakura Yamauchi (voice)
Start here. I Want to Eat Your Pancreas is the clearest statement of what Lynn does — accessible, 108 minutes, and rated 7.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Lynn 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.
No Game No Life: Zero (2017)
Keeps the romance register of I Want to Eat Your Pancreas but asks for a colder reading of it.
Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (2020)
Keeps the romance register of No Game No Life: Zero but asks for a colder reading of it.
Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn- (2023)
Keeps the drama register of Josee, the Tiger and the Fish but asks for a colder reading of it.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle (2025)
Keeps the action register of Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn- but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Atsuko Ishizuka
Director
1 film together
Notably No Game No Life: Zero
Shinichiro Ushijima
Director
1 film together
Notably I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
Masanori Takahashi
Director
1 film together
Notably For Whom the Alchemist Exists
Jun Nakagawa
Director
1 film together
Notably High School Fleet Movie
Kotaro Tamura
Director
1 film together
Notably Josee, the Tiger and the Fish
Shun Enokido
Director
1 film together
Notably Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn-
Haruo Sotozaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle
Yasuhito Kikuchi
Director
1 film together
Notably That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Haruo Sotozaki
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity CastleShinichiro Ushijima
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I Want to Eat Your PancreasKotaro Tamura
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Josee, the Tiger and the FishShun Enokido
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn-Atsuko Ishizuka
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
No Game No Life: ZeroYasuhito Kikuchi
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Masanori Takahashi
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
For Whom the Alchemist ExistsJun Nakagawa
Director
1 film together · 4.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
High School Fleet MovieSix 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
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle
as Koyuki (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
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
as Sakura Yamauchi (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
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle
as Koyuki (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea
as Luminous Valentine (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
as Sakura Yamauchi (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. Lynn 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
8 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
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle
as Koyuki (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle
as Koyuki (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Josee, the Tiger and the Fish
as Kana Kishimoto (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
No Game No Life: Zero
as Lily (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle
as Koyuki (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle
as Koyuki (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea
as Luminous Valentine (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea
as Luminous Valentine (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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