Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1459
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Mao Ichimichi 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.
Mao Ichimichi appears in 21 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Mao. Me & Roboco: The Movie is the clearest case: a film rated 8.7 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, screen presence. 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, Akitaro Daichi, Chika Nagaoka and others, Mao Ichimichi 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.
Me & Roboco: The Movie (2025) as Madoka Chuwan (voice) · Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie (2022) as Yukari Tenkawa (voice) · Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna (2020) as Hikari Yagami (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1459 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
21
2019–2026
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.7
Me & Roboco: The Movie
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.7
Me & Roboco: The Movie
Most frequent director
Yasuhito Kikuchi
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Yasuhito Kikuchi
Most common genre
Animation
17 titles
Average runtime
1h 10m
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
2020s
7.1 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea, Me & Roboco: The Movie, Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.1
Across 15 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.1
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. Genji Fantasy: The Cat Fell in Love With Hikaru Genji, Promare, The Island of Giant Insects.
Most productive era
2020s
15 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 | — | 6.03 films |
| Action | 6.84 films | 7.18 films |
| Comedy | 0.01 film | 7.95 films |
| Crime | 5.61 film | 6.91 film |
| Romance | — | 7.52 films |
| Horror | 4.21 film | 5.72 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2019Genji Fantasy: The Cat Fell in Love With Hikaru Genji
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Hana (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
8.7 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
2026That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea
The current state of the argument, as Shion (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.
21 of 21 films
as Madoka Chuwan (voice)
Directed by Akitaro Daichi
as Yukari Tenkawa (voice)
Directed by Hiroaki Akagi
as Hikari Yagami (voice)
Directed by Tomohisa Taguchi
as Luka Millfy / Gokai Yellow
Directed by Shojiro Nakazawa
as Alisa Haiba (voice)
Directed by Susumu Mitsunaka
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
Madoka Chuwan (voice)
Me & Roboco: The Movie (2025)
Performance score8.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Madoka Chuwan (voice) gives Mao Ichimichi a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Yukari Tenkawa (voice)
Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie (2022)
Performance score8.3
Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Yukari Tenkawa (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Hikari Yagami (voice)
Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna (2020)
Performance score8.3
Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hikari Yagami (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Luka Millfy / Gokai Yellow
Kaizoku Sentai: Ten Gokaiger (2021)
Performance score8.2
Kaizoku Sentai: Ten Gokaiger asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Luka Millfy / Gokai Yellow 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 Madoka Chuwan (voice)
Start here. Me & Roboco: The Movie is the clearest statement of what Mao Ichimichi does — accessible, 0 minutes, and rated 8.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Mao 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.
Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna (2020)
Keeps the animation register of Me & Roboco: The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Kaizoku Sentai: Ten Gokaiger (2021)
Keeps the action register of Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna but asks for a colder reading of it.
Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Kaizoku Sentai: Ten Gokaiger — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle (2024)
Keeps the comedy register of Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Hiroyuki Imaishi
Director
2 films together
Notably Promare / Side: Galo
Tomohisa Taguchi
Director
2 films together
Notably Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna
Yasuhito Kikuchi
Director
2 films together
Notably That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond
Hiroyuki Kato
Director
1 film together
Notably Lupinranger vs Patranger vs Kyuranger
Tatsumi Fujii
Director
1 film together
Notably Promare / Side: Lio
Takeo Takahashi
Director
1 film together
Notably The Island of Giant Insects
Rika Ota
Director
1 film together
Notably Genji Fantasy: The Cat Fell in Love With Hikaru Genji
Hiroshi Ikehata
Director
1 film together
Notably BEM: BECOME HUMAN
Naoyuki Tatsuwa
Director
1 film together
Notably The Island of Giant Insects
Shojiro Nakazawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Kaizoku Sentai: Ten Gokaiger
Ryuta Tasaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Kamen Rider Saber + Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger: Super Hero Chronicles
Hisatoshi Shimizu
Director
1 film together
Notably Eureka: Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution
Masayoshi Takesue
Director
1 film together
Notably Ultraman Trigger: Episode Z
Hiroaki Akagi
Director
1 film together
Notably Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie
Susumu Mitsunaka
Director
1 film together
Notably HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle
Chika Nagaoka
Director
1 film together
Notably Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram
Akitaro Daichi
Director
1 film together
Notably Me & Roboco: The Movie
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Tomohisa Taguchi
Director
2 films together · 7.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution KizunaHiroyuki Imaishi
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
Promare / Side: GaloYasuhito Kikuchi
Director
2 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet BondAkitaro Daichi
Director
1 film together · 8.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Me & Roboco: The MovieHiroaki Akagi
Director
1 film together · 8.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Teasing Master Takagi-san: The MovieShojiro Nakazawa
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kaizoku Sentai: Ten GokaigerSusumu Mitsunaka
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HAIKYU!! The Dumpster BattleHiroshi Ikehata
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BEM: BECOME HUMANChika 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 PentagramTatsumi Fujii
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Promare / Side: LioHisatoshi Shimizu
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Eureka: Eureka Seven Hi-EvolutionMasayoshi Takesue
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ultraman Trigger: Episode ZRyuta Tasaki
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kamen Rider Saber + Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger: Super Hero ChroniclesHiroyuki Kato
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lupinranger vs Patranger vs KyurangerNaoyuki 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 InsectsRika Ota
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Genji Fantasy: The Cat Fell in Love With Hikaru GenjiSix 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
Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna
as Hikari Yagami (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
Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie
as Yukari Tenkawa (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
Me & Roboco: The Movie
as Madoka Chuwan (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Kamen Rider Saber + Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger: Super Hero Chronicles
as Raptor283 (voice) / Washi Pink (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Me & Roboco: The Movie
as Madoka Chuwan (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. Mao Ichimichi 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
17 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
Me & Roboco: The Movie
as Madoka Chuwan (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna
as Hikari Yagami (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Eureka: Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution
as Killa Pomato (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Island of Giant Insects
as Mutsumi Oribe (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna
as Hikari Yagami (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Fuuto PI: The Portrait of Kamen Rider Skull
as Wakana Sonozaki (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 Shion (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Promare
as Thyma (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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