Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#8201
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Maria Naganawa 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.
Maria Naganawa appears in 7 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Maria. You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert! is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, comedy. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, comedy, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tatsuya Ishihara, Kouji Ogawa, Hirofumi Ogura and others, Maria Naganawa 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.
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert! (2025) as Komugi Inukai / Cure Wonderful (voice) · Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved (2025) as Kanna (voice) · KONOSUBA – God's blessing on this wonderful world! Legend of Crimson (2019) as Komekko (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #8201 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
7
2019–2026
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
Most frequent director
Tatsuya Ishihara
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Tatsuya Ishihara
Most common genre
Animation
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 16m
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
6.5
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
6.6 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Star Detective Pretty Cure! The Movie: The Mysterious Garden and The Pair’s Secret, Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved, You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert! — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.6
Across 5 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. KONOSUBA – God's blessing on this wonderful world! Legend of Crimson, Laidbackers.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Action | — | 6.04 films |
| Comedy | 6.52 films | 6.44 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2019KONOSUBA – God's blessing on this wonderful world! Legend of Crimson
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Komekko (voice).
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2025You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 10.0 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
2026Star Detective Pretty Cure! The Movie: The Mysterious Garden and The Pair’s Secret
The current state of the argument, as Komugi Inukai / Cure Wonderful (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.
7 of 7 films
as Komugi Inukai / Cure Wonderful (voice)
Directed by Kouji Ogawa
as Kanna (voice)
Directed by Tatsuya Ishihara
as Komekko (voice)
Directed by Takaomi Kanasaki
as Martes (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Platelet 'Leader' (voice)
Directed by Hirofumi Ogura
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
Komugi Inukai / Cure Wonderful (voice)
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert! (2025)
Performance score9.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Komugi Inukai / Cure Wonderful (voice) gives Maria Naganawa a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Kanna (voice)
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved (2025)
Performance score9.3
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kanna (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Komekko (voice)
KONOSUBA – God's blessing on this wonderful world! Legend of Crimson (2019)
Performance score7.3
KONOSUBA – God's blessing on this wonderful world! Legend of Crimson asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Komekko (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Martes (voice)
Bloody Escape: Bats Out of Hell (2024)
Performance score7.1
Bloody Escape: Bats Out of Hell asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Martes (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 Komugi Inukai / Cure Wonderful (voice)
Start here. You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert! is the clearest statement of what Maria Naganawa does — accessible, 71 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Maria 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.
KONOSUBA – God's blessing on this wonderful world! Legend of Crimson (2019)
Keeps the comedy register of You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert! but asks for a colder reading of it.
Cells at Work!! The Return of the Strongest Enemy: A Huge Uproar in the Body’s Bowels! (2020)
Keeps the comedy register of KONOSUBA – God's blessing on this wonderful world! Legend of Crimson but asks for a colder reading of it.
Bloody Escape: Bats Out of Hell (2024)
Keeps the action register of Cells at Work!! The Return of the Strongest Enemy: A Huge Uproar in the Body’s Bowels! but asks for a colder reading of it.
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved (2025)
Keeps the animation register of Bloody Escape: Bats Out of Hell but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Hiroyuki Hashimoto
Director
1 film together
Notably Laidbackers
Takaomi Kanasaki
Director
1 film together
Notably KONOSUBA – God's blessing on this wonderful world! Legend of Crimson
Hirofumi Ogura
Director
1 film together
Notably Cells at Work!! The Return of the Strongest Enemy: A Huge Uproar in the Body’s Bowels!
Kouji Ogawa
Director
1 film together
Notably You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
Tatsuya Ishihara
Director
1 film together
Notably Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Kouji Ogawa
Director
1 film together · 10.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!Tatsuya 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 lovedTakaomi Kanasaki
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
KONOSUBA – God's blessing on this wonderful world! Legend of CrimsonHirofumi Ogura
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Hiroyuki Hashimoto
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LaidbackersSix 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
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Komugi Inukai / Cure Wonderful (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
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Komugi Inukai / Cure Wonderful (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
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Komugi Inukai / Cure Wonderful (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Komugi Inukai / Cure Wonderful (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Komugi Inukai / Cure Wonderful (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. Maria Naganawa 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
7 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
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Komugi Inukai / Cure Wonderful (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Komugi Inukai / Cure Wonderful (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Komugi Inukai / Cure Wonderful (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved
as Kanna (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Komugi Inukai / Cure Wonderful (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Komugi Inukai / Cure Wonderful (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Komugi Inukai / Cure Wonderful (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Star Detective Pretty Cure! The Movie: The Mysterious Garden and The Pair’s Secret
as Komugi Inukai / Cure Wonderful (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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