Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#11159
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Minami Takahashi 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.
Minami Takahashi appears in 6 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Minami. Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, emotional range. 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, Ayataka Tanemura and others, Minami Takahashi 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 Lucoa (voice) · Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King (2023) as Grey (voice) · Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion (2019) as Tione Hiryute (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #11159 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
6
2019–2026
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved
Average Nutevio score
5.8
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
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 12m
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
6.1
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
6.7 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion, Fragtime — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.7
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.9
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. Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion, Fragtime.
Most productive era
2020s
4 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 | 7.21 film | 4.73 films |
| Comedy | 6.72 films | 4.73 films |
| Romance | 6.72 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2019Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Tione Hiryute (voice).
Highest rated performance
2023Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King
7.5 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2025Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved
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 Nana Aokaze / Cure Wink (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.
6 of 6 films
as Lucoa (voice)
Directed by Tatsuya Ishihara
as Grey (voice)
Directed by Ayataka Tanemura
as Tione Hiryute (voice)
Directed by Katsushi Sakurabi
as Nana Aokaze / Cure Wink (voice)
Directed by Kouji Ogawa
as Nana Aokaze / Cure Wink (voice)
Directed by Unknown
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
Lucoa (voice)
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved (2025)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Lucoa (voice) gives Minami Takahashi a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Grey (voice)
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King (2023)
Performance score7.3
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Grey (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Tione Hiryute (voice)
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion (2019)
Performance score7.1
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tione Hiryute (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Nana Aokaze / Cure Wink (voice)
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert! (2025)
Performance score7.0
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert! asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Nana Aokaze / Cure Wink (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 Lucoa (voice)
Start here. Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved is the clearest statement of what Minami Takahashi does — accessible, 105 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Minami 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.
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion (2019)
Keeps the comedy register of Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved but asks for a colder reading of it.
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King (2023)
Keeps the action register of Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion but asks for a colder reading of it.
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert! (2025)
Keeps the action register of Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King but asks for a colder reading of it.
Star Detective Pretty Cure! The Movie: The Mysterious Garden and The Pair’s Secret (2026)
Keeps the action register of You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert! but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Takuya Sato
Director
1 film together
Notably Fragtime
Katsushi Sakurabi
Director
1 film together
Notably Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion
Ayataka Tanemura
Director
1 film together
Notably Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King
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.
Tatsuya Ishihara
Director
1 film together · 7.5 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 lovedAyataka 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 KingKatsushi Sakurabi
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the OrionKouji Ogawa
Director
1 film together · 6.5 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!Takuya Sato
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FragtimeSix 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
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King
as Grey (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
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion
as Tione Hiryute (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
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King
as Grey (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King
as Grey (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 Lucoa (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. Minami Takahashi 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
6 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 Lucoa (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King
as Grey (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 Nana Aokaze / Cure Wink (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 Lucoa (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King
as Grey (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King
as Grey (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 Nana Aokaze / Cure Wink (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Fragtime
as (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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