Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#389
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Natsuki Hanae 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.
Natsuki Hanae appears in 25 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Natsuki. Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK 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, emotional range. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, mystery, science fiction. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Shojiro Nakazawa, Haruo Sotozaki, Tatsuya Yoshihara and others, Natsuki Hanae 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.
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK (2024) as Falco Grice (voice) · Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc (2023) as Tanjiro Kamado (voice) · Cosmic Princess Kaguya! (2026) as Koto Okkotteru (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #389 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
25
2017–2026
Career length
9 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.7
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK
Average Nutevio score
7.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.7
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK
Most frequent director
Haruo Sotozaki
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Haruo Sotozaki
Most common genre
Animation
24 titles
Average runtime
1h 39m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
6.8
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. ALL YOU NEED IS KILL, Cosmic Princess Kaguya!, No. 1 Sentai Gozyuger VS Boonboomger — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.1
Across 22 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. For Whom the Alchemist Exists, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Sibling's Bond, Mazinger Z: Infinity.
Most productive era
2020s
22 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 | — | 7.47 films |
| Action | 7.52 films | 6.910 films |
| Comedy | — | 7.06 films |
| Crime | — | 7.22 films |
| Romance | — | 7.73 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Shiro Kabuto (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2023Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc
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
2026No. 1 Sentai Gozyuger VS Boonboomger
The current state of the argument, as Byun Diesel, Boonboom Controller (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.
25 of 25 films
as Tanjiro Kamado (voice)
Directed by Haruo Sotozaki
as Tanjiro Kamado (voice)
Directed by Haruo Sotozaki
as Taichi Yagami (voice)
Directed by Tomohisa Taguchi
as Tanjiro Kamado (voice)
Directed by Haruo Sotozaki
as Falco Grice (voice)
Directed by Yuichiro Hayashi
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
Tanjiro Kamado (voice)
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc (2023)
Performance score9.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Tanjiro Kamado (voice) gives Natsuki Hanae a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Tanjiro Kamado (voice)
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020)
Performance score8.7
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tanjiro Kamado (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Taichi Yagami (voice)
Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna (2020)
Performance score8.6
Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Taichi 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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Tanjiro Kamado (voice)
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle (2025)
Performance score8.5
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tanjiro Kamado (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 Tanjiro Kamado (voice)
Start here. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc is the clearest statement of what Natsuki Hanae does — accessible, 126 minutes, and rated 8.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Natsuki 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.
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020)
Same director as Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna (2020)
Keeps the action register of Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train but asks for a colder reading of it.
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK (2024)
Keeps the action register of Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna but asks for a colder reading of it.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle (2025)
Keeps the action register of Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Haruo Sotozaki
Director
4 films together
Notably Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc
Baku Kinoshita
Director
2 films together
Notably The Last Blossom
Junji Shimizu
Director
1 film together
Notably Mazinger Z: Infinity
Masanori Takahashi
Director
1 film together
Notably For Whom the Alchemist Exists
Tomohisa Taguchi
Director
1 film together
Notably Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna
Tomotaka Shibayama
Director
1 film together
Notably A Whisker Away
Yuta Murano
Director
1 film together
Notably Kakushigoto Theatrical Edition
Shin Oonuma
Director
1 film together
Notably Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya: Licht Nameless Girl
Kyohei Ishiguro
Director
1 film together
Notably Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop
Masakazu Hashimoto
Director
1 film together
Notably Crayon Shin-chan: The Tornado Legend of Ninja Mononoke
Atsuko Ishizuka
Director
1 film together
Notably Goodbye, Don Glees!
Hiroaki Ando
Director
1 film together
Notably Kaina of the Great Snow Sea: Star Sage
Yuichiro Hayashi
Director
1 film together
Notably Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK
Susumu Mitsunaka
Director
1 film together
Notably HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle
Toshiya Shinohara
Director
1 film together
Notably Alice in Wonderland –Dive in Wonderland–
Tatsuya Yoshihara
Director
1 film together
Notably Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc
Shojiro Nakazawa
Director
1 film together
Notably No. 1 Sentai Gozyuger VS Boonboomger
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Haruo Sotozaki
Director
4 films together · 8.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Baku Kinoshita
Director
2 films together · 7.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Last BlossomYuichiro Hayashi
Director
1 film together · 8.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACKTatsuya Yoshihara
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze ArcTomohisa Taguchi
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution KizunaSusumu 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 BattleToshiya Shinohara
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Alice in Wonderland –Dive in Wonderland–Tomotaka Shibayama
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Whisker AwayKyohei Ishiguro
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Words Bubble Up Like Soda PopMasakazu Hashimoto
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Crayon Shin-chan: The Tornado Legend of Ninja MononokeYuta Murano
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kakushigoto Theatrical EditionAtsuko Ishizuka
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Goodbye, Don Glees!Junji Shimizu
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mazinger Z: InfinityShin Oonuma
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya: Licht Nameless GirlHiroaki Ando
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kaina of the Great Snow Sea: Star SageMasanori 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 ExistsShojiro Nakazawa
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
No. 1 Sentai Gozyuger VS BoonboomgerSix 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 - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc
as Tanjiro Kamado (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
Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc
as Beam (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 - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc
as Tanjiro Kamado (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle
as Korai Hoshiumi (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc
as Tanjiro Kamado (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. Natsuki Hanae 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
24 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 - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc
as Tanjiro Kamado (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK
as Falco Grice (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc
as Beam (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
ODDTAXI in the Woods
as Hiroshi Odokawa (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK
as Falco Grice (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK
as Falco Grice (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Delicious Party Precure Movie: Dreaming Children's Lunch!
as Cait Sith (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Delicious Party Precure Movie: Dreaming Children's Lunch!
as Cait Sith (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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