Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4747
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Natsumi Takamori 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.
Natsumi Takamori appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Natsumi. The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. 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 Tomoki Kobayashi, Kouji Ogawa, Yuta Tanaka and others, Natsumi Takamori 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.
The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie (2022) as Raiha Uesugi (voice) · Pretty Cure All Stars F (2023) as Kome-Kome (voice) · PSYCHO-PASS: The Movie (2015) as Komissa (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #4747 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2015–2026
Career length
11 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie
Average Nutevio score
5.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
Most frequent director
Tomoki Kobayashi
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Tomoki Kobayashi
Most common genre
Animation
12 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
6.1
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
6.5 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Cencoroll Connect, Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2, PSYCHO-PASS: The Movie — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.5
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.7
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. Cencoroll Connect, Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2, PSYCHO-PASS: The Movie.
Most productive era
2020s
9 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 | — | 2.92 films |
| Action | 6.52 films | 5.15 films |
| Comedy | 6.31 film | 5.66 films |
| Romance | — | 4.73 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Komissa (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2022The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie
7.7 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
2026Star Detective Pretty Cure! The Movie: The Mysterious Garden and The Pair’s Secret
The current state of the argument, as Kokoro Shigure / Cure Kyun-Kyun (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.
12 of 12 films
as Raiha Uesugi (voice)
Directed by Masato Jimbo
as Kokoro Shigure / Cure Kyun-Kyun (voice)
Directed by Kouji Ogawa
Directed by Fumio Itou
as Kome-Kome (voice)
Directed by Yuta Tanaka
as Kaname (voice)
Directed by Unknown
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The defining work
#1
Raiha Uesugi (voice)
The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie (2022)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Raiha Uesugi (voice) gives Natsumi Takamori a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Kokoro Shigure / Cure Kyun-Kyun (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. Kokoro Shigure / Cure Kyun-Kyun (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru: Trinkle Stars The Animation
Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru: Trinkle Stars The Animation (2021)
Performance score6.8
Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru: Trinkle Stars The Animation asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. The role is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kome-Kome (voice)
Pretty Cure All Stars F (2023)
Performance score6.7
Pretty Cure All Stars F asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kome-Kome (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 Raiha Uesugi (voice)
Start here. The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie is the clearest statement of what Natsumi Takamori does — accessible, 136 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Natsumi 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.
Cencoroll Connect (2019)
Keeps the animation register of The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru: Trinkle Stars The Animation (2021)
Keeps the animation register of Cencoroll Connect but asks for a colder reading of it.
Pretty Cure All Stars F (2023)
Keeps the animation register of Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru: Trinkle Stars The Animation 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 Pretty Cure All Stars F but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Naoyoshi Shiotani
Director
1 film together
Notably PSYCHO-PASS: The Movie
Tsutomu Mizushima
Director
1 film together
Notably Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2
Jun Nakagawa
Director
1 film together
Notably High School Fleet Movie
Fumio Itou
Director
1 film together
Notably Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru: Trinkle Stars The Animation
Masato Jimbo
Director
1 film together
Notably The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie
Yukihiro Miyamoto
Director
1 film together
Notably The Quintessential Quintuplets∽
Yuta Tanaka
Director
1 film together
Notably Pretty Cure All Stars F
Kouji Ogawa
Director
1 film together
Notably You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
Tomoki Kobayashi
Director
1 film together
Notably Summer Pockets Season 1: Omnibus - A Lifetime's Worth of Summer Breaks
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Masato Jimbo
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Quintessential Quintuplets MovieYuta Tanaka
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pretty Cure All Stars FNaoyoshi Shiotani
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PSYCHO-PASS: The MovieKouji 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!Yukihiro Miyamoto
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Quintessential Quintuplets∽Fumio Itou
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru: Trinkle Stars The AnimationTsutomu Mizushima
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2Jun Nakagawa
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
High School Fleet MovieTomoki Kobayashi
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Summer Pockets Season 1: Omnibus - A Lifetime's Worth of Summer BreaksSix 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
The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie
as Raiha Uesugi (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 Kokoro Shigure / Cure Kyun-Kyun (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
The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie
as Raiha Uesugi (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2
as (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie
as Raiha Uesugi (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. Natsumi Takamori 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
12 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
The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie
as Raiha Uesugi (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie
as Raiha Uesugi (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 Kokoro Shigure / Cure Kyun-Kyun (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Summer Pockets Season 1: Omnibus - A Lifetime's Worth of Summer Breaks
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Pretty Cure All Stars F
as Kome-Kome (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Pretty Cure All Stars F
as Kome-Kome (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 Kokoro Shigure / Cure Kyun-Kyun (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
High School Fleet Movie
as Maron Yanagiwara (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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