Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#353
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Reina Ueda 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.
Reina Ueda appears in 23 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Reina. 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, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for war, science fiction, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Shukou Murase, Tomohiko Ito, Soichi Masui and others, Reina Ueda 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 Mayu Nekoyashiki / Cure Lillian (voice) · Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link - (2022) as Mochizuki Honami (voice) · COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing (2025) as Honami Mochizuki (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #353 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
23
2013–2026
Career length
13 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
6.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
Most frequent director
Shukou Murase
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Shukou Murase
Most common genre
Animation
22 titles
Average runtime
1h 32m
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
6.8
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
2010s
7.0 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Godzilla: The Planet Eater, Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle, Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part III: Rebellion — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.0
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.0
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. Godzilla: The Planet Eater, Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle, Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part III: Rebellion.
Most productive era
2020s
20 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 | — | 6.78 films |
| Action | 6.51 film | 7.212 films |
| Comedy | — | 5.43 films |
| Romance | — | 5.44 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2013Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part III: Rebellion
Where our catalogue meets this career, as School Girl (voice).
First Nutevio masterpiece
2022Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link -
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2025You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
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 Mayu Nekoyashiki / Cure Lillian (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.
23 of 23 films
as Mayu Nekoyashiki / Cure Lillian (voice)
Directed by Kouji Ogawa
as Mochizuki Honami (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Reze (voice)
Directed by Tatsuya Yoshihara
as Honami Mochizuki (voice)
Directed by Hiroyuki Hata
as CereCere / Sailor Ceres (voice)
Directed by Chiaki Kon
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
Mayu Nekoyashiki / Cure Lillian (voice)
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert! (2025)
Performance score9.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Mayu Nekoyashiki / Cure Lillian (voice) gives Reina Ueda a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Mochizuki Honami (voice)
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link - (2022)
Performance score8.6
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link - asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mochizuki Honami (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Reze (voice)
Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc (2025)
Performance score8.1
Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Reze (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Honami Mochizuki (voice)
COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing (2025)
Performance score7.9
COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Honami Mochizuki (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 Mayu Nekoyashiki / Cure Lillian (voice)
Start here. You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert! is the clearest statement of what Reina Ueda 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 Reina 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.
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2 (2021)
Keeps the action register of You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert! but asks for a colder reading of it.
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link - (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2 — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link - — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing (2025)
Keeps the animation register of Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Hiroyuki Seshita
Director
2 films together
Notably Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle
Chiaki Kon
Director
2 films together
Notably Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2
Shukou Murase
Director
2 films together
Notably MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM HATHAWAY The Sorcery of Nymph Circe
Yukihiro Miyamoto
Director
1 film together
Notably Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part III: Rebellion
Atsushi Nishigori
Director
1 film together
Notably VOY@GER
Keisuke Inoue
Director
1 film together
Notably My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! The Movie
Seimei Kidokoro
Director
1 film together
Notably maboroshi
Akira Amemiya
Director
1 film together
Notably Gridman Universe
Shunsuke Nakashige
Director
1 film together
Notably Solo Leveling -ReAwakening-
Kouji Ogawa
Director
1 film together
Notably You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
Hiroyuki Hata
Director
1 film together
Notably COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing
Mamoru Hosoda
Director
1 film together
Notably Scarlet
Tatsuya Yoshihara
Director
1 film together
Notably Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc
Haruo Sotozaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle
Soichi Masui
Director
1 film together
Notably Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dear Friend
Tomohiko Ito
Director
1 film together
Notably The Keeper of the Camphor Tree
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Chiaki Kon
Director
2 films together · 8.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2Shukou Murase
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
MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM HATHAWAY The Sorcery of Nymph CirceHiroyuki Seshita
Director
2 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Godzilla: City on the Edge of BattleKouji 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!Hiroyuki Hata
Director
1 film together · 8.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't SingTatsuya 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 ArcTomohiko Ito
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Keeper of the Camphor TreeHaruo Sotozaki
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity CastleAkira Amemiya
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gridman UniverseYukihiro Miyamoto
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part III: RebellionSeimei Kidokoro
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
maboroshiShunsuke Nakashige
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Solo Leveling -ReAwakening-Mamoru Hosoda
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ScarletKeisuke Inoue
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! The MovieAtsushi Nishigori
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
VOY@GERSoichi Masui
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dear FriendSix 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 Mayu Nekoyashiki / Cure Lillian (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 Mayu Nekoyashiki / Cure Lillian (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 Mayu Nekoyashiki / Cure Lillian (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
One Piece Film Red
as Bepo (mini) (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 Mayu Nekoyashiki / Cure Lillian (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. Reina Ueda 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
22 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 Mayu Nekoyashiki / Cure Lillian (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 Mayu Nekoyashiki / Cure Lillian (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dear Friend
as Nene Iwamizawa (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Keeper of the Camphor Tree
as (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 Mayu Nekoyashiki / Cure Lillian (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 Mayu Nekoyashiki / Cure Lillian (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 Mayu Nekoyashiki / Cure Lillian (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
maboroshi
as Atsumi Sagami (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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