Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#5250
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Saori Onishi 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.
Saori Onishi appears in 5 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Saori. Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion 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, drama. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, fantasy, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Yasuhito Kikuchi, Tsutomu Mizushima, Jun Nakagawa and others, Saori Onishi 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.
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion (2019) as Wallenstein Ais (voice) · Date A Bullet: Dead or Bullet (2020) as White Queen (voice) · Saekano the Movie: Finale (2019) as Eriri Spencer Sawamura (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #5250 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
5
2019–2026
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion
Average Nutevio score
5.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion
Most frequent director
Yasuhito Kikuchi
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Yasuhito Kikuchi
Most common genre
Animation
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 5m
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
7.3 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, Saekano the Movie: Finale — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.3
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.3
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, Saekano the Movie: Finale.
Most productive era
2020s
3 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 | 6.91 film | — |
| Action | 7.71 film | 3.52 films |
| Comedy | 7.32 films | 3.32 films |
| Romance | 7.32 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Wallenstein Ais (voice). 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
2026That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea
The current state of the argument, as Yura (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.
5 of 5 films
as Wallenstein Ais (voice)
Directed by Katsushi Sakurabi
as White Queen (voice)
Directed by Jun Nakagawa
as Eriri Spencer Sawamura (voice)
Directed by Kanta Kamei
as Yura (voice)
Directed by Yasuhito Kikuchi
as Jane (voice)
Directed by Tsutomu Mizushima
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
Wallenstein Ais (voice)
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion (2019)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Wallenstein Ais (voice) gives Saori Onishi a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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White Queen (voice)
Date A Bullet: Dead or Bullet (2020)
Performance score7.5
Date A Bullet: Dead or Bullet asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. White Queen (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Eriri Spencer Sawamura (voice)
Saekano the Movie: Finale (2019)
Performance score7.3
Saekano the Movie: Finale asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Eriri Spencer Sawamura (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Yura (voice)
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea (2026)
Performance score6.6
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Yura (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 Wallenstein Ais (voice)
Start here. Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion is the clearest statement of what Saori Onishi does — accessible, 82 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Saori 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.
Saekano the Movie: Finale (2019)
Keeps the romance 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.
Date A Bullet: Dead or Bullet (2020)
Keeps the animation register of Saekano the Movie: Finale but asks for a colder reading of it.
Girls und Panzer das Finale OVA: Daikon War! (2021)
Keeps the action register of Date A Bullet: Dead or Bullet but asks for a colder reading of it.
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea (2026)
Keeps the comedy register of Girls und Panzer das Finale OVA: Daikon War! but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Kanta Kamei
Director
1 film together
Notably Saekano the Movie: Finale
Katsushi Sakurabi
Director
1 film together
Notably Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion
Jun Nakagawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Date A Bullet: Dead or Bullet
Tsutomu Mizushima
Director
1 film together
Notably Girls und Panzer das Finale OVA: Daikon War!
Yasuhito Kikuchi
Director
1 film together
Notably That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Katsushi Sakurabi
Director
1 film together · 7.7 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 OrionJun Nakagawa
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Date A Bullet: Dead or BulletKanta Kamei
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Saekano the Movie: FinaleYasuhito Kikuchi
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Tsutomu Mizushima
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Girls und Panzer das Finale OVA: Daikon War!Six 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
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion
as Wallenstein Ais (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 Wallenstein Ais (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
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion
as Wallenstein Ais (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion
as Wallenstein Ais (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion
as Wallenstein Ais (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. Saori Onishi 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
5 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
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion
as Wallenstein Ais (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion
as Wallenstein Ais (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion
as Wallenstein Ais (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea
as Yura (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion
as Wallenstein Ais (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Date A Bullet: Dead or Bullet
as White Queen (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Saekano the Movie: Finale
as Eriri Spencer Sawamura (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Date A Bullet: Dead or Bullet
as White Queen (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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