Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#735
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Shinya 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.
Shinya Takahashi appears in 23 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Shinya. 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, Masaki Kitamura, Tadahiro Yoshihira and others, Shinya 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.
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert! (2025) as Coral Fairy Uncle (voice) · Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved (2025) as Male Fairy (voice) · Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020) as (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #735 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
23
2018–2026
Career length
8 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
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
Most frequent director
Takaharu Ozaki
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Takaharu Ozaki
Most common genre
Animation
23 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
7.0
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
6.6
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
7.1 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Weathering with You, Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel II. Lost Butterfly, Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.1
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.2
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. Weathering with You, Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel II. Lost Butterfly, Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle.
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 | 7.42 films | 5.48 films |
| Action | 7.01 film | 7.68 films |
| Comedy | — | 7.49 films |
| Romance | 7.42 films | 6.11 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2018Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Soldier (voice).
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2025You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 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
The current state of the argument, as (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 Coral Fairy Uncle (voice)
Directed by Kouji Ogawa
as Male Fairy (voice)
Directed by Tatsuya Ishihara
as (voice)
Directed by Haruo Sotozaki
as (voice)
Directed by Tadahiro Yoshihira
as HR Officer (voice)
Directed by Unknown
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Coral Fairy Uncle (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. Coral Fairy Uncle (voice) gives Shinya Takahashi a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Male Fairy (voice)
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved (2025)
Performance score8.5
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Male Fairy (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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(voice)
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020)
Performance score7.9
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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(voice)
Unanswered//butterfly (2026)
Performance score7.8
Unanswered//butterfly asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. (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 Coral Fairy Uncle (voice)
Start here. You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert! is the clearest statement of what Shinya Takahashi 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 Shinya 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)
Keeps the action register of You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert! but asks for a colder reading of it.
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved (2025)
Keeps the fantasy register of Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train but asks for a colder reading of it.
100 METERS (2025)
Keeps the animation register of Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved but asks for a colder reading of it.
Unanswered//butterfly (2026)
Keeps the animation register of 100 METERS but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Takaharu Ozaki
Director
3 films together
Notably Goblin Slayer: Goblin's Crown
Hiroyuki Seshita
Director
2 films together
Notably Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle
Eisaku Kawanami
Director
2 films together
Notably Free! the Final Stroke the First Volume
Tomonori Sudo
Director
1 film together
Notably Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel II. Lost Butterfly
Makoto Shinkai
Director
1 film together
Notably Weathering with You
Haruo Sotozaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
Junji Shimizu
Director
1 film together
Notably Tropical-Rouge! Precure: The Snow Princess and the Miraculous Ring!
Takayuki Hirao
Director
1 film together
Notably Pompo the Cinephile
Ayako Kono
Director
1 film together
Notably Sword Art Online the Movie – Progressive – Scherzo of Deep Night
Yuzuru Tachikawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Blue Giant
Takashi Katagiri
Director
1 film together
Notably SPY x FAMILY CODE: White
Susumu Mitsunaka
Director
1 film together
Notably HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle
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
Tadahiro Yoshihira
Director
1 film together
Notably Unanswered//butterfly
Masaki Kitamura
Director
1 film together
Notably Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our Time
Shukou Murase
Director
1 film together
Notably MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM HATHAWAY The Sorcery of Nymph Circe
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Takaharu Ozaki
Director
3 films together · 2.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Goblin Slayer: Goblin's CrownEisaku Kawanami
Director
2 films together · 6.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Free! the Final Stroke the First VolumeHiroyuki Seshita
Director
2 films together · 6.3 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!Tatsuya Ishihara
Director
1 film together · 8.9 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 lovedHaruo Sotozaki
Director
1 film together · 8.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen TrainTadahiro Yoshihira
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Unanswered//butterflySusumu 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 BattleYuzuru Tachikawa
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Blue GiantMakoto Shinkai
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Weathering with YouAyako Kono
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sword Art Online the Movie – Progressive – Scherzo of Deep NightShukou Murase
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM HATHAWAY The Sorcery of Nymph CirceMasaki Kitamura
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our TimeTakashi Katagiri
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SPY x FAMILY CODE: WhiteTakayuki Hirao
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pompo the CinephileTomonori Sudo
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel II. Lost ButterflyJunji Shimizu
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tropical-Rouge! Precure: The Snow Princess and the Miraculous Ring!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
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Coral Fairy Uncle (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 Coral Fairy Uncle (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 Coral Fairy Uncle (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Weathering with You
as (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 Coral Fairy Uncle (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. Shinya 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
23 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 Coral Fairy Uncle (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 Coral Fairy Uncle (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
100 METERS
as HR Officer (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Mononoke the Movie: The Phantom in the Rain
as Kimura (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 Coral Fairy Uncle (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 Coral Fairy Uncle (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 Coral Fairy Uncle (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Mononoke the Movie: The Phantom in the Rain
as Kimura (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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