Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#6107
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Toshiki Masuda 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.
Toshiki Masuda appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Toshiki. How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film 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, screen presence. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, science fiction, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tensai Okamura, Susumu Mitsunaka, Keisuke Inoue and others, Toshiki Masuda 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.
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film (2020) as Dai (voice) · HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle (2024) as Chikara Ennoshita (voice) · My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising (2019) as Eijiro Kirishima (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #6107 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2018–2024
Career length
6 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
Most frequent director
Kenji Nagasaki
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Kenji Nagasaki
Most common genre
Animation
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 7m
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
6.4
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. My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising, Yo-kai Watch Jam: Yo-kai Academy Y - Can a Cat Be a Hero?, My Hero Academia: Two Heroes — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.3
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.5
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. My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising, Yo-kai Watch Jam: Yo-kai Academy Y - Can a Cat Be a Hero?, My Hero Academia: Two Heroes.
Most productive era
2020s
8 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Action | 7.33 films | 7.42 films |
| Comedy | 6.51 film | 7.02 films |
| Romance | — | 6.31 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2018My Hero Academia: Two Heroes
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Eijiro Kirishima (voice).
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2020How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
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
2024HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle
The current state of the argument, as Chikara Ennoshita (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.
11 of 11 films
as Dai (voice)
Directed by Fumie Muroi
as Chikara Ennoshita (voice)
Directed by Susumu Mitsunaka
as Eijiro Kirishima (voice)
Directed by Kenji Nagasaki
as Eijiro Kirishima (voice)
Directed by Kenji Nagasaki
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
Dai (voice)
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film (2020)
Performance score9.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Dai (voice) gives Toshiki Masuda a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Chikara Ennoshita (voice)
HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle (2024)
Performance score7.6
HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Chikara Ennoshita (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Eijiro Kirishima (voice)
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising (2019)
Performance score7.6
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Eijiro Kirishima (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)
IDOLiSH7 Movie: LIVE 4bit - BEYOND THE PERiOD (2023)
Performance score7.4
IDOLiSH7 Movie: LIVE 4bit - BEYOND THE PERiOD 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 Dai (voice)
Start here. How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film is the clearest statement of what Toshiki Masuda does — accessible, 0 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Toshiki 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.
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising (2019)
Keeps the animation register of How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film but asks for a colder reading of it.
My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission (2021)
Same director as My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
IDOLiSH7 Movie: LIVE 4bit - BEYOND THE PERiOD (2023)
Keeps the animation register of My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission but asks for a colder reading of it.
HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle (2024)
Keeps the animation register of IDOLiSH7 Movie: LIVE 4bit - BEYOND THE PERiOD but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Kenji Nagasaki
Director
3 films together
Notably My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
Shigeharu Takahashi
Director
1 film together
Notably Yo-kai Watch Jam: Yo-kai Academy Y - Can a Cat Be a Hero?
Fumie Muroi
Director
1 film together
Notably How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
Tomoyuki Furumaya
Director
1 film together
Notably 劇場版 パティシエさんとお嬢さん
Kensuke Yamamoto
Director
1 film together
Notably IDOLiSH7 Movie: LIVE 4bit - BEYOND THE PERiOD
Keisuke Inoue
Director
1 film together
Notably My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! The Movie
Susumu Mitsunaka
Director
1 film together
Notably HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle
Tensai Okamura
Director
1 film together
Notably My Hero Academia: You're Next
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Kenji Nagasaki
Director
3 films together · 7.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
My Hero Academia: Heroes RisingFumie Muroi
Director
1 film together · 10.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story FilmSusumu 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 BattleTensai Okamura
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Hero Academia: You're NextKensuke Yamamoto
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
IDOLiSH7 Movie: LIVE 4bit - BEYOND THE PERiODShigeharu Takahashi
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Yo-kai Watch Jam: Yo-kai Academy Y - Can a Cat Be a Hero?Keisuke 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 MovieTomoyuki Furumaya
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
劇場版 パティシエさんとお嬢さん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
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
as Dai (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
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
as Dai (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
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
as Dai (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
as Dai (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
as Dai (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. Toshiki Masuda 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
9 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
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
as Dai (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
as Dai (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! The Movie
as Sirius Dieke / Raphael Walt (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
My Hero Academia: Two Heroes
as Eijiro Kirishima (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
as Dai (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
My Hero Academia: You're Next
as Eijiro Kirishima (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Yo-kai Watch Jam: Yo-kai Academy Y - Can a Cat Be a Hero?
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! The Movie
as Sirius Dieke / Raphael Walt (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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