Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#22574
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Tsubasa Yonaga 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.
Tsubasa Yonaga appears in 7 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Tsubasa. The Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the Sky is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 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 comedy, drama, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Eisaku Kawanami, Kosuke Murayama, Jouji Furuta and others, Tsubasa Yonaga 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 Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the Sky (2018) as Solada (voice) · Free! the Final Stroke the First Volume (2021) as Nagisa Hazuki (voice) · Grisaia: Phantom Trigger the Animation - Stargazer (2020) as (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #22574 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
7
2018–2022
Career length
4 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
The Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the Sky
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
The Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the Sky
Most frequent director
Eisaku Kawanami
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Eisaku Kawanami
Most common genre
Animation
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 24m
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
6.2
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
2020s
6.4 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Free! the Final Stroke the Second Volume, Free! the Final Stroke the First Volume, Grisaia: Phantom Trigger the Animation - Stargazer — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.4
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.4
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. Utano Princesama Maji LOVE Kingdom, Free! Road to the World - The Dream, Grisaia: Phantom Trigger the Animation - Soul Speed.
Most productive era
2010s
4 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 | 5.81 film | 6.42 films |
| Action | 6.82 films | 6.51 film |
| Comedy | — | 6.42 films |
| Romance | 6.21 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2018The Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the Sky
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Solada (voice). 7.5 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
2022Free! the Final Stroke the Second Volume
The current state of the argument, as Nagisa Hazuki (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.
7 of 7 films
as Solada (voice)
Directed by Yasuto Nishikata
as Nagisa Hazuki (voice)
Directed by Eisaku Kawanami
as Nagisa Hazuki (voice)
Directed by Eisaku Kawanami
as Nagi Mikado (voice)
Directed by Jouji Furuta
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Solada (voice)
The Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the Sky (2018)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Solada (voice) gives Tsubasa Yonaga a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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(voice)
Grisaia: Phantom Trigger the Animation - Stargazer (2020)
Performance score6.7
Grisaia: Phantom Trigger the Animation - Stargazer 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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Nagisa Hazuki (voice)
Free! the Final Stroke the First Volume (2021)
Performance score6.6
Free! the Final Stroke the First Volume asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Nagisa Hazuki (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Nagisa Hazuki (voice)
Free! the Final Stroke the Second Volume (2022)
Performance score6.5
Free! the Final Stroke the Second Volume asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Nagisa Hazuki (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 Solada (voice)
Start here. The Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the Sky is the clearest statement of what Tsubasa Yonaga does — accessible, 99 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Tsubasa 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.
Utano Princesama Maji LOVE Kingdom (2019)
Keeps the animation register of The Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the Sky but asks for a colder reading of it.
Grisaia: Phantom Trigger the Animation - Stargazer (2020)
Keeps the animation register of Utano Princesama Maji LOVE Kingdom but asks for a colder reading of it.
Free! the Final Stroke the First Volume (2021)
Keeps the animation register of Grisaia: Phantom Trigger the Animation - Stargazer but asks for a colder reading of it.
Free! the Final Stroke the Second Volume (2022)
Same director as Free! the Final Stroke the First Volume, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Eisaku Kawanami
Director
3 films together
Notably Free! the Final Stroke the First Volume
Yasuto Nishikata
Director
1 film together
Notably The Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the Sky
Jouji Furuta
Director
1 film together
Notably Utano Princesama Maji LOVE Kingdom
Kosuke Murayama
Director
1 film together
Notably Grisaia: Phantom Trigger the Animation - Stargazer
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Eisaku Kawanami
Director
3 films together · 6.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Free! the Final Stroke the First VolumeYasuto Nishikata
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the SkyKosuke Murayama
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Grisaia: Phantom Trigger the Animation - StargazerJouji Furuta
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Utano Princesama Maji LOVE KingdomSix 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 Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the Sky
as Solada (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
Utano Princesama Maji LOVE Kingdom
as Nagi Mikado (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 Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the Sky
as Solada (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the Sky
as Solada (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the Sky
as Solada (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. Tsubasa Yonaga 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
7 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 Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the Sky
as Solada (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the Sky
as Solada (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Utano Princesama Maji LOVE Kingdom
as Nagi Mikado (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the Sky
as Solada (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the Sky
as Solada (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the Sky
as Solada (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Free! the Final Stroke the First Volume
as Nagisa Hazuki (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Free! the Final Stroke the Second Volume
as Nagisa Hazuki (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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