Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#401
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Yoko Hikasa 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.
Yoko Hikasa appears in 24 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Yoko. Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent 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 mystery, fantasy, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tomoaki Koshida, Shoji Kawamori, Kiyotaka Suzuki and others, Yoko Hikasa 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.
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent (2026) as Fuki Tokita (voice) · Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion (2019) as Freya (voice) · Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector (2020) as Komiya Karina (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #401 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
24
2017–2026
Career length
9 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
Average Nutevio score
5.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
Most frequent director
Tomomi Umetsu
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Tomomi Umetsu
Most common genre
Animation
22 titles
Average runtime
1h 38m
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
2010s
6.9 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, Trinity Seven: Heaven's Library & Crimson Lord, BanG Dream! FILM LIVE — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.9
Across 6 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. Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion, Trinity Seven: Heaven's Library & Crimson Lord, BanG Dream! FILM LIVE.
Most productive era
2020s
18 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 | 7.52 films | 2.62 films |
| Action | 7.63 films | 6.44 films |
| Comedy | 7.72 films | 6.13 films |
| Crime | — | 7.61 film |
| Romance | 7.62 films | 6.82 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Couronne / Stephanie (voice).
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2026Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
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
2026cocoon - One Summer of Girlhood
The current state of the argument, as Tamaki (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.
24 of 24 films
as Fuki Tokita (voice)
Directed by Tomoaki Koshida
as Couronne / Stephanie (voice)
Directed by Atsuko Ishizuka
as Freya (voice)
Directed by Katsushi Sakurabi
as Komiya Karina (voice)
Directed by Naoyoshi Shiotani
as Yamana Mira (voice)
Directed by Hiroshi Nishikiori
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
Fuki Tokita (voice)
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent (2026)
Performance score9.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Fuki Tokita (voice) gives Yoko Hikasa a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Couronne / Stephanie (voice)
No Game No Life: Zero (2017)
Performance score8.0
No Game No Life: Zero asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Couronne / Stephanie (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Freya (voice)
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion (2019)
Performance score7.5
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Freya (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Komiya Karina (voice)
Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector (2020)
Performance score7.4
Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Komiya Karina (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 Fuki Tokita (voice)
Start here. Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent is the clearest statement of what Yoko Hikasa does — accessible, 87 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Yoko 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.
No Game No Life: Zero (2017)
Keeps the fantasy register of Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent but asks for a colder reading of it.
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion (2019)
Keeps the romance register of No Game No Life: Zero but asks for a colder reading of it.
Trinity Seven: Heaven's Library & Crimson Lord (2019)
Keeps the action 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.
Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector (2020)
Keeps the action register of Trinity Seven: Heaven's Library & Crimson Lord but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Tomomi Umetsu
Director
2 films together
Notably BanG Dream! FILM LIVE 2nd Stage
Atsuko Ishizuka
Director
1 film together
Notably No Game No Life: Zero
Yasuto Nishikata
Director
1 film together
Notably The Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the Sky
Mari Okada
Director
1 film together
Notably Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms
Hiroshi Nishikiori
Director
1 film together
Notably Trinity Seven: Heaven's Library & Crimson Lord
Katsushi Sakurabi
Director
1 film together
Notably Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion
Kobun Shizuno
Director
1 film together
Notably Monster Strike the Movie: Lucifer Dawn of Despair
Naoyoshi Shiotani
Director
1 film together
Notably Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector
Takaharu Ozaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Goblin Slayer: Goblin's Crown
Hiromitsu Kanazawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Seitokai Yakuindomo the Movie 2
Atsushi Mimura
Director
1 film together
Notably BanG Dream! Episode of Roselia I: Promise
Kohdai Kakimoto
Director
1 film together
Notably BanG Dream! Poppin'Dream!
Keisuke Inoue
Director
1 film together
Notably My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! The Movie
Takayuki Hamana
Director
1 film together
Notably The Klutzy Witch: Fuuka and the Dark Witch
Tomoya Takahashi
Director
1 film together
Notably Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 1
Kiyotaka Suzuki
Director
1 film together
Notably Mononoke the Movie: Chapter II - The Ashes of Rage
Shoji Kawamori
Director
1 film together
Notably Labyrinth
Tomoaki Koshida
Director
1 film together
Notably Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Tomomi Umetsu
Director
2 films together · 4.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
BanG Dream! FILM LIVE 2nd StageTomoaki Koshida
Director
1 film together · 10.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the SerpentKatsushi 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 OrionNaoyoshi Shiotani
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Psycho-Pass 3: First InspectorHiroshi Nishikiori
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Trinity Seven: Heaven's Library & Crimson LordMari Okada
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Maquia: When the Promised Flower BloomsYasuto 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 SkyTomoya Takahashi
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 1Atsuko Ishizuka
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
No Game No Life: ZeroTakaharu Ozaki
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Goblin Slayer: Goblin's CrownKiyotaka Suzuki
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter II - The Ashes of RageShoji Kawamori
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LabyrinthKeisuke 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 MovieKohdai Kakimoto
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BanG Dream! Poppin'Dream!Hiromitsu Kanazawa
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Seitokai Yakuindomo the Movie 2Atsushi Mimura
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BanG Dream! Episode of Roselia I: PromiseTakayuki Hamana
Director
1 film together · 4.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Klutzy Witch: Fuuka and the Dark WitchKobun Shizuno
Director
1 film together · 3.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Monster Strike the Movie: Lucifer Dawn of DespairSix 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
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
as Fuki Tokita (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 Freya (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
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
as Fuki Tokita (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 1
as Sailor Lead Crow (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
as Fuki Tokita (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. Yoko Hikasa 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
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
as Fuki Tokita (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
as Fuki Tokita (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 1
as Sailor Lead Crow (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
as Fuki Tokita (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
as Fuki Tokita (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the Sky
as Gala (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion
as Freya (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 Fuki Tokita (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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