Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#771
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Yuma Uchida 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.
Yuma Uchida appears in 30 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Yuma. Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad 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, emotional range. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for science fiction, fantasy, music. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Shoji Kawamori, Kei Oikawa, Shinsuke Yanagi and others, Yuma Uchida 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.
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad (2021) as Ultraman Tregear · Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy (2021) as Ultraman Tregear · How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film (2020) as Rio (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #771 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
30
2018–2026
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad
Average Nutevio score
7.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad
Most frequent director
Soichi Masui
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Soichi Masui
Most common genre
Animation
27 titles
Average runtime
1h 29m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.2
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
7.1
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
2020s
7.5 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Cosmic Princess Kaguya!, Labyrinth, Chiikawa the Movie: The Secret of the Mermaid Island — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.5
Across 26 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
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. Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl, For Whom the Alchemist Exists, Utano Princesama Maji LOVE Kingdom.
Most productive era
2020s
26 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 | 7.82 films | 7.49 films |
| Action | — | 7.48 films |
| Comedy | — | 7.53 films |
| Romance | 7.33 films | 7.19 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2018I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Takahiro (voice).
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance
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.
Career peak
2021Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026Chiikawa the Movie: The Secret of the Mermaid Island
The current state of the argument, as Rakko (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.
30 of 30 films
as Ultraman Tregear
Directed by Koichi Sakamoto
as Ultraman Tregear
Directed by Koichi Sakamoto
as Rio (voice)
Directed by Fumie Muroi
as Rai Komazawa (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Ritsuka Uenoyama (voice)
Directed by Noriko Hashimoto
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
Ultraman Tregear
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy (2021)
Performance score9.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Ultraman Tregear gives Yuma Uchida a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Ultraman Tregear
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad (2021)
Performance score9.5
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ultraman Tregear is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Rio (voice)
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film (2020)
Performance score9.5
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Rio (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Rai Komazawa (voice)
Cosmic Princess Kaguya! (2026)
Performance score8.3
Cosmic Princess Kaguya! asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Rai Komazawa (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 Ultraman Tregear
Start here. Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy is the clearest statement of what Yuma Uchida does — accessible, 103 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Yuma 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.
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad (2021)
Keeps the animation register of How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film but asks for a colder reading of it.
given the Movie: To the Sea (2024)
Keeps the animation register of Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad but asks for a colder reading of it.
Cosmic Princess Kaguya! (2026)
Keeps the animation register of given the Movie: To the Sea but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Koichi Sakamoto
Director
3 films together
Notably Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad
Soichi Masui
Director
3 films together
Notably Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid
Noriko Hashimoto
Director
2 films together
Notably given the Movie: To the Sea
Shoji Kawamori
Director
2 films together
Notably Macross Delta: Zettai Live!!!!!!
Shinichiro Ushijima
Director
1 film together
Notably I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
Jouji Furuta
Director
1 film together
Notably Utano Princesama Maji LOVE Kingdom
Masanori Takahashi
Director
1 film together
Notably For Whom the Alchemist Exists
Fumie Muroi
Director
1 film together
Notably How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
Hikaru Yamaguchi
Director
1 film together
Notably Given
Hiroyuki Seshita
Director
1 film together
Notably Knights of Sidonia: Love Woven in the Stars
Yoshihide Ibata
Director
1 film together
Notably Fruits Basket -prelude-
Hiroaki Akagi
Director
1 film together
Notably Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie
Yasuhito Kikuchi
Director
1 film together
Notably That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond
Shinji Ishihira
Director
1 film together
Notably Sasaki and Miyano: Graduation
Shunsuke Ishikawa
Director
1 film together
Notably BLUE LOCK THE MOVIE -EPISODE NAGI-
Shota Goshozono
Director
1 film together
Notably JUJUTSU KAISEN: Execution
Shinsuke Yanagi
Director
1 film together
Notably Senpai Is an Otokonoko Movie: Sunshine After the Rain
Kei Oikawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Chiikawa the Movie: The Secret of the Mermaid Island
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Koichi Sakamoto
Director
3 films together · 9.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined CrossroadSoichi Masui
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
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack KidNoriko Hashimoto
Director
2 films together · 7.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
given the Movie: To the SeaShoji Kawamori
Director
2 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Macross Delta: Zettai Live!!!!!!Fumie 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 FilmHiroaki Akagi
Director
1 film together · 8.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Teasing Master Takagi-san: The MovieShinichiro Ushijima
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I Want to Eat Your PancreasHikaru Yamaguchi
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GivenShunsuke Ishikawa
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BLUE LOCK THE MOVIE -EPISODE NAGI-Shinsuke Yanagi
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Senpai Is an Otokonoko Movie: Sunshine After the RainYasuhito Kikuchi
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet BondKei Oikawa
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Chiikawa the Movie: The Secret of the Mermaid IslandYoshihide Ibata
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fruits Basket -prelude-Shinji Ishihira
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sasaki and Miyano: GraduationJouji 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 KingdomHiroyuki Seshita
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Knights of Sidonia: Love Woven in the StarsShota Goshozono
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
JUJUTSU KAISEN: ExecutionMasanori Takahashi
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
For Whom the Alchemist ExistsSix 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
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad
as Ultraman Tregear
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 Rio (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 Rio (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad
as Ultraman Tregear
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy
as Ultraman Tregear
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. Yuma Uchida 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
27 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
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy
as Ultraman Tregear
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy
as Ultraman Tregear
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Chiikawa the Movie: The Secret of the Mermaid Island
as Rakko (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid
as Yuma Kunimi (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy
as Ultraman Tregear
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Delicious Party Precure Movie: Dreaming Children's Lunch!
as Takumi Shinada / Black Pepper (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Senpai Is an Otokonoko Movie: Sunshine After the Rain
as Ryuuji Taiga (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island
as Marcos (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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