Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#18800
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Yuu Asakawa 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.
Yuu Asakawa appears in 6 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Yuu. Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link - is the clearest case: a film rated 9.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, drama. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for science fiction, music, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Hiroyuki Hata, Tomonori Sudo, Chika Nagaoka, Yuu Asakawa 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.
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link - (2022) as Megurine Luka (voice) · COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing (2025) as Luka Megurine (voice) · Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel III. Spring Song (2020) as Rider (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #18800 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
6
2018–2025
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.0
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link -
Average Nutevio score
7.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
9.0
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link -
Most frequent director
Tomonori Sudo
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Tomonori Sudo
Most common genre
Animation
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 46m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.4
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
6.8
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
8.3 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing, Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link -, Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel III. Spring Song — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
8.3
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
8.3
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. Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel II. Lost Butterfly, Case Closed: The Fist of Blue Sapphire, The Testament of Sister New Devil: Departures.
Most productive era
2010s
3 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 | 7.01 film | 7.92 films |
| Action | 6.93 films | 7.71 film |
| Crime | 6.21 film | — |
| Romance | 7.01 film | 7.71 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2018The Testament of Sister New Devil: Departures
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Chisato Hasegawa (voice) / Afreia (voice).
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2022Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link -
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.0 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
2025COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing
The current state of the argument, as Luka Megurine (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.
6 of 6 films
as Megurine Luka (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Luka Megurine (voice)
Directed by Hiroyuki Hata
as Rider (voice)
Directed by Tomonori Sudo
as Chisato Hasegawa (voice) / Afreia (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Rider (voice)
Directed by Tomonori Sudo
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
Megurine Luka (voice)
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link - (2022)
Performance score9.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Megurine Luka (voice) gives Yuu Asakawa a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Luka Megurine (voice)
COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing (2025)
Performance score8.4
COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Luka Megurine (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Rider (voice)
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel III. Spring Song (2020)
Performance score7.5
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel III. Spring Song asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Rider (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Chisato Hasegawa (voice) / Afreia (voice)
The Testament of Sister New Devil: Departures (2018)
Performance score7.4
The Testament of Sister New Devil: Departures asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Chisato Hasegawa (voice) / Afreia (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 Megurine Luka (voice)
Start here. Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link - is the clearest statement of what Yuu Asakawa does — accessible, 125 minutes, and rated 9.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Yuu 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.
The Testament of Sister New Devil: Departures (2018)
Same director as Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link -, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel II. Lost Butterfly (2019)
Keeps the action register of The Testament of Sister New Devil: Departures but asks for a colder reading of it.
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel III. Spring Song (2020)
Same director as Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel II. Lost Butterfly, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing (2025)
Keeps the drama register of Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel III. Spring Song but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Tomonori Sudo
Director
2 films together
Notably Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel III. Spring Song
Chika Nagaoka
Director
1 film together
Notably Case Closed: The Fist of Blue Sapphire
Hiroyuki Hata
Director
1 film together
Notably COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Tomonori Sudo
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
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel III. Spring SongHiroyuki Hata
Director
1 film together · 8.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't SingChika Nagaoka
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Case Closed: The Fist of Blue SapphireSix 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
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link -
as Megurine Luka (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
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel III. Spring Song
as Rider (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
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link -
as Megurine Luka (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Case Closed: The Fist of Blue Sapphire
as Sherilyn Tan (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link -
as Megurine Luka (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. Yuu Asakawa 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
5 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
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link -
as Megurine Luka (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link -
as Megurine Luka (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel III. Spring Song
as Rider (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Case Closed: The Fist of Blue Sapphire
as Sherilyn Tan (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link -
as Megurine Luka (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Case Closed: The Fist of Blue Sapphire
as Sherilyn Tan (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel III. Spring Song
as Rider (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing
as Luka Megurine (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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