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Rina Sato has 14 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 3 rank in the Top 10%, led by Violet Evergarden: The Movie.
2020
Animation · Drama

Violet Evergarden: The Movie
2020 · Movie · Voice
Top 5%Netflix · Included

Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms
2018 · Movie · Voice
Top 7%Prime Video · Included

Classroom of the Elite
2017 · Series · Voice
Top 13%Crunchyroll · Included

Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 1
2021 · Movie · Voice
Top 17%Netflix · Included

AHO-GIRL
2017 · Series · Actor
Top 27%Crunchyroll · Included

Sailor Moon Crystal
2014 · Series · Voice
Top 28%Netflix · Included

As the world moves on from the war and technological advances bring changes to her life, Violet still hopes to see her lost commanding officer again.
Dir. Taichi Ishidate · With Yui Ishikawa, Daisuke Namikawa, Takehito Koyasu

Fleeing the war, the immortal Machia, graced with eternal youth, finds a baby abandoned in the forest and decides to raise it as her own child, sparking a moving story between a mortal and a being who does not age.
Dir. Mari Okada · With Manaka Iwami, Miyu Irino, Yuuki Sakurai

as Rei Hino / Eternal Sailor Mars (voice) · Voice
While under the care of the Outer Sailor Guardians, Hotaru begins to age rapidly. Then, the time comes for all the Sailor Guardians to reunite!
Dir. Chiaki Kon · With Kotono Mitsuishi, Misato Fukuen, Hisako Kanemoto

Kiyotaka Ayanokouji enrolls at the prestigious Tokyo Koudo Ikusei Academy, but is assigned to Class 1-D, where students with behavioral problems are housed. The school awards points equivalent to 100,000 yen per month and allows unusual freedom in classes, masking a more complex system.
With Shoya Chiba, Akari Kito, Ayana Taketatsu

as Rei Hino / Super Sailor Mars (voice) · Voice
Netflix · Included
After a total solar eclipse, a dark circus troupe appears, Mamoru is stricken with a mysterious malady and bad things start happening across the city. Sequel to the Sailor Moon Crystal TV series.
Dir. Chiaki Kon · With Kotono Mitsuishi, Misato Fukuen, Hisako Kanemoto

She is Yoshiko Hanabatake, and she's an idiot through and through. She loves bananas, and she loves her childhood friend Akkun. That is all!
With Aoi Yuuki, Tomokazu Sugita, Sayaka Harada

Usagi Tsukino is chosen to be a guardian of justice and is sent on a quest to locate a Silver Crystal before the Dark Kingdom invades the Earth.
With Kotono Mitsuishi, Hisako Kanemoto, Rina Sato

In the not-too-distant future, androids have come into common usage. However, treating androids on the same level as humans is frowned upon, and there is constant paranoia surrounding the possibility of robots defying humans, their masters. Those who appear too trustworthy of their androids are chided and labeled as "android-holics". Rikuo Sakisaka, who has taken robots for granted for his entire life, one day discovers that Sammy, his home android, has been acting independently and coming and going on her own. He finds a strange phrase recorded in her activity log, "Are you enjoying the time of EVE?". He, along with his friend Masakazu Masaki, traces Sammy's movements and finds an unusual café. Nagi, the barista, informs them that the café's main rule is to not discriminate between humans and androids. While Rikuo tries to reveal Sammy's intentions, he begins to question the legitimacy of the fear that drives humans to regard androids as nothing more than mere tools.
Dir. Yasuhiro Yoshiura · With Jun Fukuyama, Rie Tanaka, Kenji Nojima

The anime's setting is a fictional Japanese city named Sugomori City. One day, Noriko Sonosaki tells her classmate Katsuhira Agata, "You have been selected to be a Kiznaiver." The Kizuna System, which allows Katsuhira to share his wounds, connects him to the classmates whose lives and personalities completely differ from his. The Kizuna System is an incomplete system for the implementation of world peace that connects people through wounds. All those who are connected to this system are called Kiznaivers. When one Kiznaiver is wounded, the system divides and transmits the wound among the other Kiznaivers. Sugomori City is built on reclaimed land, but as the years go by, the city's population is decreasing. The story is set in this town where Katsuhira and the others live.
Dir. Mari Okada · With Yuki Kaji, Koutaro Nishiyama, Rina Sato

Ren Amamiya is about to enter his second year after transferring to Shujin Academy in Tokyo. Following a particular incident, his Persona awakens, and together with his friends, they form the “Phantom Thieves of Hearts” to reform hearts of corrupt adults by stealing the source of their distorted desires. Meanwhile, bizarre and inexplicable crimes have been popping up one after another… Living an ordinary high school life in Tokyo during the day, the group maneuvers the metropolitan city as Phantom Thieves after hours. Let the curtain rise for this grand, picaresque story!
With Jun Fukuyama, Ikue Otani, Mamoru Miyano

as Sunohara Ayaka
Shiina Aki is constantly being treated like a girl due to his feminine looks so he decides to move to Tokyo to attend middle school in an attempt to change himself. However what awaits him in his new home, Sunohara-sou, is the kind-hearted caretaker, Sunohara Ayaka. Along with the three female members of Aki's new middle school's student council, Yukimoto Yuzu, Yamanashi Sumire & Kazami Yuri. And so begins Aki's new life in Tokyo living with 4 girls.
With Eri Kitamura, Yume Miyamoto, Megumi Nakajima

Touma Kamijou is a student living in Academy City, a highly advanced place in terms of technology. Despite being gauged as a level zero esper (no powers), he possesses on his right hand the Imagine Breaker, an ability that negates any power whatsoever. Touma finds a young girl named Index who is trying to run away from Necessarius, a powerful magic organization that she is member of. Blessed with the skill of memorizing any sort of information, she holds 103,000 forbidden magical books within her head. As science and magic cross paths, Touma must face several dangers amid espers and magicians who appear in the exciting scientific town.
With Atsushi Abe, Yuka Iguchi, Rina Sato

Misaka's electro-manipulation skills - and her delightfully destructive railgun projectile movement - make her a rock star in Academy City. The techno-metropolis is filled with supernaturally powerful students known as Espers, including Misaka's flirtatious friend and roommate, Shirai Kuroko. She uses her teleportation skills as a member of the Judgment law enforcement team, fighting crime alongside fellow agent Uiharu. Joined by their friend Saten, a spunky Level 0 Esper, Misaka, Kuroko, and Uiharu have a blast taking on danger whenever and wherever it arises.
With Rina Sato, Satomi Arai, Aki Toyosaki

On the planet Latimer, Takeshi Kovacs must protect a tattooist while investigating the death of a yakuza boss alongside a no-nonsense CTAC.
Dir. Yoshiyuki Okada, Takeru Nakajima · With Tatsuhisa Suzuki, Rina Sato, Ayaka Asai
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