Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka has 36 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2010s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba.
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2021
Animation · Action
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
2019 · Series · Voice
Top 1%Netflix · Included
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
2020 · Movie · Voice
Top 3%Crunchyroll · Included
The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie
2022 · Movie · Voice
Top 6%Netflix · Included
The Quintessential Quintuplets
2019 · Series · Voice
Top 14%Netflix · Included
The Stranger by the Shore
2020 · Movie · Voice
Top 15%Crunchyroll · Included
Sword Art Online
2012 · Series · Voice
Top 17%Hulu · Included
After a demon attack leaves his family slain and his sister cursed, Tanjiro embarks upon a perilous journey to find a cure and avenge those he's lost.
With Natsuki Hanae, Akari Kito, Hiro Shimono
as Inosuke Hashibira (voice) · Voice
Crunchyroll · Included
Tanjiro Kamado, joined with Inosuke Hashibira, a boy raised by boars who wears a boar's head, and Zenitsu Agatsuma, a scared boy who reveals his true power when he sleeps, boards the Infinity Train on a new mission with the Fire Hashira, Kyojuro Rengoku, to defeat a demon who has been tormenting the people and killing the demon slayers who oppose it!
Dir. Haruo Sotozaki · With Natsuki Hanae, Akari Kito, Hiro Shimono
Six thousand years before Sora and Shiro were even a blink in the history of Disboard, war consumed the land, tearing apart the heavens, destroying stars, and even threatening to wipe out the human race. Amid the chaos and destruction, a young man named Riku leads humanity toward the tomorrow his heart believes in. One day, in the ruins of an Elf city, he meets Schwi, a female exiled "Ex Machina" android who asks him to teach her what it means to have a human heart.
Dir. Atsuko Ishizuka · With Yoko Hikasa, Ai Kayano, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka
as Fuutarou Uesugi (voice) · Voice
Netflix · Included+1
When five lovely young girls who hate studying hire part-time tutor Futaro, he guides not only their education but also their hearts. Time spent has brought them all closer, with feelings growing within the girls and Futaro. As they finish their third year of high school and their last school festival approaches, they set their sights on what’s next. Is there a future with one of them and Futaro?
Dir. Masato Jimbo · With Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Kana Hanazawa, Ayana Taketatsu
as Pegasus / Helios (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
Young chef Soma enters the prestigious Totsuki Culinary Academy, where he must emerge victorious in over-the-top cooking battles or face expulsion.
With Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Ai Kayano, Maaya Uchida
Fuutarou Uesugi is a poor, antisocial ace student who one day meets the rich transfer student Itsuki Nakano. They argue but when Uesugi realizes he is to be her tutor, he tries to get on better terms. While trying to do so he meets four other girls.
With Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Kana Hanazawa, Ayana Taketatsu
Abandoned after coming out, Shun befriends Mio just before he has to move. Years later, Mio returns with a confession. How will Shun feel?
Dir. Akiyo Ohashi · With Taishi Murata, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Yu Shimamura
In the near future, a Virtual Reality Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (VRMMORPG) called Sword Art Online has been released where players control their avatars with their bodies using a piece of technology called Nerve Gear. One day, players discover they cannot log out, as the game creator is holding them captive unless they reach the 100th floor of the game's tower and defeat the final boss. However, if they die in the game, they die in real life. Their struggle for survival starts now...
With Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Haruka Tomatsu, Hiroaki Hirata
as Pegasus / Helios (voice) · Voice
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
as Kirito (voice) · Voice
Crunchyroll · Included
Asuna Yuuki had never played online games until accidentally putting on the NerveGear for Sword Art Online, the world’s first VRMMORPG. She soon finds herself and other players trapped inside a game, where if a player dies in the game, they die in the real world. As she continues to live on in this world where death is always a step away, a solitary swordsman named Kirito appears before her.
Dir. Ayako Kono · With Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Haruka Tomatsu, Inori Minase
as Kazuto Kirigaya / Kirito (voice) · Voice
Hulu · Included+1
In 2026, a new machine called the Augma is developed to compete against the NerveGear and its successor, the Amusphere. A next-gen wearable device, the Augma doesn't have a full-dive function like its predecessors. Instead, it uses Augmented Reality to get players into the game. It is safe, user-friendly and lets users play while they are conscious, making it an instant hit on the market. The most popular game on the system is “Ordinal Scale” an ARMMORPG developed exclusively for the Augma. Asuna and the gang have already been playing OS for a while, by the time Kirito decides to join them. They’re about to find out that Ordinal Scale isn’t all fun and games…
Dir. Tomohiko Ito · With Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Haruka Tomatsu, Kanae Itou
High school soccer players from across Japan gather for a controversial project designed to create the best — and most egoistic — striker in the world.
With Kazuki Ura, Tasuku Kaito, Yuki Ono
as Bell Cranel (voice) · Voice
HIDIVE · Included
The goddess Artemis has sworn to destroy a powerful monster lurking in a distant, ancient city, and she needs Bell’s help to do it. But there is more to Artemis’ quest than meets the eye, and victory will not come easily for Bell and all his friends!
Dir. Katsushi Sakurabi · With Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Inori Minase, Maaya Sakamoto
as Raian Kure (voice) · Voice
It's the ultimate showdown. The toughest fighters from "Baki Hanma" and "Kengan Ashura" clash in this unprecedented, hard-hitting martial arts crossover.
Dir. Toshiki Hirano · With Nobunaga Shimazaki, Tatsuhisa Suzuki, Akio Otsuka
as Kirito (voice) · Voice
Crunchyroll · Included
Over a month has passed since 10,000 users were trapped inside the "Sword Art Online" world. Asuna, who cleared the first floor of the floating iron castle of Aincrad, joined up with Kirito and continued her journey to reach the top floor. With the support of female Information Broker Argo, clearing the floors seemed to be progressing smoothly, but conflict erupts between two major guilds who should be working together – the top player groups ALS (the Aincrad Liberation Squad) and DKB (the Dragon Knights Brigade). And meanwhile, behind the scenes exists a mysterious figure pulling the strings…
Dir. Ayako Kono · With Haruka Tomatsu, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Inori Minase
Kae Serinuma is a second year high school student and an avid fujoshi who secretly ships her classmates, Igarashi and Nanashima. The death of her favorite anime character causes her to become stressed and lose weight rapidly. Now that Serinuma has become an attractive girl to her classmates, snarky junior Shinomiya and senior Mutsumi, how is she going to deal with them with her constant BL-filled fujoshi mind?
With Yu Kobayashi, Keisuke Komoto, Nobunaga Shimazaki
When bashful Miyano meets brash Sasaki, it feels like a teen romance manga come to life — but for these boys, real-world love is messier than fiction.
With Yusuke Shirai, Soma Saito, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka
as Yuuya Tenjou (voice) · Voice
Crunchyroll · Included
A door to another world stretches out before a boy who's been brutally bullied all his life. This alternate reality grants him access to all sorts of things, like cheat skills and a portal that lets him travel between his old and new worlds! Can this class loser turn his life around back home...?
With Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Akari Kito, Kaori Maeda
His past life and current life are intersecting--a boy with memories of two lives faces his destiny! After his mother was killed at an early age, the orphaned Rio fought his hardest to survive in the slums. One day, he awakens to the memories of Haruto Amakwa, who died in an accident while dreaming of being reunited with his childhood friend, and Rio realizing he has reincarnated in a world of swords and sorcery.
With Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Ayaka Suwa, Akane Fujita
as Demon King Tasogare (voice) · Voice
Crunchyroll · Included
When young Princess Syalis is kidnapped and imprisoned by the Demon King, she's rather indifferent about her situation. But she quickly comes to a terrible realisation—she can't sleep soundly in such an uncomfortable bed! She soon escapes her cell and sets off in search of ways to improve her sleep quality, leaving the castle's inhabitants, and even the Demon King himself, scrambling to keep the unruly princess out of trouble during her chaotic adventures.
With Inori Minase, Kaito Ishikawa, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka
Bored with life and considering the real world to be just a “crappy game,” savvy sibling shut-ins Sora and Shiro have withdrawn into their own fantasy world filled with video games. However, one day they find themselves summoned to another world by a boy who calls himself “God,” their abilities are about to be put to the ultimate test! Now not only their fates — but the fate of all of humanity — will be decided by a series of games that may just be the hardest these super-geniuses have ever faced!
With Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Ai Kayano, Yoko Hikasa
In a world where heroism is a punishment, Xylo Forbartz, a condemned goddess killer, battles endless hordes of monstrous abominations as part of Penal Hero Unit 9004. Death is no escape, only a cycle of resurrection and relentless combat. But when Xylo encounters a mysterious new goddess, their unlikely alliance sparks a rebellion that could shatter the chains of eternal punishment.
With Yohei Azakami, Mayu Iizuka, Shizuka Ishigami
On a continent ruled by chaos, the Lords have the power of a holy seal that can calm the chaos and protect the people. However, before anyone realizes it, the rulers cast aside their creed of purifying the chaos, and instead start to fight each other for each other's holy seals to gain dominion over one another. Siluca, an isolated mage who scorns the Lords for abandoning their creed, and a wandering knight named Theo, who is on a journey to train to one day liberate his hometown, make an everlasting oath to work together to reform this continent dominated by wars and chaos.
With Akari Kito, Kentaro Kumagai, Reina Ueda
When a stray black cat named Kuro crosses Mahiru Shirota's path, the high school freshman's life will never be the same again. Kuro is, in fact, no ordinary feline, but a servamp: a servant vampire. While Mahiru's personal philosophy is one of non-intervention, he soon becomes embroiled in an ancient, altogether surreal conflict between vampires and humans.
With Yuuto Suzuki, Takuma Terashima, Yuki Kaji
as Matsuo Takayumi (voice) · Voice
Crunchyroll · Included
Snowflakes aren’t the only things dropping in Hokkaido—so are jaws, thanks to the super adorable gals who are turning the icy north into a hotbed of fashion and fun. Brace yourself for a winter storm of laughs, love, and killer outfits as these gals prove that being cute is an all-season affair. Here, frostbite meets fashionista!
With Ayane Sakura, Nobunaga Shimazaki, Yumiri Hanamori
Goblin Slayer and his party head up to the snowy mountains in the north after receiving that request from the Sword Maiden to find any information on the Noble Fencer that disappeared after leaving to slay some goblins. A small village gets attacked, they encounter a mysterious chapel, and something about how these goblins are acting bothers the Goblin slayer. In order to save the captured Noble Fencer, the Goblin Slayer and his party head to an ancient fortress covered in snow to face off with a powerful foe and a horde of goblins!
Dir. Takaharu Ozaki · With Yuuichirou Umehara, Yui Ogura, Nao Toyama
Tomboy Tomo couldn't have picked a more awkward high school crush 'cause it’s on her childhood friend, Junichiro, but he only sees her as one of the guys. Despite her pretty looks and signals, nothing gets through to this meathead! Will Junichiro ever realize Tomo's into him and see her for the cutesy girl she actually is?!
Dir. Fumita Yanagida · With Rie Takahashi, Kaito Ishikawa, Rina Hidaka
Tsukasa, a college student, is rescued from an attack by a devil, one of many vampires that can blend in among the human population. Anzai, her savior, is a half-devil who exploits his supernatural gifts as a member of a shadowy police task force that specializes in devil-related crime in Tokyo. As Anzai continues to keep guard over Tsukasa, the two quickly forge a tentative bond—one that Anzai fears will test his iron-clad rule of never drinking human blood...
With Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Yui Ishikawa, Ryohei Kimura
This is the story of Tooru Kokonoe who has enrolled at Kouryou Academy, a school which trains students in wielding Blaze, soul powered weapons to prepare them for the Dorn Agency's special peacekeeping corps. When Tooru is partnered with a mysterious girl: Julie Sigtuna, he finds he has to overcome many hurdles to ensure their teamwork and fighting skills are up to par for the duration of their training.
With Nozomi Yamamoto, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Ayaka Suwa
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