Uta

Uta is a world-famous diva and the daughter of Red-Haired Shanks, formerly being a musician in his crew, the Red Hair Pirates, until he left her while she was still a child. She is the main antagonist of One Piece Film: Red.

Appearance
Uta is a young woman with long hair that is white on her left side and red on her right; the colors are perfectly separated at the middle of her scalp. Her hair is arranged into two long ponytails with two circular braids at the end; these circular braids are also seen at the top of her head. Her left eye is shrouded by her white hair. Sometimes, she is seen with a pair of feathery wings on her back, the right one pink and the left one white. Her left eye is shown to be bright purple.

She wears a short white dress ending at her upper thighs; the dress possesses a frilly neckline and a black bow and buttons down the middle. On her left arm, she wears a light blue sleeve that covers the entire arm. Additionally, she wears a set of golden cone-shaped headphones with light-blue bands over her ears. In one of the film's posters, she was also shown wearing a multi-colored jacket with numerous designs scattered on it.

Personality
For the most part, Uta seems to be cheerful and optimistic. She possesses a strong ideal to build a new era of peace and happiness through her voice. She is shown to be highly empathetic, as seen feeling righteous anger for a fan that wrote her a letter after losing loved ones. She also hates pirates, despite, or maybe due to her father being one. However, she is also highly ignorant of pirates in general, perhaps due to purposely distancing herself from them, as seen in Uta Diary #4, where she discovered posters of Donquixote Doflamingo and Charlotte Linlin, and was completely unaware that they were a part of the Seven Warlords of the Sea and the Four Emperors respectively, instead commenting on their fashion and the photo itself.

As a child, Uta acted like a stereotypical diva, being infatuated with jewelry and glamour and not liking to get dirty. She could be overbearing and mean, particularly to other children like Luffy, and though she liked to throw out insults she would cry if her victim insulted her back. She looked down on some of the wilder, more boorish behaviors of her father and his crew, but was still proud of being a member of the Red Hair Pirates.

Shanks
Shanks is Uta's father. They were once very close, however, after he left her on a burning island with Gordon, she became depressed. She does not address him as "father" or any of its synonyms, only referring to him as Shanks; she did this even when she was with him as a member of his crew.

Monkey D. Luffy
For unknown reasons, Uta wants Luffy to quit being a pirate and join her in the New Genisis. She and Luffy were childhood friends.

Abilities and Powers
Uta's singing voice has been appraised as "otherwordly" (別次元), enough to grant her the title of the world's greatest diva. Aside from her singing talents, Uta is also great at music theory, showing amazing skill as a lyricist and composer by having written her most famous songs herself.

Devil Fruit
Uta ate the Uta Uta no Mi, a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit that allows her to transport people's consciousnesses to a virtual space called "Uta World" by singing. Within Uta World, she is essentially all-powerful and able to do whatever she wants.

Weapons
She is seen wielding a spear and a shield. She also has a jetpack that enables her to fly.

Past
As a child, Uta sailed with her father Shanks as a musician in his crew, the Red Hair Pirates. When Uta was 9, the Red Hair Pirates set up a base at Foosha Village in the East Blue. Very soon after landing, Uta met a 7-year-old boy named Monkey D. Luffy who she did not think much of. Uta demonstrated her singing talents at the Partys Bar, to great acclaim. Afterwards, Shanks had Luffy show Uta around the village and surrounding island. Uta and Luffy's clashing personalities caused them to get into many competitions, but a friendship started developing between them as Uta told Luffy about the Red Hair Pirates, which the boy was interested in joining. Luffy took Uta to the top of a windmill to see the sun set over the coast, and it was there when Uta began dreaming of performing a concert for the entire world. Some days later, after the duo raced on boats and encountered the Lord of the Coast, Uta and Luffy were on a coastal cliff. There, Uta told Luffy her dream of using her music to create a "new genesis" in the world.

Later, the Red Hair Pirates prepared to make a temporary voyage out to sea. Luffy attempted to stow away with them, but Uta caught him resulting in his removal. Uta told Luffy to get stronger while she was away and that she would test him upon her return. However, Uta would not make the return trip as she and Shanks would part ways at some point in the voyage, with Shanks only saying cryptically to Luffy later on that she had left to pursue a career as a singer. Uta's separation from Shanks coincided with the latter's involvement in the destruction of Elegia, and Gordon, the former king of said country, began raising her in Shanks' stead. Over the next 12 years, she became popular as a diva after her breakout hit, "New Genesis", became popular. Since then, she had increased her fame by "streaming" her songs and dances worldwide via Den Den Mushi.

One Piece Film: Red
Uta organized a concert on Elegia in order to realize her dream of performing for the whole world.

Playable Appearances

 * One Piece Bounty Rush
 * One Piece Thousand Storm
 * One Piece Treasure Cruise

Trivia

 * "Uta" is the Japanese word for song.
 * Uta was created due to Oda desiring to have a female character star in Film Red, in contrast to the last several films whose major new characters were older men.
 * Uta is the first main female antagonist in a movie.
 * Uta is the only known female member of the Red Hair Pirates.

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