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Uta is a world-famous diva (歌姫, Utahime?) and the adopted daughter of the Emperor Red-Haired Shanks, being a musician in his crew. In the filler Uta's Past Arc, she met and befriended Monkey D. Luffy in Foosha Village when they were both children.[6]
Left behind on Elegia by the Red Hair Pirates to become a singer, Uta trained under the guardianship of the island's former king Gordon for ten years. She then rapidly rose to worldwide success over the last two years, but after coming to learn of the suffering pirates had inflicted on her fans, she concocted a plan to end the Great Pirate Era and create a "New Genesis" where everyone would live in peace in her "Uta World" for eternity. After facing resistance to this plan, Uta ended up summoning the demonic entity Tot Musica, which was defeated by an alliance led by Luffy and Shanks. Remorseful at her actions, Uta rejected a life-saving medicine in order to return everyone from Uta World, leaving her status unknown.[7]
She is the main antagonist of One Piece Film: Red.
Quick Answers
What is the significance of Uta's dream of starting a 'New Era' in One Piece Red?
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What is the story behind Uta's world-wide concert held on Elegia?
Why did Uta try to kill Luffy in the One Piece series?
Appearance
Uta is a young woman of medium height with bright purple eyes and 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.
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 with Monkey D. Luffy's childhood drawing of Shanks' own "straw hat". Additionally, she wears a set of golden cone-shaped headphones with light-blue bands over her ears and she was also shown wearing a multi-colored jacket with numerous designs scattered on it.
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Personality
Uta is a generally cheerful, confident, and idealistic young woman who has loved music since infancy, and loves sharing her singing with those around her. Uta's actions have shown that she values human connection, and will do anything to help those she cares about and make them happy. She had rejected Shanks' offer to stay behind on Elegia and learn music at its prestigious academy, preferring to remain with her father and the family who raised her. When Uta began her music career and started attracting fans, she lived for their support and wanted to repay them by doing anything she could to make their lives better. It was this devotion that triggered Uta's ambitious plot to end the Great Pirate Era in order to eliminate the suffering that pirates inflicted on her fans, in addition to the trauma the Red Hair Pirates had seemingly inflicted on her. Even when she learned that her father and crew had not cruelly abandoned her like she initially thought, Uta saw no other alternative for helping her fans and so went on with her plot.
Uta is devoted to the ideal of peace, wanting everyone to live in a world of eternal happiness, equality, and abundance where violence, oppression, suffering, and even death do not exist. Following her departure from Shanks' crew she has hated pirates, both because of what she had been told the Red Hair Pirates had done to her as well as her fans' accounts of their violent interactions with marauders. When Luffy pressed Uta on what happened between her and Shanks, this caused a rare instance of her lashing out in anger. Uta had a greater respect for the Marines due to their mission of protecting civilians, but expressed grave disappointment upon finding out that they would assist a World Noble in enslaving her; she also became greatly distressed when they began killing her concertgoers to get to her. Although she got into several conflicts with pirates during her concert which she did not shy away from, Uta for the most part did avoid attempting to inflict brutal attacks; instead, she said she would turn her enemies into a "song" and conjured objects by singing to overwhelm opponents in a slapstick way and ultimately trap them on a music staff. Also, when she was threatened by the Marines in the real world, Uta used her concertgoers to fight back but did not try to inflict injury on the soldiers, rather being focused on removing their headgear to send them to Uta World.
However, Uta's ideals of peace and perceptions of the world are colored by spending her entire adolescence in isolation on Elegia, which has rendered her ignorant about much of the world and caused her to go to lengths seen by most of her typical fans as extreme. This is evidenced by her New Genesis plan itself, in which she was fine with slowly killing herself so that just about the entire world could live in a dreamworld for eternity, all because she took her fans' adoration of her so seriously that she was moved to save them from their troubles to the limit of her ability. Uta saw no potential problems with this plan, and ended up being legitimately stunned when the majority of her fanbase told her that they preferred their normal lives, problems and all, over living in a fantasy world forever.
Uta possesses a tremendous level of confidence that often veers into arrogance. She has almost always been shown with a cheerful disposition in front of people, even when conflicting with them, and has no reservations about telling people how she expects them to act, such as telling any pirates she meets that they should cease this lifestyle. Uta's extreme confidence is boosted in Uta World, as she is all-powerful there and knows that she can easily inflict disclipine against anyone resisting the ideals of her new era. Uta is not even afraid of the Celestial Dragons, in part due to only knowing about them from a book, but also because she is confident in her ability to handle their military backing. Because of this, she attacked Saint Charlos and his guards with no hesitation after the noble attempted to enslave her. Uta's confidence in her plot carried over to the real world too, as despite being confronted by a massive Marine fleet led by two admirals, she did not back down as she knew she could hold them at bay with her controlled concertgoers. She was even arrogant enough to believe that she could use Tot Musica as a trump card in her favor despite Gordon's warnings and her knowledge of the first time she summoned it, although it was implied that she had reservations about summoning it until her opponents fully overwhelmed her and she started breaking down.
As noted by Sanji, Uta's actions during her New Genesis plot were influenced by her consumption of wake-shrooms, which caused her to act irrationally and lose her emotional regulation. When her audience began to resist her plot, Uta's inability to comprehend their desire coupled with her degrading mental state caused her to snap and transform them into inanimate objects despite their distress. During her final confrontation with Luffy shortly afterward and her concurrent reunion with Shanks in the real world, Uta struggled to maintain her composure and had multiple outbursts of laughing and anger. She even reached the point where she felt compelled to murder her childhood friend Luffy in cold blood in order to start her new era, being on the verge of plunging a knife through his chest while he slept and later attempting to impale him in Uta World. Uta's sanity slippage caused her to blur her distinction between the real world and Uta World, leading to her fruitlessly attempting to magically heal a concertgoer who had been shot in the real world. However, when Uta became absorbed by Tot Musica and was barraged by negative emotions blaming her for all of this, she retained the clarity to reject them and reaffirm her commitment to the New Genesis despite her past mistakes.
Following the defeat of Tot Musica, Uta became remorseful for her actions and negative beliefs about her father. To atone for her mistake, she elected to take the necessary steps to restore everyone trapped in Uta World rather than take a medicine to save her own life, despite being on the verge of death. After years of feeling compelled to solve everyone's problems on her own, Uta took solace and comfort in acting with the help of Shanks and his crew once again.[7]
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.[3] Uta has a competitive streak that was especially brought out with Luffy during their childhood, as the two of them engaged in all sorts of competitions for bragging rights. Uta was not above finding ways to distract Luffy to allow her to win, and her rivalry with him was shown to not have changed one bit when they reunited as adults.[7]
Relationships
Shanks
Shanks is Uta's adoptive father, though 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 due to the respect she had for him as a great pirate. They once had a very close relationship, though her view changed after he left her on Elegia with Gordon after the island's destruction. Seeing the Red Hair Pirates leave the burning island with all of its treasures with the false belief that the pirates were responsible, she grew a hatred for her father and his crew, which persisted even after she found out they were innocent concerning Elegia's destruction. After Shanks and Monkey D. Luffy destroyed Tot Musica with the help of their allies, Shanks and Uta rekindled their relationship, and Shanks once again declared her his daughter and part of his family, causing her to tear up.[7]
Monkey D. Luffy
Uta and Luffy were childhood friends and rivals, constantly entering competition only for Uta to win by distracting Luffy.[7] She takes joy in the fact that Luffy always claims to be winner, even though he always loses. When Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates come to her concert, she is delighted to see him again and reminisces their joyful past together. However, after Luffy declares he wants to become Pirate King, Uta shows her disdain for pirates and attempts to convince Luffy to quit being a pirate and join her in the New Genesis.[9] However, after seeing his determination in saving her fans and herself from Tot Musica, she regains respect for her friend and tells him that she believes in his dream to become the Pirate King.[7]
Red Hair Pirates
Uta held a large amount of mutual admiration for the crew of her father as a child, seeing them part of her family. After she was abandoned on Elegia with Gordon, her view of them changed, and she grew to despise them and all pirates, even despite eventually finding out they were innocent. However, seeing the crew protect the fans she ordered to attack them and even shield them from Marine bullets with their own bodies, she regained her respect for them. After this, she sees the crew as part of her family again.[7]
Gordon
Gordon raised Uta after the destruction of Elegia. While he acted as her foster parent, he was also her singing teacher, teaching her how to develop her singing abilities further. Although a mutual respect is implied to have existed, it disappeared after she told him about her plan due to his vehement opposition. When Gordon attempts to protect Monkey D. Luffy from Uta's attacks and gets injured, Uta is shocked, implying she still cares about him.
Abilities and Powers
Uta's singing voice has been appraised as "otherwordly" (別次元, betsu jigen?), enough to grant her the title of the world's greatest diva;[2] even Brook, a world-famous musical performer in his own right, claimed to be inferior to her. 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.[10]
Managing to amass a worldwide fandom in only two years without holding any in-person concerts, Uta has been recognized for the tremendous sway she has over the entire world; her first real concert, which was also broadcast through Den Den Mushi, was estimated to have been watched by 70 percent of the world's population. Nico Robin called her the world's most beloved person, and most of the people who attended the Elegia concert showed unwavering devotion to Uta, to the point where she was able to mobilize them as an army to hunt down enemy pirates. Uta's influence was monitored by the Five Elders themselves; even before learning of the nature of her power, they were wary of the capacity she had for causing an uprising.
In terms of physical prowess, Uta has not displayed any superior abilities outside of being a talented dancer, fully relying on her Devil Fruit ability to compensate. In fact, when Monkey D. Luffy fought her, he never actually directly attacked her body, knowing that he could potentially kill her if he did. She also does not have a lot of stamina since she usually would fall asleep after only a few songs. To enact her New Genesis plot, she counteracted this weakness by continuously consuming wake-shrooms in order to last for hours.
Devil Fruit
- Further information: Uta Uta no Mi
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. People who are sent to Uta World will fall asleep in the real world, and Uta is capable of controlling their bodies with her mind. However, Uta can only maintain this world if she remains awake, and using the power will quickly drain her stamina and cause her to fall asleep.
Uta used this power to its limits in her New Genesis plot, as she knew she could have her fans live an ideal life for eternity in Uta World by using wake-shrooms to maintain it until she died, which would separate Uta World from the real world forever. Everyone who heard Uta's concert became trapped in this world, with no way to get out on their own. With 70% of the global population affected, the Five Elders knew that Uta's death would trigger a population crisis of apocalyptic proportions in the real world.
Uta is also capable of using her powers to summon Tot Musica, a legendary demonic entity whose power is feared by even the strongest figures in the Marines and government. While she had planned to summon it to fight on her side if necessary, it appears that Tot Musica's power is too great even for her to handle, as it absorbed her both times she summoned it.[7]
Weapons
When fighting in Uta World, Uta conjured a spear and a shield multiple times and impaled Gordon with the former. In the real world she had a knife, which she nearly used to murder Luffy.[7]
History
Canon
Nineteen years ago, Uta's hometown was attacked by pirates, resulting in her parents' deaths. The pirate crew kidnapped Uta, but as they set out to sail, they ran into the Red Hair Pirates; the two crews fought with the Red Hair Pirates emerging victorious. After claiming the pirates' treasure, Shanks discovered 2-year-old Uta in one of the treasure chests. With no way of finding her real family and recalling how he himself was found as a baby by the Roger Pirates in a similar manner, Shanks saw this encounter as fate and decided to raise her as his own daughter.[4]
As an infant, Uta regularly cried, which kept the whole crew awake throughout the night. While trying to figure out a solution, he noticed a mother singing a lullaby to her own child. As such, whenever Uta was upset, the crew banded together to sing for her, which made the infant very happy.[11]
Uta did visit Foosha Village with the Red Hair Pirates at some point.[12] However, she was then left on Elegia by the crew and separated from her father Shanks. Uta grew up to become a famous singer and songwriter and gained many fans, who told her of the suffering they were going through.[13]
During the Wano Country Arc, Shanks thought of Uta as he asked Admiral Ryokugyu whether the admiral was underestimating the new age of pirates.[1]
The following events are non-canon, and therefore not considered part of the canon story.
Non-Canon
Past
Raised by Pirates
Uta as an infant discovered by the Red Hair Pirates.
An infant Uta was found in a treasure chest by the Red Hair Pirates, and Shanks decided to raise her as his daughter.[7] Growing up, Uta found her own passion for singing and became the crew's official musician. At some point before turning 9, Uta ate the Uta Uta no Mi, giving her the ability to transfer people's souls into her "Uta World" with her singing.
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, whom she did not think much of. Uta demonstrated her singing talents at 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.[3] 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.[6]
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.[6]
Tragedy on Elegia
Uta unknowingly finds Tot Musica's music sheets.
Uta then traveled with the Red Hair Pirates to Elegia, which was known for its talented musicians. Shanks allowed Uta to train herself in the art of singing under the apprenticeship of Elegia's king, Gordon, though Uta insisted that she would much rather stay with Shanks and his crew, the people of Elegia immediately recognized her as a prodigy, resulting in her increased popularity. However, the tombs inside the island containing the demon Tot Musica also recognized her Musical talents, causing the note sheets containing the key to releasing the demon to end up in Uta's hands. Unbeknownst to what the note sheets contained, Uta sang the song described on it and released the demon. Despite the efforts of Shanks and his crew to stop it, the demon destroyed the island and massacred the population before it was only stopped when Uta exhausted herself.
Uta is left behind by her former caretakers.
Afterwards, to save Uta from the guilt of the destruction of the island, Shanks made the decision to publicly take the blame for what happened. In order to let her develop into a proper singer, he left Uta with the only other survivor, Gordon, and took off with the island's treasures. Uta regained consciousness just in time to see them depart and was distraught with their betrayal and her own abandonment.[7]
Life on Elegia and Rise to Stardom
Uta would then spend years on Elegia with Gordon as her caretaker; he would constantly try to keep her happy by teaching her to sing and preparing meals for her, though her isolated life would make her feel very lonely.
Two years ago, Uta discovered several of the SSG's Transmission Den Den Mushi which had washed ashore. She used these to reach out to people all over the world and sing to them, and she quickly rose to fame with the song "New Genesis" serving as her breakout hit. Uta communicated with her fans with the Den Den Mushi, and they informed her of their miserable circumstances due to pirates and wished to listen to her music forever. Taking these wishes literally along with the yearning for herself to escape into a better world, she thought up a plan called New Genesis to end the pain and suffering of the people in the world and replace them with peace and happiness by bringing as many people as possible into the Uta World. She would then maintain Uta World by eating wake-shrooms to stay awake until the deadly fungal eventually killed her, trapping everyone in Uta World forever.
Uta would find out a year later that the Red Hair Pirates were innocent and that Tot Musica was the one responsible for the island's destruction by finding a recording of the Incident, and thus had begun to yearn for Shanks and his crew as she felt guilty about resenting them but she kept on maintaining her hatred of pirates for the sake of her fans.[7]
Wano Country Saga
Uta's Past Arc
Uta stood alone on the coast of Elegia and proclaimed that she was about to make her dream of performing a concert for the whole world come true. She reminisced on her childhood with Monkey D. Luffy and her departure from Shanks before going to prepare for the concert.[6]
One Piece Film: Red
Uta makes her debut appearance on her first live concert.
Once she was ready to act out her plan, Uta launched her first live concert, attracting people from across the world. By streaming her concert, she ensured the containment of people unable to visit her concert physically. As soon as she started singing, she sent every listener into the Uta World, and having consumed wake-shrooms, she ensured that she would remain awake unto death.
Uta reunited with Luffy.
After performing her first song "New Genesis", Luffy came onstage to reunite with Uta for the first time in 12 years. Uta was happy to see Luffy and embraced him. However, the Big Mom Pirates and Jellyfish Pirates then came onstage as well to try and capture Uta. Luffy and his crew, the Straw Hat Pirates, moved to defend Uta, but she said there was no need as she performed "I'm Invincible". During the course of this song, she summoned many soldiers and other tools to overwhelm the attacking pirates, eventually culminating in trapping them on a giant music staff.
Uta then conjured food, toys, and other pleasures for the concertgoers to enjoy as she took a break in the concert. She approached Luffy and the Straw Hats and challenged Luffy to an eating competition like the ones they used to have as children, conjuring meat and a bull to charge at them. As they competed, Uta conjured some juice to distract Luffy with, allowing her to win while Luffy was hit by the bull. Afterwards, Luffy revealed to Uta that he was a pirate now and intended to become the Pirate King, but she told him he should quit being a pirate and instead live on Elegia with her forever. Luffy refused, though, and Uta quickly grew hostile at this. Singing "Backlight", she went on the offensive against the Straw Hats, overwhelming them with her conjures and trapping all of them except for Luffy, whom Trafalgar Law managed to teleport away using Shambles.
Uta enlisted the aid of the devoted concertgoers to assist her in finding the escaped pirates, and created a large contraption out of instruments and musical notes to aid in the pursuit. She and the mob pursued Luffy's group to a cathedral where Gordon had housed them, and Luffy asked Uta why she had left the Red Hair Pirates. Uta angrily declared that she did not wish to talk about Shanks as she trapped Luffy and seized the straw hat that Shanks had given him, but Law was able to teleport the group away once again. As her mob went looking for them, Uta stayed behind to confront Gordon. Gordon pleaded with her not to go forward with her plan out of fear for her safety, but Uta revealed she possessed the song "Tot Musica" and intended to use it if necessary. Gordon cautioned her against doing this, but Uta did not listen as she trapped her other father on a staff.
Uta confronted by the Marines.
In the real world, Uta was sitting surrounded by the sleeping bodies of the concertgoers when a Marine fleet led by Admirals Kizaru and Fujitora arrived to confront her. The Marine soldiers donned ear protection to prevent Uta from taking them to Uta World, but Uta responded by taking control of the concertgoers. With the Marines unwilling to use force against them, she used the concertgoers to overwhelm their forces and remove their protection as she sang "Fleeting Lullaby".
Back in Uta World, Uta resumed her concert but was soon confronted by the World Noble Saint Charlos, who wanted to take her as a slave. However, since she controlled everything Uta was unafraid of his status and trapped the Marines sent to do his bidding before assaulting Charlos with music notes and trapping him on a staff as well. Uta proclaimed to the crowd that they no longer needed to fear the Celestial Dragons and that everyone would be equal in this world. However, Koby and Blueno then arrived onstage, and Koby revealed to the concertgoers that Uta had taken them out of reality. Uta tried to assure her fans that they were better off like this, but after some deliberation the majority of the crowd wished to go back to the real world. Stunned at her fans' resistance and growing more mentally unstable from the wake-shrooms, Uta submerged the concert arena with a liquid that transformed everyone into toys and food, though Koby and Blueno barely managed to escape.
Uta prepares to kill Luffy.
Sometime later, Luffy arrived to confront Uta. He could not bring himself to attack her and so tried convincing her to free everyone, but Uta remained steadfast in her goal. Luffy asked why she hated pirates now, and Uta told him the erroneous account of how Shanks and his crew abandoned her on Elegia after supposedly destroying and plundering it. Intending to kill Luffy to mark the end of the Great Pirate Era, Uta moved to put a knife through his heart in the real world, but was stopped by the arrival of Shanks and the Red Hair Pirates. Uta simply laughed at her father's arrival and sent the concertgoers to attack her former crewmates, while in the Uta World several of Luffy's crewmates and allies arrived to assist him against Uta.
Despite Uta's initial confidence, the Marines received orders to fire on the concertgoers in order to seize her, while Bartolomeo managed to nullify her powers in the Uta World by encasing her in a soundproof barrier. Growing more distressed and unstable, Uta unveiled her trump card and sang "Tot Musica" to summon the titular being. The song allowed her to shatter Bartolomeo's barrier, and Tot Musica quickly manifested itself. As Luffy raced to stop Uta, she conjured a spear to kill him, but the spear was intercepted by Gordon. Gordon revealed to Uta what really happened on the night Elegia was destroyed, but due to already knowing and being set on her goal regardless, Uta remained hostile toward Luffy before being consumed by Tot Musica as it reached the Third Movement form.
Uta is comforted by Shanks.
The pirates in the real world and Uta World eventually managed to defeat Tot Musica with simultaneous attacks, but since it had already consumed Elegia in Uta World those inside it were not sent back. Shanks went to Uta and told her to take a medicine that would put her to sleep immediately and save her from the wake-shrooms, but Uta rejected it in order to bring back everyone. She did so by singing "The World's Continuation", and before Luffy departed Uta World, she spoke to him and gave him his straw hat back, telling him to become a man even more worthy of it one day. Afterwards, Uta apologized to Shanks for not believing he would return and thanked him. The Marines moved to seize her, but Shanks declared that she was his daughter and forced them to stand down with his Supreme King Haki. Uta then departed the island together with her father and his crew on the Red Force; later, the crew was shown standing over what appeared to be a coffin with Uta not standing with them,[7] though her ultimate fate remains unknown.[14][15]
Concludes non-canon section.
Major Battles
- Uta and her soldiers vs. the Straw Hat Pirates
Merchandise
Songs
- New Genesis
- I'm Invincible
- Backlight
- Fleeting Lullaby
- The World's Continuation
- Tot Musica
- Where the Wind Blows
Other Appearances
Video Games
- Playable Appearances
- One Piece Bounty Rush
- One Piece Thousand Storm
- One Piece Treasure Cruise
- One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 (DLC)
Early Concepts
Early concept art of Uta.
Uta was originally going to be named Deborah (デボラ, Debora?), with red-and-pink hair or pink-and-blue hair.
In early drafts of Film: Red, her Devil Fruit ability allowed her to control others. However, as this would have made it difficult for both Luffy and Shanks to be involved in the story, it was changed to an ability that would allow them to be separated in different worlds.[14]
Other early ideas considered included Uta being a new artist rather than an international star, ultimately changed because Taniguchi believed that viewings in theatres deserved more spectacle, and a plot line where she was being manipulated by a mastermind figure, abandoned because it put too much focus on her internal struggles and didn't mesh well with her fighting Luffy.[16]
Trivia
Shanks with Luffy and Uta on alternate cover of Volume 104.
- "Uta" (歌) is the Japanese word for "song, poetry".
- Uta was created due to Eiichiro 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.[17]
- The idea of a younger female character was partly inspired by Tophamhat-Kyo's song "Princess♂", which Oda frequently listened to at the time of the movie's initial planning.[18]
- Uta is the first main female antagonist in a One Piece movie.
- The alternate cover of Volume 104 depicts Uta and Luffy in their childhood, together with Shanks.
- Uta is the second movie main antagonist who knew a member of the Straw Hat Pirates back when they both were children, following Saga from the fifth movie.
- Uta's birthday, October 1, falls on International Music Day.[15]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 104 Chapter 1055 (p. 17) and Episode 1082, Shanks thinks about the next generation.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 The identity of the mysterious girl who holds the key to the story is “Uta,” the daughter of the Red-Haired Shanks!. One Piece Film: Red Official Site.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 One Piece Anime — Episode 1029, Uta's past.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Volume 4000000000 "RED".
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Volume 4／4 "UTA".
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 One Piece Anime — Episode 1030.
- ↑ 7.00 7.01 7.02 7.03 7.04 7.05 7.06 7.07 7.08 7.09 7.10 7.11 7.12 One Piece Movie — One Piece Film: Red.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 One Piece Magazine Vol.15 (p. 58), Concept art of Uta at various points in her life lists her ages.
- ↑ "Character visuals of the mysterious girl have arrived, and advance ticket sales begin on Friday, April 15!". One Piece Film: Red Official Site.
- ↑ Weekly Shonen Jump 2022 Issue 35 (p. 9), The story of "New Genesis"
- ↑ Volume 4／4 "UTA", Uta's Special 1-Page Manga "Where the Wind Blows"
- ↑ Volume 4／4 "UTA", Uta's Special 1-Page Manga "The World's Continuation"
- ↑ Volume 4／4 "UTA", Uta's Special 1-Page Manga "New Genesis"
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 One Piece Film: Red Audio Commentary
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Volume 4000000001 "Encore", Author's Note, Oda confirms Uta's unknown status and mentions her birthday falling on International Music Day.
- ↑ One Piece Magazine Vol.15 (p. 40), Interview with Goro Taniguchi.
- ↑ Official Film Website - Comment by Eiichiro Oda
- ↑ One Piece Magazine Vol.15 (p. 51), Interview with Eiichiro Oda.
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