Fans have been looking forward to news about One Piece Film: RED since it was first announced in 2021. With less than a week left for the movie’s premiere, the hype is at its peak.
The fandom has been going crazy with new official trailers, teasers, and posters being dropped regularly on YouTube and Twitter. Judging by the production quality, visuals, and music, we can expect this movie to be a banger!
Today we take a look at One Piece Film: RED in detail, covering plot points, premiere dates, character details, and more.
1. One Piece Film: RED
One Piece Film: RED is the newest movie of the One Piece franchise. The film will feature “Red Haired” Shanks and introduce his daughter Uta as a new major character.
The film was first announced on November 21, 2022, commemorating the One Piece anime’s episode 1000 release.
It will be directed by Goro Taniguchi, known for directing the Code Geass series, with screenplay by Tsutomu Kuroiwa from One Piece Film: Gold.
The One Piece anime will take a break from Wano to prepare for the movie. Episodes 1029 to 1031 are set to focus on the relationship between Luffy and Uta as a build-up to One Piece Film: RED.
The movie will probably not be canon to the main story due to the references and occurrences taken from different points in the main timeline (as discussed ahead).
2. Plot
Uta, an amazing singer with an ‘otherworldly’ voice, is renowned for concealing her own identity when performing. For the first time ever, Uta will reveal herself to the world at a live concert. At her concert, she plans on creating a new era where everyone is happy, and no one has to suffer ever again.
Luffy and Uta were very close as kids and were both fond of “Red Haired” Shanks. They also shared a similar dream of beginning a new era. Once the Straw Hat Pirates show up for her concert, it is revealed that Uta is the daughter of Shanks.
Uta has the power of the Song-Song Devil Fruit (Uta-Uta no Mi). Her power allows her to put people to sleep by singing and transports their consciousness to a dream world she has complete control over. The only way to break her power is by falling asleep herself.
The burning village we see in the trailer is caused by Uta when she sings a forbidden song that awakens an ancient monster. The monster destroys the entire island, but Shanks fights it off.
Shanks doesn’t want Uta to be targeted for her power all her life, so he frames himself for destroying the island and goes away, leaving Uta to be raised by Gordon.
After being abandoned by Shanks, the lonely young girl Uta develops a distaste for pirates because she believes all they do is cause pain to people. She turns her sorrow into her driving force to become a great singer that will make everyone ‘happy’ with her voice.
3. Premiere
One Piece Film: RED is set to release in Japan on August 6, 2022. It will be the 15th movie in the One Piece franchise. The movie’s release date for the rest of the world is still uncertain but is expected to release somewhere in October.
The delay between the Japanese release and worldwide release is because the movie must undergo subbing and dubbing before being screened in other regions.
The anime streaming service Crunchyroll will be responsible for the theatrical distribution of the movie in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
4. Characters
One Piece Film RED will feature many famous characters from the series. In the trailer, we see the Straw Hat Pirates along with other crews like the Red Haired Pirates, the Heart Pirates, and the Big Mom Pirates.
Other groups like the Cipher Pol, the Navy’s Admirals and Vice-admirals, and the Gorosei will also be returning. The movie also features a few new characters from Uta’s musical troupe.
Most of the characters in the movie will have a Rockstar x Pirate aesthetic, as seen in their individual movie posters. This includes all the Straw Hat Pirates, Heart Pirates, Coby, Helmeppo, and Bartolomeo.
The movie will also feature Jinbe as part of the Straw Hat crew for the first time. Nami will also have Zeus, and Zoro will have Enma instead of Shusui as his third sword. There will also be an anthropomorphic version of the Thousand Sunny called Sunny-Kun.
From the Heart Pirates, Trafalgar Law is also confirmed to appear alongside his first mate Bepo. We will also see the return of Charlotte Katakuri, Brulee, and Oven as part of the Big Mom Pirates. Hopefully, we get to see a lot more of the infamous Red-Haired Pirates as well.
One Piece Film: RED will feature an album titled ‘Uta no Uta: ONE PIECE FILM RED’, a collection of Uta’s seven songs created especially for the movie. The songs will be performed by Ado, Uta’s singing voice, in collaboration with various different artists.
Here are Spotify links for singles released by Ado recently:
6. Trailers for One Piece Film: RED
7. Trivia
- The voice actors of Luffy and Shanks reunite after 23 years. The last time Mayumi Tanaka (Luffy VA) and Shuichi Ikeda (Shanks VA) worked together in the same recording studio was way back in episode 4 of the series, when Shanks gave Luffy his iconic straw hat.
- The character of Uta was created since Oda was tired of creating legendary old men to be the main focus of most of the One Piece movies (Shiki, Gild Tesoro, Douglas Bullet, etc.). Oda wanted to create and develop a major female character instead.
8. About One Piece
One Piece is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda. It has been serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine since July 22, 1997.
The man who had acquired everything in this world, the Pirate King, is Gol D. Roger. The final words he said at the execution tower were “My treasures? If you want it, I’ll let you have it. Look for it; I left all of it at that place.” These words sent many to the seas, chasing their dreams, headed toward the Grand Line, in search of One Piece. Thus began a new age!
Seeking to be the greatest pirate in the world, young Monkey D. Luffy also heads toward the Grand Line in search of One Piece. His diverse crew is joining him along the way, consisting of a swordsman, marksman, navigator, cook, doctor, archaeologist, and cyborg-shipwright, this will be one memorable adventure.
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