Your Guide to Uta’s Ichiban Kuji Prize From Film Red

Uta H Prize Acrylic Stand — One Piece Film Red MORE BEAT Ichiban Kuji

Uta and the Film That Rewrote the Record Books

One Piece needs little introduction. Eiichiro Oda’s pirate adventure has been running in Weekly Shonen Jump since 1997, has passed 100 collected volumes, and has sold over 500 million copies worldwide as of 2022. The anime adaptation — airing continuously on Fuji TV since 1999 — has made the franchise a fixture not just in Japan but across North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia. Within that context, One Piece Film Red, released in Japanese cinemas on August 6, 2022, by Toei Animation, stands apart: it earned approximately 19.7 billion yen domestically, making it the highest-grossing entry in the One Piece film series and one of the top-performing anime theatrical releases in Japanese box office history.

The film’s breakout creation is Uta, an original character who does not appear in the manga or the main anime series. She is the daughter of Shanks — one of the sea’s Four Emperors — who separated from him in childhood and went on to become a globally celebrated singer, spending her entire career performing without showing her face in public. Visually she is unmistakable: two-tone hair in pink and white split between left and right, yellow headphones, a white frilled dress with a black ribbon, and blue bracelets. Her speaking voice in the film is provided by Natsuka Kaori, while all singing — the true center of her character — is performed by Ado, a Japanese artist who had become widely discussed as a masked singer before Film Red’s release. For the film and its surrounding campaign, Ado performed entirely under the name “Uta,” releasing a body of work that included “Tot Musica,” “Shin Jidai,” and “More Beat,” among others. That last title gives the specific Ichiban Kuji campaign its subtitle.

What Ichiban Kuji Is and Where This Prize Fits

Ichiban Kuji is a prize lottery system run by Bandai Spirits, the collectibles and hobby subsidiary of the Bandai Namco group. It operates through physical retail locations — primarily Lawson convenience stores, alongside bookshops and hobby retailers — where participants pay a set price per draw and receive whichever prize corresponds to their ticket. This makes it distinct from gashapon: the prizes tend to be larger, the product quality higher, and the items more display-oriented. Prizes are ranked alphabetically from A (the top tier) downward, and this acrylic stand is the H Prize in the “One Piece Film Red MORE BEAT” campaign — placing it in the mid-to-lower range of the lineup, though where exactly depends on the total number of prize tiers in this particular run. Campaigns like this one are timed to align with major franchise events; the MORE BEAT campaign rolled out alongside the film’s theatrical debut in 2022. Ichiban Kuji items are sold exclusively through those authorized Japanese retail channels and have no official international distribution.

The Acrylic Stand Format and What Makes This One Distinctive

Acrylic stands became a dominant format in Japanese anime merchandise in the latter half of the 2010s. They are light, more resistant to breakage than standard plastic, and capable of reproducing character artwork at a high level of fidelity — qualities that have made them a staple of the collector display shelf. The format is straightforward: a die-cut printed panel of transparent acrylic showing the character illustration, paired with a separate base. On this item, the panel carries a full-body illustration of Uta against a geometric, glittering orange-toned background consistent with the “movie scene” description in the listing title. The base is a semi-transparent purple faceted piece — hexagonal in shape — bearing the text “ONE PIECE FILM RED” and a copyright line reading ©O/2022OP.

One Piece Film Red is available through major streaming services including Netflix across multiple regions, with subtitles and dubbed audio in English, Spanish, and other languages. That accessibility, combined with the novelty of the Ado collaboration and the character’s self-contained story within the film, has kept Uta’s profile strong among international fans well after the theatrical run ended. For collectors outside Japan, officially licensed Ichiban Kuji prizes represent a direct line to merchandise that was produced for and distributed within the Japanese market only.