The anime music video for “Where The Wind Blows,” one of the songs from the Uta no Uta One Piece FIlm Red album, has been released on singer Ado‘s YouTube channel.
The video is directed by Megumi Ishitani, who helmed the 957th, 982nd, and 1015th episodes of One Piece. Keisuke Mori, an animator who has contributed key animation to titles like Princess Connect! Re:Dive Season 2 #4, Fate/Grand Order Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot Paladin; Agateram, Fate/Apocrypha #22, and more, handled the character designs and storyboard. Mori also served as the video’s sole key animator.
Ishitani tweeted that while the director typically decides the direction of a video’s look, “Where The Wind Blows” saw the various departments, with Mori at their center, working together to search for a direction that Mori wanted.
Some of the other staff include Nagisa Nishida (Witchy Pretty Cure! The Movie: Wondrous! Cure Mofurun!) as art director and Rumiko Nagai (Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero color designer) as color designer and special effects artist.
Hata Motohiro (singer of The Garden of Words‘ “Rain” and “Kotonoha”) wrote and composed the song.
The “Where The Wind Blows” video was preceded by “New Genesis,” “I’m Invincible,” “Backlight,” “Fleeting Lullaby,” “The World’s Continuation,” and “Tot Musica.” “New Genesis” has gained over 38 million views since its June 15 release, while “Tot Musica” has over 9 million views after being uploaded on August 17.
One Piece Film Red is the 15th One Piece anime movie and the latest since 2019’s One Piece Stampede. Ado provides the singing voice for the new character Uta (Kaori Nazuka) in the movie. One Piece Film Red premiered in Japan on August 6 and made 9.28 billion yen (~US$67.4 million) as of August 22, making it the country’s 53rd highest-grossing film.
Gorou Taniguchi (Code Geass: Lelouch of the Re;Surrection, One Piece: Taose! Kaizoku Gyanzakku) directed the film with Tsutomu Kuroiwa (One Piece Film: Gold, GANTZ:O) as scriptwriter, Masayuki Satou (One Piece Film Strong World character designer and animation director) as character designer and chief animation director, and One Piece mangaka Eiichiro Oda as general producer and original story creator.
The film’s plot is described as:
Uta — the most beloved singer in the world. Her voice, which she sings with while concealing her true identity, has been described as “otherworldly.” She will appear in public for the first time at a live concert. As the venue fills with all kinds of Uta fans — excited pirates, the Navy watching closely, and the Straw Hats led by Luffy who simply came to enjoy her sonorous performance — the voice that the whole world has been waiting for is about to resound. The story begins with the shocking fact that she is “Shanks’ daughter.”
Source: Ado YouTube channel
