Uta Outa

Uta Outa (往田詩, outa uta) is a 1st-year student and is not part of any club. He is a poet and writes lyrics for the unit Sakutasuke which sometimes only his bandmates understand.

Appearance[]

Uta's front hair and bangs are pink while the back of his hair is black, which matches his eyebrows. He has dark magenta eyes.

Uta wears the red tie designed for 1st-year students, a white undershirt, brown pants and pink shoes with yellow laces. Over his uniform, he wears a white coat with pink accents that reaches his knees and features distinguishably long sleeves which Uta always loosely wears over his hands.

When writing lyrics, he occasionally wears gray, half-hexagon shaped glasses.

Personality[]

Uta is a spontaneous person, often acting in the moment, which includes running into the sea while others are talking, appearing from rooftops, or even coming up with lyrics at random times. Despite being carefree and sometimes childish, Uta cares deeply about his friends, going out of his way to help them.

Story[]

Episode 1 - Adagio[]

At Sosuke Kagura's call, Uta makes his entrance before Saku Otonomiya by dropping down from the roof above them. It is revealed that Uta wrote the lyrics to Cloudy day, which Saku had sung earlier, and he introduces himself to Saku.

Episode 2 - Con brio[]

He is at Saku's workplace, the Volcano Restaurant which serves curry, with Sosuke where his songwriting skills are offered on behalf of Sosuke to help Saku. Uta announces that he is starved, and that he shrinks when he is hungry, enough for the wind to blow him away.

After Kai Akizuki challenges Saku to a curry battle, Uta excitedly joins in to participate in the taste-testing, declaring that he loves curry and cannot wait. His eyes glimmer mischievously when the owner of the restaurant gives Saku leftover curry packets.

While waiting on the bus with the members of the Archeology Club, he is positive that Saku will arrive as he is late. His certainty is based on the fact that he can see Saku approaching the bus as they speak. He makes his presence known when Saku arrives by saying that he is here too.

Arriving at the beach before the white wall, Uta is not particularly interested in Washiho Usuki's explanation of the Archeology Club's fieldwork, and is rather more interested in the beach- throwing some of his outer clothes into the air as he runs excitedly into the water.

After taking part in various water-based activities, Uta notices that Saku's curry has spilled. Consequently, he provides the curry packets he acquired from the curry restaurant.

In his enthusiasm for curry, he adopts puppy features before stating that he wants bow-wow curry.

Episode 3 - Dolente[]

Appearing asleep at his desk, he appears behind Hinata announcing that he is always in the mood for curry as they collectively discuss where Saku went. He joins Hinata, Satsuma and Sosuke at the karaoke place where Saku also works and greets him with his floppy hand wave. Along Satsuma, Uta enjoys a honey toast, and later shares lyrics he wrote while watching him eat.

Episode 4 - Abandone[]

Having arrived at school on time, he finds Sosuke and confirms that he had a writer's block when coming up with lyrics. Uta helps Saku find White Shadows as he is desperately looking for a way to help his sister. After making his way to the hospital, he identifies Nozomi Otonomiya by asking who puts red bean paste in their curry- which Saku had used in his curry challenge against Kai.

After contentedly listening to Sosuke's singing, Uta sees a White Shadow appear nearby. They rush to find Saku to share the news, and once they do, they sing Idol Paradigm- which brings out many White Shadows and cats, then declaring they figured out that the White Shadows are attracted to songs, shocking the Archeology Club, the Singing Club and the Broadcasting Club who was secretly filming the whole encounter.

Episode 5 - Traumend[]

Uta and the rest of Sakutasuke make a brief appearance while Chiguma Marume and Minori Shido explore the world of Cat Walk, an online game that eerily emulates Tensho Academy and people they know, the three talking about making money through their songs.

Relationships[]

Sosuke Kagura[]

Sosuke and Uta are very close friends and have known each other since they were children. Uta keeps in close contact with Sosuke, both in person and on the phone, and work together in helping Saku Otonomiya with singing. Sosuke enthusiastically supports Uta's songwriting, claiming that when his switch is on, his lyrics just flow. Sosuke is occasionally irked by Uta's keenness, such as singing 'volcano' repeatedly but soon after orders curry for him at once hearing how hungry he is. He tries to retrieve Uta's clothes when the latter abruptly threw them in the air to run into the sea.

Saku Otonomiya[]

Uta and Saku are part of the same unit, Sakutasuke. Uta wants to help Saku in any way he can, seeing as they are friends. When Saku struggles with his sister's illness and is desperately searching for White Shadows, Uta wholeheartedly supports him and helps him look for them alongside Sosuke. Eventually, Uta and Sosuke figure out the White Shadows' attraction to songs and share this with Saku.

While Uta and Saku were friends, the latter was more closed off prior to this event. Afterwards, they become close friends and form Sakutasuke. He then regularly visits Nozomi, Saku's sister, in the hospital. Saku thanks him for helping him come as far as he has through the school year, along with everyone else.

Washiho Usuki[]

A teacher, who Uta does not listen to in favor of running into the sea.

Satsuma Kadonooji[]

Uta happened to get inspiration for song lyrics while he was eating at a cafe with Satsuma.

Quotes[]

"Let's have some fun!" (To Saku Otonomiya and Sosuke Kagura)
"I'm starved. I shrink when I'm hungry. The wind will blow me away. Oh no!" (To Saku and Sosuke)
"I love the beach!" (To self)
"The water feels great!" (To Chiguma Marume)
"I think it's terribly romantic." (To Sosuke)
"Here's your secret weapon." (To Saku)
"I want some bow-wow curry!" (To self)
"Honey toast as high as the Eiffel Tower!" (To Saku)
"I was watching Sakkun walk away when this hit me." (To Sosuke)
"Right now. I'm basically a bird that can't fly." (To Sosuke)
"If you stare at me any harder, I'm going to melt." (To Saku and Sosuke)
"But his kind side is just playing hide and seek. Just like the red miso you use in your curry." (To Nozomi Otonomiya)
"Big coins, little coins, tons of coins!" (To Saku and Sosuke)
"You nommed my lyrics, it gave you nutrients, and it was like a flower bloomed." (To Saku)
"The three of us as a unit are a huge success!" (To Saku and Sosuke)
"They're the bow-wows from the Archaeology Club." (To Saku and Sosuke)
"You basically copied the song I sang at karaoke yesterday!" (To Sosuke)
"Our songs were born from me, you, and Sosuke." (To Saku)
"All of us are alive right now, but we'll all be dead in the future." (To Saku and Sosuke)
"Hey, we should match, too!" (To Saku and Sosuke)
"I wonder what we can do at times like this." (To Sosuke)

Etymology[]

The name Uta means "poem, poetry" (詩).
Uta's surname Outa means "journey, travel, chase away, let go, going, before, formerly" (往) (ou) and "field, rice paddy" (田) (ta).