Biography
Name and Meaning
Uta Nami. Her whole name means "song wave".
Age and Birthday
33, February 19th
Appearance
Her faceclaim is Sharon or Karen from Pokémon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle but I would alter it so that the nose bridge of her glasses is more like the regular, curved kind and her hair ends would not be spiky but more curved. She has French ultramarine eyes, wears round glasses, and has dark azure hair tied in a ponytail. She has long forelocks that reach just above her chest clipped back with orange heart hairclips. She has a slight tan and stands at 5’6”. She is near sighted.
Nationality
Japanese
Ethnicity
Japanese
Personality
As a teacher, Uta is gentle, reserved, and speaks politely to everyone as she refers to everyone with the “san” honorific. However, as a coach, she surprisingly has a louder, firmer voice when barking commands or instructing her players. During practice matches or actual games, she often has a serious demeanor. Due to her attention to detail, she is very analytical when it comes to examining a rival team’s habits and breaking them down to her players. She has faith in the abilities of her players and counts on them to do their part. Uta also listens to her students and takes their thoughts or well-being into account when making decisions that concern Team Kaijō.
Mottos
“Gentle yet powerful.”
Sexual Preferences
Heteroromantic / heterosexual
Likes
Her favorite food is mint chocolate chip ice cream.
Dislikes
Superficial people
Hobbies
Her hobby is playing board games. She spends her days off doing karaoke at home.
Specialties
Back when she still played basketball, her best skill was jump shots. Her special skill is solving puzzles. She is the science teacher at Kaijō High.
Committees
N/A
Background
Uta got into basketball because her parents enrolled her in Mini-Basketball. Before she became a high school teacher and basketball coach at Kaijō High, Uta was a successful youth basketball player that she even made it as far as a regular on the national Japanese women’s basketball team. She was the small forward. She was acquainted with the national male team.
Relationships
Family
N/A
Friends
N/A
Rivals
Despite once being on the Japanese national women's basketball team together, she and her former teammates now coach rival teams.
Love Interests
Genta Takeuchi
When they were younger, Genta tried to ask her out, but she was speechless, and it made him lose his nerve to try pursuing her given how reserved she was. Genta was afraid that he made her feel uncomfortable. Ironically, they both ended up teaching at the same high school in Yokohama, Kanagawa. The two of them often talk about coaching challenges in the staff room. Uta noticed that Genta shaved his face for the Inter-High game vs Touou Academy, and he said that it was because he didn’t want to lose to Katsunori Harasawa, the coach of Touou Academy’s boys’ basketball team. That made her giggle and complemented that it was a nice change to his looks although she’s used to his old appearance. Genta did go back to his old appearance and in the staff room, he boldly asked her if he made her uncomfortable when he tried asking her out in the past. Uta exclaimed “No!” which surprised him. She elaborated “I… I wanted to say yes but I was so stunned and happy that I couldn’t say anything. Even now, I kind of regret not saying yes…” He replied “It’s not only your fault. I should’ve properly asked you about your feelings back then. Genta then asked her out on a date which she said yes to.
Her type of man is direct.
Player She Has Her Eyes On
Chantelle Aomi
Past Life
N/A
Stats
Stats
N/A
Lei Motif
N/A
Miscellaneous
Inspirations
When I watched the movie, Pokémon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle, I figured the scientist, Sharon / Karen would work for the face of the coach of Kaijō's girls' basketball team since she has dark azure hair like Aimi and Tadatoshi Fujimaki seems to make a few of his coaches resemble a player from their teams. Since this tumblr post says Kaijō means "Ever by the sea", I wanted to keep the sea theme in her name and zodiac sign aside from her eyes and hair being blue colored. I thought of using a similar first name for an oc senshi but it went to her. I'm aware her whole name unintentionally sounds like a One Piece reference since there's a character named Uta in one of the franchise's movies and Nami is a protagonist but oh well, I thought Nami would make a cute surname and the name meaning makes sense. I wanted her to be born in February because I have so many oc's born in March and I went with February 19th because it was National Chocolate Mint Day. I was afraid she would have the same favorite food as Aimi but since Aimi likes blue chocolate mint ice cream, I just went with regular chocolate mint ice cream for her. Since Kairi's favorite subject is science and her face claim, Sharon / Karen is a scientist, I made her the science teacher. She was originally going to be the shooting guard since Tadatoshi Fujimaki likes shooting guards with glasses but Masako Araki from Team Yōsen's best skill is shooting three pointers so it sounded like Masako was the shooting guard on the national Japanese women's basketball team, so I went with small forward since it seemed to work for her.