Luca (Doraemon)

Luca (Japanese: ルカ Ruka) or Luca Tsukino is the Leader of Espal and the protagonist character from the movie Doraemon: Nobita's Chronicle of the Moon Exploration.
== Portrayals ==
* In the Japanese version, he was voiced by Junko Minagawa.
* In the English version, he was voiced by Holly Hunter.
* In the Thai version, he was voiced by Sriarpha Ruennak, who had voiced Shizuka. 
== Story ==
Luca was not an Earth person. He is the Espal from the planet Kaguya in his possession of special powers Ether. Luca led her friends around her place, but the group realized there was something Luca was hiding. As soon as an unknown raid force kidnapped Espal, it was revealed that due to the fact that Diabolo had previously used the Espal Ether ability to destroy the Moon to spy on its power, this had affected. very bad for the Kaguya planet ecosystem. Because of that, his parents used a ship to send all the people who possessed Ether power to space to avoid being taken advantage of to do bad things again. Leading the army was General Goddard - a descendant of the Luca family but he was taken advantage of without even knowing it. Upon capturing the Espals, Diablo did not keep his promise to restore the moonlight to the planet Kaguya as promised, but instead sought to destroy it and invade Earth. Doraemon, Nobita and the rest of the people safely returned home through the "Miraculous Door", but worried about Luca and the others, they returned to the balloon attached to Luca's spacecraft. Everyone found Luna wounded in the rabbit kingdom, Shizuka was sent to stay to care and everyone immediately went to the planet Kaguya to save Luca. A great battle took place between Doraemon and Diabolo's group, Doraemon later discovered that Diabolo was not a human but a machine with artificial intelligence. Returning to Shizuka now in the rabbit kingdom, Luna discovers that Nobit has a special badge that has the opposite effect of the "Heresy Club Member Badge". Shizuka used it to help the group in danger because the "Miracle Bag" was taken away by Diabolo. But then Luna was captured, Diabolo harnessed the power of Ether inside Luna to control the flying ship, but fortunately a mysterious light appeared to illuminate the path, only to attack Diabolo at this time. He is destroyed and the planet Kaguya is as beautiful as before. Luca and those with Ether powers chose to stay in the rabbit kingdom and become a normal human instead of returning to the planet Kaguya. Doraemon and his friends decided to use the "Parody Club Member Badge" to meet Luca and the others' wishes and then destroy this treasure after returning to Earth.
== Appearance ==
Luca had a major and to this time only appearance in the 2019 Doraemon film Doraemon: Nobita's Chronicle of the Moon Exploration as one of the main characters.
== Relationships ==
=== Luna ===
Luna is Luca's older sister. Luca saved Luna while he was captured by Emperor Diabolo's forces by giving her the Theory badge.
=== Nobita ===
Nobita is Luca's best and the first friend. He has never befriended anyone before Nobita.
=== Mozo ===
Mozo is the pet of Luca and Mozo helped Luca many times. He was sent by Godal spouses.
== Trivia ==
* Luca's first meeting with Nobita is very similar to a scene between Shinji Ikari and Kaworu Nagisa from Neon Genesis Evangelion.
* He has the same Thai voice actress as Shizuka, Sewashi, Roppuru, Pippo, Quiz, and Fiona.
** His Thai voice actress is ศรีอาภา เรือนนาค / Sriarpha Ruennak.
* Luca's name in Thai version is his referred as ลูกะ (Translated as "Luka") or สึกิโนะ ลูกะ (Translated as "Tsukino Luka").
* In the Artwork, his mouth is smile but didn't open, he is wearing a badge, and light green shader is not appear on his eyes.
** His mouth is smile are similar to Kirby characters' artwork from Kirby series or Mario characters' artwork from Super Mario series.
** His eyes are the same as Luna's artwork without light green shader, similar to Nobita's Space Heroes.
** His badge are the same as Luna's artwork while he is wearing it.
* He is wearing his hat is similar to Mario, Luigi, Wario, Waluigi, and Goombario's hat from Super Mario series.
* In Doraemon: Nobita's New Dinosaur, his hat can be seen in Nobita's room.
* In Thai version of the film, Aru or 8 other espals refers to Luca is his referred as พี่ลูกะ (Translated as "Luca bro").
* Aru refers to Luca as Onii-chan or Luca-niitan.
* His long rabbit ears are similar to Bunny Mario from Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins when hatless.
* When his ether power and rabbit ears was removed, he is possibly using Take-copter.
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