Monsters (stylized inall caps) is a Japaneseone-shotmanga written and illustrated byEiichiro Oda. It was published byShueisha in theAutumn Special issue ofWeekly Shōnen Jump in October 1994. Anoriginal net animation (ONA) adaptation, titledMonsters: 103 Mercies Dragon Damnation, was produced byE&H Production and premiered onNetflix in January 2024. Oda would later feature characters fromMonsters in his subsequent manga seriesOne Piece, setting the two in the same universe.
A wandering samurai who holds the title as the strongest swordsman. By the events ofOne Piece, his corpse and sword are stolen by Gecko Moria to serve him on Thriller Bark. He ultimately entrusts his sword toRoronoa Zoro.
A young woman working as a waitress at a bar in a small town. She was the sole survivor of a dragon attack that destroyed her village, leading her to respect Cyrano who she falsely believed to be her savior.
A master swordsman second to King, the strongest swordsman. He is in fact a thief who orchestrated the Great Disaster seven years ago that left Flare the only survivor of her village.
Written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda, theMonsters one-shot was published by Shueisha in 1994 in theAutumn Special issue ofWeekly Shōnen Jump (withcover date October 30).[7][8] The chapter was collected in Oda's short stories volumeWanted!, released on November 4, 1998.[9] The character Ryuma would later appear as azombie in Oda'sOne Piece manga series during the Thriller Barkstory arc, thus officially linking the events of both works.[10][11][12]
Viz Media published the one-shot digitally on January 22, 2024,[13] and published theWanted! volume (under the titleWanted! Eiichiro Oda Before One Piece) on November 12 of the same year.[14]
In July 2023, it was announced thatMonsters would be receiving ananime adaptation.[15][16] TitledMonsters: 103 Mercies Dragon Damnation (MONSTERS 一百三情飛龍侍極,Monsutāzu: Ippaku Sanjō Hiryū Jigoku), theoriginal net animation (ONA) premiered worldwide onNetflix on January 21, 2024,[17][18] and January 23 in Japan.[19][a]Medialink sub-licensed the ONA in Asia-Pacific for streaming on their Ani-One AsiaYouTube channel.[20]
The ONA was directed bySunghoo Park, who was also in charge of composition, and animated by his studio E&H Production. Takashi Kojima served as character designer, with Fuminao Akai as art director, Ryoji Nagasawa as color designer, Lee Ju-Mi as director of photography, Keisuke Yanagi as editor, and Akiko Fujita as sound director. The music was composed byHiroaki Tsutsumi and produced by Takeki Kobayashi.[21]
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