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Anime of Eiichiro Oda's 'Monsters' Manga Reveals Visuals, January 2024 Netflix Debut (Updated)
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Netflix revealed a new visual, character visuals, and the January 2024 Netflix debut date for the anime adaptation of Eiichiro Oda's "Monsters: Ippaku Sanjō Hiryū Jigoku" one-shot manga. Additionally, Netflix revealed that the anime's English title is Monsters: 103 Mercies Dragon Damnation.
Netflix unveiled the following character visuals:
The one-shot was featured in Oda's Wanted!, which is a collection of manga one-shots. Shueisha published Wanted! in Japan in 1998. Shueisha first published the one-shot in 1994 in Weekly Shonen Jump. The manga features the character Ryuma, who later appears in Oda's One Piece manga.
Jujutsu Kaisen and Jujutsu Kaisen 0 director Sunghoo Park is directing the anime and is also in charge of composition. Park's new studio E&H production is animating the work. The anime will be the length of one episode.
Update: ADN, Mediatoon, and Média-Participations announced the distribution rights to the anime outside of Asia in a press release on Friday. The companies describe the anime:
MONSTERS takes us back in time to the story of the samurai Ryûma. Years before, a dragon horn with magical powers was stolen, and the samurai finds himself caught up in the catastrophe around that dragon's horn, and the devastating appearance of a dragon in town…
Sources: Netflix Anime Twitter account, Comic Natalie
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