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Monsters (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese one-shot manga written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda. It was published by Shueisha in the Autumn Special issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump in October 1994. An original net animation (ONA) adaptation, titled Monsters: 103 Mercies Dragon Damnation, was produced by E&H Production and premiered on Netflix in January 2024.

Characters

Template:Nihongo / Template:Nihongo: Template:Voiced by; A wandering samurai who holds the title as the strongest swordsman. By the events of One Piece, his corpse and sword are stolen by Gecko Moria to serve him on Thriller Bark. He ultimately entrusts his sword to Roronoa Zoro.
Template:Nihongo: Template:Voiced by; 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.
Template:Nihongo: Template:Voiced by; 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.
Template:Nihongo: Template:Voiced by; A thief in town who frames Ryuma for stabbing him. He is in fact a cohort of Cyrano who framed Ryuma.
Template:Nihongo: Template:Voiced by; The master and bartender of the cafe that Flare works at.
Template:Nihongo: Template:Voiced by; A central character of One Piece who inherits Ryuma's sword on Thriller Bark in the future.

Media

Manga

Written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda, the Monsters one-shot was published by Shueisha in 1994 in the Autumn Special issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump (with cover date October 30).^[1]^[2] The chapter was collected in Oda's short stories volume Template:Ill, released on November 4, 1998.^[3] The character Ryuma would later appear as a zombie in Oda's One Piece manga series during the Thriller Bark story arc, thus officially linking the events of both works.^[4]^[5]^[6]

Viz Media published the one-shot digitally on January 22, 2024,^[7] and published the Wanted! volume (under the title Wanted! Eiichiro Oda Before One Piece) on November 12 of the same year.^[8]

Original net animation

In July 2023, it was announced that Monsters would be receiving an anime adaptation.^[9]^[10] Titled Template:Nihongo, the original net animation (ONA) premiered worldwide on Netflix on January 21, 2024,^[11]^[12] and January 23 in Japan.^[13]Template:Efn Medialink sub-licensed the ONA in Asia-Pacific for streaming on their Ani-One Asia YouTube channel.^[14]

The ONA was directed by Sunghoo 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 by Hiroaki Tsutsumi and produced by Takeki Kobayashi.^[15]

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