One Piece Creator’s One-Shot Monsters Terrifies With Anime Adaptation
Monsters, the one-shot mangaka Eiichiro Oda wrote before One Piece, will receive an anime adaptation, helmed by Jujutsu Kaisen director Sunghoo Park.
Monsters, Eiichiro Oda’s one-shot manga, will receive an anime adaptation helmed by Jujutsu Kaisen‘s director.
As revealed at the One Piece Day 2023 event, Eiichiro Oda’s 1994 one-shot Monsters will hit the screens. Directed by Jujutsu Kaisen Season 1 and Jujutsu Kaisen 0‘s director Sunghoo Park, Monsters will be animated by E&H production, the new studio Park established in March 2021. Park will also oversee the composition. The anime will be one-episode long. An announcement PV as well as a key visual has also dropped.
Published initially in Shōnen Jump Autumn Special, Monsters received a reprint four years later in 1998 as part of Wanted!, a compilation of Oda’s one-shots before writing One Piece. Monsters is the only one-shot considered canon to One Piece as the main character Ryuma appears there. Monsters received a voice comic adaptation which released in two parts on Sept. 6 to 7, 2021.
Monsters follows a samurai named Ryuma who arrives at a restaurant in a village. It is said that a dragon once attacked the village, killing everyone except for two swordsman and a young girl named Flare. The dragon’s horn was stolen, the dragon vanquished and very little people remember the incident. Until the dragon is summoned once again and Ryuma is accused of being a murderer. Ryuma will have to unravel the mystery of what happened 10 years ago and clear his name.
No release date for Monster has been announced at the time of this article’s publishing.
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