About a week before the release, Netflix finally released a first trailer for the Anime Monsters 103 Mercies Dragon Damnation. In it, we see the characters for the first time in moving images. Action-packed fight scenes are also included in the video.
What can be seen in the trailer?
- At the beginning, we see the Samurai Ryuma, who appears as a Zombie General in One Piece and turns out to be an ancestor of Zorro.
- Cyrano (in the trailer Shirano) is an excellent swordsman and is connected to the young woman Flare through a tragic event.
- The villain D.R. stands out with his clown-like face. He has stolen a dragon horn.
- At the end of the trailer, there is a teaser for the fight against the dragon. The scenes appear fast-paced and promise an action-packed battle.
In the trailer, we also hear for the first time the voices of Ryuma, Cyrano, D.R., and Flare. In the Japanese dubbing, Ryuma may sound familiar to you as Reiner Braun from Attack on Titan. We have already heard Flare as Mitsuri in the 3rd season of Demon Slayer.
Under the tweet by newworldartur, a well-known analyst on One Piece, fans are upset that the animation style is much better than in One Piece. They are annoyed that the pirate anime would be stuck with Toei Animation. However, there are counterarguments that One Piece has never looked more beautiful than it does now.
You can watch the trailer for Monsters 103 Mercies Dragon Damnation here:
Monsters shows the backstory of Zorro’s ancestor in 25 minutes
Why should I watch the series as a fan of One Piece? Monsters is officially a part of the One Piece story. In the anime, the Straw Hat Pirates have now left Wano Kuni, but for Monsters, the story returns to the land of samurais and ninjas – just many years before the events of One Piece.
The protagonist of the 25-minute episode even appears in One Piece. 23 years before the events of One Piece, Gecko Moria steals the corpse of the samurai from his grave and revives him as an undead. On Thriller Bark, Zorro then encounters the Zombie General named Ryuma, who is the same protagonist from Monsters.
The manga was originally written as a one-shot in 1994 by Eiichiro Oda. At that time, the mangaka was only 19 years old. There are some similarities between Monsters and One Piece, such as the sword Shisui or the name of the anime, which is also the name of an attack by Zorro.
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