ADN, Mediatoon and Média-Participations Announce the Acquisition of the Rights to MONSTERS: 103 Mercies Dragon Damnation
ADN, Mediatoon and Média-Participations announce the acquisition of distribution rights outside Asia to MONSTERS: 103 Mercies Dragon Damnation, the very first anime adaptation of Eiichiro Oda's one shot. MONSTERS, a prequel to One Piece, was created before the serialisation of One Piece began.
"We are delighted to have acquired the rights to MONSTERS: 103 Mercies Dragon Damnation and to be adding it to the ADN catalogue. We are committed to offering a cutting-edge editorial line, and MONSTERS fits perfectly into this strategy. As One Piece is the most popular series on ADN, it was important for us to offer our community this new adventure from the talented Eiichiro Oda's universe". Declares Julien Lemoine, CEO of ADN.
Eiichiro Oda was only 19 when he created MONSTERS. This epic action story, featuring the samurai Ryûma, was originally published in 1994 in the Shonen Jump Autumn Special, then republished in 1998 in the Wanted! collection of short stories. The MONSTERS anime will be produced by the talented studio E&H Production and its founder, Sunghoo Park (Jujutsu Kaisen Season 1 and Jujutsu Kaisen 0 the film), will be in charge of directing the anime, thus guaranteeing artistic and narrative coherence.
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…
MONSTERS is a major project that will delight fans of Eiichiro Oda's work and will be a must-have for all One Piece fans.
More information on MONSTERS: 103 Mercies Dragon Damnation will be revealed shortly, stay tuned!
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