Monsters: 103 Mercies Dragon Damnation

A brilliant special, simple and interesting. If you're a fan of the One Piece universe, this is for you. Eiichiro Oda surprised with a story in that 1994 one-shot. The arguments put forward by the mangaka are justified here. Director Park Sung-hoo did a good job keeping the essence, adding his focus to productions like Jujutsu Kaisen.

"Monsters: The Dragon's Hell" is worth every second. Having a pretty nice animation and with a lot of focus for the time that the story is set, with shades of dark colors, opaque and not so striking unlike the One Piece anime. The drawing pattern is quite decent.

For many spectators it may not like it, it is true, but the true acquaintances will appreciate these 25 minutes very much. From the beginning we are introduced to our protagonist Shimotsuki Ryuma, having a lot of essence of Luffy and Zoro, references? A lot. The story and events take place 400 years before the start of One Piece.

That moment of action of our protagonist, his agility, skill and animation is brutal. Seconds worth gold. That's where the legend was created.

It is worth mentioning that message of reflection focused on the sadness, betrayal and innocence of many people. An example of this is the events that our friend Flare had, being deceived by Cyrano since her childhood. The way many people take advantage of the nobility of a people is real. This special shines through all that reflective and moving approach. In addition, it adds the way in which an image of justice, loyalty and glory is sold, but for malicious purposes.

We have smart, creative, simple, but very weak villains. Each of them with the image or essence of others from the One Piece universe.

From my perspective it could have been a lot better, maybe with more minutes or a movie to keep the hype of this story. 25 minutes that passed very quickly and leave you longing for more.

Long live the King.

6.5/10.