'Monsters: Ippyaku Sanjou Hiryuu Jigoku' Reveals Main Cast, Trailer, January 22 Premiere

by DatRandomDude
Jan 14, 11:03 AM | 9 Comments

The official website of the Monsters: Ippyaku Sanjou Hiryuu Jigoku (Monsters: 103 Mercies Dragon Damnation) anime revealed the main cast and a trailer on Sunday. The anime is scheduled to stream worldwide on Netflix on January 22.

Cast
Ryuuma Shimotsuki: Yoshimasa Hosoya (Trigun Stampede)
Flare: Kana Hanazawa (Kimetsu no Yaiba)
Cyrano: Hiroki Touchi (Cyberpunk: Edgerunners)
D.R.: Mitsuaki Madono (Bleach)
Master: Katsuhito Nomura (Garo: Honoo no Kokuin)

Seong-Hu Park (Jujutsu Kaisen) is directing and handling the series composition at his animation studio E&H Production. Takashi Kojima (Heike Monogatari) is designing the characters, and Hiroaki Tsutsumi (Tokyo Revengers) is composing the music.

The anime adapts Eiichiro Oda's short story that was serialized in the 1994's Autumn Special issue of the Weekly Shounen Jump special edition, which was later included in the Wanted! one-shot compilation manga. Shueisha published Wanted! in 1998.

Trailer

Source: Comic Natalie

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Just realised it has already aired lol.

Feb 11, 12:52 PM by MegamiRem

Something about the animation looks off to me, but I'm still looking forward to it.

Jan 17, 9:03 AM by malvarez1

@Omarumba Well, I don't know anything about Shinkai or Tomino's political views (outside of those shown in Gundam), they mentioned Korean and Chinese animation as an example of how the anime industry needs to develop and show the level, and not just throw more money into projects because that there are more projects and money due to the current peak of the industry.

Jan 15, 8:48 AM by RobertBobert

@Omarumba, yes, you are right, but still Park's works are good, JJK for example.

Jan 15, 12:38 AM by Memore

@RobertBobert Seong-Hu Park was born in South Korea, where he attended university, but then moved to Japan to continue his studies. He started his anime career in 2004 at Comet Studios, then years later he debuted at MAPPA as the director of Garo, and in 2020 he directed the 1st season of JJK.

"Chinese and Korean animators have skills no worse than Japanese ones" - yes, it's true, for example donghua "The Founder of Diabolism" by Chinese director Ke Xiong boasts a high level of animation and excellent directing. And there is another Korean Jong Heo, who does storyboarding and directs episodes of some anime, "Another", for example.

The level of skills depends on the person, not on his nationality, but as we can see, in the anime mostly people from Japan work, because Japan is an extremely nationalistic country where it is difficult for foreigners to find work.

Jan 14, 3:56 PM by Omarumba

Looks interesting. Wait for its release.

Jan 14, 3:18 PM by Memore

@Omarumba MAPPA invited a actual Korean director? Or does he live and work in Japan? I've read in various interviews, including from Shinkai and Tomino, that Chinese and Korean animators have skills no worse than Japanese ones.

Jan 14, 2:49 PM by RobertBobert

The movie will be directed by JJK 1's director, Seong-Hu Park, at his own E&H production studio? Kana Hanazawa?

It promises to be a great project, with a gorgeous cast for One Piece fans.

Jan 14, 11:38 AM by Omarumba

Wow wasn’t expecting it to air so soon; looking forward to it

Jan 14, 11:36 AM by MistyBlue