Yes it does he says "I can't tie Zoro's backstory im scared of going further"he was scared that zoro could have taken his mc spot but not for the popularity poll if you realize oda has made luffy and zoro very similar that's why zoro doesn't have too many narrative the deal was that in wano he was having a lot that there was a point that loda had to stop
@kumae Remember when Wano ended and the narrative is making parallels between Luffy and Ryuma instead of Zoro and Ryuma and it’s Luffy that’s the new Sword God of Wano… Remember that…
You guys severely overestimate how much thought Oda puts into any character that’s not Luffy
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Today: 100k difference while goofy has more than the double of apparition as zoro, it's literally worst:risicheck:
@Warine this has no bearing on what Oda himself thinks of when writing the story
Oda doesn’t intentionally write the strawhats badly just to prop up Luffy… He writes the strawhats badly because he doesn’t think of them as much as he thinks of Luffy… that’s all it is…
Oda sleeps like 3 hours a day and churns out manga more consistently than any mangaka alive. He doesn’t have the time to THINK MORE about downplaying characters. It’s the opposite. He simply DOES NOT think of characters to begin with
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It’s possible that if Oda properly developed Zoro’s backstory, then he could take over take Luffy’s spot.
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No I doubt it. The entire story of One Piece would shift drastically if Oda gave even the slightest amount of thought to anyone but Luffy
imagine if the entire post time skip was sprinkled with all the strawhats having Luffy style Rayleigh flashbacks to things they did in the time skip and fights centered around the specific things they learned. Instead of the post time skip being dominated by side characters and Luffy
the entire manga would be completely different.