I’ve complained recently about how the Mihawk flashback has a problem in that it doesn’t really explain why Zoro suddenly has his CoC mastered from just remembering Mihawk telling him “CoC is your sense of Self”
Turns out my confusion was warranted, the Japanese word used “onorei” doesn’t actually directly translate to “sense of self”. It’s more like “your projection of your sense of self”.
Mihawk is saying you must have this unchanging sense of who you are AND you must be capable of projecting it to the world no matter the consequences.
Which makes WAY MORE sense. Why would Zoro remembering to more of less just self-recognize just allow him to know how CoC works. The trick is the second part. You have to be able to maintain this self-recognition as you project it outward into the world no matter the resistance of the world to it.
This is unfortunately a nuance in the language translation that cannot be resolved without either the Official translator or the Manga scan translators adding an extra dialogue bubble to use extra words to fully explain one word “onorei”
Turns out my confusion was warranted, the Japanese word used “onorei” doesn’t actually directly translate to “sense of self”. It’s more like “your projection of your sense of self”.
Mihawk is saying you must have this unchanging sense of who you are AND you must be capable of projecting it to the world no matter the consequences.
Which makes WAY MORE sense. Why would Zoro remembering to more of less just self-recognize just allow him to know how CoC works. The trick is the second part. You have to be able to maintain this self-recognition as you project it outward into the world no matter the resistance of the world to it.
This is unfortunately a nuance in the language translation that cannot be resolved without either the Official translator or the Manga scan translators adding an extra dialogue bubble to use extra words to fully explain one word “onorei”
