General & Others A rival for Zoro
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Imagine this scenario for Wano.
Wano is full of powerful samurai. Some of them are actually loyal to Orochi.
There's this "guard dog", who was considered the BEST swordsman in Wano. Oda could make so that this samurai could even be at Mihawk's level, but due to Wano's isolation, could never go for the title of "WSS".
He's extremely dedicated to the "way of the sword".
Now imagine Kyoshiro is this character. No "Denjiro" BS. Zoro confronts him during Yasuie's execution, creating this mutual interest in their confrontation later on.
Orochi gets beheaded, but Kyoshiro and Fukurokujo would do that sneaky thing and secure him. Once he's running around the castle, Zoro confronts them (no Marco throwing him to the roof BS). Zoro wants to kill Orochi for what he did to Yasuie, and also fight Kyoshiro.
Then begins the fight between the man who wants to be the WSS vs Wano's strongest samurai.
Now, what did we get?
Stalled plot on the roof.
Stalled plot with Orochi's "death".
But somehow I hear/read people saying Wano is "zoro's arc".
People standards really are low apparently. As long as Zoro gets his checklist, doesn't matter if the story is garbage for it.
Wano is full of powerful samurai. Some of them are actually loyal to Orochi.
There's this "guard dog", who was considered the BEST swordsman in Wano. Oda could make so that this samurai could even be at Mihawk's level, but due to Wano's isolation, could never go for the title of "WSS".
He's extremely dedicated to the "way of the sword".
Now imagine Kyoshiro is this character. No "Denjiro" BS. Zoro confronts him during Yasuie's execution, creating this mutual interest in their confrontation later on.
Orochi gets beheaded, but Kyoshiro and Fukurokujo would do that sneaky thing and secure him. Once he's running around the castle, Zoro confronts them (no Marco throwing him to the roof BS). Zoro wants to kill Orochi for what he did to Yasuie, and also fight Kyoshiro.
Then begins the fight between the man who wants to be the WSS vs Wano's strongest samurai.
Now, what did we get?
Stalled plot on the roof.
Stalled plot with Orochi's "death".
But somehow I hear/read people saying Wano is "zoro's arc".
People standards really are low apparently. As long as Zoro gets his checklist, doesn't matter if the story is garbage for it.
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Imagine this scenario for Wano.
Wano is full of powerful samurai. Some of them are actually loyal to Orochi.
There's this "guard dog", who was considered the BEST swordsman in Wano. Oda could make so that this samurai could even be at Mihawk's level, but due to Wano's isolation, could never go for the title of "WSS".
He's extremely dedicated to the "way of the sword".
Now imagine Kyoshiro is this character. No "Denjiro" BS. Zoro confronts him during Yasuie's execution, creating this mutual interest in their confrontation later on.
Orochi gets beheaded, but Kyoshiro and Fukurokujo would do that sneaky thing and secure him. Once he's running around the castle, Zoro confronts them (no Marco throwing him to the roof BS). Zoro wants to kill Orochi for what he did to Yasuie, and also fight Kyoshiro.
Then begins the fight against the man who wants to be the WSS vs Wano's strongest samurai.
Now, what did we get?
Stalled plot on the roof.
Stalled plot with Orochi's "death".
But somehow I hear/read people saying Wano is "zoro's arc".
People standards really are low apparently. As long as Zoro gets his checklist, doesn't matter if the story is garbage for it.
Wano is full of powerful samurai. Some of them are actually loyal to Orochi.
There's this "guard dog", who was considered the BEST swordsman in Wano. Oda could make so that this samurai could even be at Mihawk's level, but due to Wano's isolation, could never go for the title of "WSS".
He's extremely dedicated to the "way of the sword".
Now imagine Kyoshiro is this character. No "Denjiro" BS. Zoro confronts him during Yasuie's execution, creating this mutual interest in their confrontation later on.
Orochi gets beheaded, but Kyoshiro and Fukurokujo would do that sneaky thing and secure him. Once he's running around the castle, Zoro confronts them (no Marco throwing him to the roof BS). Zoro wants to kill Orochi for what he did to Yasuie, and also fight Kyoshiro.
Then begins the fight against the man who wants to be the WSS vs Wano's strongest samurai.
Now, what did we get?
Stalled plot on the roof.
Stalled plot with Orochi's "death".
But somehow I hear/read people saying Wano is "zoro's arc".
People standards really are low apparently. As long as Zoro gets his checklist, doesn't matter if the story is garbage for it.
He had that villain like and even sadistic vibe. Oda could also have made him insanely powerful as well. This could have been an incredibly interesting plotline for Zoro, his character, his growth, his morals, his dream and maybe even give us other perspectives on swordmanship, through Kyoshiro.
I feel that if properly handled, it easily could have been one of the best fights in the manga in general.
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By that logic, Bepo would be a rival to Zoro. Zoro’s always had Mihawk in his sights, the likes of Killer, King and everyone else is simply beneath him. He blazed past every one of Kaido’s right hand men to go for the dragon himself, Zoro’s ambition is far too grand to be matched by any mere silver medalist yonko or do nothing jobber like Killer.
Don’t see why Zoro needs a rival. Mihawk is his rival, always has been. Mihawk has basically replaced Shanks with Zoro as the only one that can satisfy his desire for a grand duel.
Don’t see why Zoro needs a rival. Mihawk is his rival, always has been. Mihawk has basically replaced Shanks with Zoro as the only one that can satisfy his desire for a grand duel.
Assuming Zoro will not stand below EoS Luffy in particular, it's rather tougher than not to be confident he won't also stand as the strongest guy of all times. So basically the likes of Ryuma, possibly Joy Boy, being factored as well. Unless a peculiar God Tier system will be introduced and they would not make it there.
Idk man, all we know is mihawk is wss. all that means at this point is he has never outright lost a duel since acquiring that title and he had to fight renowned swordsmen to acquire it
Strange he never tried to go after oden though, he was renowned. Plus no one knew he died for several years
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Who to challenge bro? a fat thief doji,kyoshiro? king?
are those better than shanks?
are those better than shanks?