It has come to my attention that Oda has created a character too powerful for his own good. Pirate Hunter Roronora Zoro.
The guy with the three swords and the green bandana.
The guy whose rival died from fall damage. He simply cannot be beat.
NOW HOLD ON. Don’t get the wrong idea. I am in no way amongst the ‘Zorofans’ group that everyone and their mother’s has an issue with. If you want to hear a truth that might be hard for me to admit in this current climate, I have mostly been in favor of Sanji’s character over Zoro’s. Some would say that makes me a Sanji fan, but I would just say I liked his character more.
I only bring up the comparison because of what the community did to me. Not just a single community of One Piece, but the entire community of this masterpiece of a
Manga/Anime in general.
You see, when a character you like starts getting bashed for no reason, you want to make a case for them.
But when you go over the hill of that opposition just to be met by a mountain of just straight Zoro, for the first time at least, some people might accept the challenge. I did. Horrible mistake
I started intentionally appreciating Sanji more just to counteract the insane downplaying he got.
Somehow it also got to the point where I would wish slightly less from Zoro so his fans couldn’t take his feats out of proportion and just give the guy Sanji here a break for a few months.
I will admit, it got unhealthy, and I even think this community made me appreciate Zoro a lot less than I could have.
Oda might not even be doing it intentionally anymore.
Zoro himself might be physically taking over Oda and Toei’s creative outlets whenever they begin doing anything with his character just so they don’t blemish his name in the content they end up producing.
I must be at peace with the ‘Zorofans’ though.
They might be the most hated people in any One Piece community, but they also might be the most powerful.
With how things are going now, they shall keep getting stronger.
Microsoft THE COMPANY even caved in on Zoro using their company Twitter. just why.
So I’ll put this here to be clear so I don’t have to keep explaining it.
It’s going to be simple stupid too. The fandom made be subconsciously dislike Zoro.
Oda and Toei kept making it harder for it to stay that way. I realized that I was fighting to dislike Zoro because his fandom.
I gave up on that fight. I’m allowing myself to like Zoro. Screw his fandom. They’re cool, but screw them. If you can understand that. If that’s not relevant to you, that’s fine. I personally have never seen anyone do this before and if it’s useful enough to help someone enjoy the show more instead of falling into the hate of choosing one of these characters over the other, then my post was useful
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