We've all seen Orochi getting his head chopped off but most people believe he's still alive
we also have this panel which is just an obvious indication orochi is still alive
now that we've talked about why he's alive we need to talk about his purpose in the story. he will be the reason the marines/WG come to wano, we see he has connections to the wg as he talked to cp0
one of the main reasons why its hard to reach wano is because it's hard to enter a marine ship would never get over the waterfall so orochi could snitch and tell them about the hidden port it's still not yet used in the story and i don't believe it will stay that way
the marines have to be involved in wano one way or another and that only they can is someone from the inside and only orochi can be that one you might say drake but that's not possible because a) he busy fighting b) he is only a member of sword we don't know if he's a marine or not, kaido and bigmom will be severely weakend so it's the perfect time to take them out
you might ask what does orochi gain from all this? nothing orochi only ruled because he wanted the people of wano to suffer so a 3 way war is best way to cause the most suffering
- we have seen characters coming back after "dying" with even characters that didn't matter to the story like pound so its not something that never happened before
- no one cared for his death when a character dies in op which doesn't happen very often everyone is affected and shocked by it with orochi that didn't happen everyone just changed their attention to kaido that's it
- orochi has eight heads and he got his head cut off so 7 left to go, an argument i see often is that he wasn't in his zoan form at the time but you have to remember that every mythical zoan has a unique ability and they don't have to be in their zoan forms to use it as seen with marco so it's not out of the question that orochi also has an ability
we also have this panel which is just an obvious indication orochi is still alive
now that we've talked about why he's alive we need to talk about his purpose in the story. he will be the reason the marines/WG come to wano, we see he has connections to the wg as he talked to cp0
the marines have to be involved in wano one way or another and that only they can is someone from the inside and only orochi can be that one you might say drake but that's not possible because a) he busy fighting b) he is only a member of sword we don't know if he's a marine or not, kaido and bigmom will be severely weakend so it's the perfect time to take them out
you might ask what does orochi gain from all this? nothing orochi only ruled because he wanted the people of wano to suffer so a 3 way war is best way to cause the most suffering