I’m hoping Oda name-drops Mihawk in Wano soon so that Zoro has a more tangible goal to aim for. Right now we know that Zoro is going to surpass Oden but how did Oden compare to Mihawk? Did Kawamatsu ever at least hear about him? What about Kyoshiro? It’s clear that Oda hasn’t forgotten about Mihawk but it’s hard to pinpoint how and where his name could come up in Wano given that Act 3 seems to be about the fire festival and the alliance’s traitor.
Anyone got any ideas? :unsure:
Difficult to pinpoint precisely. Mihawk>Oden is assured, imo. Oden was probably a low top tier, Old Ray level, who managed to fight with Kaido and inflict a wound on him but in the end got boiled alive. That was 20 years ago, Kaido was probably not as strong as he is now. But what is also good to note is what they say here
seems like Orochi had something to do with it, probably betrayal that lead to Kaido defeating Oden. The above panel may also suggest that Oden managed to scar Kaido and successfully retreat, because had he been caught then and there he would not have been able to leave his swords behind. I could interpret it as him scarring Kaido, retreating with his allies and then being betrayed by Orochi.
Due to Wano being a closed off country, I would not be surprised if they do not know about Mihawk, bar maybe Kyoshiro who is allied with Orochi and thus maybe has more intel regarding the outside world. Maybe Mihawk went to Wano and gave Kaido one of his losses.
A good time to name-drop Mihawk might be in the aftermath, when everyone is defeated and someone asks Zoro how he became that strong, or what is his desire and goal. And Zoro hyping Mihawk up by repeating the same line he had with Pica. Or something in the vein of this. I got strong being trained by the strongest and even though I was able to fight here with absurdly strong people I am still far far away from him. Something like that.
On the other hand, I wanted to ask all of you about what you think about this. Is it me or does Oden's sword look a bit different in these pics. I do not know about the proper names, so I will call them petals and curvy things lol.
Here it appears to have this curvy thing
Here it appears to have these 4 petals.
But everywhere alse Enma, and Habakiri appear to have 3 of those petals.
Or am I just seeing things? Or not seeing them properly?