Break Week Why is Zolo more popular despite Sanji is portrayed to be more important

#23
People like edgy serious characters, simple as that. But edgy isnt the issue, its that zoro is one of the worst written long running manga edy characters.

Almost 1100 chapters and zoros depth never reached the likes of Vegeta, Sasuke, Killua, Scar/Mustang, Hiei. Hell, even bakugo has more to offer.

In the past 500 chaptera WTF has zoro done thats deeply thematic, poetic, contemplative, philosophical, any fucking thing other than "i will get stronger to beat my opponent and look cool while doing it".

Oda fumbled with yasue, because it seemed like he and zoro were having a moment up until his death.
 
#26
Because Japanese audiences in general, have a thing for swordsmen as their history revolves around swordsmanship and traditional sword practices. Zoro happens to be fits those requirements so they tend to be more related to him.

Like, look at Demon Slayer for example. Why did y'all think it surpasses One Piece in sales and reach even the top Oricon chart?

Because it focuses on Japanese history settings with swords and cultures around Japanese mythology. That's why it got so popular.
 
#28
Zoro-Mihawk-Shanks is the sole reason that people who followed the series from the start continue till this day.

Goofy,Tranji and most of the other characters dont matter to OG readers.
Nice lie, keep projecting.
Following One Piece for 20+ years, when I was a teen I liked Zoro, then growing up I realised that he's the most stereotypical cool guy, even Luffy is less stereotypical then him funnily enough.

Most people (aka people with brain) follow the story for the Lore and the One Piece.
Children follow it for colored funny adventures.
Naruto and Bleach refugees and mentally slow people(edgelords) follow it for the reason you wrote.
 
#29
You need a sufficiently high intellect to be a Sanji fan and understand his character, whereas Zoro is more designed to appeal to people who read picture books and have short attention spans, he's extremely simplistic and is your generic tough guy, unfortunately there are more people who fit into the latter than the former, which results in Zolo being the more "popular" character.
 
#31
Nice lie, keep projecting.
Following One Piece for 20+ years, when I was a teen I liked Zoro, then growing up I realised that he's the most stereotypical cool guy, even Luffy is less stereotypical then him funnily enough.

Most people (aka people with brain) follow the story for the Lore and the One Piece.
Children follow it for colored funny adventures.
Naruto and Bleach refugees and mentally slow people(edgelords) follow it for the reason you wrote.
Never read or watched Naruto and as for Bleach im not a big fan, just watched the anime to kill some time.

On the contrary when it comes to OP i have invest more than 22 years in this manga and while the lore and the story is "good" Oda & his editors should make a monument for Zoro,Shanks and Mihawk because if not for these 3 the majority of fans would have drop the series in the first 2-3 years.
 
#32
Cool design cool fighting style disciplined loyal hardworking and often given second most prominence. There's a lot to like and oda puts time into making people like zoro. Part of liking Sanji also comes with having to like or at least tolerate more prominent character flaws. It's just a lot easier to like Zoro than Sanji.
 
#33
Never read or watched Naruto and as for Bleach im not a big fan, just watched the anime to kill some time.

On the contrary when it comes to OP i have invest more than 22 years in this manga and while the lore and the story is "good" Oda & his editors should make a monument for Zoro,Shanks and Mihawk because if not for these 3 the majority of fans would have drop the series in the first 2-3 years.
Yeah, Mihawk really carried the series, lol.
Let's ask any fan what are the most loved sagas:
Enies Lobby (where MVP are Luffy, Usopp and Robin)
Marineford (where MVP are Luffy, WB and BB) + 3 panels of Mihawk fighting Vista and failing to kill Luffy.

Truly carried by Zoro and Mihawk or Shanks.
 
#34
Yeah, Mihawk really carried the series, lol.
Let's ask any fan what are the most loved sagas:
Enies Lobby (where MVP are Luffy, Usopp and Robin)
Marineford (where MVP are Luffy, WB and BB) + 3 panels of Mihawk fighting Vista and failing to kill Luffy.

Truly carried by Zoro and Mihawk or Shanks.
Whats so hard for you to understand ? I didnt say the peak of OP was the first arcs i said if not for these characters that people waited with anticipation to see they would have drop it.
 
#37
This myth that Sanji is this complex character is baffling. Large majority of his panel times are about his gags and how he "loves" women plus how creepy he is. So if you enjoy and think you need high IQ to understand a borderline sex offender, do you:kayneshrug:
I agree that sanjis depth is widely exaggerated, but its obvious oda puts more thought into writing his inner conflicts and dilemmas than he does most other strawhats like zoro. Especially since the time-skip.
 
#38
I agree that sanjis depth is widely exaggerated, but its obvious oda puts more thought into writing his inner conflicts and dilemmas than he does most other strawhats like zoro. Especially since the time-skip.
I realised that in the WHOLE time skip, the only Strawhats that had any plotline related to them were:
Sanji - WCI

That's it.
In the pre-ts:
-All the introduction arcs for each
- Nami at Arlong Park
- Zoro at Whisky Peak (Considering panel time/length of arc)
- Vivi at Alabasta
- Usopp and Robin in Enies Lobby
- Chopper with doctor scary in TB and Zoro

Sad.
 
#39
I realised that in the WHOLE time skip, the only Strawhats that had any plotline related to them were:
Sanji - WCI

That's it.
In the pre-ts:
-All the introduction arcs for each
- Nami at Arlong Park
- Zoro at Whisky Peak (Considering panel time/length of arc)
- Vivi at Alabasta
- Usopp and Robin in Enies Lobby
- Chopper with doctor scary in TB and Zoro

Sad.
Exactly. With wano being so long, characters like Robin, Franky, Chopper, Brook had absolutely nothing going on for their character.

Some got crumbs. Nami had het protect tama and tell ulti off moment, which isnt that special. Ussop had his lecture about living, that he gave the retainers.

We are at the point where we've almost spent equal time in the post skip as the pre skip. 1997-2010 2010-2023

Preskip had so much more to it.
 
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