Its hard to see a nerd dojo guy who trained zoro was actually odens scabbard and the man who fought kaido.
If zoro finds out that his master is badass i am pretty sure when they meet he might start fanboying.
If zoro finds out that his master is badass i am pretty sure when they meet he might start fanboying.
Look, here is something I always had in my mind. I ALWAYS had the idea that when Luffy, Zoro, Sanji are going to surpass an important person in their lives, that Oda will HIGHLIGHT that moment for us. Meaning:
1- When Luffy surpasses his master, Rayleigh, Oda will make sure for us to know it (just like how Naruto surpassed jiraya against Pain and the frogs confrimed it)
2- When Luffy is going to surpass Shanks or Roger in future, Oda will make sure for us to know it
3- When Zoro surpasses his old master (Koshiro), oda will make sure for us to witness it and realize it, and this very arc is the BEST event to do it, by having both exist on same island, and Koshiro himself confirms that Zoro finally went beyond himself, specially if both were teaming up on a specific enemy and Zoro was the one to pull it off at the end (That would be GOAT)
4- When Zoro reaches a level that makes him HIGHER than Oden, or Mihawk or Prime Ryuuma in old days, Oda will make us know through manga panels.
5- When Sanji actually catches up to his master, Zeff and surpasses Zeff in his prime (cause I'm sure Prime Zeff would slaughter Sanji LOL). When Sanji surpasses him, oda will make sure for us to actually know it. Sanji needs to actually show us that he surpassed him in 3 ways, first from strength, secondly, from cooking, and third, by finding all blue which Zeff couldn't.
I always had this mindset that Oda will make sure for us to realize that those events happened. And Koshiro being Denjiro, then coming to Wano for that event to come in fruition is gonna be awesome if Oda plans for it.
Now that I mentioned Zeff and Sanji. I'd pay Oda for him to actually make Zeff appear on the Pirate Beehive flashback when Rocks recruited WB and co. Or for Oda to include Zeff in ANY FUCKING WAY, not necessarily Pirate Beehive island, but through BM and Kaido Flashback, it would be nice to see Zeff's ship somehow was in the vacinity! That WOULD BE FIIIRE
It's worth noting that Tamago did actually tell Sanji that Big Mom has high regards for Sanji because he used to work under Zeff in baratie. So, Big Mom knows who Zeff is as a pirate.
Also, the fact that people in New World call the first half of grandline Paradise, while people inside the first half call it "pirate graveyard". It confirms that Zeff WAS in New World, and not just first half of grandline. Because, Zeff told Luffy that Grandline is called paradise. people in new World call it that way simply because of how the sea is like a paradise compared to the monsterous New World. So, as we can all see
Zeff and Koshiro, they both were BIG SHOTS it appears. and I'd hate it if oda never showed anything about them and ignored them