Gyukimaru And The Sword God

We’ve learned gyukimaru is superstitious enough to believe the fall of wano was divine judgement by ryuma’s spirit. What we don’t know is if gyukimaru isn’t alone in this way of thinking. If he isn’t alone then it seems the resolution of this sword god business could in itself bring in more allies since there seems to be people like gyukimaru who are hesitant to join the alliance just because of these superstitions.

By resolution I mean, either the superstition is completely dispelled or somehow zoro convinces gyukimaru that this sword god is no longer angry and wants zoro to have the sword and they should join the alliance. And even if gyukimaru is the only one who believes in this sword god, he might also only give up his weapons after the superstitions are dealt with. Whichever the way it goes, zoro has to be involved and he’s an atheist so it gonna be quite difficult for him to tolerate this superstition to begin with. I’m assuming only something like the explanation of how black blades are formed can somehow get him to take this seriously.

Dr. Stone Illustrator to Release Special One Piece Zoro One-Shot for Manga's 22nd Anniversary

This year's 33rd issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine revealed on Saturday that artist Boichi (Dr. Stone, Origin, Sun-Ken Rock) will draw a one-chapter official spinoff manga for Eiichiro Oda's One Piece manga. The one-shot is titled "Roronoa Zoro: Umi ni Chiru" (Fall Into the Ocean), and the manga will focus on a fight between Zoro and Mihawk. Shueisha will publish the manga in the magazine's 34th issue on July 22.

The chapter will have 46 pages and will also feature a center color page. The one-shot is celebrating the manga's 22nd anniversary, which will also be on July 22. The magazine also teased that the 34th issue will feature the "latest information" about the live-action Hollywood television series adaptation of the manga, as well as other projects for the manga's 22nd anniversary. The live-action adaptation was announced on the manga's 20th anniversary in July 2017. Oda began serializing the manga in Weekly Shonen Jump on July 19, 1997 (although the issue was dated with July 22), and Shueisha published the manga's 93rd volume on July 4.

Ronoroa Zoro Vs King The Wildfire

King the Wildfire is an All-Star of the Beasts Pirates and one of Kaido's three right-hand men, the Disasters. Many one piece fans doubt that vice captain zoro would fight and let alone defeat king the wildfire, because he might be even stronger than our mochi boy katakuri. I have to disagree. There are many reasons for my claim. First of all, one piece is about 80% completed according to oda. Since the difference between zoro and mihawk should still be huge, and with the story that much complete, zoro soon has to start challenging very powerful swordsmen on the way to become the world’s strongest swordsman.

Secondly, there’s no way that zoro wouldn’t want to fight king if he finds out that he is a swordsman and kaido’s strongest henchman. Not to mention that zoro almost always faces the right hand man of the opponent pirate crew. Hirdly, like everyone pointed out, king’s name is king the wildfire, and zoro stated in punk hazard that he would learn to cut fire. Those were the reasons I believe zoro would fight king. Now let me explain why I believe zoro could defeat him, even though king should be at luffy/katakuri tier. Like I said before, the story is 80% complete, zoro has to start defeating monstrous swordsmen. Zoro promised mihawk that he would never lose (to a swordsman) again.
He has no choice but to win, especially since promises in shonen are a huge thing. Now coming to the power level part, I do believe that zoro is weaker than luffy, but not by much. Zoro and luffy will have a minor difference in strength like rayleigh/roger. Their difference wouldn’t be huge like yonko/yonko commanders. If luffy is much stronger than a top yonko commander by the end of wano, then also zoro needs to be slightly stronger than a top yonko commander. Zoro also has been a monster in the new world . He has barely been trying and yet destroying characters like pica (who was vergo level). His power is unknown at this point, and it’s baseless to say that he can’t beat a yonko commander.

I’d try to explain why zoro could still be near luffy:

1. He could grow just like luffy did in whole cake island. There won’t be any shortages of enemy in wano. With the war between kaido, big mom, navy, and possibly other forces, zoro could fight very strong characters to grow to a whole new level. Luffy will still be stronger but zoro will reduce the gap since luffy is in prison while zoro would be defeating enemies.

2. Zoro trained hard with mihawk for 2 whole years, while luffy trained with rayleigh for 1.5 (rayleigh returned to sabaody archipelago half a year before luffy). This may have led to zoro having a more rewarding time-skip. Luffy may have grown much stronger in the new world but zoro could have gotten stronger at a faster rate than luffy during the time-skip, thus making the difference not so big.

Ronoroa Zoro Will Lead The Samurai's Of Wano

Shutenmaru, a master thief, skilled enough to steal from Orochi’s farm without being stopped by any of the samurais or Beasts Pirates working under the shogun, and to hide from them for weeks without being discovered. A testament to Shutenmaru’s combat abilities is that Kaido, one of the Yonko, wants him to become his subordinate. The Beasts Pirates respect for Shutenmaru also manifested when Holdem believed that Monkey D. Luffy’s strength made it likely that he was Shutenmaru’s subordinate. Despite his large size, Shutenmaru is extremely fast, being capable of charging towards Jack in a instant. He also possesses a fair amount of endurance, as he was seemingly unaffected when Jack cut him in the shoulder. Shutenmaru is a powerful master swordsman.

With one slash, he was able to give Jack a large cut across his chest and break one of his shotel blades. He then proceeded to fight evenly with Kaido’s right-hand man in what spectators considered to be a high-level duel. Well, I believe that Shutenmaru is Ashura Douji. Ashura Doji is a resident of Wano Country. He was once the most dangerous man in the formerly lawless region of Kuri before being defeated by Kozuki Oden. Shutenmaru only respects strong Samurais. In chapter 921 he said “ in this country there are no real men, who strong samurai (like himself) would join. The days of Wano are numbered.”
I believe Shutenmaru is waiting for someone like Oden. Shutenmaru was a honorable Samurai after Oden defeated him, now that Oden is deceased Shutenmaru went bad again, he’s a troublesome bad man, when he will see Zoro he will be a good Samurai. Furthermore Zoro said in Zou, that he will gather all Samurai together for Luffy. Maybe Zoro will fight and defeat the leader of the Atamaya Thieves and Shutenmaru will join the strong leader of the Samurai Zoro. Zoro will be the leader of the Samurais that Ashura Douji aka Shutenmaru is waiting for and Zoro will make his promise true to gather all Samurais in Wano together. What do you guys thing? Could this be true?

Ronoroa Zoro's Major Fights In Wano

As we know each new arc we get has a theme or is centred around one of the members of the Straw Hat crew in some way or another. In Whole Cake Island we had the Sanji arc and now in the Wano arc it will most likely be centred around Zoro, and I’m assuming Oda will give Zoro a good few strong opponents to do battle with. So how this would come about is, for a past few chapters now we have been made aware that Jack the Drought survived and is currently in Wano at the moment. Now with Luffy knocking out Holdem, Jack is apparently going to go on a rampage and look for Luffy. Meanwhile we see Zoro going on one of his walk abouts again and as usual he is going to get lost and into trouble as he always does (eg. Like when he almost sliced up a Celestial Dragon on Sabaody Archipelago or two years later accidentally getting on the wrong ship bounAs we know each new arc we get has a theme or is centred around one of the members of the Straw Hat crew in some way or another. In Whole Cake Island we had the Sanji arc and now in the Wano arc it will most likely be centred around Zoro, and I’m assuming Oda will give Zoro a good few strong opponents to do battle with. So how this would come about is, for a past few chapters now we have been made aware that Jack the Drought survived and is currently in Wano at the moment. Now with Luffy knocking out Holdem, Jack is apparently going to go on a rampage and look for Luffy. Meanwhile we see Zoro going on one of his walk abouts again and as usual he is going to get lost and into trouble as he always does (eg. Like when he almost sliced up a Celestial Dragon on Sabaody Archipelago or two years later accidentally getting on the wrong ship bound for Fishman Island), now this time around it is going to lead him directly to Jack either by walking into him directly or by having one of Jack’s subordinates see him and reporting it to Jack.

Now with Jack’s status as a Calamity and being one of the 3 Top fighters in the Beast Pirates, his Bounty of 1 Billion is nothing to laugh at and it will definitely be a tough fight for Zoro to handle at first, then we will have a little bit of a flashback of Zoro’s training with Mihawk, and Zoro unleashing his new techniques he has been honing for the past two years. After the fight with Zoro being the winner and eventually being found by one of the Straw Hat crew or even someone from the Alliance, Zoro will have a bit of a rest to regain his strength so he might not be seen for a few chapters, while the rest of the crew and Alliance face off against the Beast Pirates and the Shogun’s forces. Now once Zoro has regained stamina, Zoro will move onto his next big fight which will be against the Shogun Kurozumi Orochi. Orochi uses a sword-style known as “Orochi Two-Place Style” so that could mean he is very proficient in Nitoryu (Two swords) techniques, but where I’m taking my theory comes from a few other panels in the chapter itself and that is where Kishiro Inemuri is talking about how Oden’s wife spoke about “The moonlight will cast 9 shadows across the moonlit nights”.

Now this to me had two meanings: 1. There are 9 Straw Hat members currently in Wano (not including Jimbei as he hasn’t been seen yet). 2. Zoro can use Asura to create 6 more swords added to his 3 using 9 swords. These are the two big fights I’m predicting at the moment, he might face off against one of the Headliners as well but they’ll pale in comparison to these two, as Oda stated this war will be the biggest yet, and I’m sure a lot of the Straw Hats will get a few fights in with major players in the Beast Pirates and the Shogun’s Forces.d for Fishman Island), now this time around it is going to lead him directly to Jack either by walking into him directly or by having one of Jack’s subordinates see him and reporting it to Jack. Now with Jack’s status as a Calamity and being one of the 3 Top fighters in the Beast Pirates, his Bounty of 1 Billion is nothing to laugh at and it will definitely be a tough fight for Zoro to handle at first, then we will have a little bit of a flashback of Zoro’s training with Mihawk, and Zoro unleashing his new techniques he has been honing for the past two years. After the fight with Zoro being the winner and eventually being found by one of the Straw Hat crew or even someone from the Alliance, Zoro will have a bit of a rest to regain his strength so he might not be seen for a few chapters, while the rest of the crew and Alliance face off against the Beast Pirates and the Shogun’s forces. Now once Zoro has regained stamina, Zoro will move onto his next big fight which will be against the Shogun Kurozumi Orochi. Orochi uses a sword-style known as “Orochi Two-Place Style” so that could mean he is very proficient in Nitoryu (Two swords) techniques, but where I’m taking my theory comes from a few other panels in the chapter itself and that is where Kishiro Inemuri is talking about how Oden’s wife spoke about “The moonlight will cast 9 shadows across the moonlit nights”. Now this to me had two meanings: 1. There are 9 Straw Hat members currently in Wano (not including Jimbei as he hasn’t been seen yet). 2. Zoro can use Asura to create 6 more swords added to his 3 using 9 swords. These are the two big fights I’m predicting at the moment, he might face off against one of the Headliners as well but they’ll pale in comparison to these two, as Oda stated this war will be the biggest yet, and I’m sure a lot of the Straw Hats will get a few fights in with major players in the Beast Pirates and the Shogun’s Forces.

What Do You Think About the Zoro Vs Hawkins Clash?

I think the whole thing was only to introduce hawkins and his devil fruit again and maybe let kaido know that the strawhat already there, or hawkins kill those who would tell kaido and seeks an alliance with luffy. At least it is the first time they met so ,oda introduced them to each other that way. Neither had superior portrayal. The scene was very much a showcase of what hawkins can do. From his devil fruit finally properly being named, to turning his sword into straw, everything points to this being more of a showcase than a showing of feats between the two.

Zoro did not receive inferior portrayal here at all. I'm honestly baffled at both sides of the argument that I've seen since the chapter came out. People who try to defend, and the people shitting on zoro. What's there to defend? In what way was zoro shown to be inferior? Just total non sense from both ends. It was a showcase for hawkins. Nothing more, nothing less.


I liked zoro's performance more in this chapter than hawkins, granted that their clash is rather short. They both shined on their own right but perhaps, I am not just fond of how hawkins' ability work based on what we saw.. Tho of course, there's more of hawkins' ability to see than what the chapter has shown us. But zoro is just a beast. He doesn't have any magical gimmicks and his every attack could be fatal to hawkins. I am not saying zoro is indeed more powerful but I just have this impression that zoro would deplete all of hawkins' life At the end of the day or two given his monstrous endurance and durability. Again, I am not just fond of how hawkins just sits there, receive and then transfer the damage he gets in last chapter. Unless the dolls he have within him is infinite. Haha. Or he has a trump card that will make his devil fruit ability Transfer all the damage he will get to the attacker themselves. Similar to akatsuki hidan's curse.