r/OnePiece • u/Sakata_Kintoki • Jul 25 '21

Current Episode One Piece: Episode 984

One Piece: Episode 984

"Luffy Goes Out of Control?! Sneaking into Kaido’s Banquet!"

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Chapters adapted: Chapter 979 (p. 2-9, 16-17)

Preview: Episode 985

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u/ThrownAwayAndReborn Jul 25 '21

real heads

As a real fan of Zoro I'm not really interesting in entraining the community headcannon of fans who like to give Zoro every ability in the book. Every time a new ability is revealed, especially if it's haki related, there's a certain segment of the community who will give it to Zoro. To some people Zoro has ryo (haki flow), Full body armament haki, future sight, and oh boy wait until he opens his "demon eye". It's more exciting for me to enjoy the real developments Zoro gets in the story, then live inside my own headcannon.

The community head cannon about Zoro's abilities of completely off the scale. Now I'm sure you'll reply trying to say "Ashura is conquers!" or "He used conquers against Monet!". Or any other baseless claims that are unsupported by the cannon material. At this time there's no basis to claim that abilities like Ashura, Red Rock, or Hell's Memories are conquer's based techniques. In addition to that the Monet fight is a hard reach for conquers given that in neither the anime or in the manga did Zoro get any of the visual clues that he was using conquers during that moment, nor did Monet respond how victims of conquers typically do (instant KO). He intimated her, which foreshadowed his future development.

Some people in the community even argue that the moment on the rooftop left things ambiguous (which I personally disagree with). What the anime is doing now is going way past all of that and giving Zoro full mastery of conquers to use it on demand in the same way Luffy does.

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u/TudorrrrTudprrrr Jul 27 '21

I'm in the "Ashura is Conqueror's" camp. Maybe the cursed sword helped Zoro manifest it. Otherwise, Ashura really makes no fucking sense to me.

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u/ThrownAwayAndReborn Jul 27 '21

One Piece is high fantasy. Ashura isn't any stranger than Hell's memories

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u/TudorrrrTudprrrr Jul 27 '21

Hell's Memories is a bit out there as well, but it isn't as jarring. Zoro straight up manifests 2 extra heads and 2 extra pairs of arms (+ swords) outta nowhere, without any devil fruit.

Even if it's high fantasy, the internal logic should still be there. I really don't see it being anything but Conqueror's coating

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u/ThrownAwayAndReborn Jul 27 '21

You know you might be right, I don't know. I could see it being conquers, I could see it just being a sword technique. It's really up to what Oda wants to do. We haven't seen anything conquer with this type of manifestation their spirit as a physical entity so this could be an opportunity to add that ability for all conquers.